The questions worth asking first.
Including the one everybody in car culture asks, which we would rather answer up front than have you find out later.
Our designs use AI-assisted image generation plus human quality control. We do not claim the work is hand-drawn. Your proof is reviewed and you approve the exact file that prints.
Custom pieces cannot be returned simply because you changed your mind after approval. We will remake or replace a piece that arrives damaged, has a production defect, or does not match the approved file.
Is this AI?
Yes, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The artwork is built with modern digital tools including AI image generation, driven by your photographs. We never claim it is hand drawn or hand painted, because it is not, and because you would find out. What we do claim is that it is your exact car: your wheels, your grille, your badges, your stance, your lights. That is the part we work hardest on, and it is the part you get to check before anything is final.
Whose car is in the examples?
Ours. Every render in the catalog is one of Colton's own vehicles, and the card says which. There is no stock photography anywhere on this site, and we never borrow a picture from one style to fill a gap in another. If a style has no example, it says "example pending" rather than showing you something else.
What if it does not look like my car?
Then do not approve it. That is the entire point of the proof. You get a watermarked preview with zoomed crops of the badge and the wheel, because those are the two things that drift. If something is wrong, ask for a revision and tell us what to fix. Nothing prints and nothing is delivered until you say yes.
How many photos do you need?
One will start it. Three or four make it noticeably better. The set we want is a front three-quarter of the whole car, a close-up of the grille and badge, and a close-up of a front wheel. If you only send one, we enlarge those areas out of it, which works, but a real close-up is the difference between your wheels and wheels that merely look like yours.
Do you rebuild my car, or use my photo?
Your choice, per order. Rebuild lets us put the car in any scene at any angle and rebuilds the light and reflections to match the new place; the smallest badge script can occasionally need a free correction pass. Use my exact photo keeps your photograph as the car and changes only the world around it; it is pixel-faithful, but it keeps your photo's angle and light, so scenes lit hard from one direction are not offered with it.
What is Nameplate?
Your own word built into the scene itself: painted on a workshop wall, standing in the sky, carved into stone, glowing as neon. You type it, you see the exact string, and you tick a box confirming that spelling before we build it. Two to fourteen characters, letters, numbers, spaces and hyphens. It is included free with any scene, and it is checked again on your proof before anything prints.
Who writes the text on a specification poster?
We do, from what you typed, letter for letter. The image generator is explicitly told to leave every text area blank; it never writes a word that prints. If your figures are your own rather than the manufacturer's, the poster says "owner-supplied" on its face. We will not print your dyno sheet dressed up as a factory claim.
What can I not change?
Straight list, no small print:
- The scene compositions themselves. You pick from the catalog; we do not take custom scene requests yet.
- The aspect ratio.
- The car's colour or parts. We render it as photographed. A repaint or resto-mod version is an idea for later, not something we do today.
- The watermark before purchase.
- More than one vehicle per poster.
How long does it take?
The proof comes back in minutes, not days. We are deliberately not publishing a delivery promise for physical prints until we have shipped and timed real samples ourselves. When we can stand behind a date, we will print it here.
Is a digital file refundable?
No, once delivered it is final sale, and that is exactly why the watermarked preview and the approval step exist. You see the whole image before the watermark comes off. If the preview is not right you get a free re-roll rather than a file you did not want.
What happens if the print arrives damaged?
Tell us and we remake it free.
Still deciding?
Look at the catalog. Every picture on it is something we actually made.
Start with your photo