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Title: Greetings
Post by: ali657 on 16 November 2014, 12:46:48 AM
Hello, I have been reading the posts on here for some time, thought I would join in. I am not a wargamer but like to paint historical figures.
Here are some LOA I've just based.
                                     Cheers Al.
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Post by: FierceKitty on 16 November 2014, 01:21:48 AM
Those deserve to be fielded in action too. Don't grow giant garlic and then never eat it!
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Post by: paulr on 16 November 2014, 02:53:24 AM
Welcome Al, very nice painting.

:-bd =D> :-bd =D>

Enjoy your hobby your way  ;)
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Post by: kev1964 on 16 November 2014, 06:43:49 AM
Hi Al,

Excellent painting and basing.


kev
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Post by: fsn on 16 November 2014, 07:43:10 AM
 :o Do you have a car you don't drive? A library of uncracked books? A Frustrated wife?

Welcome, Al.

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Post by: Techno on 16 November 2014, 07:58:34 AM
Welcome, Al.
Very tasty painting, that man. 8)
Cheers - Phil
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Post by: Steve J on 16 November 2014, 08:02:26 AM
Welcome on board Al. Some lovely painting on show and looking forward to more pics of your work in the future.
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Post by: fred. on 16 November 2014, 09:52:19 AM
Welcome, very nice painting.

If your preference is to make little works of art, rather than push them round a table, then I shall be more than happy to view them.
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Post by: Fenton on 16 November 2014, 11:11:21 AM
Very nice painting and basing

Welcome  to the forum
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Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 16 November 2014, 11:19:06 AM
Lovely composition there, really sets off rather top painting. A great debut. Welcome.
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Post by: mollinary on 16 November 2014, 11:36:09 AM
A really fine debut - superb work!   :D

Mollinary
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Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 16 November 2014, 12:35:35 PM
Good moaning..

IanS
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Post by: ali657 on 16 November 2014, 05:54:44 PM
Thanks for the kind words and welcome, nice to get some feedback other than the wife and the dog. Any tips on improving the photos and the painting would be handy, only took me 2 hours to work out how to reduce the file size so I could post the photo but it seems to lost some detail. Will be looking for some help on uniforms and hope to do some WSS and SYW stuff at some point.
           Cheer Al.
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Post by: Ithoriel on 16 November 2014, 06:06:03 PM
Firstly, Hi Al, welcome to the forum.

Very nicely painted stuff, far better than I can manage!

On the photo's and losing detail. Post the photo's to an image sharing site of your choice and link to that and you can have much larger file sizes.
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Post by: howayman on 16 November 2014, 07:19:16 PM
Great stuff.
Welcome aboard. Love to see more of your painting before you go totally blind. . . ;)
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Post by: Dave Fielder on 16 November 2014, 09:44:25 PM
Now go throw some dice near them and you are a wargamer
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Post by: Leon on 18 November 2014, 10:50:37 PM
Welcome to the Forum, and excellent painting! As others have said, the best option for photo's is to host them somewhere else, such as Photobucket/Flickr or even Facebook, and then link them from there.  Give me a shout if you want any tips on doing that.

8)
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Post by: ali657 on 18 November 2014, 11:10:55 PM
Thanks Leon and everyone else, I have set up a photobucket account it will probably take me sometime to work out how to link that to the forum. The only cutting and pasting I've done is wall papering the back bedroom :(.
    Cheers Al
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Post by: Leon on 18 November 2014, 11:25:45 PM
Photobucket is one of the easier ones, so once you've got your images uploaded, you just need the piece of code in one of the boxes underneath or to the right of the image.  It's the one with the image tags, [ img]http://etc, etc.  You should be able to click on this to copy it, and then it can be pasted into your Forum message.  If there's any queries on it, let me know, and I can always edit your post if it goes squiffy.

8)
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Post by: Techno on 19 November 2014, 07:48:56 AM
Hi Al.

If a computer illiterate :-[, like yours truly,  can use photobucket.....Anyone can ! ;)
Cheers - Phil (Who's at last managed to find the prog that was causing all the pop up ads, and delete the bloody thing.  :) :) :).......For some reason it had stopped trying on the forum...But almost everywhere else..... X_X X_X X_X.)
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Post by: Orcs on 19 November 2014, 01:10:38 PM
Welcome to the Forum

Cheers

Orcs
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Post by: ali657 on 23 November 2014, 04:01:38 PM
(http://[URL=http://s42.photobucket.com/user/ali6571/media/WP_20141115_009640x420_zpsa24b1af7.jpg.html][IMG]http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e338/ali6571/WP_20141115_009640x420_zpsa24b1af7.jpg)[/URL][/img]
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Post by: ali657 on 23 November 2014, 04:06:02 PM
(http://[URL=http://s42.photobucket.com/user/ali6571/media/WP_20141115_009640x420_zpsa24b1af7.jpg.html][IMG]http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e338/ali6571/WP_20141115_009640x420_zpsa24b1af7.jpg)[/URL][/img]
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Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 23 November 2014, 04:12:50 PM
Hi

You are putting the end tags in. Opening tags are without the slash...

IanS
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Post by: ali657 on 23 November 2014, 04:24:51 PM
Thanks Ian, I really have no idea what I am doing. This could take some time :-\ .
Cheer Al
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Post by: Techno on 23 November 2014, 06:29:37 PM
Hi Al.

Assuming you've got your chosen photo in photobucket......Scroll down the little ladder underneath the pic to IMG......Left click to highlight it.....Then Right click.....and choose the 'copy' option.

