2024 IPMS National Convention. Madison Wisconasin.

[moon puppy]

Neat. trying this out
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Aircraft - Vladimir Yakubov

Military and civilian vehicle walkarounds for modelers

www.svsmgallery.com

 

[moon puppy]

@Rhino did you do this and sandbag us? It's your scale.

 

[jknaus]

OK rhino
first pic is 338kb second is 1800kbView attachment 171535View attachment 171536

so file size is not going to effect the appearance on the forum however if you were to download both and enlarge them the larger file size will enlarge better ( before it starts to pixelate).

I you have a windows PC, load the pics from your phone or camera in a desktop folder on the PC
Open Paint. ( a std program on all windows PC;s)
open a picture in paint from the desk top folder and click resize by clicking the arrow below

in the resize box select pixels and click in 1000 as below

then just click file and "save as" top left



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Or you can set your camera or phone to do this automatically when it takes a picture.

Try Paint.Net. Free but 100 times more usable than paint with many very nice features. It also has a loyal following with lots of add ons.

Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.

www.getpaint.net

James

 

[Rhino]

Roof top garden and cafe' at the Minona Terrace convention center. I'm working on resizing photos so I can continue to post here. These are an experiment. Food in Madison is expensive! It's also very "fancy". Terms like "aioli" 'compote" and 'vinaigrette" are on almost every menu. The burger here came with "vegan chipotle" on it.
WTF is vegan about a cheeseburger? When in Madison............

 

[Rhino]

@Rhino did you do this and sandbag us? It's your scale.

Not this fat kid! I would have crowed about that cool little model! The little Ferry and sloop were standouts! I hesitate to comment on how many fairies we saw.
When in Madison...........

 

[moon puppy]

Nice looking spot. I'll be glad to help you figure out the compression thing. Irfanview can do it with a couple of mouse clicks to all the images.

 

[Rhino]

I had this photo in 2 folders. I was resizing one and attempting to attach the other. Gimme a "Duh!"
I think I remember how to do this now. Back when I first joined up, every photo had size limits. Good ol' Mike Trent helped me learn to size my overly grand pictures, way back when.

 

[Rhino]

Any Tom & Jerry fans in the House? The Eastern front variation on the original "Yankee Doodle Mouse" cartoon. FUN!

I thought this model deserved to be better documented. These guys are GOOD.

This is a painted finish on an actual Nissan Silva 1/25 scale car model. Teresa quickly spied this, and promptly cast her People's Choice ballot for it.

 

[moon puppy]

That Nissan is amazing!

 

[RichB]

The step-by-step article on how to paint the Nissan as it would look in anime was in the July/August issue of Fine Scale Modeler.

Cheers,
RichB

 

[Rhino]

This is my People's Choice pick.
David Laying started working on his 1/48 USS Hornet CV-8 section in 2021, during the panic-demic. The B-25B Mitchell is colonel Jimmy's airplane from the Accurate Miniatures kit. There are 130 sailor and pilot figures, reposed and altered, populating his build. The switchboard activates lights on different decks, so you can see through the ol' girls spaces. There was build-book chronicling David's project. Is it perfect? No. Is any model perfect? Few. This was informative, interesting and educational. The coolest model in both rooms!
It only took him a little over 2 years to get this far! Bravo young David!

 

[Rhino]

During our the time we spent here I thought the Convention was well organized and run. Parking was plentiful, access to the venue was right off Interstate 12-18. The Mad City Modelers members with Jeff Herne in "command" and their army of volunteers did such a fine job!
Lighting was pretty good, the contest room was spacious enough for traffic I was in. Now, that being said, we weren't there on Saturday. I imagine Saturday was a BIG day! Other Wisconasin adventures beckoned.

Raffle tickets must have numbered in the thousands, and were displayed initially in excel on a monitor. Putting them in order would have been simple, but didn't happen. Raffle tickets had to be submitted, rather than just marked off. Teresa commented to Jeff Barrette "We have to talk!"
My sweetie's raffle mojo held true. We won a Squadron gift certificate! Friday, computers for seminars were in short supply, so the raffle reverted to the tried and true white board. This was a first raffle for the team of young MCM members that ran it. They did almost pretty good.

There were escalators. Escalators make me anxious. They didn't actually chew my feet up. There was plentiful seating for old and new friends to relax and compare notes. I can't comment on judging because I didn't enter. I do not consider myself a National Convention caliber model maker.

I could see the IPMS/USA desk was busy. I waited as long as was going wait to to discuss why my email and log-in were eliminated from their website. I've been a national member for many moons, but this new administration has much to learn about who their "customer" is and how to better serve them. I would like to see "Member since (date)" on the membership card pdf we print ourselves. I would also have liked not to have been forgotten. I cain't see my way clear to renewing my IPMS/USA membership.

This may well have been my final National Convention. It was a DOOZIE!

Plastic Surgeon Joachim Lotz fared very well. First prize for his 1/35 Swedish G13 and third prize for his 1/35 Syrian E-75 super king tiger.

In other news, Busy Hands are Happy Hands and a circle of yarn crafters kept busy while the goings-on of their men were, well, going on!
Thanks for looking in!

 

[moon puppy]

Great report so far. That's funny, the IPMS Knitting society

 

[Rhino]

An aside to the Mad City Modeler's first National Convention. Notice the spelling of "Madison" on the challenge coin and contest pins?
"Madision"? Yeah. The awards have the same spelling error. French Madisi'on? perhaps? Madi-sion?
Dolly Madison must be barfing up snack cakes in the hereafter.
Someone is going to get a sound spanking for this error.

Madison is spelled correctly on the convention shirts. That's a plus!

 

[Tim A.]

I'm wore out just reading about this trip, let alone actually attempting it...haha.
I see your still having issues with uploading pics, though.
I'll throw in yet another solution. I have "SNAPSEED" photo editing app. It's free and SIMPLE. The SIMPLE part is, any photo you take and have in your phone's gallery will automatically be in Snapseed, too. The Snapseed app gives options on resizing, by SIMPLY (there's that word I like again) clicking on the the 3 dots in the upper corner. Once the settings for the app is changed, it's changed, no doing it every time. SIMPLY run the photos you want to post to here through the Snapseed app and click "export" them back to your phones gallery.

 

[Rhino]

My sizing issue isn't with complexity, it's with quantity. I properly sized the Cobia Museum and Coast Guard Station Sheboygan photos.
Windows file explorer has the same 3 dots. This also keeps the pictures "in House", until I post them all over the internet.