20mm Rhodesians

[Ash]

Someone at PhotoBucket came up with the grand idea to pretend that they were never a hosting site for 3rd party sharing and without any notice blocked all the links, to everywhere. Must have trashed just about every forum (in every subject) online. Read the feedback they are getting on their Facebook page, a lot of not very impressed people.
You used to be able to store a certain amount of data for free, in addition you could embed links on forum postings (etc) that would either target back to your Photobucket or show up in the forum thread. These links create an amount of data traffic so each account had a bandwidth limit, which you could upgrade for a smallish fee (I think they called it a Pro account).
Then three weeks ago they killed all the links and sent out emails saying "WE NOTICED THAT YOU HAVE BEEN USING PHOTOBUCKET FOR 3RD PARTY HOSTING" sort of implying that users had been doing something wrong, however if you choose to pay them a fee of $400 per year, they will turn all your links back on. Hense the search for new homes to share pictures from. At least that's my take on it, oh and the piece of code mentioned in my last post seems to be working...

[mikedemana]

That's awful! I pay them about $29 a year because I had so much stored on there. As far as I can tell, all my links here and my Travelerspoint blog are still working. Plus, I never received the email you're talking about. Weird. I'll go check out their FB page and see if I can figure it out...

Thanks for the heads up!

Mike Demana

[mikedemana]

Checked...here's why my links are still working:

If you were a Plus Account subscriber in good standing as of June 1, 2017,
you will continue to have all the privileges you have enjoyed including 3rd
Party Hosting until December 31, 2018 as long as you maintain your
subscription.

So I have a year and a half to figure it out....

Mike Demana

[Ash]

I 'like' how they refer to the service you are paying for as a privilege, as though you should be bending over to thank them for taking your payments...

[Ash]

Not done anything for a while, so decided to raid the kit stash and dug out a 1/72 C-47 Skytrain, to convert to a Paradak and another Cessna 337 to convert into a Lynx. Also whilst rummaging for pictures I found this shot of a FAF Fireforce base, thought it might make an interesting display base.




Put most of the ParaDak together, basic paint job inside, inc pilots. Lost all the clear bits so making do with clear styrene.

[mikedemana]

Looks awesome!

Mike Demana
www.firstcommandwargames.com
http://leadlegionaries.blogspot.com/

[juergen c. olk]

can't wait for finished product.

[Andym]

can't wait for finished product.

Seconded!

[Ash]

Some fairly rough pics of a fairly rough base coat...

[juergen c. olk]

..looking good.

[Ash]

cheers Juergen.

Bit of an update...

[juergen c. olk]

Wow that is great stuff..the men in the Jump suits are awesome.

[von Lucky]

I'm liking the latest update - I'm feeling dusty just looking at the planes!

[Ash]

These guys I did a while ago, converted from TQD US WW2 Paras.
Chopped off the weapons and filed down the helmets, added some tad too big FNs. Could do with another eleven, four with MAGs, on the hunt for other figures with chutes...

[gamer Mac]

Very interesting project
Nice display Base idea though I don't envy you painting all those drums
Can I ask what are the extra tubes under the wings of the paradak?