Year: 2013

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Locomotives P4

Published in MRJ: Exactoscale Wheels for Tornado

Yesterday, I was pleased to see an article I wrote a few months ago make it into print:

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Earlier this year, Paul Willis approached me to write this up, having seen the similar article I had written for the Scalefour societies newsletter. I was honoured to think something I was up to was worthy of MRJ, which is a magazine that sets an incredibly high standard for the models it features.

I don’t think Tornado will be ready for Scaleforum (this year), as I hoped when I wrote the piece, but progress is continuing!

Thank you Paul, and all involved in MRJ, for publishing my work! I’m very pleased with the result.

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Miscellanea

Scalefour North 2013 Retrospective

I’ve just published a retrospective of the Scalefour North show this year, as part of the ongoing series published by the Scalefour Society.

I’ve gained a real appreciation of the work needed to publish photos on the web. The web is a text heavy medium, and a given image can have a title, alt text, copyright description, and then perhaps one or more captions. All of this needs hosting in some HTML, if you want to display this text with the image.

Finding some way to write all that text with ease is something I need to work on. The current retrospective entirely omits alt text, for example, so that browsers who can’t see the images can’t see a description of what would be displayed.

After that, there is then the problem of image size. Something which shows off the detail in these models is important, and I think it should be big enough that it visually dominates the html page hosting it. However, that leads to typical pages spilling out over the edges of the browser window, and scrolling when you want to take in the picture as a whole is not ideal.

If anyone has examples of this done in ways they like, posting links in the comments would be appreciated!

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Miscellanea

Less snow today…

No snow today, but a chance to visit an exhibition that is new to me: Railex. Hopefully I’ll be back in September with a completed Tornado.