bocaj Posted June 18, 2011 Posted June 18, 2011 Hi Everyone,I started to pin some of the track on my perniment layout down last night. I think it will be finished soon, maybe over the weekend.Jacob
SkyCube Posted June 18, 2011 Posted June 18, 2011 Great news Jacob! Post some pics when you're done, It'd be cool to see your layout :)
Postman Prat Posted June 18, 2011 Posted June 18, 2011 Good luck. Like to see photos to see what the perniment lyout looks like! bocaj said:Hi Everyone,I started to pin some of the track on my perniment layout down last night. I think it will be finished soon, maybe over the weekend.Jacob
Postman Prat Posted June 18, 2011 Posted June 18, 2011 For lyout read layout. Should teach me not to be sarcastic (but it won't!!) Postman Prat said:Good luck. Like to see photos to see what the perniment lyout looks like! bocaj said:Hi Everyone,I started to pin some of the track on my perniment layout down last night. I think it will be finished soon, maybe over the weekend.Jacob
bocaj Posted June 18, 2011 Author Posted June 18, 2011 Hi Everyone,I have finished today ( appart from a few ssections that I added after the pinning had taken place).I'll see if I can upload photographs soon, I might just post them on another forum and then put a link to them or something like that anyway.I'll probly do that tommorow.Jacob
dalekcann Posted June 18, 2011 Posted June 18, 2011 Oooh, will be good to see your layout :)Shame you can't post on here, that would be clever if you could!
bocaj Posted June 19, 2011 Author Posted June 19, 2011 I agree dalekcann, it's a shame you can't post on here. All the other forums that I know have the feature where you can upload pictures. Oh well, at least you can post on the other forums and then just post a link to them on here.Jacob
bocaj Posted June 19, 2011 Author Posted June 19, 2011 Unfortunatly I could not up load pictures as it was saying that it was in valid. I will be trying again later
poliss Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 Photos on any forum need to be in .jpg format and usually the largest dimension should not exceed 600 pixels. Some forums do not allow hosting on their pages and you have to link to the image on your photobucket account using the IMG tag.
bocaj Posted June 19, 2011 Author Posted June 19, 2011 Hi Pollis,I'll have a look at the size of the pixels. I am trying to upload them onto the new modelers shop forum and the Free track plans.com forum via an attatchment. I have not got a photobucket acount, do you recomend I get one?Thanks for the helpJacob
poliss Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 Always worth having a photobucket account. It can resize pictures for you if the program on your PC can't.
bocaj Posted June 19, 2011 Author Posted June 19, 2011 Ok then I'll see if I can make one, Thanks pollis!
bocaj Posted June 19, 2011 Author Posted June 19, 2011 Hi again Pollis,I checked the number of pixels and it said on one bit that the width was 4000 pixels and the height 3000 pixels and the other bit said the compressed bits was 4 pixels. I think it was 4 pixels so I'm not sure why it would not up load
Rog RJ Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 At 4000 by 3000 pixels it's far too big for many forums. As Poliss has said, you need to reduce the size from 4000 by 3000 down to something like 800 by 600.Photo hosting sites such as photobucket, flickr and imageshack allow much bigger pictures to be uploaded but you can quickly run out of storage space if you only choose a free account, so it's best to reduce the size before uploading them.Pictures can be re-sized in Windows paint (I think) or any of the other image editing programs such as Paint Shop Pro (which you have to buy) or irfanview which is free to download.-
SkyCube Posted June 19, 2011 Posted June 19, 2011 Jacob - if you look around the New Railway Modeller's site (forum rules maybe) it should be able to tell you the size limit for images :)
bocaj Posted June 19, 2011 Author Posted June 19, 2011 Hi Sky cube,I checked the terms and conditions and they said 800 pixels.
bocaj Posted June 19, 2011 Author Posted June 19, 2011 I'll have another go at it tommorow, I don't think I have time for it tonight
Tamworth Stuart Posted June 22, 2011 Posted June 22, 2011 Any news yet Jacob ? I cant wait to see your layout. I am in the same boat as you. I am about to build my first layout - home based.The build should start around February when the room and finances for a baseboard (9' x 9') become available. I have got all of the track and some buildings. I am just getting the electrical side sorted (it is a DCC layout with the point motors, uncoupling ramps and signals all controlled via a seperate analogue power source).
bocaj Posted June 22, 2011 Author Posted June 22, 2011 Sorry about the wait everyone, I'm of school on Friday for a teacher traning day so I'll try then.When I went to upload them the pictures were not in the file a created :(
bocaj Posted June 24, 2011 Author Posted June 24, 2011 It turns out the pictures were actually in their it was just that I needed to change the settings on the file!So then onto the pictures well just follow these three links to look at them[url]http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/5103/018eef.jpg[/url]This first picture is taken from the corner of the board. It shows the large goods yard and the of Scene area which is not yet actually of scene.[url]http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/1775/019zw.jpg[/url]This imige was tacken from the controll area. It shows the Leval crossing and the goods yard. Their is a great veiw of the Flying Scotsman and Evening Star.Unfortunatly, the last one was too big to upload but strangley it was the same size as the others and on the same settings as the others. Oh well, at least we have two pictures!
bocaj Posted June 24, 2011 Author Posted June 24, 2011 Wow, they are huge!Now I see why they would not upload on the other forum!
FinnerZ Posted June 24, 2011 Posted June 24, 2011 That looks good. I admire you for your sensible planning - I have two tables with simple loops made when I was young and have simply stuck them together; it doesn't work that well. Good luck with the scenery.
bocaj Posted June 24, 2011 Author Posted June 24, 2011 Hi FinnerZThanks for telling me what you think, and also for the good look with the scenery.Jacob
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