Photo help

[Nickel Plate Road]

Afternoon folks -  I want to upload a couple of photos of my first wearthering job, but I can't seem to get the pic to attach to the "source" box, what am I doing wrong?

Angelo

[Steven S]

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/249194.aspx

[Nickel Plate Road]

Wow - that seems overly complicated and convoluted. I am not comfortable posting my photos on a public site.

[Lone Wolf and Santa Fe]

Nickel Plate Road

Wow - that seems overly complicated and convoluted. I am not comfortable posting my photos on a public site.

 

This site is a public site. Anyone in the world can see this post.

[doctorwayne]

Nickel Plate Road

Wow - that seems overly complicated and convoluted....

It is, and there's no need for it to be so.

Nickel Plate Road

.....I am not comfortable posting my photos on a public site.

 

Hey, you were going to post it on this public site.

 

Seriously, though, go to photobucket and open a free account.  You can make your album(s) private so that folks see only the photos which you post here, or, you can also make them password accessible, which will allow anyone to whom you give the password view them.

A free account will give you loads of storage space.  I had over 5,000 photos in my albums there, and had used only about 10% of my allowable space (they were fairly small file sizes, but that's still a lot of photos).

You don't need to re-size the photos to place them in photobucket, either, as the site does that for you.

 

To post one of those photos here, you simply click on the thumbnail of the photo you wish to use, which yields an enlarged view.  To the right of the photo will be a number of categories with lines of data with them.  Click on the line entitled "img".  The line of data will turn yellow, indicating that the data has been copied.  In your composition window here, place the cursor where you'd like the picture to appear in your post, then right click and click "paste".  The line of copied data will appear. 
You can repeat this operation for as many photos as you wish to include, adding text into your post wherever it's required.  When you're done, click on the "SUBMIT YOUR REPLY" box here.  When the post appears, the line(s) of data will become pictures.

 

Here's some of what I see when I go to my photobucket. (Click on any photo to get an enlarged version of it.)

This is the page on which it opens:

 

 

When I click on the Album entitled "CNR BEEG BOY" (bottom left of the picture above) this is what I see next:

 

 

Let's say I want to show folks the first photo.  I simply click on it to get an enlargement, like this:

 

 

 

At the upper right of the photo above, you'll see the words "SHARE THIS PHOTO?" and below that, six boxes, the fifth one down labelled "IMG".  When I click on either the "IMG" or on that line of data, the data momentarily appears in a yellow box, indicating that the data has been copied.

 

Returning to my composition window here, I place the cursor where I want the photo to appear, then right click and then click "PASTE".  The line of data will appear as seen in the screenshot below:

 

 

And when I click on "SUBMIT YOUR REPLY" the line of data becomes this photo:

 

 

Easy.

 

Wayne

[richhotrain]

Lone Wolf and Santa Fe

 

 

Nickel Plate Road

Wow - that seems overly complicated and convoluted. I am not comfortable posting my photos on a public site.

 

 

 

 

This site is a public site. Anyone in the world can see this post.

 

What the forum administrator was referring to when he mentioned a public site is a third party server such as Photobucket. However, you can place your photos in a private folder in Photobucket so that viewing will be limited to anyone who visits this forum and clicks on the link. Of course, you need not be a forum member to click on the link. Any casual viewer of this forum can see the link and click on it.

Rich

[Nickel Plate Road]

I don't mean to split hairs, but like minded people log in here to converse with other like minded people. These conversations can not be found on the open internet, I hope. I program industrial robots and logic controllers and they are far easier to manipulate than loading a photo here. Sorry if I sturred the pot I just wanted honest opinion on my first weathering job :-)

Regards

Angelo

[Nickel Plate Road]

Thank you for the step by step

Regards

Angelo

["JaBear"]

Nickel Plate Road

These conversations can not be found on the open internet, I hope.

Sorry to bust your bubble Angelo, but this forum is open to the public.

