Painting word pictures

Modeling Subjects Ships
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Hi;

No , I didn’t post in the wrong place . I just thought this needed clarification . I don’t know how to post pictures to this site , many have tried to help , but no luck . So…

I really try to paint the picture with words . Now in phone calls to friends and acquaintances , I am able to do this . I had hoped and do hope , to be able to do this in print .

Any of you who read my stuff ( indeed , sometimes it seems like stuff ) I do really try . I have so much to impart and don’t want to pass , without giving you all , more tools . The type of tools my tool and die making foster father taught me .

One thing , and the main thing he taught me was this .There’s always a way to do it , Just think . Think about what you want . Think about how to arrive at your goal , and then go there mentally . Then draw it , if it helps .

I have taught my adopted sone how to visualize the process on his favorite empty wall . For him it works , any questions ? If so please ask . I will be glad to help you in this endeavor . Thank you , Tanker - Builder

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Perhaps we ought to piyure this as a process, a methodology of steps.

No different than, say, finding ways to put cargo on a steamboat, you need a “bag of tricks” to use.

The first of those needs is a place that hosts–or stores–photos that is on line. This could be PhotoBucket, Picassa, Google Photo, or the like.

Next, you need some words for your post (unless you are our perennial laconic raider-hall [:)] ).

Next, you want your photo hosting alos open in another window on the computer.

Select the image you want. Typically you can right-click that image (some hosts have a “Share image” button or tab. If there is not a button, you typically want “Copi Image Location” os suc h similar If there is a button, it will typically show someting “http:\ahkjdshf” or similar gobbledegook. Highlight that, and press CTRL+C (Copy).

Go back to your post, click on the mountain on the tool bar (It’s the 5th one along from the left, bottom row of icons)

It will open up a window. In the “Source” box click CTRL+V (Paste) to copy your link. Press Ok (you can monkey about with text descriptions and image sizes, but it’s under-productive at this point).

Your image ought to be visible.

For this image, I went to Google Photos, and used “Copt Image Location”

cat

For this image, I went to Google Images, used “Model steamboats” and picked an image. I used “Copy Image Location” then used CTRL+V in the Insert Image box here

steamboat

Ok, I did not like the image size, so I used the edit function. And I reset the width (only) to 500 pixels. (I guessed this number, 700, and & 600 were too big.)

Here’s another I found on google images

Note that I set this to a 500 pixel width so that it would compise with the other two (that, and the detail is incredible).

Any of this help any?

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Loved the picture of the Far West. I have been building that (off and on) for over ten years now, and still only about half done. Fascinating story to that boat!

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I think ;

Therefore I am . You know I believe I am beginning to see the light . By the way who makes the model cat ? That , I would like to try . LOL.LOL. Thank you CapnMac82 T.B.

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Hello!

T.B. - I sure would like to see you a picture or two of your builds, because sometimes my imagination just isn’t enough to process the concepts you are writing about. I could even suggest a deal, where you put your pictures on photobucket or something like that, and tell me where they are, and then I could post them for you on the forums.

Capn - I never type the dimensions for the pictures. In that case the forum software adjusts them for me automatically - I’d say that saves a lot of work, don’t you think?

Looking forward so see lots of nice pictures here, have a nice day

Paweł

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T/B,

Do you have pictures uploaded to an image hosting site?

Answer this question first and we’ll go from there.

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Well, yes, but, really, only when the images are about the same size all ofthe time (which is more typical of when we use our own cameras to shoot the images).

In this specific case, the image was transfering at about 800 pixels wide, which would have forced a horizontal slider into the reply. I’ve worked doing enough publishing (had a summer job on LinoType machine in 1977) and done enough compositing to want to make good presentations of things.

And, I wanted to show what the “Edit” side of the Edit Image button could do, and why.

Did not want to built of telling TB you can get hessian-patterned (if you squint a bit) shelf paper to wrap around cottton puffs to make cotton bales, and not mention, oh yeah, you can take a bit of the backing paper off so the shelf paper sticks to itself.

Sure TB is smart, he would have figured it out. But, give a man hammer . . . Give him a hammer and screwdriver and he gets to choose how he hangs a picture on the wall.

Sadly, that cat only made it to ripe old age of 16. He would be as suitable in kit form as would be a 1/48 Fletcher kit, as he was three hands tall, 16" shoulders to hips, and 18#.

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Hello!

Capn - That’s just what I mean, if you don’t type the width, large pictures appear in the reply window with a scroll bar, but after you post they all get nicely scaled down to fit the width of the forum. So I thinh there’s a good deal of work to save here!

Good luck with your builds and have a nice day

Paweł

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Darned !

I certainly love those darned kitties .Would model them anytime .I have three I need to finish , but I can’t remember where I got them . T.B.