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I just made this for a bit of fun.  ;)  Free free to share on the web. :NGaugersRule:

Great idea Tank. What about producing it as a poster?

Love it, Tank. Perhaps one or two could be mixed into the revolving banner at the top of each forum page?

Cheers, NeMo

Now that's a good idea, NeMo. Except you had to get the toothpaste in there, didn't you,  boss.  :D

A seriously good job, though.  :thumbsup:

George

But it does depend who is making the train some times they are very late we wait for ages for them to be made and some have actualy been canceled .
Sorry to spoil the idea
But still would be good as a poster I like it a lot.
Bob

I'd get rid of the spaces in the "www.N Gauge Forum.co.uk" as peeps might type it like that and never find us.   ;)

Just noticed that.... Pengi of the yard, watch out! Spanish cops are on the case!  ;D

Personally, when running British trains on my Japanese layout I like to inject added realism by terminating some of them before they reach their destination. And not running any on Christmas Day. I'm also planning to weather some on the inside.

Here's another slogan suggestion: "Model Railways. You control the type of leaves/snow".

Greetings from Japan, where one item on the national news recently was a scandalous situation where a driver sat in the cab at the wronge end of a train, making it 4 (four) minutes late. Tsk tsk.

Do us a favour Tank?......

Email that poster to the London Midland TOC press office please.
They have great difficulty in running the real railway. Hopefully they could learn a thing or two from this forum LoL :bounce:

Quote from: Arrachogaidh on February 21, 2015, 12:44:24 AM
Unfortunately, the REAL railway is quite a bit more complicated than the domestic modelling scenario.

Nice idea all the same.

Yes, that was part of the humour. 

Thanks!

Quote from: cycletrak9 on February 19, 2015, 10:19:18 PM
Great idea Tank. What about producing it as a poster?

Many thanks for the idea!  It was just a bit of a laugh, but I'd be happy to tidy it up a bit and produce some if folk are interested?

And yes, I could create custom TOC's!  :D

[smg id=22122 type=preview align=center caption="Weekend!"]

Brilliant, Tank!! The first one has now replaced Tornado as the desktop background on my laptop.  :NGF:

Cheers,

Chris

Thanks Chris, a great compliment. :thumbsup:

No offence meant by this one, purely a joke. :thumbsup:

[smg id=22124 type=preview align=center caption="Steamer"]

Superb, in fact both of the new ones are great, just the kettle does it for me.   :heart2:

May I enquire what NGFmeme2 and NGFmeme3 are please  :D

I shall put them on google plus  ;)

cheers John.

Quote from: scotsoft on February 28, 2015, 04:10:50 PM
May I enquire what NGFmeme2 and NGFmeme3 are please  :D

I shall put them on google plus  ;)

cheers John.

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Quote from: Caz on February 28, 2015, 04:14:22 PM

Quote from: scotsoft on February 28, 2015, 04:10:50 PM
May I enquire what NGFmeme2 and NGFmeme3 are please  :D

I shall put them on google plus  ;)

cheers John.

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If you look at the file names you will see what I mean  ;)

cheers John.

I used to be able to see the original images, couldn't see these new ones.  And now the orifginals have gone too - just a big X.

Are they set to Mods only ?

Quote from: MikeDunn on February 28, 2015, 05:05:54 PM
I used to be able to see the original images, couldn't see these new ones.  And now the orifginals have gone too - just a big X.

Are they set to Mods only ?

No Mike but they are .png images and some browsers have problems with them due to licensing issues.

Yes, nothing wrong with the permissions on here, but perhaps I should switch these from .png to .jpg. 

[smg id=23501 type=preview align=center caption="NGFmeme6"]

... my wife will find all my trains. Hang on, make that *before* I die.

Ha ha ha!!!  Very true!  That could be a new one actually.... :thumbsup:

[smg id=23503 type=preview align=center caption="NGFmeme7"]

Never mind the doorbell, my wife hears and recognises the sound of the van coming down the street!

