Matt Bacon

Obviously not... It looks like you're having the same problem I did: copy/pasted picture appears in the thread when you've posted it, then a while later has vanished leaving a broken picture icon. The only way I've found that reliably works is to use a photo hosting site that provides a URL for the image only (not a thumbnail hyperlink). Copy the link. Then hand type the [ IMG ] and [ /IMG ] (no spaces in the real ones) tags into the message box and "Paste and Match Style" the copied URL in between them... The only thing I can think (before anyone pops up with a snide PEBKAC comment, I've been building web sites and phone apps since 1994, so I do have _some_ idea how to use a computer) is that there are significant differences between the ways different browsers handle the copy/paste, and the scripts in the forum systems that handle them haven't been tested to work against all of them. That's the only way I can account for the differences in "what works for me" between different forum users. bestest, M.

Buy every early-teen you know a copy of this book: http://amzn.com/0544668251 (Use "Look Inside" to find out about Tiny bags of Water You're Made Of or Heavy Metal Power Building) It's fantastic... bestest, M.

Not quite sure where to post this, but Albion Alloys has just launched a new line called "Connecto". It's all brass, and is made up of fine brass tubes and etched "star" connectors. The stars come in varying numbers of points. You slide the number of tubes you need to meet at one place onto the points of the appropriate star, add a few drops of superglue to fix them, and then you can bend them to the geometry you need. Bingo -- fine tube spaceframe with good joints without any tricky holding and soldering... http://www.albionhobbies.com/connecto/ bestest, M.

This is the Hasegawa boxing of Monogram/s 1/24 kit, with additional white metal parts by Fine Molds. First up, the body in Zero Paints Guardsman Blue, with Zero 2K clear coat. This is as she came out of the paint shop. There are a couple of minor blemishes to polish out, but other than that I don't plan on doing any more "added shininess" Here's a few of the engine in progress, to compare and contrast the original and Fine Molds parts: And this young lady will be popping in from time to time in this thread. She's a Master Box figure, from their new "Pin-Up" series: Loads more work to do on her as well, but she's very nicely sculpted... ;-P bestest, M.

I cheated slightly -- my parents bought one last year... ;-) If you don't care about 0-60 times, feelsome steering, and chuckable handling, but are instead a nearly 80-year-old pair who still travel the most of length of the country (OK, only 400-ish miles over here) to visit friends, it's hard to beat as a comfortable long-distance cruiser with (genuine) good local MPG, and fantastically equipped. They bought a 60K mile diesel, top-spec with every option, three years old for about £7K... Depreciation's a killer for the original owner, but it's a bargain for the 3rd... bestest, M.

It depends what people mean when they say "the copy/paste" method... If your picture host has ready made BBCode tags, you can copy/paste those. If you hand type the IMG tags, and "paste and match style" a copied URL from the web between them, it works. But you can also copy and paste a picture directly: ...and if you do that, then the picture is uploaded to the forum servers... bestest, M.

I'm not sure the forum's "owners" will like the copy/paste method when they discover that they are hosting and serving gigabytes of pictures. The URL method leaves the pictures where they are and lets your browser fetch them and insert them in the forum page as it renders it. Copy/paste transfers the image files to the Automotive Forums servers... bestest, M.

It gets thinner! You can fly non-stop from Australia to Brazil or Chile, or New Zealand to Buenos Aires. What's the "stopper" that they believe prevents people flying from Australia to Argentina, and why shouldn't it apply to those existing flights? My guess would be the lack of flights direct from Australia to Buenos Aires has more to do with whether you can find enough passengers to profitably fill a 777 on that run... I know logic is wasted on them... bestest, M.

It may be an MX-5 in pretty European dress, but it is a VERY pretty dress. And you get one of FIATs rather excellent MultiAir engines under the bonnet... I'd like a new MX-5. I'd LOVE one of these... bestest, M.

Thanks for the very kind comments, guys. I was amazed when I got back to the table after judging and found that it was a medal-winner. One very useful thing that it has taught me is that a certain amount of wiring and plumbing etc is allowed in the "Standard Kit" category, rather than having to go in the "Standard Kit Detailed" category. I'd entered the XJ220 and EB110 for that category, but they didn't stand a chance against various 1/20 race cars with all the body panels removed, or the odd MFH kit, impeccably executed. (In the IPMS UK Competition rules, while the AIrcraft Standard Kit rules explicitly say you can add things like rigging wires, aerials or seatbelts, the Car class just says standard kit, built with the contents of the box.) Thanks again! bestest, M.

