Ecards Question.

[MichaelS]

In youse guy's 'perience how long does it take Ecards to get new submissions up? Not trying to be a jerk I was just wondering.

[Texman]

Depends on how many kits there are to be listed ahead of the latest submission.
This not our full time jobs, and we get to them as best we can.

If there are specific kits your looking for, the SNP kits would be a great example as
we have a backlog, let us know and we will try and expedite the listing.

[MichaelS]

Like I said not trying to be a jerk. I fully realize that this is a labor of love and really appreciate it. Looking forward to Gerry's recoloring of Bruno's Wildcast in 1:100

[Texman]

No worries. Your not being a jerk at all. Asking a valid question.

It's all good!

[3Turner]

And to also add onto what Ray explained, especially with Scissors and Planes kits, is there are a few steps in the background we have to prep before we can get a kit up and listed. Just some of the steps include, creating a zip file for the kit, following a file name protocol because of software requirements, creating a cover image when needed, naming the image files following the same protocol because of software, and most often with Scissors and Planes, finding a unique identifying way to name the file. Personally, I don't know every single scheme name, country roundel marking, unit name or pilot scheme, so when Bruno names them ahead of time it helps us. But sometimes there are no names, country identifiers or identifying unit markers, and only a kit number; then we have to research them before prepping the kit.

I had been listing some kits over the last few days, but then got to a point where I wanted to go in and prep every single scissors and planes kit folder with name, zip file and cover image so I wasn't slowing down and doing those steps when I was actually listing the individual kit. When it's all "pre-filled" so to speak, it goes much faster to list kits.

More kits will be listed soon, but in the meantime in case you missed it, here was the first repaint of the Wildcat by Gerry. https://www.ecardmodels.com/index.ph...per-model.html

[MichaelS]

Sorry I opened this can of worms. I am a relative newcomer to this hobby so I was just trying to get a guesstimate. Yes I have seen the Martlet and also Bruno's golden wings version. I have a computer support background so I appreciate the amount of work necessary to make these available to us all. Thanks for your explanation of the process.

Edit: note that I am interested in the kits sent recently by Gerry.

[John Bowden]

And Bruno is the most proliferate designer ever...........I'm willing to bet NO ONE has designed more card models than he has!

[murphyaa]

He makes me look like I don't even try.

[3Turner]

Originally Posted by MichaelS

Sorry I opened this can of worms. I am a relative newcomer to this hobby so I was just trying to get a guesstimate. Yes I have seen the Martlet and also Bruno's golden wings version. I have a computer support background so I appreciate the amount of work necessary to make these available to us all. Thanks for your explanation of the process.

Edit: note that I am interested in the kits sent recently by Gerry.

It's okay to open a can of worms...great for fishing! HA!
No worries....we try to get them up as soon as possible, John B. also helps out is usually the one converting all the covers from PDF to JPG so we can list them. This week we've been having some thunder storms in the area with lights flickering and going out, so I haven't listed any this week because I didn't want one of my computers to get fried while working on listing during a storm. I am working on them now and will have some more kits listed up today . Keep your eye on the Ecards page and mouse button fired up.

[MichaelS]

Mouse Locked and Loaded