Restoration of wrecked Volvo P1800!

Restoration Series!

When I search for photo to work on I see often this rusty and wrecked cars. On back of my head I started thinking how would they look like as new cars straight from manufacture. I already know I want do digital restoration some day. That day is come!

Episode 2

This one took a while! For second picture in series I picked this red wrecked car. First thing was to get know what car is this. At the beggining I thought it was some corvette or plymouth but shape doesn't match. After many hours of searching I finally find it! It's Volvo P1800! Then I started figure out how restore this baby to new form. In most cases very helpful was stamp tool. Hope you like it!

Final picture!

Research

Let's get back to searching for a minute. First when I saw this car I thought it look like Lightning McQueen from Pixar's Cars. I even wonder for minute to use it for making cartoon car. Eventually I go for restoration. I had no idea what car is tis. Looking for that information was so hard. I got many suspisions. Starting Corvette throught Datsun Sports, Sunbeam Tiger and then finally find it. Volvo P1800.

Recording & Video Edit

A lot of material was cut out in video edit. Original time with no cuts it was about 26 minutes! Way to long! So I need to remove the most boring things like fixing layer mask after selection cut, creating selection for windows, every zoom out and checking before and after to avoid flickering effect on video. Editing took almost the same time as recording. I already started thinking about change format of timelapses more organized with chapters. Maybe then it will take less time. Recording it self took five session about three hours each day. I don't assume that this take so much time!

Car at the end of second recording session

Work in progress

Work on this picture was pretty standard as before, a lot of stamp tool and patch tool.Main difference was a much bigger surface! Almost all body car. I had one moment or two when I started struggling but I keep going. Real fun was add new part to clean car body. I don't want to use picture of the same car as donor. So I collect few stock car pictures and started puzzling out. The final result is what you see above.