Tag: model photography
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Never Throw Nuthin’ Away

You might very well love it some day. The formation flying team you see started life as four out-of-scale plastic toy fighters that were packaged with Plasticville airport buildings. Made in the mid-1950’s these structures populated thousands of O-guage and S-guage toy train layouts in North America. The lettering and insignia on the planesare in…
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It Works, Igor! The Creature Lives!

This week’s photo session at the scale model club was the first actual use of the new focus-stacking technique I’ve just learned. It is undoubtedly old hat for many, but I have a new head and it just fits me fine. The technique is based in Photoshop 2019 and required several steps – but as…
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Your Little World Need Not Exist In Space or Time

Ooooh, getting all spooky now! The next few paragraphs are going to be voiced by Morgan Freeman. Or Rod Serling. Or Spongebob Squarepants… If your Little World cannot possibly exist, you are very fortunate – you’re freed from the necessity to obey the laws of physics. Time, space, and frugal responsibility can be discarded. You…
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What’cha Got Cookin’ ?

Ansons…I couldn’t get the plain variety so this is the one with resins…I mean raisins… Currently it is raisin’ my blood pressure. I was nearly right by the time I got to spraying the grey undercoat on the ship. I’d filled and sanded as much as I thought I could decently do, and resisted the…
