What's With The Downloads?

[Texman]

Originally Posted by BILL AMOS

..we keep the old grouches around for balance....bill amos

Hey! I resemble that remark!

[Zakopious]

Originally Posted by BILL AMOS

I was once a rookie in several different fields...its easy to get frustrated when you dont understand the rules..welcome waldo and let us try again this is a great place to be..most will help with anything you need..we keep the old grouches around for balance....bill amos

Glad to know that you other old grouches will keep me around for balance.

[rjm]

Why would the site tell him he's exceeded his download limit if he hasn't?
Why doesn't it recognize that he hasn't qualified to download yet and tell
him where to go to get the rules?
I can see how this message would frustrate him.

[Vermin_King]

Happened to me the first time I tried to download something, too. If you have a download that doesn't go through, it still counts as a download, and there is a timeframe that has to elapse before you can try again. I asked about his OS and browser, because my first didn't go because of a setting on my computer ...

[mldixon]

Welcome to the site, hope you don't give up. Just need to hang in and post. Great place to share your passion, most all people here are super friendly. Will be looking for you.

[waldopepperwi]

I apologize if I sounded rude, didn't mean to come across like that, just wanted to find out if something was amiss or what with the downloads section. As to those who eluded to my "not having been raised properly" or not including a thank you, now THAT was rude. I realize that maybe you have all the time in the world to sit back and elucidate on what passes for civility in your little worlds, that is a luxury I do not have. I just got back after a very long deployment and perhaps my demeanor is a bit gruff or at least come across that way but I can assure you that your observations are not correct. To those who realize that I am new here and offered assistance through an explanation, thank you for your patience and advice, it is appreciated. I realize that every site I have ever been to has its zealots, it's fervent followers and it's "policeman" who feel it their duty to chastise others. Before jumping down someone's throat and casting dispersion on them, maybe you ought to cut them some slack and realize that some people don't spend every waking moment glued to forums posting till their fingers are numb and just hit and miss with when they visit because they don't have time to sit on forums all day or wait for some poor noob to come along that they can verbally whip. Nuff said.

[waldopepperwi]

An introduction? Okay, here goes. I am a father of three girls and paper model when I have time which as of late is not very often I'm afraid. As of late, I was a member of the United States Marine Corps but now have returned to civilian life and found it ain't all it's cracked up to be. I have probably hundreds of paper models in a collection that I have accumulated over the course of several years but have built very few of. I have a degree in commercial art so I am slowly undertaking a personal project to try my hand at designing a series of building models from historic buildings along the old route 66 but progress is slow if at all. Eventually, I hope to finish it and then my next target is a series of old movie palaces and classic movie theaters from the 1930's up to the 1950's. That's about it for me, not much to tell other than that. That is what brought me here in the first place, paper modeling.

[SCEtoAUX]

Welcome to the forum. The project to design the various buildings sounds good. There are some very ornate old theaters around the country. It seems like there should be some unique buildings along the old Route 66 too.

A few years ago someone set out to design paper models of the county courthouses in Texas but that seems to have been lost. Lots of nice looking courthouses in that state.

[waldopepperwi]

I have seen some absolutely wonderful old courthouses in my travels, dating back to before the War Between the States, especially down south. You can't beat that antebellum architecture when it comes to being a history buff! There's a lot of information out there, more than I thought, about the classic buildings along Route 66. Of course a lot of them have changed now, new owners and businesses and what not, but there are a lot of photos and information about what they used to be and even photos that I can use to model from. I am still a noob at designing but I may post one out here once I get them finished and see what the feedback is.
I did a model a long time back now of the old Egyptian Theater out in California. It was nice, had a false entry that gave the impression of coming into the main hall of the theater just like the original. Had the ornate outside with the Egyptian hieroglyphs and the whole nine yards. Gave it to a friend of mine and I haven't seen the model since. Might be able to do it again but it was a lot of work. Used realistic photos and textures to produce the surfaces and it looked pretty good. Thanks for the come back on the ideas, appreciate it. Have a great day!

[Vermin_King]

Were you ever able to download the model from the download section?