Steve Wilson
I type JLC Libor Kopecek it comes out:
JLC Libor Kopeček WHY??????

scalemates Author
To start 🙂 "BB tages", must be "BB tags" on FAQ page

Frank Krause
Hi Tim,
depending of the alphabet used, names are strangely diplayed.
Example: Sergei Isayev ( )
appears as Scalemates member like this:
СЕРГЕЙ ИСАЕВ
*
I think it's the same problem like Steve reported. Same applies for names of some Polish, Russian and Chinese Scalemates (e.g. ).

Steve Wilson
Hey! Frank...
Nicely spotted!!!👍
I never noticed that. Wake up Steve😄

berni
hello tim, all links to websites on my "About me" open in the same window of scalemates. would it not better that they are opens in new windows or tabs?

scalemates Author
good one! great "nitpicking"! 🙂 I'll change

berni
thanks, could you chance it on shops also?

Frank Krause
Any reason, why the avatar picture in "My profile" moved from left to right and left a black space on the left?

Frank Krause
Left on the left, right! Now it is left on the right, right...😉

scalemates Author
@Frank: since when is this?

Frank Krause
Since yesterday evening...

scalemates Author
bizar, I need to check cross browser. I put a temporary fix which I somehow even seem to like

Fabian D.
In Album descriptions " ` " turns sometimes in and " ? " like: it´s -> it?s

scalemates Author
@Fabian: thx I'll check
@Guido: sorry I did read it while on the road but forgot to reply
1) if you mean advertising banners, yes they are opening in same window by design (=Google)
2) Yes that is an inconsistent behaviour. Will fix

scalemates Author
@Guido: fixed the filter so it has the same behaviour across books/walkarounds. Meaning, the filter does not have any effect.

scalemates Author
Fixed bug which was already mentioned a few times in the past. Sometimes when adding a book to your stash it would show a "kit" in your newsfeed. This nasty bug is no longer present! 🙂

Frank Krause
Hi Tim,
we can add stash info like "Buy", "Store", "State" to the kits in our stash. Will this information also pop-up in the exportable stash list (e.g. Excel) in future?
Wouldn't it be nice, if others could see at least the information "State", when I put a kit "For sale"?

scalemates Author
@Frank: 2x yes

Henrik Stæhr
?Model sets? should be listed just after "Full kits" and not at the bottom after "Masks" on a product list.

Henrik Stæhr
BTW: I didn't put the question around Model sets. I wrote quotes. I looks like a problem with copy/paste from Word.

Henrik Stæhr
Sometimes when I correct the size of a logo, it doesn?t show correct/change after save. The size properties is changed though, but not the logo itself. I?m using Chrome version 33.0.1750.146 m. It dosen?t help to restart the browser. But if I open the page in IE10 everything is okay.
Edit: CTRL + F5 seems to do the job.

Henrik Stæhr
The "Add topic" button is very hard to find. It should also be on every product page.

Henrik Stæhr
The "Manage stash" button is to hidden on the product page. Sometimes you have to scroll a long way down to find it.

Henrik Stæhr
When you add two kits from the same year, the first one added is placed first on the timeline. Look at Eurocopter EC135 ADAC (Revell 04659, 1:32) and Eurocopter EC 135 The Flying Bulls (Revell 05724, 1:32). They are sorted wrong on the timeline.

Henrik Stæhr
I miss Country names next to the flags on eg. the member list.

scalemates Author
"I wrote quotes. I looks like a problem with copy/paste from Word." => Yes, problem identified. Will fix!
Logo not refreshing: is it logo of company? (it is a browser caching issue, we had similar problems on other pages and there I placed a fix by renaming the file after uploading. Seems I haven't done it everywhere)

scalemates Author
other items: great suggestions. Will provide update as soon as fixed.

scalemates Author
Country names next to the flags on member list => Fixed here

Henrik Stæhr
Yesterday it was a Site logo I corrected and had the refresh problem. Previously I have had this problem while correcting Company and Shop logos too. No sure if they still have problem.

scalemates Author
thx, I'll check

scalemates Author
Word quotes are now checked and replaced by standard ones (in comments/Wallposts)

scalemates Author
the "Manage stash" button is to hidden on the product page. Sometimes you have to scroll a long way You want to have 2 buttons or 1? If I move it to the top and you look at the "stash" section you can not edit your stash 🤔

