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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 10, 2010 20:23:27 GMT 12
That is the same sort of search criteria I always use Bruce, but it's knowing the keyword that counts. When i don't get the hits I want on the forum search engine, I use the other one that is on the bottom of every page, supplied by Goole, and tick the right hand box which means it only searches this forum rather than the whole web. It's very good and quick. But I still could not find Terry's thread as i had forgotten at the time his username and the place name (Mechanics Bay). Thanks for finding it, and also the other thread i just mentioned which was indeed The beginning of NZ's international airline. Cheers.
Now you can tell me one more thing hopefully, how to you make the url come out as a logical sentence yet still clickable as a link, as above? I have not yet worked that one out.
Do you like the night time Clipper? I wanted to do an Empire at night instead but could not find any of them at rest that were sharp scans. It has to be very sharp to work in colourisation.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Dec 10, 2010 20:59:47 GMT 12
Great piccie Dave, love the scenery.
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Post by ErrolC on Dec 10, 2010 21:14:33 GMT 12
... Now you can tell me one more thing hopefully, how to you make the url come out as a logical sentence yet still clickable as a link, as above? I have not yet worked that one out. If you click on the quote button for kiwiTJ's post, you can see the codes used. In general, probably easiest to copy the url that you want the link to go to ('http://rnzaf.proboards...' etc), go to the box where you are composing your post, select the words that you want displayed (eg 'Solent photos'), click on the 'Insert Hyperlink' button (globe with paper to lower right). This puts the 'url' codes in square brackets around the words to be displayed. Then type a '=' immediately after the first 'url' (before the closing square bracket) and paste the url the you copied earlier using ctrl+v or whatever immediately after the '='. Hope this helps
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 10, 2010 21:21:14 GMT 12
Thanks.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 10, 2010 21:36:57 GMT 12
I always type in my own formatting codes rather than use the tools provided, as it gives me more flexibility.
However, I would much prefer to be able to compose messages using full HTML code. You used to be able to do that with the old MSN Groups, and several other forum hosting services still allow you to compose messages with HTML code. It allows you to insert tables and all sorts of other formatting tricks. A bit like writing your own website from scratch, but in individual messages.
Unfortunately, these ProBoards-hosted groups (and SMF-hosted groups as well) do not allow you to use full HTML, although they will still have an underlying HTML code formatting everything....it's just that they do not allow you direct access to it. Instead they use BB (Bulletin-Board) code, which is a really dumbed-down type of HTML that restricts what you can do as far as creative composition is concerned. And the form of BB code used with these ProBoards-hosted forums is a lot more restrictive than the BB code used with SMF-hosted groups where you can still use basic HTML commands, but not full HTML formatting.
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Post by steveh on Dec 10, 2010 23:03:45 GMT 12
Well I raise a glass to Leon Moller, not only for having the good sense to rescue these treasures, but for having the good sense to give them to you Peter. They are in very safe hands. Here are two more I just colourised for a bit of fun, I hopoe these are not annoying to viewers. Let me know and I'll stop if necessary. Hell no Dave, I just love your colourised pics, it saves me having to use my imagination. The one above you've done of AMC is really so good, it could well have been the real deal. Was the brick(?) colour on the wings for real or is that artistic license? Funny thing is when I look at these, it takes me back to when I was a wee guy looking thru my folks photo albums & Dads war histories, I thought the world was black & white in the "olden days". Heck, I wasn't very old just. Steve.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 10, 2010 23:14:35 GMT 12
Thanks Steve. The orange panels on the wings on the Empires were real, and were applied to many international airliners in WWII as a recognition marking of neutrality. The baddies were not technically meant to shoot down airliners, (though many did of course, including at least one Aussie Short Empire) so they marked them in a way that they could be seen as civilian aircraft.
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Post by kb on Dec 11, 2010 7:00:12 GMT 12
Great colourisation Dave. You certainly have a talent which I also picked up on looking at your "around Auckland" photos. I think you have a saleable talent!
You mentioned Terry. I belong to another group where he and Rosie were regular contributors and I am worried about him as he was sick and Rosie was doing the posting, he returned but nothing has been posted for some time. I think he lives at Waipu.
Anyone know him?
