GDII's 1990 G-Limited

[Benckj]

Richard will give you the design if you send him a PM. He is not very active these days but I will try and find his forum name. The struts I bought were sold in pairs and I installed one on each car so you may need to on-sell.

[GDII]

I am sure I can get two sets of brackets made and sell one off. Thanks for your help. I will look into it further.

[numbers]

I'll buy a strut if I can get a bracket with it

[Saut de Chat]

Same here. Last one I bought was too short to attach to anything.
Those stainless ones look awesome.

[Benckj]

Best design I've seen. Even the US ones don't compare IMO.

Richard deserves the credit as its one of the few things I didn't make myself. Think his forum name was '"TOYMAD"

[GDII]

Nothing new added to the car.

I had a go at 'light painting'. Just wanted to try it out. I need to park the car where there is no light and photoshop multiple exposures together to get a proper effect. I just bought a battery powered LED work light which will help next time I try this.

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[Saut de Chat]

Awesome effect. Does each exposure have the flash in a different place?

[GDII]

These shots have no flash and are single exposures. Just the camera set to 30sec shutter and me 'painting' the car with a small 6 LED torch. That's why only small parts of the car are lit up.

The street light really didn't help the shots. Ideally there shouldn't be any.

I want to get either this effect
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or this effect
http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/attach ... c_6860.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Saut de Chat]

That is such a cool idea.

[GDII]

I don't think I will be able to get the same high quality look as those two examples but I'll give it a go. Should be able to come up with something unique.

[Saut de Chat]

You could also get a similar effect with the 'lighting effects' filter in photoshop.

[GDII]

I'm not really into editing my photos. I like to use just the camera to get what I want. I'd only use photoshop in this instance to merge multiple exposures as it is very hard to get the whole car in 30 seconds. Unless I had another person to hold the shutter open or a shutter lock.

[GDII]

I gave the car a wash, first time in over a month...

Then I had another go at light painting. But before I could do that the lens on my DSLR decided it didn't want to work. The aperture fails to adjust between 18-24 but after that it seems to work. Spent a few hours trying to figure it out.

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[GDII]

Continuing the light painting theme, but this time I think I cracked it.

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[BrandonT]

That looks amazing