Wim van der Luijt
Why not group the buttons together.....after all the "who has this in stash or wish list" part of the page is just an overview.... It's not seeing the people the people that makes you want to add a kit....so why not have it right up there with edit and merge or maybe even above as it's a separate thing and make it the first you see

Łukasz Gliński
Creating the new gallery in the project - I tried today to upload pics to the new gallery, but the "Save&Upload" button appeared only after the webpage refresh (using Chrome and Win7).

scalemates Author
@Henrik, Guido, Wim: Please have a look at the current solution for stash management

1) When scrolling down to the "stash section" you can immediately take action without having to click on manage stash
2) When you are on top of the page you now have a shortcut to the "stash section"

I think this covers all the aspects you mentioned. let me know what you think 🙂

scalemates Author
@Lukasz: I'll check tomorrow

Tim Vereecke
"View full thread" does not work, you can never see the extra characters

Wim van der Luijt
Elegant solution, I like it!

Frank Krause
Hi Tim,
when looking at "Visiting your forums" in my profile, I see several mates mentioned 2 or 3 times. Why? Bug or feature?

scalemates Author
@Frank: this a bug

scalemates Author
@Henrik: I fixed the timeline issue. You can now adapt the YEAR of a kit with 2 extra digits. eg. 2013Q4. This allows you to modify the order of the timeline for kits released in the same year.
Eurocopter EC135 ADAC (Revell 04659, 1:32)

Good to know:
- By default if you just put the year it will first show "new tools", next reboxings. (nothing changed, so in most cases the default behaviour will be ok)
- The extra 2 digits will not be shown on the timeline itself nor on the product info pages. So 2014xx will still show as 2014

Henrik Stæhr
Super 👍

Steve Wilson
QUESTION:
What does Q4 at the end of 2013 mean??? what's the benefit???

Frank Krause
@Steve:😉
Quote: "This allows you to modify the order of the timeline for kits released in the same year." Unquote

Steve Wilson
So 2013Q1, 2013Q2, 2013Q3, 2013Q4...
Would be the order of release for the same kit in that year, if so I understand...

Frank Krause
Jepp! 👍

Steve Wilson
Thanx uncle Frank👍 Got it!!!

Frank Krause
😄 😄 😄

Henrik Stæhr
2014Q1 means 1. quarter of 2014. But as I understand it, you can use aa, bb or something else. But Q1, Q2, etc. is probably just what makes the most sense.

scalemates Author
@Henrik: correct 👍

Steve Wilson
I was only using Q as an example😢

Phil Marchese
The current system allows a lot of flexibilty relative order when time is unknow but order is. Since order is the essence, I favor retaining the current system. I ve used combinations many times to adjust relative positions of kits on the timeline.

scalemates Author
@Phil: the current system remains as is, no need to favour it 🙂. This exception is ONLY to be used in case the years are known AND a "new tool" is released after a "rebox of an older kit"

Phil Marchese
I ve been following the instruction of only one new tool per timeline werein the subsequent new tool is a( new) related product only. I back pedal up farther back on this thread meanwhile.

scalemates Author
It is not 1 new tool per timeline, it is one new tool per year of the same producer (in 99,99% of the cases)
When a company introduces 3 variants of a new tool in the same year. Only the first kit is a new tool, the 2 others are reboxings.

Phil Marchese
Tim, I fully understand the multiple variants in the same year.
If it is not one new tool per timeline then your instruction need revision. Taking the Airfix B-17 for example , the timeline is extensive with multiple brands and tools. I thought the intent was to show the variations of the 1962 tool so one knew a new box was was not a knew kit. Had they at some point issued the 1962 tool with an E/F body and same flight surfaces I thought that was new parts. The "new" G thus was on the Acedamy timeline with new parts due to the tail options n but not an independent new tool.. The Hasegawa and both old and new Revell were merely related 1:72 products with separate timelines but visible as related products in that separate section. I am wrong about the intent?

scalemates Author
I don't know:
Have a look here: This is a PERFECT valid timeline. With a new tool in 1985 and a new tool in 1996
Panavia Tornado Marineflieger (Revell/ceji 4761, 1:32)

