Why Arent There Build Pics From All Builders?

[Guest oddsocks]

Just curious know a few of us have our build pics put up but why doesnt everyone who is building put theirs up?

 

I know i've been helped by a few on here sending me their photos and im sure there others who've looked at those that post their photos but never put their own photos up to help the next builder why?????

 

Surely they are glad of the help so why not pass it on?

 

Rant over-well for now

 

Jamie

[Longboarder]

I have hundreds of pics and diagrams I have drawn over the years, particularly of electrical diagrams and circuits. I would be happy to make them freely available on the internet to builders. Many have been pinched over the years and are available, (often without aknowledgment but that's another story. I have even pinched a few that were not mine.) However although I can post and even put pics on here I haven't got a clue about making and running a web site. Most of my stuff is technical and needs explanatory text. I would love to have my own specialist website but don't know how. And I have had lessons. Just doesn't take.

I have built a good, fast, well handling car but I can't build a website to go with it. Wish I could!

 

Nigel

[Guest Chutney]

Now there's a good project for somebody.

[fry61]

Do others find as I do, that you're so wrapped up in getting on with building house,boat car,garden, whatever; that the moment has gone when pictures are considered. I have built dozens of one offs (only 3 cars) & have very little or no photographic record. It is much regretted but am so wrapped up in the doing & problem solving that evidence of build takes a back seat; & when do you know that the piece in hand is "the final correct piece".

[Snapperpaul]

My big issue so to speak is that I am a photographer by day and a serial fiddler by night ( ooh that doesn't sound right) so the last thing I think of is taking photos.

Now I have an all singing and dancing iPhone I do take a few more but can't be asked to make a website.

[megadodo]

Although I do take photos while I work on the car (essential for IVA to show all the hidden bits they may want evidence on) and some are on photobucket I have found lately, especially as I have dropped from the company car scheme, I am too busy keeping the wife's and my tin-tops operational, the shower still leaks, the daughter still needs running here, there & everywhere, the wife wants bits & bobs doing (and that is NOT a euphamism) and her camper van needs fixing for it's mot in march!!! Stewart, I am so jealous!

[agent_zed]

Hi,

the way i've looked at it so far is that most people seem to want a specific photo. So although its good to flick through 200 photos of someones build its not always that useful if you just want to have a look if a sprocket is facing the right way. In which case if they ask on the forum someone is quite likely to point them to a photo or go and photo the specific part in question.

 

although i can understand this might be annoying if you have to wait for someone to put a photo up.

 

 

just a thought

[ibrooks]

Like most of the people have said it's just not second nature to be taking photos whilst I'm in the garage. Oily/grimy hands are not always the best thing for a camera and my mind is on other things than photos of what I'm doing. I do often take quick snaps of assemblies as an aide-memoir for when I come to put it back together though which is a habit I'm trying to get myself into.

 

Also bearing in mind that I had a Cortina based S7 and then a 2B that went through SVA in 2004 I didn't always have access to a digital camera whilst I was building them - never mind a cheap one I would be prepared to have in the garage whilst I was working. It's easy to think of a cheap digital camera or your phone that takes a picture and wonder why someone else didn't use theirs without realising just how recent some of these things are and that it's not so very long ago when they simply weren't an option.

 

I spent most of last year re-building a Mini as a surprise for my cousin (he thought he had sold it). The intention from day one was to put together a photographic record of what I did to it so that he could see what happened after all the pretty bits were bolted on and it was painted but it still wasn't easy photographing every single step and there are gaps in the record as I got wrapped up in actually doing it rather than taking pictures. Especially towards the end of the project when time was getting short - the reveal was his wedding day when the car arrived to take him to the church.

 

I'm going to have to be careful whilst building the SPD because that will need to be photographed for IVA purposes as I've bought it as a part built (not that you would know). I also want to take lots of pictures of my current rebuild of the GTM so maybe I'll get into the habit. None of these are likely to be much help to you guys as they aren't Hoods. Hopefully matters will be made a little easier as I won a digital camera in the Charity Challenge team's Christmas raffle (again) so the old one can become the "garage" camera whilst the new one is kept for holidays/shows and the like.

 

Iain

[David S]

I am writing up my build in a blog. One of the things I have mentioned in there is that I haven't included hundreds of photos as there are other people who have put up a lot more than me and a lot better quality. I wanted to write up the build to share my experience of the build process but also to have a record for the IVA and to look back on.

 

I will add a link to the blog to my signature but here it is for anyone who is interested http://gbszerobuild.blogspot.com/

 

[ozz]

I am so grateful to those who have shared their skill and knowledge on this site without all of them my zero would be a pile of parts on the garage floor.

