I’m sure this has been done before but someone recently asked me if diecast model cars could be convincingly used as cover models on magazines, with the inevitable saving in cost and time. So I took it upon myself to make a little project using images from my archive and placing them onto some made-up car magazine covers.
Arguably this is as much digital art as it is photography but it did require the use of a camera so the latter still sings true. The car shots were re-edited and placed onto a print template in Photoshop, where I proceeded to make up some magazine titles and cover text. The use of a barcode added a little authenticity (he says).
There doesn’t appear to be any particular rules on how car magazine covers are designed; most show a single car either in a pose outside or shot and lit in a studio, or in motion on a track in various angles. While I did attempt some static ‘studio’ type shots I mainly opted to make my cover models look as dynamic as possible as this is what appeals to my eye.
I also knocked up a couple of quick retro posters that might be found as a pull-out or inside the magazine.
The model cars were 1/18, 1/24, 1/36, and 1/43 scale.