When you get to your 'reply' on the forum...Right click where you'd usually be typing, and click paste.
When you preview your 'reply' the image should appear......Then we'll get to the 'How to make the image smaller', if necessary. ;)
Hope that helps....and it works !
Cheers - Phil.
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Post by: ali657 on 23 November 2014, 07:19:28 PM
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e338/ali6571/WP_20141115_009_zpsayq1rpqm.jpg) (http://s42.photobucket.com/user/ali6571/media/WP_20141115_009_zpsayq1rpqm.jpg.html)
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Post by: ali657 on 23 November 2014, 07:22:19 PM
HUSSARRRR Thankyou Techno.






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Post by: clibinarium on 23 November 2014, 07:33:53 PM
I seem to have missed this thread initially. These are very nicely done.
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Post by: Techno on 23 November 2014, 08:15:11 PM
Quote from: ali657 on 23 November 2014, 07:22:19 PM
HUSSARRRR Thankyou Techno.

Pleased to help, Al...... ;)
I totally agree with Clib......Those are really, really good.
Cheers - Phil

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Post by: ali657 on 23 November 2014, 08:25:12 PM
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e338/ali6571/Mobile%20Uploads/WP_20141123_007_zpsgvhirhzp.jpg) (http://s42.photobucket.com/user/ali6571/media/Mobile%20Uploads/WP_20141123_007_zpsgvhirhzp.jpg.html)
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Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 23 November 2014, 08:52:26 PM
I blame the sculptor!
Really great now your zoomed in! 8)
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Post by: paulr on 24 November 2014, 04:04:06 AM
Quote from: ali657 on 23 November 2014, 07:22:19 PM
HUSSARRRR Thankyou Techno.

Techno giving successful PC advice  :o :o :o

Well done that man  ;)

Great painting as well  :-bd =D> :-bd =D> :-bd
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Post by: Techno on 24 November 2014, 06:08:31 AM
Quote from: paulr on 24 November 2014, 04:04:06 AM
Techno giving successful PC advice  :o :o :o
Well done that man  ;)
Great painting as well  :-bd =D> :-bd =D> :-bd

Oi !!  ;D ;D ;D Makes a change for me to be able to give someone else a hand with something to do with a PC.
Again, Al.....Those are terrific !
Cheers - Phil
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Post by: Old Chilly-arch on 25 November 2014, 02:40:03 PM
Welcome Ali657. Of course, you'll be entering the Painting Competition next year...
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Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 26 November 2014, 08:26:44 AM
Phil - didn't know there were still PC's with the ABaCus op system still running  ;)

IanS
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Post by: Techno on 26 November 2014, 10:31:21 AM
They've been superseded by 'Stained glass' 1st Millennium now, Ian.
Fox machines are pretty good at transporting information as well.....especially as they tend to eat other peoples' messenger pigeons.  ;)
Cheers - Phil
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Post by: Westmarcher on 26 November 2014, 05:46:32 PM
These are better than my 15mm efforts! (btw, Hi, everyone!  :-h).
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Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 26 November 2014, 05:59:04 PM
Hi Westmarcher!
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Post by: Techno on 26 November 2014, 07:01:26 PM
HI again, Westmarcher.
Cheers - Phil.
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Post by: Leman on 26 November 2014, 07:31:19 PM
Oh, hello again. You should be OK mentioning Valley Forge.
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Post by: mollinary on 26 November 2014, 08:29:14 PM
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 26 November 2014, 07:31:19 PM
Oh, hello again. You should be OK mentioning Valley Forge.

Valley Forge?   Valley Forge!  VALLEY FORGE!  :o :o :o

Nurse!

Mollinary
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Post by: Leman on 27 November 2014, 09:29:48 AM
Oh cripes! Maybe not; too much Saxon violence on this forum.
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Post by: fsn on 27 November 2014, 09:46:23 AM
Wasn't "Valley Forge" the name of one of the ships in Starship Trooper? (The book, not the films.)


Segues unlimited - FSN
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Post by: nikharwood on 27 November 2014, 10:33:12 AM
Welcome - and very nicely done  8)
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Post by: Ithoriel on 27 November 2014, 10:42:05 AM
Quote from: fsn on 27 November 2014, 09:46:23 AM
Wasn't "Valley Forge" the name of one of the ships in Starship Trooper? (The book, not the films.)

"Valley Forge is the name of a succession of Starships .

The first Valley Forge was a ship present during the Invasion of Klendathu. It was destroyed during a collision with the Ypres in orbit over Klendathu whilst half its Mobile Infantry Troopers of Willie's Wildcats were still in its launch tubes.

After Operation Royalty, another ship was built that bore the name Valley Forge. This Starship was commissioned and stationed at Sanctuary along with the new Ypres after the Operation Bughouse. Juan Rico called it 'a large ship'." - starshiptroopers.wikia.com
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Post by: paulr on 27 November 2014, 10:49:20 PM
Starship Troopers 'continued' the US tradition of naming carriers after major battles expanding it to include non-US battles to give it a more international feel, e.g. Ypres.

It also named the smaller vessels after 'heroic' individuals following US practise for Destroyers, e.g. Rodger Young and Magsaysay (Philippines hero and former president).

Neither is surprising given Heinlein's naval background.

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Post by: Hertsblue on 28 November 2014, 10:41:23 AM
A belated welcome from me too, Ali. (Not another master-painter to make my efforts look scruffy... mutter, mutter....)  ;)