NZ Performance Car

DIORAMA UTOPIA

rvin Salvador was always captivated by model cars when he was young. He loved taking them out of the box and admiring the details, although the excitement was short lived — there was nothing much to fire up the imagination when it was merely a model car on a table. At that point he realised he needed to do something to extend that initial joy of a new model. Rather than customising the car, he decided to build something around the car to truly bring it to life. After imaging the model in 1:1 scale and what it would look like in the real world, he set to work and the results of that imaging are nothing short of incredible. Whether it’s a fictional scene or real-world replicated

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