Hello all,

Plazz hit the nail on the head, the bucc nose has been paint striped to be re painted in the summer, re the bucc nose not being straight? I think its just the lack of paint and and optical illusion, the nose is as straight as a straight thing. 😀 The jag will never get any attention what so ever 😮 , that much is certain, its a lost cause, and theres no point since a good jag is in storage just around the corner, and will arrive at some point. Most of the collection is looking pretty nasty after the winter period since all the aircraft are covered in winter preservative, wax oil and nasty moss, infact removing wax oil and washing started today, no sooner than we got all the kit out, it started raining 😡 grrrr.

MJR

http://www.gatwick-aviation-museum.co.uk/lightning/mainsite.htm

I thought the first half was ok, started out quite well, all pointing towards some mysterious time shift, then the second half! what happened?! it was like the director decided he couldnt be ar@”ed to fininsh it, and just rushed the second half with some dodgy cop out. As for comparing it with Das Boot….. I dont think so, not even in the same league.

The CGI wasnt bad for a low budget production, some of the cgi in pearl harbour was no better, bearing in mind that the budget was probably 10 times bigger, I thought the underwater shots were less convincing than the 109’s.

mjr

It is now on charge at the fire training ground. Unharmed and still in one piece.

MJR

http://www.gatwick-aviation-museum.co.uk/lightning/mainsite.htm

Ollie,

I like your site, its coming along nicely, perhaps some wallpapers for each page will liven up it too?

what package are you using to put the site together?, i.e frontpage? dreamweaver? or are you brave enough to write it in HTML!

MJR

ollie,

you can reduce the average 1Mg image down to about 10-35k by
1) saving as JPg’s and
2) Reduce colour depth to 32,000. High definition is a waste of time for digital.

3) increase the compression and decrease the Dpi until the picture suddenly drops to 16 colours and looks crap, then decrease the compression and increase the DPI 5% until the image looks right again, you will drastically reduce the file size by 90% whatever the orginal file size. Best package for doing this is paint shop pro, even the shareware version.

If you want an ultra fast no hassle web site, that even works for dial up users! hosting images any bigger than 100k will turn people off of your site.

give it a try, your site will nice and quick 🙂 .

MJR

Beechcraft D.18s G-BKRN (Texantomcat)
BAC Lightning 53-671/ZF579 (mjr)
Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B XX889 (Buccsociety)
Boeing B-17 Cockpit section-reproduction (B-17man)
Boeing B-17 Radio room-reproduction (B-17man)
Consolidated B-24 Cockpit section-reproduction (B-17man)
de Havilland Hornet F.MK.1 Cockpit/Forward fuselage – reproduction (dcollins103)
de Havilland Vampire FB.MK.5 Cockpit – VZ193 (dcollins103)
de Havilland Vampire T. Mk 11 XD599 (Texantomcat)
English Electric Canberra PR.9 Nose/cockpit XH175 (RossMcNeill)
Handley Page Halifax B Mk III cockpit reproduction (HP57)
Hawker Hurricane (Rocketeer)
Hawker Hunter F1 Nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
Hawker Hunter F2 Nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
Hawker Hunter F6 Nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
Hawker Hunter T7 XL591 (mjr)
Hawker Typhoon Cockpit (Rocketeer)
Miles Messenger M.2a G-AKIN (Rocketeer)
North American AT-6-D-1-NT Texan G-TOMC (Texantomcat)
Supermarine Spitfire Cockpit (Rocketeer)
Supermarine Swift F7 Nose/cockpit (Rocketeer)
English Electric Canberra T4 WT486 nose/cockpit (sniperUK,2241sqn ATC)

MJR

http://www.gatwick-aviation-museum.co.uk/lightning/mainsite.htm

dont use dasic!, too powerful, it will remove several layers at a time.

MJR

whatever

MJR