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Posted by BigDaddy on Friday, March 8, 2019 5:46 PM

Actually mine is 65.0.2, but I resign myself to never understanding Google photos.   

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Posted by mbinsewi on Friday, March 8, 2019 5:43 PM

Mine is the same as Henry's, I just looked.  I haven't used for a while, so it updated.  Actually It says 65.0.1 ?

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Posted by RR_Mel on Friday, March 8, 2019 4:10 PM

I just do a click on “Save as” that saves it to my hard drive then I upload it to my “Host” page.  Once the picture is loaded on to the Forum page I delete it off my “Host” page.  If it’s a picture that I think I’ll reuse I leave it there.
 
Some pictures are lvp file format and won’t load to the Forum server, they need to be converted to jpg.
 
The picture he posted that I reposted was an lvp file and I converted it to jpg so it would load into the Forum server.
 
Some pictures won’t let you save them, then I do the Windows Screen Capture feature.  I watch for copyrights and don’t repost them.
 
 
 
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Posted by BigDaddy on Friday, March 8, 2019 3:14 PM

I'm into Firefox 65.0   But using that or Chrome for the OP's pic and copying it into my blog, I don't see the pic anywhere, though I didn't go beyond the preview view.

Windows has a new screen capture tool called Snip & Sketch, which will replace the snipping tool.

With any browser, hitting the Windows and Print Screen buttons at the same time save a screen capture in you Pictures/Screenshots folder.

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Posted by RR_Mel on Friday, March 8, 2019 12:08 PM

Under Help on the top menu it’s the bottom click.  I’m still running 56.0.2 and normally see all the pictures posted.
 
 
 
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Posted by mbinsewi on Friday, March 8, 2019 11:59 AM

What ever the lastest is, I guess, I just opened it, don't know where to look to see what version it is.

Maybe I exagerated a little, about the only one I couldn't see, and that just started recently, was Rick J's (DT&I) 

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Posted by RR_Mel on Friday, March 8, 2019 11:46 AM

What version of Firefox were you using?  I’m running an old version to keep Classic View and I see all the pictures on WPF.  
 
 
 
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Posted by mbinsewi on Friday, March 8, 2019 11:40 AM

I seen the OP's picture using Chrome.  Photobucket seems to work better using Chrome.

And NO, I don't have any affiliation with it, other than using it.  My daughter turned me on to it.

What I miss about Fire Fox is the easy way you can take screen shots.  I haven't found that in Chrome, only different instructions on how to do it with Windows, regardless of the browser, but it's way to involving for me.

There have been a lot of pictures in the WPF thread that I have missed, until I switched.  Now everybodies picture comes up.

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Posted by RR_Mel on Friday, March 8, 2019 10:49 AM

Henry
 
When PhotoBucket did their thing I downloaded all my pictures to a USB hard drive.
 
I created a page on my Blog under Pages and named it "Host".  I upload the pictures I want to post on the Forum then do the 'Copy Image Location to' the Forum post.
 
I don’t know if it will continue working like it is but after I post the picture on the Forum it stays, I can delete the picture from my “Host Page” and the pictures on the Forum stay put.
 
When I was using PhotoBucket as my Host if I made any changes to any picture the Forum posted pictures were dumped.  
 
 
 
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Posted by RR_Mel on Friday, March 8, 2019 10:32 AM

BigDaddy

I have a google account and a google blog.  When I do that I see the 20 lines of address code but no pic.

I have maybe 150 pics in my free Photobucket account.  This week I noticed 15% of those pics have broken links and unretrievable.

 

Henry
 
Do a right click on a picture on your blog pick the “Copy Image Location” and paste that to your Forum Post.
 
 
 
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Posted by BigDaddy on Friday, March 8, 2019 9:25 AM

I have a google account and a google blog.  When I do that I see the 20 lines of address code but no pic.

I have maybe 150 pics in my free Photobucket account.  This week I noticed 15% of those pics have broken links and unretrievable.

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Posted by RR_Mel on Friday, March 8, 2019 9:11 AM

BigDaddy

How'd you do that Mel?  I see a googleusercontent.com address followed by 100's of letters and numbers.

 

I could see his picture I guess because I have a Google Account.  I did a copy and paste to my Blog then a standard copy and paste back to the Forum post.
 
I host all my pictures from my Google Blog since PhotoBucket did their thing.
 
 
 
 
 
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Posted by TheGamp on Friday, March 8, 2019 9:04 AM
Thank you for doing that RRMel! I wasn't able to log onto my Flickr account for some reason and hoped that copying the image URL from the Google Pictures HTML backup instead of the share link they provide would do the trick. Obviously not for everyone, so my apologies.
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Posted by BigDaddy on Friday, March 8, 2019 8:57 AM

How'd you do that Mel?  I see a googleusercontent.com address followed by 100's of letters and numbers.

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Posted by RR_Mel on Friday, March 8, 2019 8:51 AM

Here you go Henry
 
 
 
 
 
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Posted by BigDaddy on Friday, March 8, 2019 8:45 AM

Your previous pics were on flickr.  This seems to be on Google and is not visible to the rest of us.

