(Pic) BMW 4-door sedan

It's nice but your pics make it look much better. 😀 

Posted by: @chris

It's nice but your pics make it look much better. 😀 

Agreed. 

I had this one...a cheap model my dad picked up at a garage sale.  

Kyosho released their version a number of years ago.  It captures the look of the E60 M5 much better (though they should for the price difference).

Mike, I have a question. How do you create the shadow underneath the car? I've tried deleting the background and putting in a drop shadow, but it doesn't look right.

@gavin 

All 4 doors open so this is the one to buy. 

The Maisto, while "nice" and cheap doesn't even have enough of a delineation in door jamb lines to indicate rear doors. Just my - opinion.

Hi Paul : My stroke and some other factors have made me a bit slow sometimes in recalling all the techniques I used, but I do know there are various procedures and "tricks" that can be used to make a model/diecasts car perhaps look more real or 1:1 .

In  a number of cases, the car is placed on a  "asphalt" or "cement" looking surface. A foam-board can be painted to look a particular way, or one can use cement/tile squares obtained at a home store that can  look like a road surface. At a high angle this may be all that one might need to take a good image looking down on the cars.

As the camera lowers, more of the background can come into play and sometimes a printed background can be lit and placed behind a diecast to give a good effect.

Also, one can photograph a car with a single color (like white) behind it and then in software, all this color (with possibly some edits and adds) can be selected and then an actual background can be dropped/placed into this selected area.

Of course, one can use everyday objects to look like or stand in for a real item. I once used some circular place mats to look like a "turntable" at a major automobile show And one of the most effective can be a "brick wall" poster/photograph behind a car that one can purchase at home stores or you can take and prints up yourself.

Some outdoor or indoor  stone walls or tiles can actually look like a real 1:1 scene and a car can be placed in front of it to give a realistic effect.

Of course, just a nice, clean image of a diecast/model car can be all that is needed to present one's model and show it off.

Like many things, photographs and images (from anybody) can be very truthful, or intentionally or unintentionally a bit inaccurate. But as the old rock group Moody Blues said many years ago in "Nights in White Satin" :            "But we decide which is right ..... and which is an illusion."

@gavin Wow, that's a sharp looking sedan! I wish ALL models had a high-gloss, silky-smooth finish like this Beamer (Bimmer )....and that includes 1:1 cars!

Posted by: @100ford2003

All 4 doors open so this is the one to buy. 

I'm with ya on that one (as you might've guessed ).  IMO, a sealed 1/18 model is bad enough, but almost as bad is a 1/18 "mix."   I have a few, but I sure wish better versions (yes, I'm dreaming  🙄 🙄) would surface!

@mikedetorrice .......Thank you Mike.....you`ve misplaced so much more than we`ll ever know......you were my earliest inspiration in "stage presence'"

Thank you, John.

Posted by: @mikedetorrice

Hi Paul : My stroke and some other factors have made me a bit slow sometimes in recalling all the techniques I used, but I do know there are various procedures and "tricks" that can be used to make a model/diecasts car perhaps look more real or 1:1 .

In  a number of cases, the car is placed on a  "asphalt" or "cement" looking surface. A foam-board can be painted to look a particular way, or one can use cement/tile squares obtained at a home store that can  look like a road surface. At a high angle this may be all that one might need to take a good image looking down on the cars.

As the camera lowers, more of the background can come into play and sometimes a printed background can be lit and placed behind a diecast to give a good effect.

Also, one can photograph a car with a single color (like white) behind it and then in software, all this color (with possibly some edits and adds) can be selected and then an actual background can be dropped/placed into this selected area.

Of course, one can use everyday objects to look like or stand in for a real item. I once used some circular place mats to look like a "turntable" at a major automobile show And one of the most effective can be a "brick wall" poster/photograph behind a car that one can purchase at home stores or you can take and prints up yourself.

Some outdoor or indoor  stone walls or tiles can actually look like a real 1:1 scene and a car can be placed in front of it to give a realistic effect.

Of course, just a nice, clean image of a diecast/model car can be all that is needed to present one's model and show it off.

Like many things, photographs and images (from anybody) can be very truthful, or intentionally or unintentionally a bit inaccurate. But as the old rock group Moody Blues said many years ago in "Nights in White Satin" :            "But we decide which is right ..... and which is an illusion."

Thanks for all the tips and tricks, Mike.

You are welcome. Paul !