Battlestar Galactica: Colonial Shuttle (TOS)
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WHAT A BEAUT!!!
By the way, what is the scale? I see the box in one shot, but are the squares inches or centimeters?
By the way, what is the scale? I see the box in one shot, but are the squares inches or centimeters?
theo
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[FONT=Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-2]Martin I only have two thumbs!
So two thumbs up what a beauty.[/SIZE][/FONT]
So two thumbs up what a beauty.[/SIZE][/FONT]
Scale is 1:120. A bit odd, but it was forced by the number of printing sheets available (that model was the free giveaway at the Spacedays 2008 in Darmstadt, 400 kits have been digital offset printed in magazine-form with 8 pages DIN A4, including title and instructions.) Over 240 parts...
When I try to open the files of the model, I get a message telling me that the file is too large to open. And when I try to print out the instructions, it gives my printer a "transmission error" message. Is there some secret I need to know?
Otherwise, thanks for doing the model. This was always my favorite design from BSG. It's so ugly and utilitarian that it's kinda cute....
Otherwise, thanks for doing the model. This was always my favorite design from BSG. It's so ugly and utilitarian that it's kinda cute....
theo
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@dhanners
No secrets!
It works fine at my computer and I still got no feedback of malfunctions from other user.
Martin
No secrets!
It works fine at my computer and I still got no feedback of malfunctions from other user.Martin
It wound up opening on my home computers just fine. Beautiful model. I'm impressed.
I'm wondering (and I hope I didn't miss this somewhere) if there is anything special I need to set the printer on to print it out properly on plain ol' U.S.-sized paper.
And it strikes me -- if the thing is 1/120th scale, is there some way I can print it out at 83 percent (if my math is right) to make it 1/144th scale? That'd be a handy scale for it to be in....
I'm wondering (and I hope I didn't miss this somewhere) if there is anything special I need to set the printer on to print it out properly on plain ol' U.S.-sized paper.
And it strikes me -- if the thing is 1/120th scale, is there some way I can print it out at 83 percent (if my math is right) to make it 1/144th scale? That'd be a handy scale for it to be in....
I'll bump this back up and pose the question again -- is there any way to get this resized at 83 percent so it would be in 1/144th scale? Other than taking it to a copying shop?
Hi dhanners,
send me a PM with your email und i will send you the file in 1:144.
Greeting from Germany
Martin
send me a PM with your email und i will send you the file in 1:144.
Greeting from Germany
Martin
One way is to print it as a PDF file, then open each page in Photoshop and resize them using the Image-->Size feature. It's a hassle, and you end up with a separate file for each page, which you can be printed to PDF files again and combined (I use PDFedit995 for this), but it can be done.
Another way is to figure out the size, and tell your printer to print the pages at a reduced scale. Not sure how this will work out, I've only done it once, but for me the results were fairly decent.
You can open the PNG files directly in Photoshop, no need to print them as PDF first.
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