picture of tamiya collection

[supergreg]

I've seen an (official) picture of the first 150 (or so) built Tamiya cars, but I can't find it any more. Someone remember and post a link? thanks. Kai.

[Stickman]

You mean this one?

Nope, haven't seen it[]

[supergreg]

There it is!! Thanks very mucho! Kai.

[Stickman]

No problemo!

[TWINSET]

Anyone else ever noticed that that pic has the Bruiser at 49 and it's at 48 on TC?

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/car.asp?id=48

37,38 and 39 are wierd as well

It's a real boring afternoon here []

[Tomaszken]

Numbers 6 & 7 are switched too

[SJoerD]

Quite many are switched and/or differently colored... Please don't start this one again! [xx(] lol

[mymonsterbeetleisbroken]

the cars seem to get bigger as they go along, and is it just me, or do some actually seem not to scale with the rest[?]

like the picture is made up from copied and pasted images.

well its still a cool pic[8D]

[simensays]

I think it's wack to see the Pumpkin in there - man would I like to have seen Tamiya continue producing like half of those cars prior to the Pumpkin!

oh yeah - the Willy is numbered wrong too...id="size1">

[tamiya-phile]

I do see shadows on the cars, so maybe they actually took out all 100 from the display cabinets and pictured them. That explains why closer pictures are bigger. It would have been a badword of a big picture database to get all of these cars in the same position, align and paste them to get this one picture.

[WillyChang]

It was done 10+ yrs ago.

Very few would have heard of Photoshop back then.

You would not believe how SLOW it runs on a 1991 Mac, all 20MHz of it. [|)]

[DJTheo]

Yes, but also software was less extended and demanding back then, software is always taylored around the hardware of the time []

[Scorchio]

The weirdness in scale is due to square framing photography trick. If you put the cars in a perfect square it would appear to taper at the top in the pic due to perspective, so they are actually fanned out as they get further away. The cars at the bottom are really close and squashed together. the ones at the back are in widely spaced rows, but because its a square pic your brain says 'no perspective' but our tamiya club 'super specicial' brains say 'ang on the scales stuffed'

[sosidge]

Don't forget that the cars got bigger over the years.

Buggies like the Top-Force are 250mm wide, whereas the older Frogs etc were probably more like 210mm. Wheelbases are longer too. Better handling, and the race rules allowed it.

Plus a lot of Tamiya's early scale saloons and F1 cars were "1/12th" scale, not "1/10th".

[DJTheo]

Very correct Scorchio [^], hadn't realised this photo deformation before.

[jozza]

You're right there Scorchio, especially about our TC 'super specical' brains [8D]. Trouble is, I've been staring at that photo now to check out the technique, and it's made my eyes go funny; everything on the 'puter looks wonky now, and I'm about to go paint some straight lines on a bodyshell, they will probably come out skewed []