This is also a PERFECT valid timeline. With a new tool in 1995 and 2013
EC 135 "Polizei" Meck-Pom/Bayern (Revell 04428, 1:32)

Nothing has changed here. The ONLY thing we did was adding the possibility that the "New decals" kit of 2013 is shown before the "new tool" of 2013. As the 2013 "new decals" kit is based on the 1995 kit and not on the "new tool" from 2013

That is it, nothing else changed. in 99,99999999% of the cases all stays the same as was x days ago.

scalemates Author
If you don't think the above timelines are valid than your logic is wrong, if in your logic it are valid timelines than it is correct 🙂

scalemates Author
ps: feel free to remove the Q4 marking from the new tool in 2013. You will see what happens. This kit will visually be linked to the new tool released end of 2013, while it is linked to the older toolings. Eurocopter EC 135 The Flying Bulls (Revell 05724, 1:32)

scalemates Author
This is a WRONG timeline, 2 kits released at the same time and where based on new tools. However on scale mates only 1 of them is considered new tool, the other should be marked as a rebox. AH-1S Cobra (HobbyBoss 87225, 1:72)

Phil Marchese
Tim, I understand the Quarters are a refinement within the year to order version releases within the year. I understood that from the start. What my comment addressed was retaining the current wildcard system and you clarified that. I can t comment on your two examples because I am not familar with thoses kits and I don t comment when uninformed. I re-read the timeline instructions an see that it says a kit can be based on only one new tool. I mistook that to mean one new tool per timeline. Sorry for the confusion. I am still unclear if the Academy based Airifix B-17 belongs on the 1962 Airfix/ Craftmasters/ US Airfix/ MPC multibanded timeline; or the Academy as an Airix band/row; or both.

scalemates Author
sorry, yes the wildcard system can still be used! (the refinement changes nothing here). Yes correct. The reason of that remark is that some users link the kit to ALL previously released kits (which does not make sense). We link it to one older kit. Here is an example what I want to prevent: EC-135 Heeresflieger/Army (Revell 04465, 1:32) ? it shows multiple "based ons"

Phil Marchese
If this links as intended, it is an example of a scrambled timeline. Changing Topics can alleveiate some confilts but that violates the topic rules regarding F-14 vs F-14D.
1914 Stutz Bearcat (Dyna Model Products 20011, 1:87)

Phil Marchese
The Revell band is correct the Hot Rod is the" based on" parent. If fact the parts for both versions later were packaged together by REVELL, Revell Germany; Minicraft and Dapol all under the Highway Pioneer series. These are indepentent of all the others. The Monogram kits are debatable but acceptable and internally correct to themselves. The Aurora Sedan is fine. The Aurora hot rod coupe I can t address (if it has common chassis parts). All the remained are the same tool over 55+ years and should be linked. I don t know how to fix this example. The 1:72 B-17 is similarly a mix of tools.

scalemates Author
I sure can add it

Jan H.
In the contributor page you have the option to correct "Missing Decal info" but it only shows the first 30 kits (AAI to Blackburn). When someone like me has too many in the stash and can't solve the first 30 one's, then you have to check the rest one by one and go through the whole stash.

scalemates Author
@Jan: Increased amount! thx for the feedback

Jan H.
Thx, Tim. Please check the Life Color UA range. I guess the correct art.no is "UA nnn" but there are some "UA0nn", "UA nn" and "UAnnn" too that need to be reorganised. Also Xtracolor X209 has a double. Any plans to put up Xtracrylix?

Lucas C.
When adding aftermarket items, you can only select one topic for the product, but in fact the product may be for use on multiple kits--for example, decals that have several different subject on them. As a result, there are many aftermarket products listed that don't refer to all of the subjects they cover. Here is one example:

Rattling Sabers (Wolfpak Decals 72-065, 1:72)

I think it would be a good idea to allow linking to multiple subjects.

scalemates Author
@Lucas: Thx Lucas, on the roadmap but not top priority (as it adds a LOT of extra complexity). One thing I can say is that adding "decal options" wil be part of the solution. So the kits we have including decaloptions the better 🙂

scalemates Author
Nasty bug fixed: When an aftermarket set was designed for a specific product family it was shown on ALL kits of the family (=good) but not on the "first" kit of the family (=BAD). This is now fixed 🙂

scalemates Author
Clicking the green arrow will now immediately show the "stash" section and no longer the "actions" tab. I assume this will make stash management easier. Don't remember why I didn't do it like this in the first place. (currently only for kits, will make consistent with books/paints when I didn't get any complaints 🙂 )

Lucas C.
That's a good fix--one less click to add items to the stash. And good to know that the ability to assign multiple topics for a product is on the "to do" list.

