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Renault Restoration (Part 2)

This is the second part of a post we put up a while ago: Renault Restoration (Part 1) . Since it has been a while, let me remind you what this Renault poster looked like after it had been linen backed and before any restoration was done. Sorry for the weird shift in colors! The photo above was taken in out photography room and the others are all taken in the restoration department, which has very different lighting. Previously, Gabe used a reference to draw the lines of the automobile and the train behind it. The first color shot was the red of the body of the automobile. The next steps were to paint the gray train and then the black of the cabin interior and the shadows of the automobile. (Is this a car or a truck? Being a woman who does not have a lot of car, or history of cars, knowledge, I'm just going to keep calling it an automobile. Look, I have a lot of knowledge about a lot of things, cars just aren't one. Let's talk about books sometime, ok?) Anway, bac