Eric Aitala

Very nice work... E

A new IPMS/USA Journal Article has been posted at: http://web.ipmsusa3.org/journal_article/m4a3-sherman Eric

Actually there is a completely different discussion on what 'Ferrari red' actually is - especially how it relates to the Formula One cars and their fluorescent and/or metallic paints. These have the added issue that they do not photograph very well depending on film/video types and ambient light conditions. E

Fortunately, the second go at the Forum update went pretty smoothly. Other than making a few minor configuration changes and adding the alternate themes, there was not a lot for me to do.... Eric

Didn't Tamiya just redo their formulation over in the UK & Europe to conform to new regulations? Perhaps this has hit the US now - they might have let the old stock run out and don't have the new version available yet. Eric

You are probably using IE6 - you might want to upgrade to IE7 since 6 is no longer supported by Microsoft or by software like the Forums and the Gallery. You could also try Firefox. Eric

I'd just like to finish one model... E

Not really. There are some technical issues which make things unduly complicated and probably not worth the effort of trying to patch up an old application. Its also a matter of timing and priorities - getting the Reviews site rebuilt was a major issue. Now that its up and running, with its underlying infrastructure, I can start building new services and moving old ones to it. We've got a couple things in the pipeline there... for example, adding the SIGs listing and the Journal Articles was just a start. Eric

For those equipped with an iPhone, there is an app to connect with IP.Board Forums... http://www.invisionpower.com/suite/iphone It works pretty well. Eric

You mean from the main IPMS web site to the Forums? Not easily doable. It would be simpler to move the calendar to the 'Reviews' web site then have that data exported/imported into the Forum calendar via RSS. I've basically done something similar and have event info imported into F1M.com that way. Eric Now if only all the events in the "upcoming events" page could be autolinked somehow onto the calendar. It might be easier to load them into the calendar and have that page generated as a report, I don't know.

Hm... I am not seeing this. Things are pretty speedy for me. E

Don, I have added a new theme thats white text on black background - will this work? See the Theme selector pulldown on the very bottom left of the page. Eric

The style of quotes in older posts was not very clear. I've made them look more like the current quotes. E Looks like you just did! The change looks GREAT!! I'm not usually for change to a website(if it's not broke, don't fix it) but this is an improvement!

Hmmm... I wonder how I can fix that..... E

HI, It looks like the Forum update has succeeded. So far things look pretty good - I have seen no issues. There may be a few 'missing' avatars, but I don't see any at the moment. I have everything backed up, so I can restore files if need be. Please let me know if you see any issues. Eric

Hi Folks, There is a new downloadable Journal article up on the Reviews site. http://web.ipmsusa3.org/journal/delightful-dora Delightful Dora Fw 190D-9 Eric

I was successful in doing the update on a duplicate version of the IPMS Forums today - I am thinking that I will try to do the update on the real Forum this weekend. It wont happen until after midnight, so no one should really notice... Eric

The update to the Forum failed quite badly. I have restored the files and database. I may try the update again later in the weekend. Eric

Hi Folks, I plan on upgrading the Forum software to the latest version of IP Board over Thanksgiving weekend. We are a version behind and I'd like to make sure we are up to date. I will probably do the updates pretty late Friday or Saturday night - mebbe around midnight Eastern time. The upgrade will proceed as... Take the Forums offline Backup the database Backup the forum software and files Apply the update Update the theme with IPMS logos, etc. Test... Turn everything back on I have tried doing the upgrade when we were testing the Forum with the new web server - it went pretty easily, so I expect no problems. If there are, I can always restore the backups. The new version of IP Board has a different set of default themes, so things may look a little different - see http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/ for an example. I don't expect things to operate any differently however... Eric

When I grab the raw link from your post and paste it into a browser, I get a 403 Forbidden error Eric

Posting PDFs of past Journal articles goes back to a number of Forum threads about making some of that material (or entire Journals) available online to promote the quality of the Journal. We should be posting an article every once in a while, but a definite schedule is still a work in progress. It won't be as frequent as posting new reviews... We're still working out the details, so you may see a post or two in the Forums about it.. A direct link to the Index page -> http://web.ipmsusa3.org/journal Eric

Ok, it seems to be working now.. the issue was actually something odd that cropped up on the Review site... Also, I've set up a new forum area for Review announcements... for the moment no one can start topics there, but can reply to them... New forum is at - http://forum.ipmsusa3.org/index.php?showforum=49 Eric

Pity that it does not appears to be working to pull in the two new reviews that were posted today... I will let it sit for a while and see what happens... Eric

Hi Folks, I am going to be testing a new feature here in the General Modeling area - when a new Review is published on the Reviews website, a post will be made here with a 'teaser' of the review plus a link to the full review. There will be the occasional odd character that may show up in the text - its an issue with smart/curly quotes - but that's not a major deal. Hopefully, folks will find it useful... Eric

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