Newbie.

[Smithy75]

Hello fellow tankies. Another newbie here. Thanks for letting me join. Been looking on the forum for a while and thought I'd better register and introduce myself. I've had a tamiya Sherman since around 2000. It's laid dormant till a few years ago when I dug it out and rebuilt it during lock down. I've since bought a walker bulldog, another 2 tamiya Sherman's, a coolbank Stuart and just the other week I got a bog standard challenger 2 which I've already added support bearings to the gearbox output shafts and also painted NATO green and black coz I'm not keen on the sandy colour. Tis a fantastic tank tho and I'm getting some good ideas off this excellent forum. I did try and post some pictures but it just keeps saying error, file too large. I'm on a kindle tablet and I've no idea how to make the files smaller. I'll have to try on my phone maybe. Keep up the excellent work folks.

[tankme]

Welcome. A lot of us use sites like Imgur to post our pics due to the size restriction on the site. Sounds like you have a growing addiction...err I mean collection.

[Smithy75]

Hi. Thanks for the reply. I will look into the picture situation tomorrow. I definitely have an addiction been into rc for nearly 40 years. Still got some buggies from the 80s that we raced. Plus going on for 40 or so other buggies and excavators etc. Tanks are the favourite at the moment though.

[Herr Dr. Professor]

Oh, way to go, Smithy75! You are a man after my heart!

3 Tamiya Shermans
Walker Bulldog
Coolbank Stuart
Challenger 2

You say that your Challenger 2 is "bog standard": that's what I am working on a bit now. Like you, I do not favor the sandy color on MBTs. Given a tad tight money and huge shipping costs to the U.S., I have not added the support bearings, though I could well do so in the future. (My tanks are babied, anyway.)

I cannot help much with uploading from a Kindle tablet. My Apple iPhone seems to automatically reduce photo sizes for text messages. Maybe your cell phone would do the same. Perhaps you could send your photos via text message to yourself and then see if the size is (sufficiently) reduced. I hope someone else jumps in here with better ideas.

[MrChef]

Welcome to the forum Smithy from New York. I use Imgur for uploading pictures. Very user friendly even for an older guy like myself to figure out. I take all of my pictures on my phone, load them to Imgur with their app then load the pics from their online website here on to the forum. I only browse this forum on my Chromebook which gives me more flexibility and control as opposed to on my phone. I use my phone to browse Groups on Facebook.

[Rob59]

I had some issues not long ago to upload pics on here too, untill a member on here explained to me how to do it.

Go to attachements, which can be seen when you start a new post or a reply:

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Next go to the button ad files:

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Next you go to your library to search for the pic you want to ad, and click the button place inline, and you‘re good to go.

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Hope this works for you?
If it works you won‘t need an extern photo host for uploading pics on here.
Rob.

[ColemanCollector]

Your phone should work smoothly to post photos as Rob59 shows above. Most automatically resize the photo down below 3mb. If posting from a computer you'll probably need to resize the photos to 3mb. A simple program like Paint can do that. Put your photo in whatever photo program (Paint, Photo editor, Imageviewer) you have and you'll find a "resize" feature. Resize to 3mb and save and then insert it as Rob59 shows above. Kind of clunky, but after a few goes it's pretty easy.

Mike.

[Smithy75]

Hi again folks. Thanks for all your helpful replies and sorry for not responding sooner. Been too busy at work to look. I'm gonna have a better go at posting some pics today hopefully.

[Smithy75]

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Well I've just taken a 12mp pic and it's let me upload it.

[Smithy75]

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Managed another but had to resize it in gallery settings. Bit of a pain. Not really had this problem before on other forums.