Re: [OFFICIAL] NEW STUFF - hosting pix?

>>>> Further to the last few news posts, I've just assembled the first
>>>> production casting of the new UNSC Superdreadnought, and it looked
so good
>>>> that I whipped the digital camera out and took a few pics straight
away!
>>>
>>>Wow.  That's a *great* ship.  Very UN, I think.  Are you going to
have
>>>the quad fin arrangement for other UN ships?
>>
>>For some of the other large ones, yes. The smaller classes will have
just
>>two fins, or none.
>>BTW, just to clarify the size of the SDN, it is 110mm from bow to
drives!
>
>Jon,
>
>For the other ships you plan to take pix of, what about including, say
at
>the base, a small coin or paperclip or something else that is generally
>recognized by most people for scale comparison? This is something that
is
>done quite often in cave photography, when the photographer is shooting
>a formation, but since you have absolutely no sense of scale, a
carabiner
>or some other small but recognizable object is placed in the picture so
>the viewer can get a sense of scale (if the thing is huge, then the
object
>added to the pic is generally human ;-)

Good point, though I think most people on the list know what size a
standard plastic hex base is, and that is what the model is sitting on!
(Though on a metal stand post....)

Jon (GZG)
>
>Mk
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