discussion Making a sea effect quickly

[AlanG]

Found this thread on another forum. It's a very good way of doing a simple sea effect for pictures of your models.

- The Airfix Tribute Forum - :: How to simulate the sea - a simple technique

 

[Guest]

Amazing how such a simple (once you know it) idea makes for such a good effect. Great find Al.

 

[Guest]

What a great effect, such a simple one.

It's a crying shame the person running that particular forum is a complete a**ehole, I was a member until he took it upon himself to outright delete a post of mine, (modelling related and relevant), without informing me at all leaving me wondering where it was, when I queried what had happened he told me, 'it was in the wrong bit of the forum', (unbeknownst to me), and rather than inform me and ask me to re-post or even move it he just wiped it, I asked if he could restore it to the relvant section with instruction where relevant for future potential posts and his terse response, was 'no, you'll need to re-post it'

Needless to say that was my last post to the forum, i e-mailed him a final mail expressing how incredulous I was and how do i complain to suddenly have my ID deleted outright, with, (surprise, surprise), no notification.

The shame is there are users on there who have some great ideas and I now get my Airfix fix at

The Unofficial Airfix Modellers' Forum :: Index

(the original unofficial Airfix modellers forum, run like a proper forum and far friendlier)

But, rant over and back to the original point, what a great idea, if I do anything sea related i'll have to remember it.

 

[Guest]

You have to remember that sometimes the people who setup and run the forum and even the moderators can get a bit tetchy.... You probably posted just after the carpet monster gobbled up the most important part of his Spitfire in a bag build. There are days when I look on here and think "what a plonker, shall I delete it?" But then again, I am reading my own threads when that happens so it is understandable. :laughing:

 

[Guest]

No, this was just a plain lording it over nasty 'it's my ball and i'm not playing' attitude.

I was a brand new member, I'd posted in the welcome section and a couple of comments here and there then I posted , (viciously and unwarranted), a bit of blurb and photo's of a build, (how dare I and it was an Airfix model shock horror, on an airfix forum!), it just dissapeared, like it had never existed and took me contacting the site admin, (Ratch), who turned out to be the site owner too, to find out what had happened, (I wasn't contacted at any point)

I was very polite I was even apologetic once i'd been told 'it was in the wrong section and he'd deleted it', though I was very susrprised at the Draconian measures, (maybe the guy fancied himself as a member of the Ministry of Truth?)*

I asked politely if he could re-instate it in the correct subsection of a subsection of a section, (what a bloody stupid way to run a model pictures posting system anyway, I ask you, adding to an already existing thread in a subsystem within a subsystem within a system), and was rebuked with a single stroppy, 'you'll have to repost it.

I was less polite with my next response and made it clear that I was most unhappy and he didn't even have the nerve to reply, he simply wiped my account.

* Read 1984 by George Orwell

I know we all have our bad days but there was no call or reason for this.

But anyway, I don't want to be hi-jacking the thread so i'll leave that at that.

 

[Guest]

At the end of the day it will run it's course. People who run forums like that will find that they loose membership and the whole thing eventually folds. I think one of the great strengths of this forum is that we always try to treat members with respect and offer a friendly and welcoming site that members will want to return to.

Just put it down to experience and enjoy your time here.