Re: [VIC] Headboards this weekend

["Rod Young" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

Great product this photoshop! Now you see it...now you don't!
Playing around with Premier, wonder If I can tell it that each frame must
not have this ugly headboard...ummm maybe soon, but not yet.....

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Rod Young
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Foundation President and Co-Founder
Hobsons Bay Model Railway Club Inc.
Operators of Australia's only 'Australian' Model Railway Show
Every Easter in Melbourne.
and my page
http://hobsonmodelrail.rrdepot.com/rods


James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> As usual Steamrail didn't remove their generic headboard at the Euroa
> photostop but the RTM removed theirs at this photostop and two of the
> photostops on Monday's Ararat trip. If the RTM can remove the headboard
> at photostops, then why can't Steamrail? When the RTM removed their
> headboard at Berrybank, there were many comments like "That's something
> Steamrail would never do". I think it is quite clear that Steamrail's
> policy of leaving the headboard on the loco at all times isn't really
> achieving much except bad publicity. As a result of this policy, most
> people see Steamrail as a joke and SRHC as the real preservationists. If
> they just removed it at photostops (especially for an event like this),
> then most people wouldn't have a problem with it. Is it really that hard
> to do? Even if Steamrail wanted to use a photostop photo for a brochure,
> they could add in their headboard with Photoshop.
>
> Also, the design of the RTM headboard is much better than the Steamrail
> headboard. On many of the photos I've seen of the parallel run on
> Friday, the RTM headboard doesn't stand out anywhere near as badly as
> the Steamrail one. Surely Steamrail could design a headboard that
> doesn't stand out anywhere near this much. At a distance I think this is
> worse than the old one because of the high contrast between the colours.
>
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