Bristish Railways "Princess Coronation" Class Steam Locomotive, OO scale (1:76)

[Matt Bacon]

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.

Edited November 13, 2015 by Matt Bacon

[Harry P.]

Beautifully done. I love the weathering... realistic without being over-the-top "weathered." Fine work. 

[Jim B]

Very nice looking locomotive, Matt.  What are you going to use for rails?

[Dave Van]

Nice work......I've built plastic loco kits from Monogram, Kit Master, AHM/Rivirossi and MPC. 

[cobraman]

Looks perfect !

[sjordan2]

Looks perfect !

Absolutely. However, the images are squeezed on my iPad. 

[Harry P.]

Squeezed here too.

I think the problem is that if you post photos that are bigger (I mean dimensionally bigger, not file size bigger) than a certain limit, this site will squeeze them into that pre-determined size limit.

[Harry P.]

I just downloaded one of the squeezed photos. It's 14 inches across! (14x9 @ 72 dpi). I don't think a photo that's 14 inches across is going to display correctly here.

Just an FYI... I always size my photos to 9x6 and have no problem with them getting squeezed.

[Matt Bacon]

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.

Edited November 14, 2015 by Matt Bacon

[Matt Bacon]

How does this look to you guys:

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(It looks exactly the same as picture 3 on my monitor)

bestest,

M.

Edited November 14, 2015 by Matt Bacon

[Matt Bacon]

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.

[sjordan2]

The images look fine on my 17" desktop iMac but are squeezed on my iPad.

[Harry P.]

The last two you posted look fine. What did you change?

[Matt Bacon]

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.