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Title: January 2017 Ping
Post by: lastvautour on December 31, 2016, 10:21:17 PM
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Lou
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: lastvautour on December 31, 2016, 10:24:24 PM
The 2016 SMM Yearbook poster is submitted for you comments.

Lou
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: lastvautour on January 04, 2017, 12:54:49 AM
Comments please on Poster Prototype 2.

Lou
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: lastvautour on January 04, 2017, 01:26:20 AM
Breaking news. The misses insisted I place the HMCS Athabaskan on the mantle so all can see her when they enter our home.

Lou
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: Will on January 04, 2017, 01:25:05 PM
Quote from: lastvautour on January 04, 2017, 01:26:20 AM
Breaking news. The misses insisted I place the HMCS Athabaskan on the mantle so all can see her when they enter our home.

Lou

Lou,
Looks absolutely magnificent, I imagine you will have lots of conversation with visitors initiated by that model.
I presume you have volunteered for KP in regard to dusting!

Happy New Year All,
Will.
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: Oceaneer99 on January 04, 2017, 05:33:56 PM
Lou,

Wow! That is a vote of confidence! She looks great.

Garet
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: Pete1616 on January 04, 2017, 09:58:12 PM
Beautiful work, Lou! Next I'm anticipating the finished Bonnie.....this year perhaps?......Pete
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: buccfan on January 04, 2017, 10:05:47 PM
Very nice indeed Lou, it certainly provides a treat and talking point for visitors.  I think I prefer prototype 2  poster with smaller gaps between the images. Best regards and Happy New Year, Paul J.
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: Pete1616 on January 04, 2017, 10:09:36 PM
With regards to the poster.....although I think Gordon's Nieuport deserves special attention, I prefer the symmetry of poster number one .

Perhaps you could place the Nieuport in the centre with a gold frame as a well deserved feature?
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: lastvautour on January 04, 2017, 11:24:43 PM
The problem of symmetry is created by uploading different size photos. The model sound fill just 50% of the image so it can be cropped to a common size. I know that a close up filling the entire photo gives greater details but is makes it hard to fit in. I will see about highlighting the Newport.

Lou
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: lastvautour on January 04, 2017, 11:34:20 PM
Prototype poster # 3.

Lou
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: lastvautour on January 06, 2017, 09:51:25 PM
I have pinned my 6 posters in my storage/computer room including the latest 2016.

Lou
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: buccfan on January 07, 2017, 10:16:39 AM
I didn't think it was 6 years since you started the posters Lou, how time flies. Regards Paul J.
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: R.F.Bennett on January 07, 2017, 07:51:23 PM
Thank you Lou, for all of the hard work you do. . .   :P
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: Boomerang on January 08, 2017, 12:24:58 AM

Lou,

I echo Rays sentiments. Thank you for all the work you do.

All the 2016 posters in my opinion fit the bill. Sorry if I'm a bit non committal on one in particular.

With regards to the placing of HMCS Athabaskan at the entrance of your house. It looks marvelous and is a testament to your workmanship.

Regards

Gordon
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: Pete1616 on January 08, 2017, 12:51:22 AM
Lou, I'm amazed by what you've accomplished since your move. Your display area is a feast for the eyes, and visitors would certainly be in awe of your work
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: lastvautour on January 27, 2017, 12:39:16 AM
Positive comments from our 2016 builds on my flickr account.
Check them out at https://www.flickr.com/photos/8416077@N08/32348674012/in/dateposted-public/

Lou
Title: Re: January 2017 Ping
Post by: Pete1616 on February 14, 2017, 09:25:26 PM
Hi, Lou

Looking at your collection of posters made me realise that I've been missing out by now downloading them as they came out.

Would it be possible to list them again so we, we missed out, could "catch up" with the ones we missed, and put them on a thumb drive?

Pete