Hyperbear Fixed for NS4.x and Reply to Tom (was Re: Allan's spongy paintjob)

First, thanks goes to Indy. He pointed out that my web site had some major
problems in Netscape 4.x. The problem had to do with cascading style sheets,
and some things that Netscape 4.x interpreted differently from both IE and
Netscape 6 (both of which I'd used to test the web site).

It's fixed now, you can now see _both_ pictures, and the pictures don't
overrun the text. You can also see the background now, and the blue border is
gone from the buttons.

Now, to reply to Tom...

On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 16:26:10 -0400, "Thomas Barclay" <kaladorn@magma.ca>
wrote:

> Nice, though I do admit to having trouble

Thanks, Tom.

The fawn colour does show up better "in person". It might have shown up better
on the figure if I'd bothered to haul out my photo flood lamps to take the
picture. Instead, I cheated and just used the overhead light in the dining
room and a blue filter...

The fawn is a more subtle colour than I'd originally planned, but it worked
well on the actual model. The fawn could really be used as a dry brush colour
on that timberline. At any rate, I'm going to stick with it for the other 6
APCs.

The next thing to paint, in 25mm for SG2, will be the 8 GI-Joe LAV-25s I
was
able to pick up (though I had to go through Wal-Marts in four states to
get them...). I'm trying to figure out a way of painting them without getting
paint on the axles or tires (or maybe I just don't worry about it...).

> Anyway, I appreciate the picture and the advice.

It really, really surprised me how quickly the paint job came together. I have
some pill boxes I need to paint, and I'm going to use a different paint scheme
on those. I could finish all four pill boxes in about an hour.

> However, I was wondering if you could provide

Sure. I said they were "Phoenix decals", but that's wrong. I'm fixing that on
the site, today. They are Pegasus Decals. Someone on the list pointed me to
them. I found them here:
http://www.hannants.co.uk/

The set is PEGD7205 German WWI National Markings Vol. 1 (Maltese Crosses) in
1/72 scale. I popped the item number into their search engine on the
main page and found it easily. Here's the page that came up on the search
engine, complete with picture:
http://www.hannants.co.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?Mode=view&Database=cat&R=PEG
D7205

I really, really liked the Maltese Crosses on the top, right hand corner of
the sheets. These are essentially four triangles pointing inward. I thought
they were a good, fresh sci-fi look. Unfortunately you only get four of
any size on the whole sheet, and I knew I needed at least 2 per vehicle. In
the end, I chose to go with the ones you see on the vehicle, which are
actually close to modern German markings.

I ordered them from Hannants, and they arrived promptly. One thing, the decals
say not to use any third party decal setting solution on them. In fact, I
found that I needed to use such a solution! Maybe it was just the paint I
used, but I used Champ Decal-Set, and it worked great.