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NSA

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posted May 01, 2009 19:40

Taking suggestions for ideas on what to do? Change? etc?

Totally open to whatever

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Ewokhunter92

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posted May 01, 2009 20:42

As I said before, the only thing I can think of is to try to replicate Hisstank's colors simply to keep it easy on the eyes for those who switch back and forth alot.

Everything is fine and dandy. <-- plus you got easy to do smilies

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posted May 01, 2009 22:01

YEah I can never remember the smiley codes over there.

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pcsguy88

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posted May 01, 2009 23:22

should we assemble our photo database here before opening it to the public?

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NSA

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posted May 01, 2009 23:24

That wouldn't be a bad idea. More trial and error I suppose.

I dont know if I want to emulate Hisstank too much, as the purpose isnt exactly the same

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pcsguy88

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posted May 01, 2009 23:38

I agree, this is not Hisstank, but then again, I only post in 1 thread over there now. Virtually nothing about the Joeverse holds my interest now. Thank god I'm a Transformers fan first and they made a helluva revision with the movie. TK said his pics would be finished soon. I'll start organizing everything tonight.

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pcsguy88

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posted May 01, 2009 23:39

Did I agree to will all of my colection to you when I signed the EULA?

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NSA

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posted May 01, 2009 23:41

quote:
Originally posted by pcsguy88:
Did I agree to will all of my colection to you when I signed the EULA?

Oh I dunno, you tell me?

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Muhahaha

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pcsguy88

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posted May 01, 2009 23:44

Sweet, I'm souless.

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NSA

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posted May 01, 2009 23:46

quote:
Originally posted by pcsguy88:
Sweet, I'm souless.

Good get out of jail free card with the wives

"but honey, I lost my soul to a message board!"

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posted May 02, 2009 01:10

man I haven't messed with this stuff in years.

I was cutting edge in web design 9 years ago

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pcsguy88

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posted May 02, 2009 02:04

I bet you were a wizard on that 386sx running Windows 3.1!

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posted May 02, 2009 02:07

386 DX40 baby. 4 megs of RAM!

My neighbor bought a 2X External CD-ROM and we played Wing Commander III on the PC. It was fantastic.

God I feel old.

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posted May 02, 2009 02:46

China dude responded and wants pictures of stuff we want. Sucks that I am completely broke at the moment. I'll send him the helos.

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posted May 02, 2009 03:11

Everywhere I go, the NSA follows.

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NSA

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posted May 02, 2009 10:45

Dude.. haha thats crazy. Yeah Helos... Does he have access to BBI stuff?

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Ewokhunter92

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posted May 02, 2009 11:08

We made $140+ at the yard sale, that's enough for a shopping spree!

Be sure to let me know what he has.

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posted May 02, 2009 11:17

Yeah we need to have a yard sale too, there is so much crap (mostly clothes, and kids toys). How hard was it to set everything up?

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Ewokhunter92

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posted May 02, 2009 11:27

We started Wednesday getting everything on the tables and priced. Most of it was baby clothes and crafts.

Thing is, my wife and her mom love going to this auction every Friday night. they get these boxes full of crafts, crap and stuff. for $1.

We then sell the 25+ items in the box for .25¢ at the sales.

last Summer we made around $200 of this type of crap alone.

That's her hobby. MUCH cheaper than mine of course. Oh, and she said she's using this money to go buy shoes since I bought a bunch of stuff last week.

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Ewokhunter92

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posted May 02, 2009 11:31

Oh, got an idea. How about until I get my Cobra, you take down that taunting picture.

or is that for encouragement to keep going and not give up on finding one?

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posted May 02, 2009 11:59

Yes.. encouragement

And yeah thats a good deal about the crap, I gotta think up something for some extra income!

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posted May 02, 2009 19:32

NSA, your wife is hot. Buy her a webcam and put her to work!

Money should start flowing in. Buy a Baroness outfit and you will never need to save for another 1/18 vehicle.

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Ewokhunter92

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posted May 03, 2009 12:07

We need a B/S/T area

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Ewokhunter92

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posted May 03, 2009 12:10

And a place to put our ebay names. It seems they use the same "code" name as well as the feedback next to it.

This would help us identify friendly bidders and prevent friendly sniping.

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NSA

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posted May 03, 2009 13:25

good ideas! ill work on that.

how did tks images come out?

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posted May 03, 2009 15:06

quote:
Originally posted by pcsguy88:
NSA, your wife is hot. Buy her a webcam and put her to work! Money should start flowing in. Buy a Baroness outfit and you will never need to save for another 1/18 vehicle.

I can't tell if I'd get slapped or commended if I asked her. Hummm. Wonder where you buy Baroness outfits...

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Ewokhunter92

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posted May 03, 2009 17:56

I thought dust was rare? Although that one ebay heli sure had enough of it UGH!

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Paul Pratt

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posted May 03, 2009 18:01

We need to get a "site plan" organized and focus on what we want to accomplish with the site. Are we another 1:18 competitor, or another joe site, whatever. To be honest, i would love to cut the tank completely loose if possible.

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posted May 03, 2009 18:02

Yeah I like your, more scientific approach to each picture. Front/side/etc on a nice solid backdrop.

Humm.

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pcsguy88

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posted May 03, 2009 18:02

He put a ton of work into it. I certainly give him credit where due, but even with massive cropping, I could not cleanup the background.

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posted May 03, 2009 18:03

Heading for the showers, see ya guys by 10pm cdt.

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posted May 03, 2009 18:03

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Originally posted by Paul Pratt:
We need to get a "site plan" organized and focus on what we want to accomplish with the site. Are we another 1:18 competitor, or another joe site, whatever. To be honest, i would love to cut the tank completely loose if possible.

I've been ASKING for suggestions

Ive just been tinkering with the layout (very simplistic), as I havent done HTML in a while.

I think we have the brains, the collections, and the trollish-nature to make something good..!

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Paul Pratt

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posted May 03, 2009 18:09

I'd like to see the vehicles on neutral backgrounds, a bit more professional and white in color, so that we can get all the details and make them distraction free. I can do that with my collection if need be.

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posted May 03, 2009 18:21

Yeah we can start small, with the good, decent photos.

We should come up with a template for the review/post/whatever.

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Paul Pratt

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posted May 03, 2009 19:53

I would suggest doing at least the five views with some isometric ones for reference. Then we can do one photo with figures in a mini diorama for scale references and to check out the "action features." Unfortunately i don't have any of the packaging left from my vehicles so that is out the window for now.
So are we going to try and develop a 1:18 exclusive site with no distractions like scales below 1:18?

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