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Post by pjw4118 on Dec 11, 2010 14:03:51 GMT 12
Just stunning Dave, you have your first commission. I will email you.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Dec 12, 2010 8:20:36 GMT 12
Excellent work there, Peter and Dave.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 12, 2010 11:54:46 GMT 12
Thanks chaps. I'm looking forward to the email Peter W.
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Post by contourcreative on Dec 15, 2010 19:56:40 GMT 12
Hi..Terry here..nope survived cancer and been doing lots of aviation work and just written a book of poetry (nothing to do with aviation matters). We have been doing illustration for European Airlines in Norway and converting all our unreleased 1/72 designs to 1/48, with attendant headaches and re-engineering. This is one design from a set of 5 TEAL postcards we created.
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Post by Tony on Feb 2, 2011 4:51:02 GMT 12
What was the colour of the registration letters on the S.30's. There has been some debate whether they were black or blue like the Imperial Airways flying boats? My brother-in-law is convinced that they were blue (like our latter NZNAC DC-3's) and so am I.
Also anyone have any idea of the correct colour that was used for the orange out wing markings, I assume upper wings only? It would have to be a BS 381c colour.
Any ideas?
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Post by John L on Feb 2, 2011 17:11:58 GMT 12
There is some colour movie footage around showing an Aussie S30. Mind you, 70 y.o. colourfilm can vary a lot......
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Feb 3, 2011 20:38:17 GMT 12
There is some colour movie footage around showing an Aussie S30. Mind you, 70 y.o. colourfilm can vary a lot...... It would most likely be a S.23, or the sole S.33 operated with Aussie registration. The following Empire 'Boats carried Oz registration (either civil and/or military).... Short S.23 Empire flying-boats: • S.811 — “Centaurus” A18-10 • S.838 — “Coriolanus” VH-ABG • S.843 — “Calypso” A18-11 • S.844 — “Camilla” VH-ADU • S.849 — “Coogee” VH-ABC and A18-12 • S.850 — “Corio” VH-ABD • S.851 — “Coorong” VH-ABE • S.876 — “Carpentaria” VH-ABA • S.877 — “Coolangatta” VH-ABB and A18-13 • S.878 — “Cooee” VH-ABF Short S.33 Empire flying-boat: • S.1025 — “Clifton” A18-14 and VH-ACD
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Post by seawings on Feb 21, 2011 5:14:47 GMT 12
Hey Guys,
Can I possibly give these magnificent images from the start of this thread a permanent home on SEAWINGS?
And, if anyone wants to make prints from these colourised images, I'll be pleased to place them yin the SEAWINGS Flying Boat Shop to sell.
Finally, is the last print here available any bigger?
I love it on my 'den' wall!
Cheers,
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 21, 2011 8:46:20 GMT 12
Hi Bryan,
I'll leave Peter Wheeler to comment on the black and white images, but as for the ones I have colourised, I'm not confient that they could successfully be blown up much larger so if anything was going to be made of them, perhaps postcards. But would postcards be an earner however?
When you say the last print you'd like blown up, do you mean Bruce's photo of Short Empre 'Carpentaria'?
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Post by pjw4118 on Feb 21, 2011 9:58:04 GMT 12
I dont think posting historic photos on this website is an issue as the source has been acknowledged but to sell them may need the Auckland Stars successor ( Sunday star Times) to ok it. If the originals are with Archives nZ or the Alexander Turnbull library they have prices and terms of use, generally free for private use. I know with KDF the RNZAF Museum wanted $20 for prints used privately and $250 if they were to be published, so we didnt use any.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 19, 2011 22:11:14 GMT 12
There's something about flying boats . . . I've had a shite of a week, ending in a hell of a day today. If your waiting for an email from me, I can now receive emails but not send, so please be patient. One of the more minor of this weeks disasters was the total collapse of the hard drive on my laptop. Complete drive replacement, data recovery (thank god for backup) but as my email programs reside on that laptop it's going to be a slow process. Anyway, calming my shattered nerves tonight by playing with 'boats, and I've come across this one. Sandringham ZK-AMH passing one of the Devonport Steam Ferry Company's vehicular ferries on Auckland harbour in the late 1940s. If you look just to left of the ferry's wheelhouse, you'll see the gap where the harbour bridge is yet to be built. I'll just sit and look at this for a while. There's something about flying boats . . .
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 19, 2011 22:47:01 GMT 12
Lovely shot there Peter and Marcus. Thanks for posting it.
It's another week tomorrow Peter, I hope things get better mate.
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