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Well I finally got a chance to bolt everything on since front and rear spoiler were painted. At last minute I decided to go with red on the front spoiler.

Ashley made a couple of complete fibre glass door trims for his race car. I suppose if you had a set you could take them to a trimmer to sticth up the trimming. I took my old door trims to an auto trimmer and he stitched up new ones for $75ea. Sulio

I was thinking we could get a bunch of cars positioned nicely and take a series of shots and then "stitch" them together to get a really cool panaramic skyline shot of the cars with perhaps the city as a back drop. If we aim for next weekend then we could meet up at the docks somewhere and bring along some cold drinks and just hang out there for a while afterwoulds!? Cheers SUlio

Looks alot better lowered Evan. I noticed it would be a good idea to have 2 flashes in that carpark to get a good pic. I took some more around the docks a couple of days ago.

Very common conversion Darren. I've got a 280zx motor sitting in the garage which will bolt up to the existing gearbox however I've decided to stick with the old 240 carbs but you should'nt have any problems with the EFI set up just make sure you've got the loom for the motor. There are quite a few guys here the can give you more precise info. cheers sulio

yer cool i'm in. Warren the 350 would make for some cool new/old look pics!

Hi Evan, The guy that is painting my spoiler (front n back) has just come back from holidays so i'm picking up those bits on Wednesday. I'll send you the full size file but i'm hoping to get some much better shots than that one over the next couple of weeks.

Well heres my first shot at some Z night photography. I went down to Chadstone shopping centers underground carpark for this pic. Must admit there was a little bit of cheating since I had to play around with PS to "tweak" the pic a bit. I'm gonna try and get down to Docklands later during the week for some city scapes along the docks. I just used my little pocket sized Canon digital camera. I might borrow a camera with a zoom lense for a little more creativity next time.

I beleive Ash got one resin to make the mould and another for the badges and all supplied at a local suplier of fibre glass supplies. Probably best to ask Ash about what exactly he used.

Just thought of another spot, a little cliche but still would look good. The old aircraft museum at point cook. You can park you car really close to all the old planes out there to get some really good shots!

http://www.carbodydesign.com/tutorials/software-tutorials.php?app=Photoshop Good site for quite a few easy photoshop tips geared towards cars. Stuff like removing bad reflections, lights on, creating the illusion of speed etc but very clear and easy to follow for those that like to have a play with PS but are not experts. This is the most helpful site I've found as I'm quite a novice as far as PS goes so if anybody else has links to others they use please list them. Thanks Oh one more, but just a general site with photoshop tutorials, heaps. http://www.photoshoptutorial.net/web_graphics_tutorials/page1/

I like the ones of the night shots with the bemma. Thats the sort I was thinking of but your right about tripod shadows etc. It should'nt be too hard to get those shots just a little bit of mucking around to make sure exposure is right. The spot he found seems nicely lit. I'll try and get down there and give it a go soon!

You just remined me Evan. The multi storey car park at the old World Trade Center, (where the old Crown Casino was), has an roofless top level with great skyline veiws. Ha! another to my list. I'm planning to take my tripod to the area and take a few pics with slow exposure on one of these summer sunsets.

Well that sounds like as good a date as any. How about we commit to a date as soon as you get your itinery in order NZeder!? Sulio

I was reading CLASSIC SPORTS CAR MAGAZINE today, (think thats the right name), and there was a story by the magazines photographer on a photo shoot on an old green CSL BMW, very nice. On the day of the shoot he stumbled across a concrete mixing yard early on the foggy morning and used it for a few pics. Needless to say the shots came out looking good. The artical went on to give a few tips on this type of photography. Anyway this got me thinking it's nice to get good pics of the cars we pour hours of work tinkering with so they can really catch the viewers eye. I've always wanted to go down to Docklands in Melbourne to get some qulity pics but my intentions are to do this just before dusk and I always seem to get distracted with it. Over the years I've seen some really cool Z pics like by the beach, industrial locations, city scapes and some great ones from Japan. For example the pics on that SR240 site are very nice and I remeber seeing a very nicely composed series of pics of a few Z travelling through Europe. So the question I'd like to throw out there is recommendations on where you guys think would be a good location for Z pics around Melbourne? Cheers Sulio

On the car.

Yer I got my trim made up. I managed to find diamond vynil in about 1.5x1.5 inch and got it stiched to original from the old ones. Nathan, I think your aiming to have your trim looking like that yellow Z featured in Zoom mag a couple of years ago. If you get it looking that good it will be a very nice interior indeed. Will try and find some pics.