Narses2's Blog - or what I'm slowly making progress on

TheChronicOne · August 10, 2020, 12:08:27 AM

The Ki is a sweet twin... love the glass house on there. Looks great!

NARSES2 · August 10, 2020, 06:10:29 AM

Cheers mate

In the meantime I'm currently in the throws of installing a new laptop. Oh the joys of getting to grips with Windows 10 and Micro Soft Edge.

It's their inability to accept that anybody might want to use some software or a package that isn't controlled by themselves that really, really gets me. And talk about hiding away the ways you can do this in odd places with non sensical instructions ! They'd make Machiavelli proud.

Still onwards and upwards

PR19_Kit · August 10, 2020, 06:15:55 AM

If ever the saying 'If it ain't broke, DON'T fix it!' applied, Windows 10 is the ultimate example.

It's total rubbish compared to Win7.

scooter · August 10, 2020, 06:27:42 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 10, 2020, 06:15:55 AM
If ever the saying 'If it ain't broke, DON'T fix it!' applied, Windows 10 is the ultimate example.

It's total rubbish compared to Win7.

That's why I'm not giving up on my Win8.1 laptop until it suffers a serious meltdown.

NARSES2 · August 10, 2020, 06:43:02 AM

Unfortunately my Windows 7 laptop was getting very old and very, very slow. I think even it knows it's due a nice, comfortable retirement as first reserve.

The Wooksta! · August 10, 2020, 06:44:40 AM

I'll stick with Mac, thanks.

NARSES2 · August 10, 2020, 06:47:54 AM

I've never been a Mac user, mainly because back in the day they were deemed more useful for those in the graphics/print/artistic industries (as you were Lee) and most businesses used Windows. So I grew up on it.

Rheged · August 10, 2020, 07:18:23 AM

Our first family computer was so old, the data discs were 78 rpm shellac! My son's phone has several orders of magnitude more computing power. I too grew up on Windows but for creative work I can quite understand Lee's preference for Mac.

NARSES2 · August 10, 2020, 08:13:55 AM

Getting there I think. The key was working out how to turn off one of the pre set Windows defaults. Not exactly intuitive, indeed more counter intuitive I would say

zenrat · August 11, 2020, 04:48:15 AM

I use a Mac because one day Mrs z (Railtrack IT at the time) brought one home for me. It had been bought as a trial, was unsuccessful, and was to be got rid of. So, because I can never refuse a freebee it was got rid of into our spare room. Since then, while i've used PCs for work i've always had a Mac to do my own thing on.

NARSES2 · August 11, 2020, 06:01:17 AM

One step forward, one step................... $:-\$

I think I dislike HP almost as much as MS. I got a new printer about a year ago, wireless connection and easy peasy to set up, but getting it to connect with my new p.c.

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About the only question I wasn't asked was my eye colour and like most men I have no idea and even if I did the current lady in my life would disagree

I got there in the end, but I'm convinced the rigmarole was purely in an effort to get you to give up and buy a new printer. If I'd been on hourly rates it probably would have been cheaper

Still just need to connect my camera now so I can download and post build pics and then it will "simply" be a matter of transferring files from the old laptop to the new one. I can take my time with this stage as I want to sort out and organise a lot of the files at the same time. There's a lot of stuff that can be stored on an external drive for any future reference, doesn't need to be on the p.c.

So hopefully I can get some modelling done on Thursday ?

NARSES2 · August 11, 2020, 07:26:26 AM

Camera set up and I'm getting to grips with windows editing of pics. etc

So as a test here's the Fokker T.V. box art

Well that worked but I don't be able to resize the image even following Tom's instructions elsewhere ?

scooter · August 11, 2020, 08:44:22 AM

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All resized using {img width=} (with square brackets) and what size to use. Which is what I use when I past my 4k resolution links from Imgur.

NARSES2 · August 12, 2020, 12:00:38 AM

Thanks Scoot, your my hero

Seriously mate thanks for showing it in a way even I could understand

NARSES2 · August 12, 2020, 06:18:13 AM

A little bit of progress before it got to hot and sticky. Mainly spent creating a colour card with all my various metal colours so I could see where the least/greatest contrasts are. Mostly you can't see any discernible difference between them, but I think I now know the shades I'll be using on the Thud's overall silver.