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[jbwelda]

so Bill is that t bird on an Austin Mini chassis?

maybe its just the camera angle...I looked at the original photo in your link and it looks compressed like that too.

imageshack does not supply pre-html-ed tags. but let me try assembling the whole thing in an editor and pasting it here:

well that seemed to work so I guess you cannot use this built in reply to assemble your images with image tags. that is very strange. I declare this unusable at this point

 

jb

Edited July 29, 2015 by jbwelda
driving me crazy

[MrObsessive]

so Bill is that t bird on an Austin Mini chassis?

jb

That T-Bird is a long time dream of mine! I built this back in 2000, at a time when I was wondering why there were NEVER any good glue kits of the '55. We had Monogram's '56 (and now another one from RC2), AMT's '57 which has been reissued forever, but no good 1/24-25 '55's.

That car is basically Monogram's '56 backdated into a '55. Took about 6-9 months to build it.

Let's try another one for good measure.....................

One good thing about doing it this way I must say...............you don't take up as much room trying to squeeze pics in and typing in something about it. The text box does expand when you post a pic, but from the looks of things, the pic doesn't have the distortion as the other ones. I'll check on my phone later, but it looks very good viewing this on my PC.

[jbwelda]

let me try again doing what Bill just suggested (not all that different from what I have been doing but at this point who knows?):

http://imageshack.com/a/img661/8353/TiIuRd.jpg

jb

nope, no love but when I assemble the image with tags in an external editor and paste the whole string here:

 I guess its better than nothing.

jb

 

 

Edited July 29, 2015 by jbwelda

[MrObsessive]

That pic looks fine to me from where I sit Bill............;)

[jbwelda]

which picture do you mean Bill? are you seeing a photo I am not? the photo I see is below the line "nope, no love but when I assemble the image with tags in an external editor and paste the whole string here:", but the one above it, done the way you explain, just shows the url with some goofy junk in front of it to me.

thanks for your help

jb

 

[Impalow]

This one looks squished to me...

haha...  just kidding.. all seem okay to me on a PC and on an Iphone... the mobile viewer is different, but i like it better... still getting used to the PC version.

Mr. Welda... this is what your post looks like to me..

[MrObsessive]

which picture do you mean Bill? are you seeing a photo I am not? the photo I see is below the line "nope, no love but when I assemble the image with tags in an external editor and paste the whole string here:", but the one above it, done the way you explain, just shows the url with some goofy junk in front of it to me.

thanks for your help

jb

 

The picture I see is of the1/32 Toyota S800 in red. I did see the garbled URL you described-------I had that also the first time I tried Tom's method. I found that you have to right click and get the direct URL image location to get the pic to show. Using Fotki's (and perhaps PB's too) supplied URL's on the page don't seem to work.

Here's a pic from PB using the method I did for the other pics..............

1971 Pontiac Trans Am/P9014040.jpg~original

Hmmm-----didn't work that time...........let's try again..........

Ok, with PB, you have to get the URL from the original pic.

I tried to get the URL from the standalone larger pic, but it didn't have the JPG suffix at the end. This might be PB's way of reducing their bandwidth costs by not having to link a full scale pic as opposed to the smaller one since my account is "free".

[jbwelda]

thanks for keeping up with this Bill and Eric.

so both of you are seeing what I see then, my first attempt is garbled but then when I assembled the entire string elsewhere and pasted it here, it worked. never seen that kind of behavior before but its consistent so there is something to it and it is probably pointing at the root cause in some way.

now doing what you say Bill, my problem is that imageshack, my photo host, seems to store the photos in a funny format (it says file type is "COM/I/IDMFIYJOJ File") because when I look at the properties I see: https://imageshack.com/i/p5ZcJkiTj   no file extension and kind of hacked up from the true url.  edit: ah now I see, this is a hypertext link to imageshack and my photos there...don't know what happens when someone else goes there but when I click on the link I can see all my photos but maybe that's because it knows this computer. end edit

but let me try this then, first verbatim and then I will complete the address. I believe I have already done this with no good result but here we go:

https://imageshack.com/i/p5ZcJkiTj

and then:

https://imageshack.com/i/p5ZcJkiTj.jpg     (I KNOW this aint gonna work)

 

some people get paid good money to do this sort of troubleshooting! maybe the software vendor would like to hire some testers!

jb

 

result: no go...oh well at least I know of one way to post a photo from a url, that's all I need really. some strange behavior here though. I mean the software!

 

 

Edited July 29, 2015 by jbwelda

[MrObsessive]

Here ya go Bill..............lessee---

https://imageshack.com/i/p5ZcJkiT.jpg

Nope, no dice.............

Edited July 29, 2015 by MrObsessive

[jbwelda]

Bill, they are mangled...

jb

by the way my apologies to the site police for excessive posting in this thread, as far as I am concerned you can erase my posts at some point but I do think we are doing you a favor by documenting how to use some of the features.

now I am experiencing a long wait, infinite wait it seems, first time I hit the "edit" button. if I click it again I go right to the editor. has happened a number of times now.

 

 

Edited July 29, 2015 by jbwelda

[TimJ]

Let's try Bill's way.

That works, thanks for the tip.

Edited July 29, 2015 by TimJ

[Guest]

2 questions, when will the friends list be restored? And also are there plans to let us lock our own topics again? We really need that. Not sure why this is a quite, it is not, weird.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 29, 2015 by midnightprowler

[blunc]

Anyone else having this issue with the icons on the main page?   or is it just me?

fixed by resetting default theme

Edited July 30, 2015 by blunc
got the dreaded 404 screen

[StevenGuthmiller]

Anyone else having this issue with the icons on the main page?   or is it just me?

 

 

Exact same thing on my end.

This quote box thing is a real joy too, isn't it?

I think there's still a little work to be done!

 

Steve

Edited July 30, 2015 by StevenGuthmiller

[RAT-T]

I'M GETTING NOTIFICATIONS NOW, BUT WHEN I CLICK THE LINK, IT BRINGS ME TO THE TOP OF PAGE 1 EVERY TIME. DO I NEED TO CLICK THE "MARK AS READ" OPTION TO BRING ME TO THE LATEST POST?

[Deano]

2 questions, when will the friends list be restored? And also are there plans to let us lock our own topics again? We really need that. Not sure why this is a quite, it is not, weird.

 

That's really interesting ... the quoted post from me is nothing I ever posted.  Why is that happening?

[Guest]

That's what I don't understand. I simply made a post from my ipad, and it made it a quote from you, and had a pic of a El Camino, I deleted that, but couldn't delete the quote part. really weird.

[blunc]

I blame the people using apple hardware... 

(just kidding, if it wasn't for apple, the other platforms wouldn't be so popular)

[Badluck 13]

Test ?

[AzTom]

Anyone else having this issue with the icons on the main page?   or is it just me?

 

 

Exact same thing on my end.

This quote box thing is a real joy too, isn't it?

I think there's still a little work to be done!

 

Steve

I only get that look on Firefox, from day one.  IE, Chrome show just fine.

[StevenGuthmiller]

I have Internet Explorer on my computer as well.

Had a whole host of other problems with that.

That's when I started using Firefox.

Everything works just fine with Firefox everywhere.....except here.

 

Steve

 

[Gregg]

JUST WAIT

 

[Chuck Most]

I just tried what Tom suggested eariler (inserting the URL between the bracketed "img", and it looks like it worked for me..

 

 

Edited July 31, 2015 by Chuck Most

[Russell C]

JUST WAIT

      ........ sez Gregg, to a collective group of people who basically have built an entire model or three before saying,

 

[blunc]

heh, he said "sheet".