Okay, so it may be that forums are the Dodo of the internet world. However, I am now old and grumpy enough to have a lot of sympathy for Dodos and I've decided that I prefer forums to facebook. So I've put my money where my mouth is and paid the Postimage premium, and normal service will be resumed shortly, depending on what happens.
In the meantime. I've been giving as much thought as my poor old, tired and set-in-its-ways brain can handle to the business of how best to display models on the inter web. There are a couple of problems, well, three actually if you include making models that are good enough to photograph. One is the problem of giving models a human scale. Many solve this with dioramas but they are more difficult for aircraft than for vehicles and, in any event, I am not a diorama kind of guy. The other is how to indicate scale relationships because showing a model by itself, or even in a diorama, gives no indication of its scale relationship to the outside world. Having given these matters a little thought I tried some experiments which are based on my experience working in an aviation museum and studying them enough to have a bit of paper to hang on my wall to indicate that I have a slight idea about the subject.
Any comments are welcomed. I particularly like the photos of the AMX10 and the Air France A.321. The photo of the SAAB shows that I still need to do some work on my basic modelling skills.