Progress…
Added stowage to most of the half tracks.
Added jerry cans of three different types on the rear left side of some vehicles.
Used the plastic cans from the Battlefront sprue. You get one can per sprue. I had three.
Added Peter Pig jerry cans on a frame to about four.
Added pairs of metal single PP jerry cans also.
The stowage is from the metal sprue in the late war box set. You four per sprue and you get two sprues.
Well there you have it.
Also spray painted the tracks and wheels.. now primed have to hand paint them before glueing. That however… as they say….is another story.
These look awesome. I really need to go back and add stowage to my tanks and half tracks. Looks so much better.
You know how little thing hapen and your not happy with them well I had some.
The super glue is so fluid it runs ut the bottom of the stowage if you don’t have it jigged so as it is laying flat. You will notice som lumpy glue resedue on the underside os some.. it also ooks shiny.
It also looks shiny on existing spray paint finish.. don’t know howI am going to fix that.
Oh yea that next gen picture tool is a pain.. it only alows one picture to be paced at a time and has seven hundred clicks and selections between each activity… noticably my pictures are all over tha place… couldn’t remember if i was placing centre , right or left. any advice would be cool.
spray painted the tracks.. and totally loaded one of them… thought I had F*#%ed them up… but as it dried it condensed right down… I really like colour kote 🙂
Yes please add stowage to you half tracks and carriers… and maybe even AA MG’s?
You should put them on bases too so you can’t squash them tight together to sneak through narrow streets or down theright edge of the board. LOL
P.S Check out Peter pig as they have some very very good little stowage packs. and cheap too
Well you could gently file or sand the glue away off the unpainted stuff however painting over it will probably be sufficient I would think. as for the painted stuff probably a matt varnish will obscure it perhaps with a light drybrush of some beige/buff colour to represent dust.
Well yes you can only place one pic at a time because uhm you’re placing one pic at a time. You could create a gallery and just display the gallery.
I noticed that when you insert the image the first time it doesn’t save the positioning setting. So if you said place it on the left it won’t be. If you hover over the thumbnail once you’re done though and click on the little picture you can go back and set the positioning.
What I suggest you do is use the codes that way you can just jot down what picture id’s you’re after and just write down what pictures to display. Nice and quick. Check out my post on the orc shaman, note the code at the top that displays the picture and emulate that.
I’d fix up your page to show you how but it looks like you have it open and are working on it so I’ll leave it.
ok I’ve pissed about with your post (after you kinda fixed it, sorry) and did it with the nextgen markup.
Check it out it’s far quicker and easier to do it this way than to insert images in, especially if you have a lot to insert.
You can see from the markup that every time I wanted the next item to appear on a new line I told it’s predecessor to not float which means nothing can appear beside it. And left float for everything else to align itself to the left.
Thank you.
I was using next gen but find it confusing.. it doesn’t use code. and th code that you can see if you select theHTML tab has about five lines of code per picture… There was no way in HAdes I ould determine that…. but I will learn.
Looking forward to inserting mood music and video…LOL not!
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Well actually that sqaure bracketed markup is NextGEN. However what you’re using the WordPress insert image button, which has that extra tab for the added NextGEN functionality. Which rather than inserting a nifty bit of code that is then interpreted to generate some long winded html it’s inserting the html directly into the page. Which is why you find it difficult to read.
If you want to use NextGEN, which is a great idea, thanks to the lightbox feature I suggest you either copy and paste the code that I put into this post or use the dedicated NextGEN button.
On the line of little buttons with the Bold and Italics buttons etc at the end looking like a book with some photos on it is the NextGEN button. Click that and it’s to a little dialog screen that allows you to generate the NextGEN square bracketed code (in the event you can’t remember it) It also uses the picture titles for helping to select the image which means you don’t actually have to know the picture id either.
That sounds better.
I remember the early FOW site forum tools they were ded easy..
why is it the more we improove things in the web the harder they become to use?
because we like to extend the flexibility and functionality. It’s like if FOW allowed you to only play preset cookie cutter armies. And then one day someone decided that that was lame and that you should be able to choose your own support options and weapons platoons and the number of squads in your platoons and how many sub machine guns and panzerfausts in those squads etc…. Of course some of us who want to have that freedom and are interested in this will think it is marvelous but there would be those that would hearken back to simpler days.
I now realize that it was better in the old days when we didn’t let you think about things too much Mr Light.
Now .. go back to your cupbourd… here have a purple crayon.
Wahoo!
Wow.. this particualr blog just took off.
But becaue we reached the one word responce stage we must no move on… check out Pt3
Painted and glued on the tracks and wheels tonight.
Broke my own rules and used super glue… paid the price and had glue run acouple of times.
Need to paint in behind wheels and tracks now to cover the silver metal and give blackening to axles etc..
I will do that tomorrow. Moving on to painting stowage after that and then picking the crew figures.
Lucky I mass painted a heap of seated soldiers a year ago so I need only paint the standing gunners and AA MG fittings etc.
Have some more covers to putty/green stuff on too.
Then Decals… completion.
Cool, you’re really motoring. Go you!
With regards to superglue, I only by the Gorilla brush on superglue because of precisely that reason. Not quite as precise but still better is the bottled stuff that comes out in little drops. But tubes are rubbish, you just can never trust the degree of flow and it’s almost always to much. The only thing going for them is they’re cheap but they ruin too many models.