My dad and I have finished the renovation of his 1941 Indian Scout (I know you’ve seen this here already). Minty is now whole again and is amazing to ride. Yet, I wanted to remember all the work accomplished, as memories of these moments, spent in the garage with my dad, are already fading.
It’s been quite a journey, something like 2 years since we started the renovation process. Indeed, all the struggles are becoming distant memories, despite being countless and especially since we started renovating his second bike. Don’t worry, I won’t talk about it here but I should however finish my series on Minty’s renovation.
Meanwhile, I wanted to share with you the poster I created for my dad.
I gave it to him for his Birthday about 2 months ago. I think he loved it, even if he has Minty in his garage which should be plenty to remember!
I got it framed and it took the place of the picture of my nephew & niece in the living room. Sorry, not sorry! 😉
I had planned this but didn’t know if I would manage…
Obviously, creating something like this poster is something I had planned. I wasn’t sure I would actually do it, I wasn’t even sure I could manage to do it. But I had hopes.
So during the renovation and before the rebuilt, I started taking pictures of all the parts. Then, every time we were getting something out of a box, I would put it on the dedicated wood plank I had, to take a picture or 2 or 3…
The lightning turned out to be uneven, the shades, the white balance… almost nothing matched! I didn’t have the time to check all the pictures, we were there to rebuilt Minty, after all. Obviously I missed some parts. I went back after a while, sometimes dismantling bits again, just to take pictures. I thought I had them all! A few are still missing.
It took me ages to create the montage. Sometimes I joke I spent more hours on this than on rebuilding Minty! It’s probably not far off.
Over 200 pictures of parts were used for this thing. Each of them ended up being cleaned individually in Photoshop. I messed up often, didn’t always manage to correct the color like a pro… Just like Minty, it’s imperfect! All the parts were put together in Photoshop, resized and moved around countless times, especially when adding the ones I had missed.
You can see above how it started.
Of course, I checked with the manual and parts list! Still…
Oh well… 99% are there!
Missing bits is one issue, but the fact that I am in no way a Photoshop pro was another!! Hence the time spent.
But I managed and in my opinion, it turned out pretty cool!
Maybe the weirdness way to visualize a motorcycle!
My dad was puzzled at first when he saw it. He didn’t understand I had created it and still doesn’t understand how I did it. Yet, he keeps studying it and concluded recently he had never seen anything like it! Which sounded like a huge compliment.
Thankfully my dad doesn’t have Internet! I mean it may or may not be unique, I don’t know. It’ true that I haven’t found many motorcycle flat lays and none as detailed.
It doesn’t matter, what matters is that he likes it. Oh, wait and that I like it too after all!!
A little gift to the people who helped us
My dad has a unique example of this montage. But then I gave one to the people who helped us with the renovation. They have a slightly different version. I will tell you more about them hopefully soon.
And now this is the version for the you!
You can now find this flat lay of Minty which I called Anatomy of an Indian Scout mortocycle in my shop on Society6! I think the art print will work better than the canvas print considering the number of small pieces displayed. I’m not super active on Society6 so if you notice something is wrong, do let me know.
You can also find such prints on Fine Art America where I have a couple other pictures published. I’m not very active there either, I know!!
Please note I would not get it framed on either platforms because of the white margin (as you can see below). For the one I got my dad, I framed it myself with a black frame with no white margin and it looks much better, in my very personal opinion. I had to do some small cuts on the sides but there is plenty of room for that.
Glossy paper worked for me better as well but that’s up to you.
The bigger, the more expensive, I know. And it does take a certain size to appreciate the details. Believe me I printed several times, in several formats!
The coolest part!
On Fine Art America, you can get it as a puzzle for less than 40$! How cool is that!
If you like it but can’t afford it…
… It would be nice of you to not just steal the image shown above.
None of the pictures displayed here are high definition anyway. Even the first one. It might look ok on your screen but it is not formatted to be printed in a large format.
So if you like it but can’t afford it, please don’t steal. Email me instead: miss coco travel @ gmail . com (remove the spaces)
And we’ll discuss. I’ll probably send you something.
Note that I won’t be adding this to my not so secret page for now (the one for RTatW subscriber) because I only include drawings on such page and this would be a weird addition!
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