Excellent work! Recently, my nine year old discovered my stash of Aurora models I got from Toys'R'Us a few years ago (re-released stuff), and we're doing them now. Your stuff is so much better...
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Heinlein scale models |
One of my many hobbies is building scale models. Over the decades I've built all kinds, but my main area of interest is science fiction. For a while now, I've thought about building a collection of models based on the works of Heinlein and I've finally started doing so. So far, I have seven models completed and more in the works. I've posted photographs of the models at this site: Comments are welcome. |
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| Author: | JamesGifford [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:15 am ] |
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Outstanding stuff. Thanks very much for sharing it here! |
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| Author: | JackKelly [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:37 am ] |
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Your work is freakin' amazing! The two items I liked the most were the Sisu and the Pluto diorama. And you brought the Mother Thing to life (well, frozen but you know what I mean)! Just amazing! |
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| Author: | audrey [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:16 pm ] |
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VERY cool! |
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| Author: | PeterScott [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:43 pm ] |
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Very impressive. Would have made a great display at the Centennial. |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:22 am ] |
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Thanks, everyone. Jack Kelly - I was happy to come up with a Sisu that I liked, too. For a long time, I didn't think CITIZEN would be represented in the collection. Peter Scott - Unfortunately, none of the models existed at the time of the Centennial. They've all been built within the last eighteen months. I intend to add more models to the collection so if there is a suitable venue in the future, I ought to be able to put on an interesting display. |
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| Author: | hwhall [ Mon May 10, 2010 8:05 pm ] |
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Majorly Impressive! You probably have a small fortune invested in modeling kits parts. That stuff isn't cheap. |
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| Author: | RobertJames [ Tue May 11, 2010 10:44 am ] |
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Excellent work! Recently, my nine year old discovered my stash of Aurora models I got from Toys'R'Us a few years ago (re-released stuff), and we're doing them now. Your stuff is so much better...
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| Author: | JamesGifford [ Tue May 11, 2010 12:03 pm ] |
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One of my treasures, a childhood lust object I never got and then scored on eBay a few years back, is the gigantic Revell Saturn V model. I occasionally take the parts out of the box and reverently lay them in neat arrays on the table, then carefully pack it all back up. Can't make up my mind whether to tackle it or not. I also have a couple of the Gulf (gas station) lunar landers - the ones that came as a sheet of die-cut cardboard and you folded and assembled. I must have made fifty of them in the day (a Gulf station being within walking distance of the house) and searched for years for a pristine sheet until I found one - I think it was one of my very first eBay purchases. I plan to scan it and print it out so I can cut out the pieces and assemble one or two, but frame the original with a label "Break Glass In Case of Emergency Lunar Landing." None of which is a patch on fine scratchbuilding, something I've only attempted once or twice. |
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| Author: | RobertJames [ Wed May 12, 2010 8:33 am ] |
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They have re-released that model, and a number of other space age models, Jim. The Lunar Landing Site, the Saturn V, the Apollo Module, and the Mercury are all available now. There is also a book out on doing the history of the Space Program through models. |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Wed May 12, 2010 12:37 pm ] |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Wed May 12, 2010 12:40 pm ] |
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| Author: | JamesGifford [ Wed May 12, 2010 2:30 pm ] |
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I am watching posts in another forum as a modeler makes an absolutely perfect 1/8 scale Cobra from the original blueprints. Without something for scale in the picture, it's hard to tell his parts from the real thing. Simply beautiful. |
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| Author: | BillMullins [ Wed May 12, 2010 8:52 pm ] |
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Blackhawk -- I live in Huntsville. Did you have some of these on display at a show here at the Jaycees building last year? They look familiar. What part of Alabama do you live in? Bill Mullins |
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| Author: | RobertJames [ Thu May 13, 2010 6:46 am ] |
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I think the decline in modeling comes from several sources. A) the obsession with sniffing glue in the seventies drove the models off the shelves of neighborhood drug stores, Kmarts, grocery stores, and the like. B) since they are no longer visible to kids, kids don't do them. C) we are moving away from Yankee know-how, tinkering, do-it-yourself culture. Twenty years ago, all of my students could disassemble and repair their own cars; last time I polled them, two of them could. D) Patience is a virtue we are losing. Modeling requires patience. Make sense? |
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| Author: | DavidWrightSr [ Thu May 13, 2010 8:03 am ] |
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| Author: | DanHenderson [ Thu May 13, 2010 8:55 am ] |
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| Author: | DavidWrightSr [ Thu May 13, 2010 9:40 am ] |
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| Author: | DanHenderson [ Thu May 13, 2010 9:51 am ] |
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| Author: | JamesGifford [ Thu May 13, 2010 9:53 am ] |
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| Author: | JamesGifford [ Thu May 13, 2010 9:59 am ] |
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| Author: | DanHenderson [ Thu May 13, 2010 12:47 pm ] |
