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Dan's F1 Collection

Post by DanGB » Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:39 pm

Hi guys,

Been a member for a while but not really had much to post, so I thought I'd share a few of my F1 models. The bulk of my cars are those driven by Jenson Button, so let's start with the car from his second ever Grand Prix start, and the race in which he scored his first World Championship points.

Dan

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Minichamps 1:18 Williams BMW FW22 - Jenson Button, Brazilian GP 2000, First Points by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 Williams BMW FW22 - Jenson Button, Brazilian GP 2000, First Points by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 Williams BMW FW22 - Jenson Button, Brazilian GP 2000, First Points by Dan B, on Flickr

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Re: Dan's F1 Collection

Post by OLECO MOTORS » Fri Mar 09, 2018 1:42 pm

Beautiful recovery. I like Formula One cars. :manual:

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Re: Dan's F1 Collection

Post by [KRAFTIG] » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:54 pm

Thanks for sharing Dan. Great photos too

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Re: Dan's F1 Collection

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Post by [KRAFTIG] » Fri Mar 09, 2018 10:46 pm

Well done

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Post by OLECO MOTORS » Sat Mar 10, 2018 3:14 am

Make beautiful presentations. Keep going!

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Re: Dan's F1 Collection

Post by DanGB » Sat Mar 10, 2018 12:52 pm

Thanks guys. There's a gap in what I have photographed now (all my old pics of the entire collection were on Photobucket), so here's Jenson's 2011, 2013 and 2014 race cars:

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Minichamps 1:18 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-26 2011 - Jenson Button by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-28 2013 - Jenson Button by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 McLaren Mercedes MP4-29 - Jenson Button, 3rd Place, Australian GP 2011 by Dan B, on Flickr

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Re: Dan's F1 Collection

Post by DanGB » Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:07 pm

One of my favourite F1 cars of all time (wonder why?), but probably not one of Minichamps finest. This was made during their brief experiment with a cheaper range of F1 cars, released under the "car collection" banner in 2009-2010. No steering and other features cut-back, like detail on the steering wheel, in the cockpit and in the finesse of some of the plastic parts. All in the name of saving £5-10 off the retail price! Regardless, these are amongst the most sought after modern F1 cars on the market.

I added some detailing to mine to help try and break up the masses of white on the the plasticky wings - pictures against a black backdrop don't really show many of these changes off very well, but by default the underside of the front wing would have been white. Just one such example of Minichamps corner-cutting giving the model no "depth", and a quite toy-like appearance.

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Minichamps 1:18 Brawn BGP 001 - Jenson Button, 2009 by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 Brawn BGP 001 - Jenson Button, 2009 by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 Brawn BGP 001 - Jenson Button, 2009 by Dan B, on Flickr

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Post by [KRAFTIG] » Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:23 pm

Nice! Love the simple livery one this one!

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Re: Dan's F1 Collection

Post by DanGB » Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:14 am

Thanks. I love it too, especially pre-season when it had even less sponsor logos and didn't have the yellow on the wheel covers. Jenson also used his proper helmet colours in the pre-season testing which looked amazing with the livery. I'd like to convert the model photographed above to the pre-season car actually, as they released it in two versions from the same race and I have both in my collection.

Minichamps recently re-released the model in the Abu Dhabi GP livery, which is my most recent addition to the collection...

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Minichamps 1:18 Brawn GP BGP 001 - Jenson Button, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2009 - World Champions Collection by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 Brawn GP BGP 001 - Jenson Button, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2009 - World Champions Collection by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 Brawn GP BGP 001 - Jenson Button, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2009 - World Champions Collection by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 Brawn GP BGP 001 - Jenson Button, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2009 - World Champions Collection by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 Brawn GP BGP 001 - Jenson Button, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2009 - World Champions Collection by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 Brawn GP BGP 001 - Jenson Button, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2009 - World Champions Collection by Dan B, on Flickr

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Post by [KRAFTIG] » Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:43 am

Looks great! How are you dialling these solid images in with the camera? TIA

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Re: Dan's F1 Collection

Post by DanGB » Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:11 pm

Thanks. I've got a pop-up light tent and a photo studio that I use - the newest images of the Abu Dhabi livery Brawn were shot in the studio, everything else so far in the old pop-up tent. Settings wise, I shoot them at ISO 100 and use aperture priority set to about f/16 to get some depth of field and then let the camera adjust the shutter speed to get the exposure where I want it (live view helps here, you can move the focus point around to find an area of the image that gives you a good balance).

After that it's just a matter of cleaning them up in Photoshop - removing dust and particles from the model, cloning out dust spots on the camera sensor and cleaning up the background to make it pure white/black where possible.

Here's a few more Jenson Button cars shot alongside the corresponding 1:2 scale helmet, which I also collect.

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Minichamps 1:18 Honda RA106 - Jenson Button 2006 Hungarian GP First Win by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 Brawn GP BGP001 - Jenson Button 2009 Brazilian GP World Champion by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 McLaren MP4-25 - Jenson Button 2010 by Dan B, on Flickr

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Minichamps 1:18 McLaren MP4-26 - Jenson Button 2011 by Dan B, on Flickr

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Re: Dan's F1 Collection

Post by [KRAFTIG] » Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:14 pm

I see. I wish I had more time to take on another hobby :) What material are you using as the backdrop?

The latest images are brilliant too.

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Re: Dan's F1 Collection

Post by DanGB » Thu Mar 15, 2018 3:01 pm

Thanks. Photography is my main hobby, mostly of aircraft and racing cars.

The backdrops are mostly provided with the tents - they're a flock material on one side and a nylon/polyester on the other, but the new studio didn't come with any backdrops so I had to buy some card. I purchased white, satin and matt black, and also a black glitter, but I only really like the look of the matt black and white. The others show too many reflections from the lamps, so I'm on the look-out for some fabric I can use.

Another one from the collection - my only AUTOart. Love this model - the detailing and finesse on the aerodynamic parts is superb. Helmet not so great, but overall I think it's better than a Minichamps.

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AUTOart 1:18 McLaren Honda MP4-30 - Jenson Button, Spanish Grand Prix 2015 by Dan B, on Flickr

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AUTOart 1:18 McLaren Honda MP4-30 - Jenson Button, Spanish Grand Prix 2015 by Dan B, on Flickr

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AUTOart 1:18 McLaren Honda MP4-30 - Jenson Button, Spanish Grand Prix 2015 by Dan B, on Flickr

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AUTOart 1:18 McLaren Honda MP4-30 - Jenson Button, Spanish Grand Prix 2015 by Dan B, on Flickr

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AUTOart 1:18 McLaren Honda MP4-30 - Jenson Button, Spanish Grand Prix 2015 by Dan B, on Flickr

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Re: Dan's F1 Collection

Post by [KRAFTIG] » Thu Mar 15, 2018 3:22 pm

Thanks. Photography is my main hobby, mostly of aircraft and racing cars.
Notice that from the Flicker page :) Yes this AUTart is money :money: :money:

Where did/do you buy your backdrops from? TIA

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