See the world through X-ray vision: Artist scans vintage cars, humans and famous movie guns to show inner workings in stunning art

A British photographer sees the world through X-ray vision.

Nick Veasey has spent more than a decade tinkering with the world's largest X-ray machine to create stunning images that reveal the inner workings of cars, objects and people.

Each spring appears screw, valve and bone in the black and white images that hang like works of art in galleries and homes around the world.

The Essex-born father-of-two has persuaded a dozen private car collectors to lend him their vintage vehicles, peered into Scarface's M16 pistol and turned Guns N' Roses' Slash into a living skeleton.

Nick Veasey spent a decade tinkering with the world's largest X-ray machine to create stunning images that reveal the inner workings of cars, objects and people. Pictured is the 1955 Mercedes 300SL Gull Wing

Veasey custom-built the X-ray machine from industrial materials, which he first tested on a pair of old sneakers.

“Initially I took time off work on X-ray machines and learned a tremendous amount from radiographers who showed me how to use the equipment,” Veasey told the The British V&Aa museum for art and design.

'Renting X-ray equipment was limiting because the process is slow and time-consuming. So building my own X-ray bunker was an important step, because I could experiment more and work on improving that technique.'

Veasey worked for five years on a project that included scanning multimillion-dollar vintage cars.

Every car propeller, engine valve and spring was captured in high definition in a single print – using radiation almost 100 times more powerful than a hospital X-ray.

Best known for his X-ray prints of the Boeing 777, the Essex-born father of two convinced a dozen private car collectors to lend him their vintage vehicles and turned Guns N' Roses' Slash into a living skeleton (pictured)

Veasey custom built the X-ray machine from industrial materials, allowing him to scan people

'I am a fan of classic design. I don't like modern cars, but I like classic cars,” Veasey said.

'My work is like an internal journey in the car, it has integrity, it shows what it is like inside, it is another way to enjoy these fantastic machines.

'Of all the cars, the Corvette CS2 is the one I like the most, it's just sex. It's just beautiful, it's got a split rear window, it's just beautiful.”

He spent two years collecting the cars for the project and ended up with twenty from owners willing to lend their prized cars in the name of art.

The Essex-born father of two has persuaded a dozen private car collectors to lend him their vintage vehicles like this 1948 Mercury Pick-Up

Veasey worked for five years on a project that included scanning multimillion-dollar vintage cars. Pictured is a Porsche 911 TargaIn

Each car was carefully lifted by crane onto a turntable to a height of one meter into a futuristic room lined with 4-metre thick walls of dense sand.

The nine million volt scans were taken in 0.2mm increments to show how the world's most extraordinary car designs evolved during the 20th century.

Veasey then spent a month putting together each set of scans to create his stunning prints of twenty cars.

Pictured is the X-ray of the M16 model waved by actor Al Pacino as he utters the famous line, “Say hello to my little friend!” in Scarface

The artist completed another project in 2013: the inner workings of some of cinema's most iconic weapons. Pictured is Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface

The series featured the Magnum 45, as used by Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry

Eastwood is depicted holding the gun in the film

“If you look at the first cars and how they evolved – the early cars were just built for style – that was the most important factor when they approached them, he said.

The artist completed another project in 2013: the inner workings of some of cinema's most iconic weapons.

The series featured the Magnum 45, as used by Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry, and the M16 model, brandished by actor Al Pacino as he uttered the famous line, “Say hello to my little friend!” in Scarface.

The weapons came from an armorer who supplied weapons to the film industry and were delivered to Veasey's studio in Maidstone, Kent, in an armored van by two handlers.