discussion Any idea as to when old pics can be full image?

[grumpa]

As stated in title.

 

[grumpa]

I guess nobody knows obviously.

 

[A7man]

As a newbie, when I first saw this I didn't know what you meant. I was waiting for some of the "old timers" on the forum to post an answer. Maybe, like me, they don't know what you're asking.
Lee

 

[flyjoe180]

No idea Jim. When the forum moved lots of the images were shrunk and could not be reinstated. Those images remained that way after the forum moved back to its current format. I believe they are stuck that way, but posts can be edited and some of us have replaced the images with full size from computers etc.

 

[boatman]

As a newbie, when I first saw this I didn't know what you meant. I was waiting for some of the "old timers" on the forum to post an answer. Maybe, like me, they don't know what you're asking.
Lee

HI Lee yes Flyjoe is correct as to what happened to all the pics on the old forum as im one of the old timers but i was not on as long as some on the old forum but i would like to see all my hms tiger build pics brought back up but if not poss than never mind
chrisb

 

[John]

I guess nobody knows obviously.

Please give people time to answer, don't forget most of us are in the UK, you posted at 4:24am.

I have answered this question many times, I have someone looking in to it, he has quite a lot of work on at the moment and it may never be fixed, we do have a backup forum running if people really need their old images

 

[A7man]

I think I understand now! I only joined in December '25 so hadn't been aware of all these problems with images. I am sure it will be fixed.
Lee

 

[boatman]

I think I understand now! I only joined in December '25 so hadn't been aware of all these problems with images. I am sure it will be fixed.
Lee

WELL Lee i dont think it will as far as pics go as my HMS TIGER SCRATCH BUILD went on for near 300 pages as it was a 4yr build an loads of pics on that thread alone an with all the other members threads there was thousands of pics but if the chap who John has got doin it then great as i could bring back all my tiger build pics as got them on IMGBB site but i dont want to overload this new forum unless you an other members reqeust it then i would have a go but what do you like planes ships tanks ?
ATB SIR
chrisb

 

[A7man]

Well Chris, you left off cars in your list. I am a car man. The older the better. But having said that, I can appreciate and enjoy the skill and passion behind any build of anything. My late dad was a tank driver in the 50s in Germany. I would like to build something he would have driven, but I don't know which tanks he did drive. He told me once that he was "loaned" to the Americans for a while, so he must have driven American tanks. I should have asked him when he was alive. I wonder if he won my mum by taking her down the dance hall in a Sherman? Not so silly as you might think. A late friend of mine was a WW2 Lancaster pilot. After the war while still in the RAF he borrowed a Lanc to fly over a prospective girlfriends house to impress her. The RAF asked him to leave.
Lee

 

[PaulTRose]

My late dad was a tank driver in the 50s in Germany. I would like to build something he would have driven, but I don't know which tanks he did drive. He told me once that he was "loaned" to the Americans for a while,

In the 50s in germany it would almost certainly been a centurian...... Cromwell/comets were phased out by early 50s

Likewise shermans would have been gone too..... Murican stuff in europe at that time would hav been like M47/M48.... Maybe M60

 

[boatman]

Well Chris, you left off cars in your list. I am a car man. The older the better. But having said that, I can appreciate and enjoy the skill and passion behind any build of anything. My late dad was a tank driver in the 50s in Germany. I would like to build something he would have driven, but I don't know which tanks he did drive. He told me once that he was "loaned" to the Americans for a while, so he must have driven American tanks. I should have asked him when he was alive. I wonder if he won my mum by taking her down the dance hall in a Sherman? Not so silly as you might think. A late friend of mine was a WW2 Lancaster pilot. After the war while still in the RAF he borrowed a Lanc to fly over a prospective girlfriends house to impress her. The RAF asked him to leave.
Lee

OH DEAR well done him an did he get the gal ?
chrisb

 

[A7man]

Oh yes, me and my sisters are here to prove it!

 

[Tim Marlow]

Great story….have you ever read Spike Milligan’s memoirs? There is a great story about when he was stationed on a rail gun in Kent. Basically, at night, when the invasion risk was suspended until the next day, they used to take the rail gun down the line to the pub….