Hello from Southern Maryland!

[RogerRamjet]

  Hello all,  
I'm Shawn, I'm a new member from Maryland and I'm addicted to the hobby! I started flying control line back in the 70's with the old COX Skymaster Cessna and the P-40 Warhawk when I was a kid. I built my first stick and tissue balsa model back in the early 80's when I was around 11 years old and I have since progressed to R/C Heli's and Giant Scale R/C Aerobats. I'm into all facets of the hobby, such as Free Flight, C/L, model rockets, R/C and tether boats, R/C and tether cars, and even model trains. As well as all power plants from rubber band to gasoline. I also enjoy kit and scratch building, cutting foam wings and collecting vintage model planes, cars and engines from COX, Testors, Wen-Mac and McCoy etc... Unfortunately, I have been unable to fly in a good while due to a spinal injury in 2008 but I am working on rehabilitation to get back into the hobby that I so wonderfully enjoy and miss! But I can still build.  

My current C/L planes are:
Top Flight Nobler -ARF powered by an O.S. 40LA
Bratco Hex Drone - powered by an NV .061
And a scratch built 1.2a profile Gee Bee R1 powered by a COX Golden Bee with a Tee Dee piston and cylinder
I also have a few kits both R/C and C/L sitting on the shelf such as a Black Hawk Fokker DR1, and a Top Flight Flite Streak - ARF etc..
I've been browsing the site lately so I thought I'd join and make some new friends.  

I tried to post a few pics but I kept getting a file too large error even though the pics are 200kb or less. Anyone know how to fix that problem?


Shawn

[William DeMauro]

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[M Spencer]

[Steve Helmick]

About the picture posting...if you're certain that they are under 1,000kb total for all the pictures, then perhaps it's a file type that isn't on the approved list. That, or you're trying to post too many pictures? The total per post is 1,000kb, and I believe Sparky raised the number allowed per post to 20 pictures from the original, which was 10.

I have had some problems posting attachments (not pictures), I think .doc or .txt or something, sent Sparky a PM and he quickly added that file type to the acceptable list. Perhaps that's the problem? Steve 

[RogerRamjet]

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Shawn

[RogerRamjet]

About the picture posting...if you're certain that they are under 1,000kb total for all the pictures, then perhaps it's a file type that isn't on the approved list. That, or you're trying to post too many pictures? The total per post is 1,000kb, and I believe Sparky raised the number allowed per post to 20 pictures from the original, which was 10.

I have had some problems posting attachments (not pictures), I think .doc or .txt or something, sent Sparky a PM and he quickly added that file type to the acceptable list. Perhaps that's the problem? Steve  

Thanks for the reply Steve. The pictures I was trying to post are .jpg but it seems to be hit and miss. I was able to post a couple of small pics in the 1/2a section but I tried to post a small 106kb thumbnail but I still get a "File too large" error.

Shawn

[RogerRamjet]

Cool Pic, thanks for posting it.

[Steve Helmick]

Ummmmm...I don't know what makes it a "thumbnail"....usually, that seems to be a .png, and after left-clicking becomes a .jpg. The .jpg is a highly efficient use of kb, it seems, .png not so much. No, I really don't know how that works! But I used to run our club's website in html code, even though I've never stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. If you see somebody recommend "IrfanView" freeware, they are onto something good! 

The one picture in the 1/2a forum (prop-rod thread) was fine, but the last two were simply too small. Not only in file size, but physical size. Get your pictures to about 500 to 850 pixels wide. I normally will compress a picture in that size range to under 100kb. The file size is very much affected by the crap in the background...blades of grass, rough concrete, lovely wood grain, course fabric, etc. suck up a lot of kb's, when what we're really interested in is the details of the model or engine.

There's a pretty good discussion of how to post pictures up in the Administration Forums (one of the top three group). It would be cool if a short and brutally clear "How To" could be posted and "pinned", but AFIK, that's not happened. Part of the problem is that there are several ways to do it. You can post a photo to SH, or you can put it in "PhotoBucket" or similar, and just link to it. Both ways have advantages and disadvantages. The ones that are on a site like PhotoBucket seem to go away after a few years...I guess the photo owner's bucket gets full and they have to make room for new ones. It really messes up a topic on SH or SSW when the pictures are gone. But then the Forum Owners Association has to cough up more $ for all the storage, a problem!  Steve
 

[RknRusty]

Hi Shawn.
I'm mostly a Photobucket user since it's convenient and I often post the same pictures on another forum too. I haven't run out of space, but after 8 years there's plenty of fat I could trim without affecting my forum posts. If I post Jpegs directly to the forum within the 1000kb(1MB) limit, they always seem to work here.

I replied to a couple of your posts without realizing you were new here, so welcome to Stunthangar, it's a great resource.

The best way to search the forum is directly through Google with a domain specific search. For example: [search terms site:stunthanger.com] will return results only from SH. Using the e returns the most because that's how most of the archives are stored. That'll gradually change in time, as it's only recently been spelled with an "a" in place of the "e".
See you in the funny pages,
Rusty

[RogerRamjet]

Ummmmm...I don't know what makes it a "thumbnail"....usually, that seems to be a .png,

Hi Steve, thanks for the reply.
A thumbnail is computer speak for a really small .jpg

Shawn

[RogerRamjet]

Hi Shawn.
I'm mostly a Photobucket user since it's convenient and I often post the same pictures on another forum too. I haven't run out of space, but after 8 years there's plenty of fat I could trim without affecting my forum posts. If I post Jpegs directly to the forum within the 1000kb(1MB) limit, they always seem to work here.

I replied to a couple of your posts without realizing you were new here, so welcome to Stunthangar, it's a great resource.

The best way to search the forum is directly through Google with a domain specific search. For example: [search terms site:stunthanger.com] will return results only from SH. Using the e returns the most because that's how most of the archives are stored. That'll gradually change in time, as it's only recently been spelled with an "a" in place of the "e".
See you in the funny pages,
Rusty

Thanks for the reply and welcome Rusty. I'm also a member over at CEF as well. As for posting pics go, I have a Photo Bucket account that I need to knock the proverbial dust off of and use it for posting pics here.


Shawn

[Steve Helmick]

Hi Steve, thanks for the reply.
A thumbnail is computer speak for a really small .jpg

Shawn

Yeah, but normally when you left click on the thumbnail it opens to a much larger size. Here on SH, if you post a .jpg in the 50kb to 999kb range, it'll put a thumbnail version in your post. When one of us clicks on it,...BOOM!

Often, newbies have a tendency to only reduce the square inches of a photo until it's actually too small to see, even after the "boom". But posting really large pictures can sometimes make a post's text to be wider than the screen, so a reader would have to scroll back and forth, back and forth, back and...anyway, that tends to make folks not bother.   Takes a bit of figuring out to get over the rough spots! If you have a problem, ask. Somebody will help you. Steve