 

Every photo I could take would be a copy of a part of somone else's car. I have posted somethings I've found but my photos would just be exmaples of how to do things a little worse than Shaft,Taff, Zoom Zoom, Tony B the list goes on.

 

If i know something I'll post but mainly i'll follow and learn. Thanks to the Masters for the answers and thanks to the novices for the questions.

 

Ozz

[Shaft]

 

 

......but my photos would just be exmaples of how to do things a little worse than Shaft,Taff, Zoom Zoom, Tony B the list goes on.

 

If i know something I'll post but mainly i'll follow and learn. Thanks to the Masters for the answers and thanks to the novices for the questions.

 

Ozz

 

 

 

Bless ya Ozz, thanks for the compliment mate, really nice thing too say, but bear in mind though, i'm definately no master my friend, this is

my first build too!!

There are far more learned and experienced people on here than me. None more so than the 2B and Lightweight boys. their builds must of been a minefield

of headscratching and problem solving compared to us with the Zero.

 

Nick.

[Shaft]

To add my take on the thread....

 

I saved my personnal build pictures to photobucket originally as a safety measure

purely in case anything happened to my PC, you never know, and i lost them.

Unthinkable really with the requirement of photographic evidence to support

IVA and registration etc...

 

After seeing other peoples build pics (Zoom Zoom, Phil Howard etc) that pointed me

in the right direction at the start, i decided to share mine as well. As time progressed

and my PM messages grew on a daily basis i found myself enjoying taking pics of

my progress and hence posting more pics.

This led to me adding comments to my pics and sequencing them almost in the format

of an instruction manual. I could easily sit of an evening for 2 or 3 hours just uploading pics

to photobucket and blithering away to myself as i added the comments to them all.

 

Each too their own i suppose, but to agree with others... i havn't the knowledge or inclanation

to have my own blog page, just a bunch of pics dumped on the 'tinterweb.

 

Hopefully they have assisted others in their builds and provided laughs for others.

 

 

Nick

aka Shaft the Chef

[Guest oddsocks]

To add my take on the thread....

 

I saved my personnal build pictures to photobucket originally as a safety measure

purely in case anything happened to my PC, you never know, and i lost them.

Unthinkable really with the requirement of photographic evidence to support

IVA and registration etc...

 

After seeing other peoples build pics (Zoom Zoom, Phil Howard etc) that pointed me

in the right direction at the start, i decided to share mine as well. As time progressed

and my PM messages grew on a daily basis i found myself enjoying taking pics of

my progress and hence posting more pics.

This led to me adding comments to my pics and sequencing them almost in the format

of an instruction manual. I could easily sit of an evening for 2 or 3 hours just uploading pics

to photobucket and blithering away to myself as i added the comments to them all.

 

Each too their own i suppose, but to agree with others... i havn't the knowledge or inclanation

to have my own blog page, just a bunch of pics dumped on the 'tinterweb.

 

Hopefully they have assisted others in their builds and provided laughs for others.

 

 

Nick

aka Shaft the Chef

 

 

Thanks to all for the replys and i agree with some of the post about there are some with much more knowledge of cars than others and i appreciate that we can get oily in the garage and so not really pratical to take photos then but surely when we're finished a couple of photos wouldn't take long, doesnt have to be action shots but thats not really the point of my thread. Without shafts (and others) pics i would be stuck on a few things also i've been able to fone him when im stuck and i thank him for this and im hoping next time we meet up for a few pints that i'll have my car with me( ) but i was just thinking that we could all learn off each other as we all know bout the build manual! This forum IS the build manual and with everyones photos avaible to see then new builders will be more attracted to this site and more likely to buy a kit car. also it would be nice to see who's car is who's so when we go to shows we can actually put a face to the car?

This is not to offend anyone but hopefully to inspire,help and get people out in the garage to show all their hard work to the world!!!

 

 

Jamie

[Guest oddsocks]

I am writing up my build in a blog. One of the things I have mentioned in there is that I haven't included hundreds of photos as there are other people who have put up a lot more than me and a lot better quality. I wanted to write up the build to share my experience of the build process but also to have a record for the IVA and to look back on.

 

I will add a link to the blog to my signature but here it is for anyone who is interested http://gbszerobuild.blogspot.com/

 

 

Just looked at your pics dave looks good keep it up i look forward to seeing the rest of the build.

 

Jamie

[Shaft]

...........i was just thinking that we could all learn off each other as we all know bout the build manual!

This forum IS the build manual and with everyones photos avaible to see then new builders will be more attracted to this site and more likely to buy a kit car. also it would be nice to see who's car is who's so when we go to shows we can actually put a face to the car?

This is not to offend anyone but hopefully to inspire,help and get people out in the garage to show all their hard work to the world!!!

 

 

Jamie

 

 

Beautifully written Jamie and i fully agree.