Stefan Suessemilch
Tim, I can't find the "share" (stash pics as background) button. Is there another way now? 🤔

Fabian D.
seemes to me that setting filters in while searching in the market place section has no effect... just me or a bug?
got the point.. kits are hidden tough, just not the market place options...

Lucas C.
Don't know if others have noticed this, but some kits that should have timelines displayed do not have them show up on the product info page. Here's an example:
VF-1J Valkyrie (Hasegawa 65702, 1:72)
None of the kits related to this one have the timeline show up on their product page. It's odd.

scalemates Author
I see a timeline?

Lucas C.
Sorry--I had the wrong link. I edited my post to provide the correct link. The problem when you've got multiple tabs open...

scalemates Author
Ah ok, this can be decided on the "topic" level (by me). In case a topic is too generic I don't show the timeline as kits are not always related. eg. "world war 2 - German soldiers" will not show a timeline

scalemates Author
In this case "Macross" is generic

scalemates Author
eg. this kit DESTROID PHALANX (IMAI B-1227-300, 1:100) belongs also to "Macross"

Lucas C.
Ahh, I get it. Any chance of creating sub-categories in that one category to clean things up a bit?

scalemates Author
sure, feel free to edit the products

J Irwin
So in Lucas' example, the topic would change from "Macross" to "Macross, VF-1 Valkyrie"?

scalemates Author
yes correct!

Guy Golsteyn
Tim, if you have more than 6 identical items in the color stash, it is impossible to manage the 7th and 8th item because of the 'add color' field.

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Can you please fix this? Also, is it possible to create a single field for every single color that you want to manage? Because it it not easy to keep track in which color field you're working if you have many the same...

Lucas C.
Here's one I stumbled on. Large images in the vendors section make it impossible to edit the vendor in question to, for example, reduce the size of the image.

scalemates.com/sites/site.php?id=670&m=edit

Phil Marchese
Tim, I had suggested in a different thread three changes to kit content section:
A) change PLASTIC sprue To Plastic parts...the real intent. Early kits had not sprues and wood kits have plastic parts.
B) add a block for "Base or Stand"
C) add "Plated parts"
Over the years B or C distingushed issues.

Luc B
what about reversing the timeline? So newest kits shown first. In case of long timelines you are interested in the newest items anyway?

Phil Marchese
Luc B...My understanding is that is were "related products" full kits comes into play. However the timelines, I believe is to show that, for example, An Airfix Hurricane is a 1963 rebox; a 1986 retool Or 2014 retool as apart from a 2014 1962 tool reboxed. That is what I ve assumed. In that realm, the forward makes sense. Perhabs what is really helpful would be broad banding of related products by decade. That would have the advantage of infering canopy and decal sets would have been designed for kits of and era even if not specifically labeled and classified as such.

Wim van der Luijt
Everytime I type a euro sign I get a questionmark both on my home and work PC ?????

Wim van der Luijt
before pressing save they show as euro signs after they are questionmarks

Phil Marchese
In the decal option unit oranization, the drop down menu still gives US ARMY AIR FORCE. That never existed. Hap Arnold commanded the U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES (pl). Can this be fixed by global find and replace? Then option for singular deleted from menu?

Phil Marchese
Perhaps simply USAAF is better.

Phil Marchese
How does one search the data base for decals by topic? I see paint and references books but not decals.

Guy Golsteyn
If I search for "Mirage III C" it only finds a few kits, but if I search for "Mirage IIIC" it finds a whole bunch. This is because they are entered as IIC and not as III C. But the search function should be able to find all Mirages III C's anyway. I don't think that spaces should be relevant in the search function. Even "Mirage 3 C" should give the same result...

Fabian D.
while editing an Album (adding pics, eg) the project drop down menu is set to default. so after saving the album its no more attached to the project it was linked before.

