05-11-2017, 05:00 AM
Cheers Mike. 
I was thinking about it, and I think it'd due to the compression of the image. The photograph I worked from was taken in the 1970's and was printed in a book. I then photographed it again, edited it in Photoshop, then printed it out.
I think, if I'm honest, the roof of the car turned out the best, and that was made from me taking photographs of a HO scale boxcar of the same type.
I'm considering taking my own photographs of HO models and using those. Of course, the compromise there is that they would need to be weathered after the fact, or the HO scale model would need to be weathered first!
Lots to think about to perfect this method of scratchbuilding cars, methinks.
I was thinking about it, and I think it'd due to the compression of the image. The photograph I worked from was taken in the 1970's and was printed in a book. I then photographed it again, edited it in Photoshop, then printed it out.
I think, if I'm honest, the roof of the car turned out the best, and that was made from me taking photographs of a HO scale boxcar of the same type.
I'm considering taking my own photographs of HO models and using those. Of course, the compromise there is that they would need to be weathered after the fact, or the HO scale model would need to be weathered first!
Lots to think about to perfect this method of scratchbuilding cars, methinks.