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Posted by TheGamp on Friday, March 8, 2019 7:53 AM

Apologies for dredging up an old thread. I got sidetracked building an electric guitar so train stuff got backburnered, but I finally got around to painting the first of my 3D scan victims. My technique needs improvement but wanted to share.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, January 12, 2018 9:03 PM

MisterBeasley
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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This thread really is a horse of a different color!

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Whistling

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Posted by BigDaddy on Friday, January 12, 2018 5:10 PM

That turned out really well, but I can't help but think I am looking at HO scale ghosts.

Mommy Mommy  Crying

 

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Posted by rrebell on Friday, January 12, 2018 1:17 PM

Need HO, and was thinking of shapeways, once you have the scan, you can build to any scale and as shapeways gets beter machines, they can use the same scan. Seams they are hard to find in O scale too. Seagulls would be another one. Don't get me wrong, there is stuff out there, just they are sculpted and many poorly.

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Posted by TheGamp on Friday, January 12, 2018 11:38 AM

rrebell

 Would pay for scaned pidgeons, no realy good ones out there and alot would like to buy 20 or more at a time. You might be able to scan stuffed ones. 

 
Interesting idea. I figure a pigeon in 1/87 would be stretching the printability limits given the current technology (I had to make the second guy from the left's Neapolitan pizza slice the scale thickness of a Sicilian slice for Shapeways to print it), but I'll have to see if anyone near me does taxidermy and borrow some subjects to try out.
 
Edit: Here's someone who has a pigeon modeled in N scale. It appears to be a single pose repeated 120x with the wings tucked , but recognizeable as a bird. 
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Posted by rrebell on Friday, January 12, 2018 10:51 AM

TheGamp

No, merely recounting some of the non-recurring engineering costs that ultimately make it unlikely I'll be giving Preiser a run for their money.

But it's been interesting seeing how the tech developments that inspired me to participate in this hobby are viewed by others. 

 

But that is because of scale (not the size one). Fiqure out the cost of 1000 of the same peice. Would pay for scaned pidgeons, no realy good ones out there and alot would like to buy 20 or more at a time. You might be able to scan stuffed ones. In fact you could even turn this into a buisness selling scansed peices to museums for resale to visitors, always a way to get your stuff for free. (P.S., I really would buy scaned  1/87 scale pidgeons).

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Posted by TheGamp on Friday, January 12, 2018 8:54 AM

No, merely recounting some of the non-recurring engineering costs that ultimately make it unlikely I'll be giving Preiser a run for their money.

But it's been interesting seeing how the tech developments that inspired me to participate in this hobby are viewed by others. 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Friday, January 12, 2018 1:33 AM

Two bucks isn't at all out of line, in my opinion, especially since I have only nine more steam locomotives to build for my layout. And 8 and 10 together is enough to populate all nine cabs.

Although, on re-reading your reply, do I detect more that a hint of sarcasm? Whistling

Still, it's one of the best suggestions I've seen here involving this technology.  Others have mentioned rolling stock and structures, but most of those are easily done using traditional methods and materials, and minimal technical expertise.

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Posted by TheGamp on Thursday, January 11, 2018 12:05 PM

Thanks, Wayne. Once I conveniently ignore the costs of the hardware and electonics to build the turntable and scan rail, scan software, driving to and from NY and getting a hotel room for the night, then renting a photo studio and buying pizza and drinks to bribe a few dozen friends to pose, followed by a couple of hours editing each scan, then the plastic filament and about 10 hours apiece for 3D printing the freebies in 1/12 scale, then shipping said freebies, then a few hours more editing to make Shapeways happy at 1/87, they cost about two bucks and change a pop  if you bundle 8-10 together.Big Smile

 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, January 11, 2018 11:04 AM

This is one of the more imaginative uses I've seen of 3D printing for model railroad purposes. 
Got any engineer/fireman-looking friends with Kromer caps and bib overalls that would model for steam locomotive crews?  Some seated poses for both engineer and fireman and perhaps a couple standing or leaning out of the cab windows? 
I'd certainly be interested if the cost weren't outrageous, and I'm sure I wouldn't be the only taker, either.

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Posted by TheGamp on Thursday, January 11, 2018 9:49 AM

Today I got my first round of HO scale pals back from Shapeways. I'm having a hard time focusing the cell phone camera but you get the idea.

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Posted by msrrkevin on Tuesday, November 21, 2017 4:02 PM

Wow - cool.  And a little creepy at the same time :)

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Check out my shapeways creations! HOn3 and railroad items for 3D printing:

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/kevin-s-model-train-detail-parts

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Posted by TheGamp on Tuesday, November 21, 2017 2:22 PM

Here's a couple I printed this weekend in 1:12 (gifts for the victi...cough...models) after i got back from the scan party I hosted in NYC. Seventeen folks volunteered to get turned into ones and zeroes.


I'm not sure that even swapping to a 0.15mm nozzle on my printer will work well for 1:87, so once I've processed all the scans I'll probably group them together for Shapeways to print out in frosted extreme detail.


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