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jayvt3

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Just wanted to ask...
« on: December 19, 2003, 01:36:53 pm »
Can somebody tell me why so many sites with really good work on them are going down while the sites that have stuff that would make lego blocks look like diamonds and marble are just chugging right along.
I'm asking this becuase I'm seriously thinking about making my own site to be used as a depository (something similar but different from SFMODS).  The sole requirement to have a model there would be "does it look like a pre-schooler put it together with lego blocks?"  If the answer is no, then bring it on.  If the answer is yes and my wife ain't your teacher, then put up at the "soon to be dead maggot dookie because once i find me a hatchet i'm gonna go look for him because i hate  that stupid anne rice book and tom cruise looked like a gay cracked out man-whore in the movie" Vampire Lestat's site.

Oh and one last thing.  I have been trying now for about a week to download the hellion SBB Rahab but all I get is this damn error site not found crap.  Could someone d/l to me at jayvthompson04@yahoo.com.
Thanks to you all and have a very merry Christmas and a safe and happy new year.
   Except for you Lestat!
« Last Edit: December 19, 2003, 01:39:21 pm by jayvt3 »

Thu11s

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Re: Just wanted to ask...
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2003, 02:41:34 pm »
Hi jayvt3

I think any site that acts as a central deposit for all things SFC is always going to be a good idea and warmly welcomed by everyone

I know what you mean about many sites being down at sometime or other, it is quite annoying when you're after something in particular, but that goes for anything your after, not just SFc stuff. At the end of the day you have to remember that pretty much everyone here who puts models up for download does it out of there own pocket and with no pay for their time. Admitidely (spelling?)  people do move on to paid jobs (see P81) but for the majority this is the way. All things web cost, domain names, web space, bandwidth etc as I'm sure you're aware, so just cos someones site is down doesn't make em targets for abuse, maybe they'd rather spend there money on other/better things, or maybe there are issues outside there control on the hosting side. Or it maybe just be a simple error like a missed link whilst building there site, lord knows I've done that before, lol. Send them a mail and see what happens, they may mail the model to you or correct the problem

As for the Lego models, its normally either "everyone has to start somewhere", or" maybe they're supposed to look like that". Most of the SFB ships are kinda basic looking, their Tholians were hardly a huge leap of imagination for the design department there! All TOS/SFB ships look like they're fresh out of the Blue Peter workshop, but many modellers add bits and details to there meshes to liven them up, some either don't know how to or simply aren't after that look. Remember most people building ships here are self taught and Max isn't like painting by numbers!!!! My first ships was a kitbash (maligned by some people but a good place to start IMHO) and was compared to a Harley davidson?!?!? how a Lyran DN looks like a Harley I never could figure  

At the end of the day I feel you offer would be welcomed and is a good idea, more sites making models available the better I beleive, but opening your offer by insulting those who also contribute to the community probably won't go down well and the smell of many a flame war sometimes still lingers round here. I also agree that people should be free to express there opinions, but there's no need to be insulting, we're all suuposed to be grown up (yeah right, playing with our llittle space ships   )

Again, I welcome your offer and hope that you do create a site to offer as many models as possible

cheers

Thu11s    

Marauth

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Re: Just wanted to ask...
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2003, 10:04:33 am »
K - was gonna give Jayvt here the delight of his life by rising to complete and utter sh!te that he posted about me but, being a civilised person I am above such taunts, if he wants to talk about his sexuality issues regarding gay vampires then my MSN account should be in my profile.

Right, not that I particularly like the SFB style of ship design (as in I and most other people here could pull more original and better IMO looking designs for some of those races out of our arses - esp. the Hydrans) there is a great demand amongst people in the community to try and recreate SFB on their computers and what is wrong with that? Also, before you criticise people for their work, if it is unintentionally crappy looking then you should first provide us with a sample of the golden nuggets of modelling genius that you delight the world with.

Due to a lack of funds I don't have my own site at this time but some of the kitbashes and texture alterations I did can be found on RogueNineCH's site, I wont bother with a URL as u obviously wouldn't appreciate any of the work that either me or him have done.

I won't start a flame war - but if you want one I'm sure there are plenty of other people on the boards who would be delighted to verbally kick your digital arse and I would be happy to join them.

@ Thu11s - a well thought out reasoned post, I'm glad to see some people have a grasp of basic manners in online conversations

DonKarnage

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Re: Just wanted to ask...
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2003, 12:38:44 pm »
as you know eras of war is down so that's why i'm in the process of creating the new eras of war (eras of war 2) so i can make available all the ship and mod pack from eras of war and i will also make my kitbash available for anyone who want them.

http://www.freewebs.com/eras-of-war/