Guy Golsteyn
Correct Fabian! I encountered the same problem but I didn't know exactly what was happening😉

Dave Flitton
On the "Contribute" page under Anti-spam there is an error - "Some ant-spam health checks..." Should be "Some anti-spam..."

scalemates Author
thx! for suggestions. Will fix hopefully tonight

Steve Wilson
Tim
Why do I get an asterix in d*ckiedoo but it's not in his name???
That's taking censorship too far!!!

John E
Union and Confederate Infantry Set (IMEX 603, 1:72) is showing up under Civil War Airships but should be figures.

Wim van der Luijt
eurosigns are still showing up as question marks on all my devices

scalemates Author
yep, nothing fixed... on holiday

Frank Krause
On holidays, Tim? If there's one person, who deserves it, it is you!
Enjoy your holidays and thanks for all your efforts working on Scalemates!
And thanks to your wife for her patience and understanding!😉 👍

Stefan Suessemilch
👍 Frank, totally agree

Tim Sloan
I need to update my email address,but it doesnt allow it. Why cant we change it?

Łukasz Gliński
When adding colour ranges to a shop location, there are no results visible unless you save changes and switch the shop page to the "View" mode (Google Chrome).
I have problems with adding more than one colour range too.

scalemates Author
@Fabian, Guy: The issue with editing the album and resetting the project is fixed. Sorry for that one! must have cause some frustrations.

scalemates Author
@Dave: fixed 'anti-spam' spelling mistake. Thx!

scalemates Author
@Steve: Swear words were removed, this was programmed on "day 1" but a quick check on how much it was triggered makes it not really useful. Also a lot of the times it did too much. Eg. Wessex would turn into Wess*x

scalemates Author
@Phil: "How does one search the data base for decals by topic? I see paint and references books but not decals." ... not possible at this moment, it will however be possible in next version of the search engine! (currently being programmed). Thx for the suggestion

scalemates Author
@Phil: bulk corrected 298 entries of "US Army Air Force" to "US Army Air Forces". Thx!

scalemates Author
@Fabian: "seemes to me that setting filters in while searching in the market place section has no effect... just me or a bug?" Yes, this is a bug. Will fix!

scalemates Author
@John: Civil warship issue is fixed. Thx!

H K
Wow, busy sunday 🙂

John E
Thank you. But now a Civil War balloon is showing up under Figures: Intrepid Civil War Balloon (AMT T-571, 1:57)

Phil Marchese
Thks Tim.

David Lengyel
I just signed up, created a project and added some colors which happen to be wrong. I can't delete them from the project. Am I missing something or it's a bug?

Hunter Cummins
When I click on completed, it says on my wall added to stash
when I add to wishlist it says added to stash
can you fix ???
I noticed a few people with the same problem

scalemates Author
Thx Hunter! I fixed it

H K
If you add a new product via " Add based on", the shop prices of the old product are also taken. Example: Pz.Bef.Wg.III Ausf.J (Dragon 6570, 1:35)

scalemates Author
you sure? I just checked, and my code does not copy the shop prices. Please do it again and give me the "based on" as well as the original

H K
StuG.III Ausf.G (Dragon 6578, 1:35)
test (Dragon 9797, 1:35)
test 2 (Dragon 9798, 1:35)
Hmm... it is oviously more complicated. It definitivly happend to me, and it happened with the befehlswagen ( not my work).
edit: found it Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.L Late Production (Dragon 6387, 1:35)

Hunter Cummins
Thx Tim 🙂

scalemates Author
@HK: Matching happens based on Productnumber and company name. Even if the "shop synchroniser" runs just at the moment where you click on. Now if you change an existing product where the matching was already done. This can happen. I know that some people to remove double overwrite the double with another kit

scalemates Author
What did you mean with "edit: found it"... that kit 6387 seems to have correct shop entries?

Lucas C.
When you go to "Edit Activities" on your profile, it will erase all existing activities, in all categories, so you have to reselect everything, or else you end up with nothing at all once you hit Save.

H K
Tim, Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.L Late Production (Dragon 6387, 1:35) has double Sockelshop entry because it started with the wrong one due to " add based on".

scalemates Author
ah I overlooked, let me check! thx

scalemates Author
@Lucas: fixing now...will let you know when done

scalemates Author
@Lucas: fixed

Lucas C.
I can confirm it works perfectly now. Thanks!