Quote from: Tank on March 31, 2015, 12:16:08 PM
Ha ha ha!!!  Very true!  That could be a new one actually.... :thumbsup:

Feel free to use it  :D

Advantage No. 94 of living in Japan... one of the main electronics emporia sells trains and a whole bunch of hobby stuff too... free overnight delivery... "Oh, that's just computer parts"... No British stuff alas...

Quote from: Caz on February 28, 2015, 05:08:48 PM

Quote from: MikeDunn on February 28, 2015, 05:05:54 PM
I used to be able to see the original images, couldn't see these new ones.  And now the orifginals have gone too - just a big X.

Are they set to Mods only ?

No Mike but they are .png images and some browsers have problems with them due to licensing issues.

Just out of curiosity, (I know graphics compression has caused 'legals' in the past but I thought all had quietened down a while now !),  no axes to grind but  :)  :-

That is interesting, I thought it was GIF that caused all the problems over patents and that PNG was designed to be patent free and was adopted by W3C on that basis, did something change ?
W3C declaration "As of today, the International Standards Organisation (ISO), the PNG Development Group and the W3C are not aware of any royalty-bearing patents that are essential to implement the Portable Network Graphics specification." "Last updated: Date: 2003/05/12 14:49:18 "
and still on their page.

However, it may still be a browser issue in that PNG allows alpha channel, amongst other things, which some browsers do not handle well, so when saving to PNG it is as well to check the save options, especilly wrt to transparency.

If one is considering poster use then lossy, artefact ridden, jpg is not a good route !

With great apols to Tank, who was only having a bit of fun
Great fun pics Tank thanks, l liked 'em :)
Wife is most amused as well 'cause it is she what encourages me to 'go get one' !!

I like Tanks posters too, and in reference to MalcolmAls post - I use MS Digital Image software which produces .png files, but I always save them as .jpg files when they are finished and only upload the .jpg version to the other sites such as photobucket or when emailing them.
.png files take up a lot more space than .jpg ones.

Quote from: Tdm on March 31, 2015, 10:46:08 PM
upload the .jpg version to the other sites such as photobucket or when emailing them.
.png files take up a lot more space than .jpg ones.

In a spirit of friendship and cooperation I agree with you that jpg is quite adequate for the interweb,
but must also add -
depends upon what type of compression you want, how much  and what artefacts (if any (png = none in this context)) you wish to tolerate for what purpose.

,, but have to terribly disagree (sorry !) with you on photobucket, frightfully slow, such a data  overhead, so limited, so many better options , , ,

runs for cover ,,,
:) :) :)

EDIT :
I only commented upon png vs jpg in light of Tanks comment
"Yes, nothing wrong with the permissions on here, but perhaps I should switch these from .png to .jpg. "
and another comment (sorry cannot at the mo. see who (not in my browser at the mo.) [edit in edit - cycletrack9 in reply #1] who wanted _posters_ of Tanks masterpieces :) )  jpg not being suited to preservation of artistic works - which these are :) )

Great stuff Tank

The last three posters having the general theme of hiding (minimising) the extent of the expenditure from the wife strike a particular cord with me.

Webbo

Very interesting all these identical black X's ;D


Paul

Quote from: Sprintex on April 01, 2015, 09:04:54 AM
Very interesting all these identical black X's ;D

I too can't see any of them  :(

I could only see the black x's with Google, but the pictures came through fine with Google Chrome. 

Quote from: MalcolmAL on March 31, 2015, 11:05:36 PM
,, but have to terribly disagree (sorry !) with you on photobucket, frightfully slow, such a data  overhead, so limited, so many better options , , ,

Quote

Never really had a problem with photobucket and have always used it - agree not the fastest but all the photos I put on this Forum I first upload to photobucket and then copy/paste the
"image" option into my post.

(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/20/thumb_27729.jpg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=27729)

Quote from: Bealman on February 20, 2015, 09:44:11 AM
Just noticed that.... Pengi of the yard, watch out! Spanish cops are on the case!  ;D

I hate to be pedantic (not really  ;)) but if they are Spanish police shouldn't that be 'Pengi of the metre'?  :-\

 :laughabovepost: :laughabovepost: :laughabovepost:

Give them 25.4mm and they will take 1.6km.....

Skyline2uk