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| Author: | JamesGifford [ Thu May 13, 2010 12:56 pm ] |
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| Author: | DanHenderson [ Thu May 13, 2010 3:10 pm ] |
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| Author: | JamesGifford [ Thu May 13, 2010 4:57 pm ] |
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| Author: | audrey [ Thu May 13, 2010 7:27 pm ] |
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I have NEVER been a lead foot driver and even the thought of driving that cobra absolutely terrifies me! Also it has itty bitty pedals with gas and brake WAY too close to each other. And windshield wipers! |
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| Author: | DanHenderson [ Fri May 14, 2010 9:05 am ] |
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I also heard that there is no way to effectively cool the cabin in warm climates, so driving one is similar to time spent in a sauna. |
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| Author: | JamesGifford [ Fri May 14, 2010 10:36 am ] |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Wed May 19, 2010 7:36 am ] |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Wed May 19, 2010 11:32 am ] |
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| Author: | JackKelly [ Wed May 19, 2010 11:38 am ] |
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| Author: | RobertJames [ Wed May 19, 2010 12:08 pm ] |
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Interesting take on patience: I hadn't thought about it like that. If we're interested, patience is a side effect.... R. |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Thu May 20, 2010 7:00 am ] |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:09 pm ] |
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I finished the Lewis and Clark torchship model. Photos can be seen at my website: I've added a lot of other, non-Heinlein models since the last time I posted here, too. I have some more Heinlein models in the works but doubt I'll get any finished and photographed before next year. |
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| Author: | PeterScott [ Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:37 pm ] |
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You represent a dying breed of artisan. Well done. |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:10 am ] |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:57 pm ] | |||
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I have several new Heinlein models under construction but, in the mean time, I am rephotographing all my completed models using a new DSLR camera and technique called focus stacking. When I am editing a set of model photos, something I enjoy doing is putting the model into a realistic setting, sort of like a movie visual effect only for still photography. This is often called "photoshopping" but I use a different graphics editor. As a sample, here's my recreation of the cover of Rocket Ship Galileo
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| Author: | LilLeaguer [ Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:27 pm ] |
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Very good. The model, the photography, and the compositing come together here! |
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| Author: | PeterScott [ Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:04 pm ] |
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Superb, sir. Should be used for a reprinting. |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:15 am ] | ||
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Thanks. I'm glad you like it. Here's another: the Free Trader Sisu departing the planet Jubbulpore, capital of the Sargony of the Nine Worlds, with Thorby, son of Baslim the Cripple, aboard. More pictures of the Sisu can be seen here: . The ones with the black background are new.
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:14 pm ] | |||
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I finished editing another set of photos, this time for the Rolling Stone. More pictures of the Rolling Stone can be seen here: . The ones with the black background are new.
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:34 pm ] | ||
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I have redone the Phobos Rendezvous image using actual photos of Mars and Phobos from NASA.
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:18 am ] |
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New photos of all my completed Heinlein scale models are now available for view here: |
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| Author: | Airgetlam [ Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:00 am ] |
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Stunning work, Dan. Thanks again for sharing, and putting in all that effort! |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:42 am ] |
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Thanks. The Heinlein models are my personal obsession so I can't really take credit for the effort expended; it's just something I am going to do and it's fun for me. But it is an extra pleasure to share them with an audience that values Heinlein as much as I do and to hear that they are appreciated. |
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| Author: | sakeneko [ Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:41 am ] |
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I loved several of the Heinlein models (such as Citizen of the Galaxy -- Sisu), but also some of the others. You did a nice job on the HMS Macarthur for Niven & Pournelle's "Mote in God's Eye", for example. I should point my husband (a medieval, military and railroading model builder) to your site.... |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:28 pm ] |
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| Author: | NickDoten [ Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:19 pm ] |
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Great work Dan !! Thanks for sharing your remarkable art with us |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:17 am ] |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:56 pm ] |
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I have finished two more models based on the works of Heinlein; the amphibious space shuttle from Between Planets and a diorama based on Roughnecks: Starship Trooper Chronicles. I have also made a new webpage that should make it easier to view my Heinlein model collection. The webpage is at |
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| Author: | JackKelly [ Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:29 am ] |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:41 am ] |
