starcrossedhk wrote:30-odd views, asked for advice & the only person who comments is the baron? you guys suck.
have made the adjustments but guess i better just put my joe stuff on hiss tank.
red shadow jet is sat half finished with my red shadow troopers, lost my drive now, drunk & disheartened.
wave 1 action force blows. non-jointed figures my arse.
baron, you interested in sgt. savage figures? just found unopened general blitz!
Don't get too upset about it. Some of the views are mine (about 2) but I sometimes look at work and use my mobile rather than the work computer (even though it's usually at lunch breaks. The problem is typing in on a mobile is tricky, for me at least as it's too slow, so I 'lurk' when I'm on the mobile.
Most of my posts have had about 10 times the views of the number of comments, and I think that's usual, plus it's a forum where logging in isn't required to view, so to post you have to log in, return to the page and then post.
Also it's quite addictive to make something and see what people think. Noone commented on my Rihanna for ages, though on Hisstank it got lots of comments and stars (which was unusual), but to be honest my main aim in making one was because I wanted it on my shelf. I love it (not literally LOL), and comments are the icing on the cake.
I used to be the main customiser on a huge Dr Who site, and it had thousands of posters. I found that customisers who posted customs with a large part of it for the feedback ended up being dissatisfied and leaving things behind. The bottom line with customs is to do them purely because you like them, not for feedback.
If I'm honest, I've felt frustrated too at times, but that's because when you are brimming with enthusiasm and people don't like that particular corner of the Joe/AF universe you can be checking what people think so often that it takes a while for the comments to catch up.
I'm in your position, I think - a newbie, a rediscovered interest in AF, and importantly we both have a lot of experience in model making and sculpting, but culturally the site works differently to how one might suspect. Rest assured that there are people here who appreciate your work who might not post comments - it's often a very reserved board - but from what I can tell most people are very friendly and a lot of them really do have hearts of gold.
As a complete sidestep, the Palitoy AF figures sculpt wise are astonishing for their era and are better than the 80s Joe sculpts (purely aesthetically) though the articulation is worse. The frogman, for example, or Eagle looks better next to the 25th stuff than most of the 80's Joe stuff does (at least in my opinion)
I look forward to seeing your stuff - it's top notch.
Earlier I was going to write that it was a shame you were in HK as I'd love my 25th SAS to tackle your Shads/Plague squad, but of course I was phone-browsing.
As for the filecards, I use Courier new for everything except the main tile which is Engravers Book type font
