Slot Car News-Because it's FRIDAY!
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Time for the usual mix of rumor and innuendo with some toy news mixed in. This week Policar, Slot It, Thunderslot and Staffs UK products to talk about.
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Thanks, Dave. Those Thunderslot Ferraris look fantastic. 😊
Great point on the difficulty of judging historic colors from old photos. It's extremely difficult, in many cases almost impossible. Thanks for sharing an important truth...as well as the latest news. Those Ferraris will be awesome, whatever color they turn out to be. 😄
Great one Dave. I've thought a lot about color balance when running up white kits of Ford GT MK IIs (1966) and Porsche 917Ks (1970-71) and, of course, we do all know that these were exclusively the days of chemical emulsion photography and whilst with different films and each even, and as you inform, offering different color hues - Kodak was more 'blue' whilst Fuji more 'yellow'. It is all we can do today to look at as many images from as many sources as possible and then try to balance these out to try to find the correct original hue. Of couse, whether the day was sunny or cloudy will also make a difference to the results. I otherwise agree and I believe you are spot on for when it comes to color saturation on restorations. These days race cars tend to be highly saturated and bright and really 'made for TV' whereas in the 1960s and 1970s this was not the case. We can look at a restoration of the red and white 'Salzberg' 917k and see this effect in the red paint when set against 'real deal' images from 1970. It is much the same with Scalextric and their 'red' No 3 Dan Gurney Ford GT MKII or the latest red No 14 Filipinetti GT40 as modelled by NSR (both from 1966) where I believe the reds are too bright and too saturated? Personally, I am not complaining and who may deny the slot model manufacturers the preference for 'eye candy' over 'period accuracy' when they need sales and we reserve the right not to purchase their products? Oh, and for the purists then there is always the white kit. Moreover, companies 'Zero' paints market to color match original paints against race cars and manufacturers with their range of ready to airbrush small paint pots.
Thanks for this weeks fresh slot car news Dave, I hope your treatment is starting to kick in and you feel better 👏👏👏👍
Happy to see this is done from your home and not the hospital!
Thanks for the news Dave .Those thunderslot cars look good . well said on the colour change over tons of shared and copied photos , i used to scan all my slides and negatives and the colour is never exactly the same
Great to hear your health has improved. Greetings from the Netherlands.
SO glad to hear that you are doing better 🤠❤ and may I say I'm loving your color(s) today 💙💛
Amazing insight to photos, colour and photography. thank you!
Good rant - colours are incredibly difficult to research and reproduce.
Glad to hear you're starting to feel better Dave. Thanks again for another great news video. 😁👍🏼🏎️
Great to hear you are feeling better Dave . Liked your " Editorial " , having worked in the photographic and lighting industry for almost 40 years i still find trying to explain colour reference and rendering to non technical people the most difficult subject for them to understand . Actually many just will never understand :)
Great show Great looking wheels
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE AND DAVE.
The Ferrari's are stunning, great points about colours. Photos can't be relied upon even if you have current pictures. Paint codes are a good way of checking and colour references.
Glad your feeling a bit better Dave!
Looking forward to testing these!🏁
Some people are just picky reagarding the blue stripe on the Ferrari.
Thunderslot Ferraris look great!
Thanks Dave
As to colours and photography , you also have to factor in the display device (monitors). They vary from device to device even the same models bought at tjhe same time. I calibrate my monitors, even then they are slightly different. When printing a photo, my printer needs to to know what paper and LUT to use.
correct. I calibrate my monitors but I don't really trust them regardless.
Spot on Dave re the old photos and putting them on line Also not to mention the colour rendition of the screen you are viewing the photo on eh
Dave that shot was taken at the Riverside Raceway Times Grand Prix Can Am race. I was in my youth back then but that shade of blue was pretty much period correct in the photo. Racing legend Sam Posey drove the only closed cockpit 512S in a CanAm race also at Riverside one year 1970's. Look up that Car and see if it had those signature blue stripes as well. The Thunderslot model slotcar is definitely a darker blue than the original cars!
I understand your feelings about the colors but this makes my point. But respectfully Don,
memory is one of the least reliable ways to prove anything.
In my video I also mention that when you make a slot car or restoration you can choose to do a color based on period photos OR on actual paint samples OR current colors on a real car.
Could not get back to live. See ya Sunday. GLAD YOU ARE FEELING BETTER.. BTW DID MAIL GO OUT?
Yes you should get box shortly
I love the revo slot corvette slot cars since I'm a corvette fan I have all available generations offerings in my collection except for the c1 but I would really appreciate if someone made the c4 available and someone to offer a re-release of the c1 .....
T.G.I.F. everyone!
RUclips shutdown towards the e?d of your stream Dave. AT&T sucks wind lately
Don’t know. This wasn’t a stream
Nope the whole video is there