Fabian D.
is there a reason for getting outlogged while still being on the site?
just happened to me, as I wanted to add a comment ( "Invalid request" )... Comment was gone, and I had to log in again...

Phil Marchese
I still have several projects with a framework for an album but for months I get a " not logged in" when I try to add pictures. You gave me suggestions to try a while back but it still happens. ( It will happen on all projects build from STASH on a given day and stay block "forever" it seems.

John E
This item shows "To be classified" Howard Pete (Pegaso P2020, 1:48)

John E
These three Rube Goldberg items need to be categorized. SCM Search: goldberg

Jan H.
Today I've got e-mail notifications from some threads even if "Enable or disable email notifications for following events" setting "New comment on your post or on a post you participate in" isn't (never has been) ticket in.

scalemates Author
@Phil: working on it right now! does it happen with all projects or just a few? The first where you get it provide me with "Album" and "Project" please

scalemates Author
@John: Fixed

scalemates Author
@Jan: Very strange, as I didn't touch that code in ages. I will verify off course. Could you forward me the email please? (tim@scalemates.com)

scalemates Author
@Fabian: fixed in the mean time?

Fabian D.
can´t really tell... just happened ocassionally. I let you know if it happens the nex time...
--
This is still listed as Decal options misssing. Ticking just "Wood" doesn´t remove it from the list. but ticking Plasik does... simply extend the "product is categorized" to the other possible materials...
Wooden Ladder (RB Model 00714160, 1:35)

Phil Marchese
Tim, Highway Pioneer 1929 Bentley 4 1/2 Litre is an example where I get a not logged in error trying to creat a new album to a project. Phil

Jan H.
Take a look at "Hersteller unbekannt" bei scale-rotors.com/kit/hersteller/473-.html
You have to check the manufacturer cross references between the sites

ex. scale-rotors.com/kit/artikel.php?id=4429 vs. Mil Mi-14 Bundeswehr & NVA (Lüdemann-Modellbau , 1:72)

Henrik Stæhr
When I export my stash to CSV, some kits appears in Excel with eg. 0,0916666666666667 in scale instead og 1:72. This only happens for some kits. Most have correct scale. If I then use the format brush from at correct scale to the wrong one, the scale changes to 02:12:00 (Displayed as 02:12)
Royal Navy Lynx HAS.2 (HobbyBoss 87236, 1:72)

Henrik Stæhr
When adding price to an item in the stash the price 5,50 is saved as 5,5 and 12,00 as 12.

scalemates Author
@Henrik: I'll check for CSV issue and see if I can force Excel to threat it as "Text" and not make a calculation.

scalemates Author
I'll adapt pricing as well, I have the code for this but it is not yet implemented on stash pricing. I'll fix

scalemates Author
@Steve: Fixed "JLC Libor Kopeček"
@Wim: Euro sign fixed

Steve Wilson
@Tim...
Thanks for that 👍🙂👍

Urban Gardini
The x in the closing button on the member pop-up box you get when you hover too long over an avatar is not in the center of the green button.

David Lengyel
Now the project color removing please 🙂

scalemates Author
@Urban: Thx, I have the same issue. Will fix

Urban Gardini
Hehe, I'm usin' Chrome on W7x64...

John Van Kooten
Hi guys,

Seems like almost everyone is using the country code DR for German kits when adding decals. This is not correct!

The country code DR represents Dominican Republic! So MANY German vehicles & airplanes in the database are now displaying the Dominican Republic flag in the decal options.

Unfortunately, when you add decal options and enter the code DR it says Deutches Reich in the presented known options list, which is also not correct.

The proper country code for Germany is DE, which stands for Deutschland.

I will correct this wherever I encounter this mistake but that is one HECK of a job, since there's a TON of German vehicles & airplanes containing this error! 😮

Maybe there's a way to correct them all through the website's admin interface or by using a properly formatted SQL REPLACE statement from the back-end.
I don't think there actually are any kits that represent vehicles / airplanes from the Dominican Republic, are there? So the REPLACE should (could) be simple enough?

Jan H.
@John Van Kooten Here you have some from Fuerza Aérea Dominicano but they're not yet completed with all markings and countries. Mustangs I (Aztec Models 72-014, 1:72) Vampire (Aztec Models 72-041, 1:72) de Havilland Vampire Mk. 1 (J 28 A) (Marivox LE-1, 1:72)

Jan H.
Is is possible to use RD = Republica Dominicana instead?