See, this is what passed for Rockabilly over here. It was big for some reason in the early 80s... ...don't ask me why these guys suddenly appeared in the charts and we had Stray Cat Strut as No.1 for a few weeks! bestest, M.

Nah... the photos clearly show it's flat. They don't deny that it's circular as well... ;-P And of course, never mind that flying to the moon and back is entirely based on physics that accepts that planets are spheres orbiting the sun (and moons around the planets...) bestest, M.

They look great -- it'd have to be a blue and yellow one, I think! I don't suppose it comes with the parts for a cowl and a Wright engine, does it? I'ld love to do one of these: I've met Vic Norman, and spent a very enjoyable day at the airfield where these hang out. It's also home to Nick Mason's car collection: that was a guided tour to remember! bestest, M.

From what I've heard, this is a lovely little kit, and a real labour of love by the designer. I'm looking forward to getting one when it makes its way to Europe. You're doing a bang-up job on it, too! bestest, M.

... I stopped at 1m32s. The assertion that Copernicus was the first to propose that the world was a sphere, and the technology didn't exist to prove his theory. Since Ptolemy had figured it out least 1500 years earlier, and all you needed to prove it was a stick, I decided that I'd had enough... The terrifying thing is that anyone might believe this drivel. edit: OK, now I checked out the Flat Earth Society. Quarks, magnetic monopoles and dark energy being used to support Flat Earthism? Funny how SOME bits of modern physics are true because they come in handy, but it's OK to ignore the foundations of classical physics on which they are built...? Give me strength! bestest, M.

After that, it's just turtles all the way down... ;-P bestest, M.

I saved them from Photoshop after changing the DPI to 144. I don't know how that information is carried with the picture, since neither the "Save for Web" option in Photoshop, nor the editor or options in Smugmug make it visible or accessible. Its a pretty daft setting to have on the Forum if that's what's causing it -- why should a web browser care what size the picture would print if it were to be printed? All the browser needs to do is render the image on the screen... Anyway, I guess that means another step in processing every picture... ;-( bestest, M.

In case that one wasn't being squeezed, how about this: All the images are sized to the same pixel width, and if there is a DPI associated with the image in Photoshop, they are ALL 72dpi. As far as I can see, Picture 5 is unsqueezed on my iPhone, and it's exactly the same width in pixels and dpi as all the others. bestest, M.

How does this look to you guys: ? (It looks exactly the same as picture 3 on my monitor) bestest, M.

It looks fine on my Mac... I don't consciously "Size" the pictures to any physical size, just pixel dimensions. Every other site on the planet (well, at least that I post to ;-P) manages to render them OK, so I don't know what's going on with this Forum and iOS devices. I'll see if I can find any way to tell Smugmug that it's a 144 dpi picture... Edit: Smugmug HAS no physical size data on its pictures. I just choose a link with a pixel x pixel dimension to paste in. There's nowhere to edit metadata to size the image in inches. bestest, M.

Built for the CBK SIG Kitmaster/Airfix display at SMW this year: The best British loco, IMHO -- more powerful than The Flying Scotsman and The Mallard... very much the Tempest to their Spitfire and Hurricane! And it's a lovely kit -- such a shame it's no longer in any manufacturer's range... bestest, M.

Apologies for resurrecting this thread, but this neat-ish build garnered a silver medal in the OOB class at Scale Model World (the IPMS UK Nats...). This makes me happy.... Of the things I entered, the little GTA was the last one I expected to win anything. Just goes to show what I know... bestest, M.

It's pretty nice: I discovered at Scale Model World (IPMS UK Nats) last weekend why it scales out to 1/26 width wise and 1/22.5 length-wise. It's because there has to be a whole number of nubbins on the bricks that make it up in both directions, and because the size and spacing of them is dictated by being compatible with the world's most popular plastic brick-based construction toy... Interesting, eh? ;-P bestest, M.

Looking at their pages, it looks as though this is a new build, rather than Equus doing a Singer on an existing Mustang... The manufacturing process doesn't look cheap -- does anyone know if they have actually built and sold one? bestest, M.

...maybe I should have said "very, very high performance and relatively expensive sports car", rather than "Supercar", if everyone is going to get bent out of shape about what constitutes a supercar or hypercar... ;-P And when I say British, I'm not quibbling about who owns what percentage of the company, I mean "Made in Britain by a manufacturer with British heritage". So it's not a Nissan or a Honda... bestest, M.