Often when we hear about etching a car’s paint it’s usually done with keys as the retaliation of an angry girlfriend for the lies or mistreatment of her ex-boyfriend, but Shawn Lisjack shows that carving can be much more artistic! The LA based artist, who calls his company Exotic Engravings has done work for high-paying clients like Jay Leno and the owner of the Lakers using all Dremel equipment. The Honda Civic pictured here took Lisjack 6,000 hours and is still incomplete!
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When I ran across these tiny models recently at London’s Design Junction, I couldn’t believe how detailed they were… each looked like a small jewel of clever design. Most people are accustomed to finely detailed plastic models, but these seemed to convey the same sense of precision using only eco-friendly recycled paper. Looking closely at the vehicles in the lineup you’ll notice that their structure is built up with carefully planned ribs which are slotted together to create 3D forms. These range from round rally car wheels to opening Jeep doors and articulated bulldozer scoops. It’s really quite impressive. [Read more...]
We’re all familiar with knock-off Nike shoes and Louis Vuitton handbags coming out of factories in China, India and beyond. Often, telling the real thing from the copy is a pretty difficult task without a side-by-side comparison… even down to the logos the original company pays massive advertising bills to burn into our minds. So that’s familiar, but what about on the large scale level of car companies? [Read more...]
If you were anything like me as a kid, your shelves were covered with boxes and boxes of model kits for the hottest cars out there – Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Shelbys and Aston Martins. As tiny as they were, for each completed model there was the dream of someday owning and driving the real, full-sized thing. Harkening back to that childhood fantasy, the people at Evanta Motor Company have created a replica of the 24 Hours of LeMans Winning Aston Martin DBR1/2 which Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori drove in 1959 – affixed to a parts tree in full 1:1 scale! [Read more...]
