Midas Cars Forum - www.midascarsforum.com

Well, it IS a photograph, but not of the actual car; it's a photo of a scraperboard picture my youngest sister made of my Midas in 1986. Currently the only digital picture I have of the car, until I get some old photos scanned.

She's no professional artist - she's now an air traffic controller for Heathrow...

it is nice to see something different like this. looks great.

manifold wrote:it is nice to see something different like this. looks great.

Thanks! Although, and it's taken me 25 years to notice this, she's given it a Mark 1 front bumper...

Nope that's mk 2, she got the lights in the corner bumpers, central number plate and even the corner bumper fixing screws.
Some aspects of the drawing are perfect, the hard bit is keeping all of the bits in scale, I can't draw either.

Stuart wrote:Nope that's mk 2, she got the lights in the corner bumpers, central number plate and even the corner bumper fixing screws.
Some aspects of the drawing are perfect, the hard bit is keeping all of the bits in scale, I can't draw either.

Actually you're right, it's just that the front bumpers should be deeper from top to bottom - the height she's given them is what reminded me of the Mark 1. I doubt if she'd ever seen a Mark 1 anyway; I dont think I'd ever seen one in our neck of the woods. She was 23 when she drew this, as either a birthday or Christmas present for me.

Scale's the problem whenever I try to draw anything in perspective too. Also, I think she might have been getting impatient by the time she did the number plate - they were white/yellow, but it would have been quicker to do it in scraperboard the way she did it!

Funny how these things happen. Last weekend I was moving furniture down to the same sister's house and in one drawer of a desk I'd had in my house, I found the photo she'd used to do the picture above.

Not only that, but she gave me a printer/scanner/copier someone had given her, which she had no use for. So, to bring all these things together, here's that original photograph...