In fact I lurked for a long time before I decided to join, so I could communicate with like minded ffolkes. Haven’t regretted it.

Hope to see the fruits of your labours as I’m always interested in seeing others weathering efforts, in the vain hope of improving mine.

Cheers, the Bear.

[Nickel Plate Road]

 

[Nickel Plate Road]

[Nickel Plate Road]

Thanks everyone especially grand master of Photo bucket Wayne. I stand corrected about this site. Peace out and PLEASE honest opinions, blast me between the eyes. Peace out my brethern

[Anonymous]

Nickel Plate Road

split hairs, but like minded people log in here to converse with other like minded people. These conversations can not be found on the open internet, I hope.

They can infact be found using Google, though it is mostly hit or miss.

[Anonymous]

Nickel Plate Road

Thanks everyone especially grand master of Photo bucket Wayne. I stand corrected about this site. Peace out and PLEASE honest opinions, blast me between the eyes. Peace out my brethern

Well, not sure if it is the camera or not but I would have used a semi gloss or gloss black (maybe an oil based paint? might have to give that one a try) for oil.  You might also try the Testors Createfx paint pens or paints (I think they have a tar or oil or something like that).

Might be a little overdone on the spillage, but thats more of a to taste type of thing.  You might try using a prototype photo when weathering locomotives and rolling stock. 

RR-picturearchives and RR-fallenflags have 100k plus photos between them.

There is also a morning sun book or 2 on tank cars; however it is ~$60, so not really a good buy unless you are modeling a lot of tank car served facilities.

From an operator stand point, the reporting marks are kind of hard to see.  You may want to dial the overall weathering back a smidge if you are planning on using a car routing system (might also be the photo).

Noticed you removed the tank from the rest of the car.  Dont forget to weather the rest of it, wheels included (be careful not to get paint on the axle points, paint there causes the car to roll poorly or not at all)

["JaBear"]

Gidday Angelo, I fear that you suffer from my own affliction of heavy handedness; you can see my attempts here.

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/254685.aspx

 

However depending on materials used as to the ease redoing the job, I regard my weathering projects as work in progress, and I suggest you do the same.

Reading of others experiences, I gather most started off on the heavy handed side, and I think it requires practice to get to where you want to be, I’m just going to need a lot of practice, especially as there are so many different weathering techniques..

Cheers, the Bear.

[Nickel Plate Road]

Thx JaBear,

I used a coat of dull coat and the washed with Acrylics I set up a new post for the weathering. Nothing but love

Angelo 

[hon30critter]

Hi Angelo:

I would try thinning your washes a lot more. You can always add a second coat.

If you don't have one yet, you might explore getting an air brush too. They are great tools.

Dave

[BigDaddy]

Nickel Plate Road

I don't mean to split hairs, but like minded people log in here to converse with other like minded people. These conversations can not be found on the open internet, I hope.

They can, really.  A google search for weathering opinions model railroader turns up one of your threads as the second hit.

https://www.google.com/search?q=weathering+opinions+model+railroader&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[BroadwayLion]

LION has own webserver of him. Actually is very easy, since all Microsoft operating systems have a small built-in web server, but if you did not know that, then surely you are not qulified to use it or to provide the extra web security that it requires.

LION happens to be using Miscrosoft Server operating system on server of him, it allows me to run any number of websites from my server, but this is a moot point since I only have one Domain name (broadwaylion.com).

Anyway, posting a pic here is no more difficult than moving it to the "LION" folder and then putting the URL in the box here.

 See. Simple. LIONS *like* Simple.

ROAR

[Lone Wolf and Santa Fe]

BMMECNYC

 

Nickel Plate Road

split hairs, but like minded people log in here to converse with other like minded people. These conversations can not be found on the open internet, I hope.

 

 

They can infact be found using Google, though it is mostly hit or miss.

 

Google is how I found this forum. I was searching for model orange groves and I found a thread here about them.