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Earlier I stumbled upon a wonderful post posted earlier today, by Ceidiog Hughes, and entitled Kiddies remote cars make 'wheely' great paintings in Wrexham … that I urge everyone to read! Here are a couple of excerpts in the hope of piquing your interest!

This is my first visit to Wales. I will set up about 8am and start painting about 10am and finish a complete work by 5 or 6pm.” Kevin Critchley, the Manager of Eagles Meadow, just can’t wait to see Ian at work. He said: “His paintings are absolutely sensational and I’m astonished that he can create such fantastic work with remote-control cars. On the day, the other attractions will include a Formula 1 simulator so you will be able to get a realistic feel of what it’s like to be Lewis Hamilton or Jenson Button”. Ian Cook, a former art lecturer who lives near Birmingham, is in huge demand world-wide and has just completed a project form Jaguar Land Rover, using just Jaguar Land Rover controlled cars. He explained: “It’s the familiar pop art commercial culture thing, using certain brands to create specific images.

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Would Campbell’s soups be as famous without Warhol? I’ve just come back from Barcelona where I created an art work for a group of insurance companies who provide paint to the car repair industry. It’s a niche market.” Ian has a degree in fine art painting, but has always been a car enthusiast and even did work experience shadowing car engineers and designers. He hit on the idea of painting with radio controlled cars when he was given a RV car by a now former girlfriend for Christmas in 2006. “She told me ‘don’t take it down your studio, and don’t get paint on it’and the idea was born. From this I did colour wheels and abstract pieces, and then moved on to images, this included logos, portraits and cars. But cars were the most effective,” he said. To create his paintings, Ian applies the paint to the paper and then runs the cars through the paint.

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If I wanted a decent sable paint brush it could cost between £80-90,” he said. When he has finished with the cars, he can even sell them on. He uses a “fleet” of non-branded cars for most of his artwork, unless it is a specific commission which requires him to use a particular make of car to match the painting – such as the Jaguar Land Rover commission. Some of his work has appeared on TV’s Top Gear. He worked with Ferrari and used five new ‘paintbrushes’ supplied to him, including one of the car he was painting , the Ferrari 458 Italia, which Ian describes as a great looking car and a great paintbrush. His studio is the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon where he is currently artist in residence. Ian’s website www.popbangcolour.

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Another fine article came from willzalamba45 over on Articles Blast posted a fortnight ago and entitled Info on Radio controlled Cars which is also certainly worth a look.

These cars may take the form of an actual modern or classic vehicle which sometimes bears minute particulars such as cool chrome rims, hoods doors and trunks that open up or a lot a lot more detail. RC vehicles might also resemble monstertrucks buggies, tractors, trailers, caterpillars and other widespread autos which just make the whole expertise far more realistic and enjoyable. It is frequent to find aficionados or hobbyists hold vehicle competitions that function essentially the most effective cars that may possibly have been customized and fitted with all manner of hi tech gizmos. In such competitions a variety of RC car models are showcased by different producers or people. Powerful RC vehicles may be needed in such occasions given that miniature race tracks with difficult obstacles are portion and parcel of such events. A few of the vehicles are electrically powered by a series of AA batteries while some are powered by nitro gas fuel. Nitro gas fuel can be a highly volatile fuel that’s employed in actual racing automobiles and provides the significantly needed energy that boosts the effective supercharged engines additional providing as much as 150% a lot more energy ,therefore, pushing the engine to its extreme limits. Nitro gas generally offers a blue flame which provides out a blue ambience when real racing autos are used at night that is so irresistible to race automobile fanatics.

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Nitro gas fuel employed for Nitro RC vehicles isn’t so different from the nitro fuel utilised in race automobiles, nonetheless, care must be taken when refueling these autos. Nitro gas utilized in these nitro autos contains a little percentage of oil that reduces friction of the vehicle engine, when a distinct sort of fuel other than the specified is utilized the Engine will probably be damaged. The nitro gas employed in RC Automobiles also contain other elements which could expire if the fuel is not correctly stored rendering it useless. Nitro gas fuel has elements that provide cooling inside the car engine that keeps it from overheating therefore preventing damage and it can be of this cause that prolonged usage from the automobile is of no concern. Nitro RC automobiles don’t emit dangerous gases to the environment in contrast to gasoline powered ones that give smoke, Nitro vehicles could be employed indoors or outdoors, weather is of small concern because it may be utilised inside normal range of daily temperature. Noise levels inside a nitro powered car are inside an affordable range, you won’t need to be concerned about waking up your neighbors or damaging your ear drums the engine has been encased in a noise and fireproof cover. Users need to read the safety precautions as advised by the manufacturer and recognize clearly the suggestions just before using the RC autos, also care ought to be taken particularly when refueling these automobiles. Fuel should not also be employed near fires or in very high temperatures because the nitro fuel could explode.

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