Hello

[Historex Rob]

Hello to all.

I missed this step of introduction (sorry; I hate talking about myself).

My wife urged me to join. She thinks I am too isolated.

"Retired" of sorts (I was downsized in 2017). I have a little eBay business I run now that helps keep me busy and the lights on.

Spent many years as a professional conservator for a large museum (nonferrous metals specialist).

Spent the next several years as a freelancer (writing/editing and photography).

Taught at a large state university for a couple of years while earning my master's degree. Followed that with a role at Reuters for several years before the aforementioned "downsizing."

Started modeling (Historex) in 2006 after buying Bill Ottinger's book. Love at first sight.

I bought a few kits, followed his book pretty much as a primer and produced a couple of foot figures that weren't too bad. The internet was not quite so vast then, and so I made some research mistakes in paining of the uniforms.

Life happened shortly thereafter, and I put everything away until just a few weeks ago.

So, back at it now - after what, 17 years? - with a couple of Historex builds underway (one WIP currently up and in progress if interested).

I am legally blind according to the fine folks who run my state (peripheral blindness plus a genetic disorder on top of this), so I have to work directly under a high-watt daylight bulb and wearing an Optivisor with the strongest available lens.

A couple of weeks ago, I found two large plastic totes in our garage filled with 120mm Verlinden mounted and foot kits. I do not remember buying half of them. Not sure if I will ever get to them (I counted 65 kits, mostly Napoleonics), as I've only ever worked on Historex.

That's where I am at present.

Well wishes to all.

 

[Banjer]

Most impressed you manage to model given your sight problems,

Bill

 

[Nap]

Hi Robert

Great introduction its good to listen to your wife , good to have you with us

Looking forward to seeing your benchtime

Always happy to help ...just message me

Have fun

Nap

Moderator/Admin

 

[Historex Rob]

Thanks for the welcome.

 

[Larsen E. Whipsnade]

Hello, RVM, and welcome to Planet Figure, the best miniatures site on the web. We're happy to have you with us and look forward to seeing your work.
Rick

 

[Historex Rob]

Hello, RVM, and welcome to Planet Figure, the best miniatures site on the web. We're happy to have you with us and look forward to seeing your work.
Rick

Thanks. I've been reading lots on here the past several days. I think I have hit every Historex and Airfix thread. Nice to see people enjoy building them.

 

[Francisco]

Welcome Robert! PF is a great place to be!

 

[Historex Rob]

Welcome Robert! PF is a great place to be!

Thank you.

 

[theBaron]

Welcome back to the hobby and welcome to the Planet, Rob! I look forward to seeing your work.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Historex Rob]

Welcome back to the hobby and welcome to the Planet, Rob! I look forward to seeing your work.

Prost!
Brad

Thank you for the welcome.

 

[frog]

Hi and welcome Rob you may have problems but keep going it's good therapy well it is for me anyway keeps me sane

Dave

 

[Historex Rob]

Hi and welcome Rob you may have problems but keep going it's good therapy well it is for me anyway keeps me sane

Dave

Thanks, Dave. So far, so good.

 

[theBaron]

I see you're a member over at the FineScale Modeling forum, too. I'll see you there!

Prost!
Brad

 

[Mirofsoft]

Is this you ?

 

[Historex Rob]

I see you're a member over at the FineScale Modeling forum, too. I'll see you there!

Prost!
Brad

I can’t figure out the in-line photo posting… and everything I post has to be pre-approved. So, you may never actually see me there. Lol

 

[Historex Rob]

Is this you ?

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Lol. Not even on a good day.

 

[theBaron]

I can’t figure out the in-line photo posting… and everything I post has to be pre-approved. So, you may never actually see me there. Lol

Posting photos are FineScale is relatively simple, though it requires using a photo host of some kind-sites like flikr, PostImage, or Google Photos, Facebook, Amazon, etc. The photo host produces a link, a URL/web address, and we paste that into our posts. FSM's webpages follow that link and bring back the image and show it.

In their edit tool, when you add a thread, or comment on a thread, there is an Insert tool that you can click, and then there is a menu of choices, including Image. You click Image, then you can enter that same web address for the image, and when you save the post, FSM's page will retrieve the photo. I find that method to be too many clicks, too many steps.

But either way, it's the same thing-we use links to the images.

We do the same thing here in the Planet. I don't think we can attach image files to our posts; we can only use linked images. A forum's admin or host likes using links rather than uploading files, because those uploaded files have to be stored, which has costs. Linked images don't cost the host anything.

I hope that helps clarify it for you. I don't know what kind of experience you have with computers and the Internet, so I tried not to get too technical but keep it relatively simple, without talking down.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Historex Rob]

Posting photos are FineScale is relatively simple, though it requires using a photo host of some kind-sites like flikr, PostImage, or Google Photos, Facebook, Amazon, etc. The photo host produces a link, a URL/web address, and we paste that into our posts. FSM's webpages follow that link and bring back the image and show it.

In their edit tool, when you add a thread, or comment on a thread, there is an Insert tool that you can click, and then there is a menu of choices, including Image. You click Image, then you can enter that same web address for the image, and when you save the post, FSM's page will retrieve the photo. I find that method to be too many clicks, too many steps.

But either way, it's the same thing-we use links to the images.

We do the same thing here in the Planet. I don't think we can attach image files to our posts; we can only use linked images. A forum's admin or host likes using links rather than uploading files, because those uploaded files have to be stored, which has costs. Linked images don't cost the host anything.

I hope that helps clarify it for you. I don't know what kind of experience you have with computers and the Internet, so I tried not to get too technical but keep it relatively simple, without talking down.

Prost!
Brad

Hi,

I've tried Imgur, Google Photos, and Flickr so far.

I upload the files, get the URL, go to Finescale, click on "insert image," drop in the URL and I get... nothing. A blue box with a question mark inside. I tried posting in the "Testing" sub-forum thinking that images may not be viewable in drafts. Those posts show the same blue box with question mark inside.

I'm stumped.

Here I just upload directly from my computer and choose either thumbnail or full size.

I don't know what else to try over there.

 

[theBaron]

That's why I don't bother with the Insert feature. Just paste the URL you get from the hosting site into the body of your post, without using the Insert feature. Fewer clicks.

This image is one whose link I have just pasted into this reply:



and this is a screenshot of the Share feature in Postimage, which is what I use. I boxed the link that produced the image above:



I just pasted that link into this reply, to share my photo. I do the same thing at FSM, not the Insert feature. Again, fewer clicks.

Hope that helps, prost!
Brad

 

[Historex Rob]

That's why I don't bother with the Insert feature. Just paste the URL you get from the hosting site into the body of your post, without using the Insert feature. Fewer clicks.

Thanks, Brad. I will give this a try. I think I also created a PostImage account.