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TwistedMethodDan — 1030 - TVR White Elephant
Published: 2010-10-15 21:14:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 1682; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 15
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TVR-O-Thon II 5/7The 1989 White Elephant prototype.
Again, the scanner sort of ruined this one... Light colours are easier to colour in (in this case a creamy white) yet once scanned the contrast is increased by default, and so it looks just white and half the shading isn't visible; I've tried reducing the contrast;, to not a lot of effect; and reducing it further just makes a load of horrible grey spots appear.
The last two are darker colours - should turn out better
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looks like a spawn child of a 300zx z31 and a FC Rx-7
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Yeah there is quite a resemblance... I guess it was just the trend of the time. Even though they are very similar I think it must be a coincidence, when you compare the car to the production TVR of the time - besides the fared-in lights, it's pretty much the same with slightly softened edges.
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Its still bad ass, if only they made it and had it available for the NA market, o well, we can only dream
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Lol this one didn't even reach the UK market...
But yeah sadly I don't think there's a lot of hope for TVR now... 
As for the north american market you can still get cars made before '86.
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Cool!
It's another good piece of work!
Do you have Photoshop? Can you put your image into Camera Raw?
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I use Gimp myself. I'm not sure how much better photoshop is, I know it's the one all the professionals use; but Gimp does everything I need it to, and has the advantage of being free. What is Camera Raw ? I haven't heard of that...
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In digital photography, Camera Raw is the equivalent to a negative from a film camera. A Camera Raw photograph contains all the information gathered by the camera at the time of the shot...including information one cannot see unless the exposure is moved up and down.
Of course, you cannot have that information without a Camera Raw digital file. But one can take a scan turned into a tiff or jpg and open it as if it was a Camera Raw shot with all of the settings. In that way, some of the lost middle values can be retained. And if ya had it, i was going to suggest it.
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Hmm that sounds very interesting !
I have to admit that despite all my whinging about my scanner, I haven't actually played around with the scan setting a great deal... there may be a way to make it scan so it's more like the original. There are probably 40 types of default filters there to "enhance" the image.
I'll get round to that at some point
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Reminds me of the Nissan/Datsun Z cars from around that era.
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Yeah, I suppose so... never thought of it like that.
Of course being british that means instead of japanese intricacy we get a huge 5 litre V8, silly speeds and breakdowns
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Pretty nice.
I think the real car is currently being restored.
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And a pretty good job he's done of it, too !
In other news I'm going to expand my "TVR-O-Thon" by 4 cars... when I mentioned not being too sure about nincluding the Trident; I noticed that since I took one of the earliest shapes for the M series, and the latest of the Wedges; it's enough in the middle; plus I'll have peace of mind like that lol. Then despite having done a Tuscan and the Typhon, the t400r in racing bodykit looks pretty mean... too cool to not draw.
The other two ? ...
Maybe you have, but I'll bet that most TVR fans have never even heard of them
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You're welcome.
He has done a good job... didn't the TVR factory use the White Elephant to run errands and such with for a while between its debut and being parked? I think that one was intended to be a wedge replacement that could be sold in quantity in the US, Australia, Germany, the Middle East and other performance-hungry markets.
I'll let the two mystery TVRs be a surprise.
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Haha I didn't know about them myself until last night... it was one of those sessions of procrastination that ends up with one random page on the internet leading to the next... which this time ended up in the discovery of two very obscure TVRs...
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