Dashboard
So, back to the trials. After about two or three more practice runs (pieces of styrene with the decal attached), I finally got it right. Here is my go at Colin's Center Panel and the inner door panels - Colin's decal and tan leather.
My poor try making a leather shifter boot.
This may sound silly, but I have a question for all of you posting, can you tell me how or what you use so as to get the picture smaller in size or even side by side here? I keep trying different things but no luck so far.
Colin Shannon
G'day Ed,
Nice to see the dash and panels on here.
I've owned 2 Jags in the past, (V12 XJS and a 4 Litre Sovereign), I can say I personally liked the wood trim panels in the Sovereign (always felt like a special place to be with the timbers, leather and lambs-wool carpets). I always felt like Jag could have done a little better in the XJS with the plain black dash panels and tiny wood strips on the doors, so when Ed mentioned he wanted to do something a little different with the E-Type, a kind of upgraded super-luxury version was born.
Very cool to see the resin on the wood decal, always comes up nice but definitely is a learning curve with that stuff.
Am looking forward to this coming together.
Chris Craddock
Yeah the wood looks great. I think it looks better than the swaths of alloy in the e-type
Chris Craddock
I don’t think they had wood grain on the dash, but it certainly looks like a nice upgrade!
For smaller pictures it depends on what equipment you’re using. I’m an Apple user, so I have iPhone, iPad, MacBook etc. For me, I use the Mac and open the photos in Preview (an Apple app). It gives you the opportunity to export in different formats and for jpeg, it lets you pick the file size before you save it. I assume there are similar features in the Microsoft products. But I don’t know.
Ed Bird
You are correct Chris. But I like the old English cars that had wood features, like on the Jag XJ's. Before I actually did it, I had seen pictures of ones where the owner had made upgrades on various things on the XKE Coupes, including having wood grain dashes and door trim also. Colin also sent me some pictures that he found too. So I am calling it my upgrade interpretation. The model I believe is supposed to be a 1960 XKE, as the little "badges" on sides of the hood are the hood latch releases. I sanded them off on mine so as to use some of Colin's goodies - the in engine bay latches that had the "pull release levers".
I will keep messing around in Microsoft, maybe there is something in the "picture" stuff that might make it work better.
Gilles
Hello Ed,
Happy to see your progress here.
Like Chris, I’m not sure there were any wooden dashboards on the E-Types, but I saw your upgrade successful.
and we are not building a real car but a model so let’s have fun.I also thought about doing it in wood, I haven’t decided yet.
For the pictures, with Microsoft, I use Paint (not Paint 3D) it takes a bit of practice at first but once in hand, it’s easy to use...
Looking forward to reading you again.