Eric Aitala

I haven't posted pics yet, so I'm not sure what the issue there is. But when I'm on the 'New Topic' page, the little button that enables emoticons is already checked... Eric

At the bottom of the page is a 'Mark Community Read' link which will give you a popup the will let you "Mark all as Read" which should help. Also on the New Content page, you can sort the topics viewed by clicking on the various choices on the left, such as "Past 24 hours", "Just items I follow", etc. Eric

Ed, See if you can log in from http://forum.ipmsusa...ogin&do=process I don't see any issues with IE7 and Windows XP... you may need to flush your browser cache. Also, you could probably update to IE8 which should work just fine and given that there have been a number of important security updates, it might be a good idea. Eric

HI, I will try to check the Forums tomorrow at the office with WinXP and IE 7 - my machine here is Win7. WinMe and IE 6 are a complete nightmare to support at this point - I don't think even Microsoft does anymore. IE6 has been pretty much been declared dead by the web community given its inability to follow web standards and discontinued support by Microsoft. I can also look into other themes which might prove easier for older browsers to deal with... Eric

I was recently informed on F1M.com that Norm Welch of F1 Specialties recently passed away. Norm was one of the early supporters of F1M.com and donated a complete set off all the F1 decals he produced which became the prizes for our first online F1 model contest. He was always very supportive of the F1 modeling community and he will be sadly missed. Messages of condolence can be sent to the F1 Specialties email address - info@f1specialties.com Eric Aitala

Well the theme is the standard IP.Board theme. I have not seen any other free ones I like. Eric

We're back online... other than removing some old themes everything seems to have gone smoothly. Eric

The Forums will go offline for the update in about an hour from now. Eric

Hi Folks, I am planing on upgrading the Forum software late Friday night to the newest version of the IP.Board software. It should only take a couple hours, I hope... I don't think many people will be online then. Eric

Hmmm... I've been waiting to see if anyone would attempt a scale modeling podcast... Eric

Everyone has one - you can only see your own, but Forum admins (like me) and (I think) moderators can see everyones... Eric

Posting this for John Noack -

Well, Airfix did a McLaren a few years back and Revell DE has done the Mercedes... albeit in non 1/20th scale... Eric Eric - Wouldn't it be nice to see a Red Bull or two. Heck, with the dirth of F1 cars, I would be happy with a red car or two and why hasn't somebody done a Mclaren Mercedes? Come to think of it, any of the front runners would be nice.

I'd honestly like to see some new F1 model kits in 1/20th that are not Ferraris - even though I like those too. Basically any era. Eric

They finally gave up on fixing it so they swapped in a new one. E

HI, Looks like we are back online. The server had a disk failure - the web hosting company has replaced it. Eric

The big problem with Ferrari 250 GTO kits is that none of them are entirely accurate - see http://jonellesmodels.homestead.com/GTOcomp.html - and that each (real) car is almost unique. Eric

RAWs can be tweaked much more in post production than compressed formats like JPEG. Eric

I dont know anyone who makes decals for this... Eric

Then I'd need an OO scale DeLorean... E

I like it - and its the first link I've clicked in a couple days that had any scale modeling content in it. BTW, I want to do this but I need to figure out how to do a 1/24th scale TARDIS. Eric

HI, Looks like Tamiya America has set up a Ustream channel to show various videos... Video Capture Software Eric

We are back online (other than the Gallery). I hope it lasts. Eric

Ya, I had to take the Galleries offline (by closing access to the directory) because they seemed to be the issue. It looks like there may actually be an issue with the server itself - A2 wants to move us to a different machine entirely. So I may need to take everything down and run backups first. Eric

I'm taking the Reviews site down until the morning. Eric