Starship Modeler Discussion Forums

Greetings, Champions! And sorry this late - but I wanted to wait 'til almost the last minute to confirm Iron Modeler team registrations because they keep coming in. We have room for 16 teams max - 2 teams at a table - and as of right this second (this second, not a later one when you are reading thi...

And the signup form is available now on the wonderfest website

Since I'm fielding kwexions on the eMail, I thought I'd throw this out: Lee is working on the IM signup on the Wonderfest site. It's coming. If'n u wanna also sign up here, as insurance, do so in the replies here.

God willing and the creek don't rise, we'll be there.

I may even have a build for one of the tables this year.

Hey Wug - send me an eMAil at onezero@aol.com, so I remember to do this. I'll talk with Lee et al and get you what you need.

We're coming up on 27, actually --- in just two weeks. Clyde, Justin M., Justin L. Robert, Leo .... yeah - a lot of folks for whom to lift a glass.

I had a day of meetings on Capitol Hill last spring (2022)- I wore Bluesman's "Batman" tie. Represent!

Here's what I have registered - Team 1: Team Rebel Scum Team members: Mark Domeck Rob Johnson Kip Pelton Team 2: First Contact Team members: Paul Harvath Travis Collard David Wise Team 3 (Appropriately enough): 3 Names in a Hat Team members: Dan Morris Robert Morris Darren Canton Team 4: Lads Team m...

Here's the lineup so far (a/o 5/7):

Rebel Scum
First Contact
LADS
3 Names in a Hat
Great Hammer
CoMMiES Assemble!

Signup, rules and what-not are now hosted directly on the Wonderfest website, here:

https://www.wonderfest.com/upcoming-sho ... n-modeler/

Team Rebel Scum has already registered. Who's next?

Day job, kid, obligations .... you know how it goes.

But the aging parents have leveled up, the kid is fledging ... might be able to get back into that racket in the near future.

For some reason, the avatars disappeared even though the board configuration has them enabled. I'm researching it.

Took the day off work to devote to fixing the forums ---- and I think I managed to do so. Except Tapatalk is throwing an error, so I gotta go figure that out still.

Please eMail me at onezero@aol.com if you're still having problems with anything here-

Sorry guys -- I'm well behind the 8-ball at the moment. The forum should be open, though -- is it still locked?

Wow...time flies. The earliest archived page from 98 has copyright 1997, but it does say since 1996 http://web.archive.org/web/19981212021244/http://starshipmodeler.com/ The question is (and this onezero would need to answer) is this indeed the first SM domain. As I recall, in the early days of the...

Larry's obituary:

https://memorials.prokofuneralhome.com/ ... 1612297440

Those of you who knew him, maybe you could leave a note on his "memory wall"?

Larry didn't spend a lot of time on the forums over the years - but many folks will remember him from his attendance at Wonderfest and model shows around Milwaukee, Madison and Chicago. Larry passed away peacefull, in his sleep, early yesterday morning, ending his 20 year struggle with cancer. He's ...

Mark Yungblut -a good friend, generous teacher and stalwart of Wonderfest for .... ever - passed away last night, June 21st 2020. Apparently, the chemo did a great job on his cancer but unfortunately, his kidneys as well. That's all I know at the moment - I will share more as I learn it. Please keep...

Take a look at the construction and lighting sub-forums. Those do not get pruned. Notice anything? Besides how the same questions and topics keep coming up? Maybe because it's too much of a pain to search for the answer in 10 years of posts?

It's now in "User Control Panel" on the "Usergroups" tab. Click on your login name at the top right for the "User Control Panel" dropdown choice.

I knew there was something else I had to do there.....

I actually don't know. I'll have to look.

Ask me nicely and catch me on a good day.

Lest you think I'm unfairly targeting Russia, IP's and eMail addresses indicate I'm not.

I was just as frustrated as you people were, believe me. I worry that making it harder to join will drive people away .... but on the other hand I'd like to convene a grand jury and indict Russia for all the damn spammers. So, it's a balancing act, I guess. Thanks for sticking with us while we sorte...

The old site had problems with activating users .... it was more luck than anything else that kept the spam volume low. I *think* I may have solved the spambot issue - at least for now. I've made a new forum called "Newly Registered Users". Only Admins, Mods and Newly Registered Users shou...

I would much ratherhave a preventive strategy in place than a continually-cleaning-up-the-mess strategy.

Obviously what we've tried so far doesn't work, but nonetheless we persevere.

We're working on finding a solution to the problem, and we have been for some time. The things we have tried so far have only worked for a short time. Spammers have broken the CAPTCHA authentication. All it takes is one human to register and then the "answer this question" authentication i...

All these new features .... who knew they were ripe for abuse?

We're working on it. Still a learning curve. Your patience is appreciated.

Good news/Bad News. Good news - we've moved to a new hosting provider that actually works weekends. It was never an issue before - but in the last month, because of changes at our long-time host - it now was an issue. So, reliability should be back to what it used to be (continual). Bad news - the o...

The host did something, the database crashed on Tuesday night sometime. All Wednesday they denied there was a proble. Today it got fixed..... for how long though? Already working on moving. It'll be a lot easier now taht Dan/Jonas has done all the upgrades. As for missing posts - yeah. They restored...