WW II Aircrafts

[Kulmbach]

Thanks´ Mark for taken time to trix with my latest aircraft picture. Now I will rest my case although a got a few more painted planes.


Jan

[willie]

Just finished up with IPMS Convention in Hampton VA. It was IPMS USA 50th Anniversary .Lots and lots of models there ,it was the Largest Hobby Shop in VA   I found the vender and I was wondering it we could use this on are planes and tank flats.  They are called Archer fine Transfers and I got a free sample and I think they are out standing. Cast Resin on clear decal film apply like decals under paint. They had WW-1 stitching ,Weld Beads , Panel Lines . Also so JTT Miniature Trees and Landscaping Products. Now I have a question can we use this stuff on are figures and inter them in shows. Willie

[marko]

Jan,


Not sure what the issue was other than I had to play with the image a bit to upload it as well.


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Bf 109-G "White 1" flown by Hauptmann Erich Hartmann, Staffelkapitän 4/JG 52, Hungary 1944.

via Jan

[Kulmbach]

Hi Mark,


Appreciate you offer to reach out a helping hand, but did you get the picture I sent?


Jan

[Glen]

Jan, that Spitfire is magnificent! I took the liberty of downloading your post pic and found that it was 300dpi, over 16 inches wide, and a bit over 46mb!


I cropped out the extraneous upper and lower section as well as bit on the ends, reduced the resolution to 96dpi, sized the pic to 12 inches wide, and came up with a total size of 1.58mb.


This is how the BFFS site translates it:

[marko]

As I said every once in a while we have an issue with a specific picture.  I sent you my email address via a message.  Send me the pictures in your preferred size and I will upload them the old fashioned way via FTP.

mark 

[Kulmbach]

Mark,


I took a second look on the "Fatal Error" and noticed that the Allowed Memory size is 94371840 Bytes.
My picture is less than half of that, 3569499 Bytes and is not passing through.


Jan

[Kulmbach]

Hi Mark,

Yes, I thought so, it had something to do with their sizes.
Marseille´F- version is 3.75 MB and I got it posted. But Hartmann´s G-version is less than that, "only" 3.40Mg and this one I fail to get through. I have chosen the highest resulotion in my pictures as I like details to show up nicely. Still even now some smaller details are lost. If I choose a lower lewel I am afraid it will be even more blurred.

I will, now and then, try to post my G- version, as I have done with the other aircrafts and managed.


Jan

[marko]

Jan,


I suspect your issue with pictures is due to their size - they are all 3+ mb.  Our software can only handle an upload of 6 mb at a time meaning two pictures would be over that limit and it will fail if you upload them at the same time.  (You can edit an entry and load pictures one at a time to get around the issue.)


Jerry Mortimore our BFFS Journal editor has had a similar issue with one picture not working until I saved it to a different format as well so that is another option, in his case it was again a very large file.


You might try saving your pictures with a slightly lesser resolution and you will have better luck.


As far as your fighter planes - truly stunning work, I congratulate you.


mark 

[Kulmbach]

I  have problem with "Fatal Error" now and then when I try to post a picture. I wrote a rather long text and added two pictures. Nothing showed upp. Then I sent, as a test, one picture and this one showed up. Then I tried with the second picture but had a page with "Fatal Error". It´s a sad situation. Has it to do with my computer or with the Server?

So, what I will do is to try to recapitulate what I wrote:

"I realized that I had already showed my "Douglas Bader Spitfire". Now I had even taken a new picture, I blame it on old age. As I substitute I now will show two more German Messerschitt 109 aircrafts, one "Friedrich" version and one "Gustav" version. Both conversions, done by my, from the original "Emil" version produced by Jacques Vulligns of Glorious Empires."

Bf 109F-4 Trop "Yellow" Flewn by Hauptmann Hans Joachim Marseille,"The Star of Africa" Staffelkapitän 3/JG 27 Egypt, September 1942.

(The other Plane, the "Gustav" version, I will add text to when I manage to get behind the "Fatal Error" and add the picture.)[

Jan

[Nicholas Ball]

the subtle shading is excellent. very very nice

[Kulmbach]

Test 1

[Brian]

I'll have to get around to painting my Stuka looks well good for such a clumsy looking machine, and remember these flat aircraft are still available if you want to have a go     

[Kulmbach]

Just to try to make a balance I will also like to show Douglas Bader´s Supermarin Spitfire MK II.
Jan

[Kulmbach]

Another test ... just  to see what happens. 
Now when I know that the picture is on show I will fill in the text.

Well Brian ... here is your Junker 87B "STUKA".

It´s  from "Stab III./ST.G Immelmann."  Then flewn by Major Hans Rudel at the Russian front 1943.

Yes Glen, as you well know,  ... there are always things that could be better done. I have taken your comments to my hart for the future. But these aircrafts are painted some time ago.

Willie ... everything is painted in oil, nothing is glued on. It takes a little more time and  patience to paint them,  that´s all.


Jan