01 • THE DESIGN
AMALGAM COLLECTION
I
’m delighted to introduce Amalgam Collection to the pages of b500 magazine. Many of you will already be aware of their incredibly detailed models, but for those of you who haven’t as yet, discovered them, please go online and look them up, (after first continuing to read this)…you can find them at www.amalgamcollection.com
Since that time, about a year ago, I have called on them for a few different photographic reasons, and so it is now very much my turn, as it were, to return the favour and by doing so, write about this hugely talented and skilled model making business. Over the coming issues of b500, my plan is to write about a different 1/8 scale model and make this a regular section within the magazine.
I myself first discovered them when I was launching my photo-art series, based on the Jack Vettriano garage scene in his painting Birth of a Dream. I contacted Amalgam and asked to photograph a few of their 1/8 scale models, and they were extremely helpful to me, (with now several of their models featuring in my available artworks).
I want to start with what I believe is one of their best models yet. The beauty is in the detail, and what Amalgam have done with their ‘weathered’ versions, is quite simply staggering. To build the model to such exacting detail is one thing, but then to weather it, so it exactly replicates the race dirt as the car drove at high speed through the atrocious conditions
10
