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Feature Car: Paul Lonergran’s Insane 1928 Dodge Rat Rod

04 Feb

Tags: 2013, australia, automotive, background, ben hosking, car, central coast, chevrolet, desktop, dodge, free, freebies, garage, hosking industries, hot rod, image, images, motoring, nsw, patina, paul lonergran, photography, rat rod, strobist, vehicle, wallpaper, workshop
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Issue 20 of Heavy Duty Hot Rods (aka Genuine Hot Rods) is on sale now and boasts four photo shoots and feature stories by Hosking Industries, including one on Paul Lonergran’s insane 1928 Dodge Rat Rod, pictured here. Paul’s beastie has been built on the cheap, using parts from around his shop and home collection and Paul claims he did it all for a measly $42!

The phantom ’28 Dodge is powered by a high-revving 327ci small-block Chevrolet V8 and the car features more patina than a rusty boat anchor with corrosion and rust at every turn. Rat rods don’t come much more genuinely ratty than Paul’s. Who’d have it any other way?!

As always, we’ve got a series of FREE desktop wallpaper images for you to enjoy and strobist fans will find our lighting information and EXIF data on each image’s caption, too. Simply CLICK HERE or on the thumbnails below to visit our Flickr page where all the goodies lay in wait for your visit.

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Feature Car: Andrew McClelland’s 1928 Ford Tourer

05 Oct

Tags: 1928 ford tourer, 2012, andrew mcclelland 1928 tourer, australia, automotive, background, ben hosking, car, desktop, feature car, Ford, free, freebies, heavy duty hot rods, hosking industries, image, images, magazine, motoring, nsw, october 2012, patina, photography, sydney, tourer, undercoat grey, vehicle, wallpaper
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Issue 18 of Heavy Duty Hot Rods (aka Modified Street Hot Rods) is about to hit the stands and includes three photo shoots by Hosking Industries, including the one we did on Andrew McClelland’s awesome retro 1928 Ford Tourer, shown here. Resplendent in its undercoat grey paint and boasting plenty of understated pin striping, the flathead-powered open-cab rod gets plenty of attention.

Andrew and his Drag-Ens club mates built the rod in a short time frame for their annual Valla Rod Run, that the club puts together on the NSW north coast. Here, Andrew’s daughter scored the job of cruising the funky flattie along the cruise route all weekend, grabbing a trophy for her efforts.

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As always, we’ve got a selection of desktop wallpaper-sized images for you to view and download for your own computer. For the photogs, you’ll find our EXIF data on each image as well (no real strobist stuff this time around, except the engine shot). Just CLICK HERE or on the thumbnails below to jump.

Feature Bike: Davo Voodoo’s Custom Honda Bobber

30 Aug

Tags: 2012, australia, automotive, background, ben hosking, bike, bobber, car, chopper, davo voodoo, desktop, free, freebies, gosford, hosking industries, image, images, motorcycle, motoring, nsw, patina, photography, strobist, vehicle, voodoo tattoo, wallpaper, wild aussie choppers
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Issue 18 of Wild Aussie Choppers magazine (aka Australia’s Hottest Bobbers & Customs) is coming out soon and also features a shoot and story we did on Davo Voodoo’s wicked little Honda-powered retro-styled bobber. Davo runs Voodoo Tattoo on NSW’s Central Coast and bought this bike as an unfinished project at the 2011 Taren Point Rat Day, which is also where we first laid eyes on the stainless steel-framed machine.

It’s powered by a 600cc Honda engine and damages kidneys with a rigid frame and distinct lack of suspension in the seating area as well. To ensure everyone realises it’s got a stainless frame, Davo went for an unpainted look on the frame and matched that with a scuffed look on the tank and guard, where Davo nicely finished things off with his first ever automotive paint job. Be sure to read more about the bike in issue 18, when it goes on sale in September.

For now, enjoy six FREE desktop wallpaper images of the bike on our Flickr page by CLICKING HERE or on the thumbnails below. Strobist fans will also find our lighting and EXIF info there. Thanks to the guys at The Chop Shop for letting us shoot in their workshop.

Feature Bikes: Tim and Neil’s Custom Harley Davidson Bobbers

19 Jan

Tags: 2012, automotive, background, ben hosking, bobber, desktop, free, freebies, harley bobber, harley davidson, hosking industries, image, images, january 2012, magazine, motoring, nsw, patina, photography, photoshoot, strobist, sydney, vehicle, wallpaper, wild aussie choppers magazine
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Issue 13 of Wild Aussie Choppers contains no less than four feature photo shoots by Hosking Industries and this shoot on Tim and Neil’s matching Harley Davidson-powered bobbers is one of them. Hailing from the Northen Beaches of Sydney in NSW, Australia, Tim and Neil are mates that share a love of custom cars and bikes and own a few cool machines between them, including the work-in-progress F-truck that’s in the shed behind the bikes.

These two motorcycles garnered an extensive spread in the magazine and you can read all about their construction and technical specs in issue 13, on-sale now. For all the strobist fans, you’ll find lighting information in the captions for each shot on our Flick page by CLICKING HERE or on the thumbs below. And don’t forget, we also offer these six images in desktop wallpaper dimensions FREE!