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| Author: | RobertPearson [ Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:51 pm ] |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:23 pm ] |
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Thanks, Robert. |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Mon Nov 21, 2016 2:16 pm ] |
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A while back I did a series of posts about the models I have built based on Heinlein's work. Unfortunately, Google closed Picasa Web, which is where I had my photos available for view, and moved them to Google Photos. That wouldn't have been a concern only they changed all the URLs, too, so the links I had on my Models and Props portal no longer worked. After a much longer delay than should have happened, I finally have updated the links. You can find photos of my Heinlein models here: |
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| Author: | mostlyclassics [ Mon Nov 21, 2016 5:50 pm ] |
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Wow, Dan! Thanks for the new link. I remember seeing your "H.M.S. Wasp" in a Fine Scale Modeler magazine I picked at a local crafts shop. That was quite a few years ago. Your scratch-build reignited a fascination with scale modeling in me, so much so that I subscribed to the magazine (which I continue to this day). I've also acquired as many back issues as I could find. Have you thought about doing a gallery article for FSM based on your Heinlein models? |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Mon Nov 21, 2016 8:13 pm ] |
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| Author: | BillMullins [ Tue Nov 22, 2016 6:48 pm ] |
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Dan - googling around lead me to your Blackhawk page, with your interest in comics and the mention of Will Eisner. You know, I suppose, that Eisner did the art for the Army magazine PS Preventive Maintenance Monthly. But did you know that the editorial offices for that magazine are in the Sparkman Center? And that they've got files and files of back issues (with Eisner, Kubert, Ploog and others artwork)? I went by a few years ago, and they had a lovely sketch from Eisner to the staff on display. I hope it is still there. It's worth a visit. Bill And to everyone else -- please forgive a thread derail. |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Tue Nov 22, 2016 9:25 pm ] |
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Bill, I was aware that PS Magazine was now produced in the Sparkman Center. Unfortunately, I never got around to visiting them and seeing what they had in the way of art. Kubert is the artist I remember from the magazine since he was doing it when I was on active duty. Since I retired and no longer have a CAC, I have easy access to the Arsenal but getting back into the Sparkman Center would take some extra effort. |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Wed Nov 23, 2016 12:16 pm ] |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Wed Nov 23, 2016 1:35 pm ] |
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Yes, I did build the atomic powered flying boat. I also read that book when I was a kid and it stuck with me enough that I tracked it down decades later, even though by that time all I could remember was the atomic powered flying boat and that it flew to Venus, but neither the title or author. It was one of my early experiments in converting a hardcopy book into an ebook and was also one of the first books I published when I started Thunderchild Publishing. I didn't have the original cover as a reference for the model so it's basically my own interpretation from the description in the book. Though I wish I'd had the original cover, I like that design quite a bit. I used a photo of my model for my reprint edition of "Operation Springboard" as can be seen here: I also used it (with a bit of digital retouching) on the cover of John Ball's other science fiction juvenile, "Spacemaster 1." No, I haven't written any notes on the construction of the model, yet, but I intend to. |
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| Author: | mostlyclassics [ Thu Nov 24, 2016 8:42 am ] |
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Delightful, Dan! Who'da thunk a Boeing 314's hull could be pressurized for space.  Nice conversion of the Airfix kit. |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Thu Nov 24, 2016 10:58 am ] |
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| Author: | mostlyclassics [ Thu Nov 24, 2016 6:56 pm ] |
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"'Round and 'round the tools go, Where they stop, nobody knows." I dug through my stash, and my Boeing 314 is in an Airfix box. I've had that for about 15 years. Maybe Airfix sold the tools to Minicraft? Or maybe Minicraft made their own? Much as I'd like to, I've not built it because I can't figure out what metallic finish would look right on a 1:144 model. I've done a Martin flying boat all in Bare Metal Foil (that was a time-consuming bitch!), but it didn't look right. Any suggestions? |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Thu Nov 24, 2016 8:57 pm ] |
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| Author: | beamjockey [ Wed Nov 30, 2016 1:19 pm ] |
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| Author: | Blackhawk [ Wed Nov 30, 2016 1:46 pm ] |
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Sorry, Bill, I have done very little with Google Photos since they took over Picasa. I haven't even tried to upload new pictures yet. And I haven't done any blogging so I'm no help there, either. |
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| Author: | JusTin [ Tue Dec 06, 2016 5:22 am ] |
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Bill, I think if you have the Google Photos publicly shared in an album, you can then make/derive a link to the photos. I admit, however, that I have not played with it. I use the Photos function as a backup for my cell phone camera and don't normally share from them. |
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| Author: | mostlyclassics [ Wed Dec 07, 2016 3:00 pm ] |
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With website space and throughput having become so inexpensive, I'm surprised that www.heinleinsociety.org doesn't have some place to park .jpgs here, for both Nexus discussion board members and Heinlein Society members. My website is hosted by Stormwire. Paid annually, the fee is $9.66 per month. Among a bazillion features, you get storage space of 15,000 MB and monthly bandwidth traffic of 75 GB. And that's a full-featured website, not just more storage space and bandwidth. |
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| Author: | JusTin [ Mon Dec 12, 2016 6:15 am ] |
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