Triumph's Ian Collis model Lancaster Bomber Lovely Lou

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Hi Bunkerbarge, My problem with this is, would this open up a can of worms? in regards to who reads this. You have said a " professionally built" does that have to mean he earns a living doing this? I don't know enough about the rules. If you build a model then sell it on e-bay do you declare that sale to the tax man if you are in full employment? More than happy to discuss this topic, maybe we can open up the topic in general chat section, so long as I'm not getting anyone in trouble I would be happy to tell you of what makes and how I obtain all the models in my collection. Also what if the wife reads Scale-Models OMG

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Hi Steve, I'm afraid your wrong, the model is indeed placed on a base in front of a picture, then if I want the foreground is put back on the finished picture, or in this example just cropped to get rid of unwanted parts of the picture
and Yes Ian used a mask set

Thanks. I suppose also a wall, fence etc.could be modelled (in 3D) to attach to the back of the base to give a little more detail in the foreground. Impressive result.

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A friend of Ian the builder of Lovely Lou, useing my pictures, came up with this


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and as a size guide a quick camera phone pic of Airfix 1/72 G-George alongside Tamiya 1/48 Lovely Lou


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Fascinating! Makes it look real The figures were no doubt cut out in Photoshop and pasted on. A tricky thing to do, getting the lighting to match. Here, an overcast sky made that easier, (although in the second the shadows were obviously added with a Photoshop brush).


Very inspiring. I AM impressed!