Wicked Wednesdays: FREE High-Res Sydney City Images

21 Sep

Tags: 2011, architecture, australia, background, ben hosking, desktop, free, free stock images, free sydney images, free textures, freebies, high-resolution, high-resolution textures, hosking industries, image, images, nsw, patina, photography, september 2011, stock images, sydney, sydney stock images, textures, wallpaper
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We don’t often deviate from our commitment to provide you all with free texture images, but when we do, it’s only so we can bring you some free stock images! This week we’ve brought you some FREE high-resolution stock images of Sydney. However, instead of uploading a bunch of cliched shots of the harbour bridge, opera house or other tripe, we thought we’d look for some more uncommon elements of the city and this is what we’ve found.

You’ll see some nice examples of the juxtaposition of old and new building design primarily, but also some other cool stuff we hope you can use either in design projects or perhaps simply as inspiration for a future design project of your own. Enjoy!

As always, Hosking Industries high-resolution texture images are FREE for personal and commercial use. However, you may not resell, repackage or redistribute these textures or generally pass them off as your own for monetary gain etc. Use them in your design projects, but don’t use them for commercial gain.

Click on the thumbnails to download the super happy-time high-res versions (you can right click and Save-As, too!):

Wicked Wednesdays: FREE High-Resolution Patina Textures

07 Sep

Tags: 2011, australia, automotive, background, ben hosking, car, decay, desktop, free, free stock images, free texture images, free textures, freebies, grunge, high-resolution, high-resolution textures, hosking industries, image, images, metal, motoring, nsw, old car, patina, photography, rat day, rat rod, rat rod day 2011, rust, rusty metal, september 2011, sydney, taren point rat day 2011, textures, vehicle, wallpaper, wicked wednesdays
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Yeah, we know… it’s only been a couple of weeks since our last series of high-resolution patina textures. But come on, the 2011 Taren Point Rat Day was just on again this last Father’s Day and the place was full to the brim with brilliantly rusty cars. What would you do!? Yeah, thought so. heheh

Click on the thumbnails to download the super happy-time high-res versions (you can right click and Save-As, too!):

Wicked Wednesdays: FREE High-Res Patina Textures #6

24 Aug

Tags: 2011, australia, automotive, background, ben hosking, car, desktop, free, free stock images, free texture images, free textures, freebies, high-resolution, high-resolution textures, hosking industries, image, images, motoring, nsw, patina, patina textures, photography, rusting metal, sydney, taren point rat rod day, textures, vehicle, wallpaper
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This week’s collection is the sixth set of high-resolution patina textures Hosking Industries has released since we started the Wicked Wednesdays FREE texture set initiative some 18 months ago. Some of these images come from the 2010 Taren Point Rat Rod Day in Sydney, Australia; some come from other Sydney car shows over the last 12 months.

Click on the thumbnails to download the super happy-time high-res versions (you can right click and Save-As, too!):

Wicked Wednesdays: FREE High-Resolution Stone Textures

27 Jul

Tags: 2011, australia, background, ben hosking, desktop, free, free stock images, free stone stock images, free textures, freebies, granite, grunge, high-resolution, high-resolution textures, hosking industries, image, images, july, july 2011, lichen, moss, nsw, patina, photography, rock, rock textures, stone, stone textures, sydney, textures, wallpaper, wicked wednesdays
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As far as we can count, this marks the fifth series of FREE high-resolution stone texture/stock images we’ve brought you since we began providing the Wicked Wednesdays texture-fests over a year ago. Believe it or not, you can actually find well over 60 sets of high-resolution texture images on our Flickr page, all FREE and ready to use in your design projects and this week’s set of stone stock images are no different!

Click on the thumbnails to download the super happy high-res versions (you can right click and Save-As, too!):

Wicked Wednesdays: FREE High-Resolution Concrete Textures

22 Jun

Tags: 2011, australia, background, ben hosking, cement, concrete, concrete textures, cracked, decay, desktop, dirty, driveway, footpath, free, free textures, freebies, high-resolution, high-resolution textures, hosking industries, image, images, june, june 2011, nsw, patina, photography, sydney, textures, wallpaper, wicked wednesdays
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We’re back! After two weeks out in the jungle fending off malaria and wild animals (no, not really), Hosking Industries returns with a new set of six completely FREE high-resolution texture images. This week’s collection is all about concrete, that wonderful subject that’s used in textures the world over. Can you really have enough high-res concrete textures!?

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Wicked Wednesdays: FREE High-Res Moss and Lichen Textures

18 May

Tags: 2011, australia, background, ben hosking, desktop, free, free textures, freebies, grunge, high-resolution, high-resolution textures, hosking industries, image, images, lichen, lichen texture, may 2011, moss, moss texture, mould, nature, nature texture, nsw, patina, photography, sydney, textures, wallpaper
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This week’s textures are all of moss and lichen, commonly found on rocks in damp places like the bush or a shady cliff face – which exactly where we found all six textures here. They’re of different types of moss and lichen… basically as many different types as we could find without jumping a plane to the Amazon.

Click on (or right click and Save-As) the thumbnails for the full resolution versions: