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  1. Or tether a goat nearby, will keep the grass short round the tree without mowing
  2. that’s looking great & KNPs words spot on. I’m liking both colour & texture variation & also that some bank sections have overhanging foliage & others do not - seems right to me
  3. Looks good I think. The colour of both path & grass appears very consistent makes it seem flatter than it is (could be your new 48mp power though!) I suspect gentle weathering might have more effect than altering texture eg, darker bits of grass, the odd puddle or darkening on the path) Your own weathering techniques pretty sound, maybe stick a line of flock to some test card & add some paint wash in places, see how it goes before deciding to go further. nice work again
  4. Looks good. Might be lighter with mud/limescale near the waterline? couple of pics (look copyrighted so linked rather than posted) https://i2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article1691255.ece/alternates/s1023/Monday.jpg https://collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/bw192.3.2.2.12.1.13 The tarry paint keeps the hull rust free well but it does eventually wear through & go rust streaky Depends if your barge owner keeps them smart or is starting to struggle with the cost of maintenance as trade declines.. your choice as ever!
  5. Maybe some internal stresses showing up during post-cure? Nice to see it has a simple fix
  6. Looking good - is the lack of flatness sure to printing sloped & for the print bed? Did you consider trying it as a two part design? Would it be too tricky to make it mate flat with a hard to disguise joint? (sorry for the question barrage) revamped quayside looks proper!
  7. That looks great - the close coupling really makes it too. A cameo with a part fill of coal & shovel? (workers on a teabreak either absent or on scene?) Not quite sure how to make it work with 2 since probably the LH wagon would be wanted & filled first, but it’s further from the drops. or both just empty & waiting to be filled? Looking good either way
  8. Sound plan with the greenery then, looking forward to seeing it evolve!
  9. Reading the comments on how the canal bank looks, a couple of thoughts occurred to me I might be wrong but it looks like there is a managed bank & stonework on both sides of the canal? much of the canal network has a managed towpath & stonework facing, with an unmanaged margin opposite - trees and shrubs to the waterline but in some places both banks are faced with stone with a towpath-like flat area - probably lots of reasons for the stonework, but it’s more expensive so presumably needs a good reason for the canal company to do it industry collection point https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bugsworth_058069.jpg#mw-jump-to-license (credit: RHaworth) (which reminds me - check there is towpath clearance next to the crane by the pump house) - easy berthing both sides (frequently near a lock, where you moor up to drop or collect crew) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canals_of_the_United_Kingdom#/media/File%3AOxford_Canal_at_Hillmorton.jpg - prevents subsidence (slumping) and protects from wash damage to the bank - might it help with water retention in areas of porous rock where the bed is well above the water table? this is very similar to your arrangement https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChesterfieldCanalMillGreenBridge.jpg#mw-jump-to-license (credit Bob1960evens ) It’s looking good - insert whatever reasoning required to stay inside Rule 1 [sorry about the rather clumsy photo links but I saw the trouble Mr Wolf found & am trying not to generate more … and on this forum with my iPad I’m not sure how to in-line the images, which does look better)
  10. yes I agree. It is case specific though - I was just going by what barnaby had sound for the postings he’d checked of his own. In general it depends on how a website presents itself to web crawlers as to whether wayback collects images. It is likely to have other rules about what imagery it gathers as well. Simon
  11. The Wayback machine takes copies of everything it sees online so if the original website goes offline then it has one. As rmweb is compressing & processing images for display then the wayback machine copy won’t be what you uploaded, it will be what rmweb offered browsers at the time. For some purposes, especially for uploading back to rmweb, this difference won’t matter much, but you *might* see a small drop in quality when it redisplays on rmweb* Best try one & see. you won’t be able to ‘move’ the images - wayback is a completely different thing. even though rmweb supports external links I would not rely on wayback for that content - you should download those & add what you want back to rmweb. If you have both open in a pair of browsers it might be easy enough to follow each thread in parallel, picking up each image from the browser status bar as it competes download. And if (as Andy hints) the image backup wasn’t complete, then that might be your best option. *if rmweb server expectations for images don’t match the image pulled from the wayback archive it may undergo a second compression attempt - depending on the settings this might result in the image being re compressed a second time. Usually this results in no change, but if the settings are slightly different it could reduce the quality a little (loss of fine image detail mostly). Simon
  12. Hi, please could I ask how you achieved the print? the raw parts looked like resin - is that what you are using? (I did look back but the picture of your printer is still awaiting restore but I see you’ve also used shapeways too) The few pics of shapeways bodies I’ve seen tend to have very fine deposition stratification lines but this odd very crisp! Did it need much cleaning up? Simon (less of an engineer than I’d like to be)
  13. That’s a superb piece of inspirational modelling you’ve both done there. Very impressed & rather envious of the many skills & necessary dedication needed to bring it together. Simon
  14. Thanks Andy - that’s really helpful. I have a pile of similar disc magnets so I’ll dig through those I’m trying to get all my build tasks in order before fixing track down…
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