Markopolo schreef:Hai Felix, Welcome and what a beautiful site you have
I see that you have DTMers in your collection and that is always a good thing
Beautiful photo'sof your models
P.S. I have transported your topic to our Privat Collection sub-forum, that is the place to be were you can show off more of your cool models to us
Thank you Markopolo for moving my post to the correct forum.
I would love to have more DTM cars in 1/18. But very few companies have made them in a long time. Only Maisto makes some CLK DTMs. Minichamps would be the next best for DTM cars in 1/43 scale. Thank you also for your kind words for my photos.
Are there any Dutch drivers who compete in the DTM series? I only know a few Dutch names like Jan Lammers, Peter Kox and Tom Coronel. I know some drivers in North America drive in several different race series in one year. Are European drivers like that also?
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ferrariboy: I used a website
http://members.freewebs.com/ to build my site. They use templates which makes it a little bit easier to create a website. I use another website called
http://www.photobucket.com to store my photos because their basic service is for free.
It is quite easy to understand their features, it is not very complicated so they get many people using their site who are not a genius with the computer and do not know computer programming and all that fancy stuff.
If I can offer you any help or suggestions, please let me know and I will see how I can help.
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Bracer: The Autoart 1/18 cars are good because I just bring the hoods to the race track. I wrap them in t-shirts and put about 4 of them in my knapsack (bag) to carry them in. You are very right to say the car is fragile (especially the rear spoiler, antenna and side mirrors).
I spent about 1/2 hr speaking to one gentleman in the Krohn-Barbour team paddock (tent). He explained to me they were getting very little support from the Lamborghini factory. So, their two cars were very slow and could not keep up with the factory-suppored Corvette Racing C5-Rs and ACEMCO Saleen S7-R. I think they were only a little faster than the outdated Viper GTS-R.
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Schumi28:
The camera is about 3 years old. It is a Canon S30 which can take photos in automatic or manual modes. It is only 3.2Mpix so that is why some of my photos are not very sharp. To photograph my models, I use the "M" mode where I can control the shutter speed and f-stop. I maximize the f-stop to 8 (the largest setting) so as much of the model will be in focus. I adjust the shutter speed until I am happy with what I see in my LCD display on back of the camera. I set my picture dimension to 2048x1536 pixels.
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fish88: Thank you for your kind words fish88.
I saw one person make a custom version of that car in 1/18. I think he used a Maisto or Hot Wheels Murcielago body and made his own decals. It looks really good eventhough not all the details are accurate! The only thing he did not do was make the fender flares so the body comes out more around the wheels. That is very difficult to do!
Here are some pictures originally posted
here
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Peter Parker: Good to see a familiar name! I remember you well from those pictures of the Corgi cars.
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boerke04: I'd prefer to live for 3 months in YOUR half of the world so I am closer to all the FIA GT and DTM racing action!
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andre: Good to see someone who lives close to my old hometown.
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They are worth collecting them. 
(no, St. Paul, not that 
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