Truck Model Archive

[peter white]

Peter White and Kim Ashton have developed a new free to use website to show pictures taken over the years of truck models.
So far there are around 2000 images on the site, with probably 10,000 at least to come!

We want to put something back into the hobby, and this is our way of doing it. Pictures are grouped in albums under truck manfacturers' names, and you can search under keywords for scale, type of model, modeller's name etc. You can also leave a comment if you wish.

The site is at www.truckmodelarchive.com


Peter and Kim

[voyager]

Nice to see it coming together Peter, just registered

[consettbell]

Brilliant work Peter, I'm always struggling to show people my models, having to search through my phone or forums and whatnot, this is just the business, keep it up! 

[modeller]

brilliant Peter  i like the way you can search for the builder, company name, truck type ect

[modeller]

all we need now are hyperlinks so we can post then into posts 

[okdoky]

Nice to see the quality of the pictures and great layout !!!!!!!!

How far back do you reckon the archives go ??

Only ever posted the Veenman Volvo all those years ago

Nige

[regsteph]

Peter & Co.
Great, well done
Reg

[v8alan73]

fantastic stuff peter I've just had a quick look but theres some very good stuff so far.

alan

[peter white]

Thanks for the positive comments.
we have pictures going right back to the early years of TMW and model shows, so there's about 20+ years worth. It will take a lot of work to get them all on the site.

Before digital photography most were done on 35mm transparencies, so in order to digitise them Kim has to re-photograph each tranny. All credit to him, its a hell of a task.
Generally speaking, almost all the pictures that have appeared in the magazine should appear in due course (if I live long enough that is!)
Peter

[Breninasia]

Would it not be easier to scan in the transparencies using a flatbed scanner with transparency attachment? I know my scanner had an attachment that allowed me to scan transparencies and even 35mm negatives.

[peter white]

Bren
Apparently the quality isn't as good doing it that way (so I'm told)
Peter

[Evs127]

This is great Peter!! Thank you for the service!!

[davie]

superb 

[6for36]

Peter and Kim,   THANK YOU. Your care and willingness to help our hobby is to be commended.

[rwaldram]

One of these might do the trick (one of them has a 20Mp output which certainly cant be sneezed at).
http://www.ebay.com.au/gds/Top-5-35mm-Film-to-Digital-Converters-/10000000178571885/g.html
http://slide-to-digital-image-converter-review.toptenreviews.com/