John Van Kooten
Yes, but like you say, none of these have decal options (yet). So they wouldn't be impacted by doing an SQL REPLACE of country code DR for DE. Because it concerns decal options only.

And honestly, if the choice is to have the German decals wrong or the Dominican Republic decals wrong (after the SQL REPLACE), I would certainly know what I would do😉 because I think it's a tiny bit easier and faster to manually correct the Dominican decal options compared to correcting the gazillion German decal options in this database.

But this is not up to me. Tim has to decide and tell us what to do with this 👍

Jan H.
One problem is to keep it unpolitical when flags, countries and governments come and go, countries get divided or formed. I think you have to need a time era code to solve getting the right flag for the right era.

John Van Kooten
These two letter country codes are internationally regulated, so I don't think we need to come up with a new system.

Otherwise you will get conflicts like the one we have right now, e.g., Drittes Reich vs Dominican Republic. Both would have to be country code DR but the internationally regulated code for DR is still Dominican Republic. And the system Tim is using in the back-end is no doubt automated to make use of this regulated country code system.

So it would be like opening a can of worms to change that to your own liking 🙂

I think the system as it is works just fine. People just need to use the proper codes 😉

H K
There is a problem with the kit database and german umlauts ( ä, ö, ü). The umlaut and everthing, which comes after it, diappears even after correction. For example Sturmpanzer IV "Brummbär" S..I. Serie (Dragon 6500, 1:35), which should be BrummbÄR. The strange thing is, it doesn't happen to every entry.

scalemates Author
hmm, I put Brummbär and it worked! I'll check

scalemates Author
@John: Thank you, yes DR was created for Deutsches Reich. I didn't notice there was Dominican Republic. So I will find another code Deutsches Reich, as indeed DR is for Dominica Republic. (I can bulk fix)

John Van Kooten
@Tim: Thanks!! And good thing you can fix them in bulk! 😄

@H K & Tim:
concerning the special characters:

I know this is problematic when text gets copied from, f.i., an Excel sheet or Word file.

Whenever you use an application that auto-replaces the "-sign when you type it with a character, the program replaces it with the special character from the current character set. This character set is usually set in the operating system or specifically in the application.

If we go with the Word/Excel example, by pasting the Word/Excel text directly into the field on the website, this character will be translated to a different character because a different character set is used. The problem is that this translated character may not be supported by this website / database, which results in text getting cut off at the "unknown" character, in this case the ä character.

The best way to avoid such problems is to not copy & paste this type of text with special characters from Word or Excel files but instead actually type them in the fields. for instance, use ALT + 0228 (on the numpad, with the NUMLOCK key ON) to create the ä character. That way it uses UNICODE which is pretty much supported anywhere.

Character sets are a real MESS in computerland! There are, f.i., UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, ASCII, ASCII-II, Extended ASCII and a whole army of legacy character sets, some of which are ANSI sets, some not. And every country that has special codes also has its own ASCII character set (Germany, UK, France, China, Russia, etc. etc.). Like I said, a real MESS!!

But maybe there is an easy way for Tim to make the website accept more character sets or use PHP REGULAR EXPRESSIONS to convert characters when entered in fields😉

scalemates Author
@John: We support UTF-8, issue here is not that the ü in general is not supported (this was always the case), there seems to be a situation where it is not. Could be a bug in my code (doing decode/encode/convert characters in wrong order)... @HK: When you have the issue, does it disappear only in the title? or also in the type group field?

scalemates Author
@John: Iso2 code for Dominican Republic = "DO" and not "DR" countrycode.org/dominicanrepublic and here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1

John Van Kooten
Yes, but according to NATO (obsolete), FIPS, WMO and LOC MARC the DR is for Dominican Republic and DO for Dominica (which is something different) 😉

en.wikipedia.org/wik..y_codes:_D%E2%80%93E

Confusing stuff! 😛 LOL

It looks like the website is using one of the ones I mentioned above because in the German WWII kits the DR codes translated to the Dominican Republic flag (or some other flag? It actually doesn't look like the Dominican Rep. flag). As you can see here for example: Sd.Kfz. 2 kleines Kettenkrad w/Püppchen (Dragon 6114, 1:35)

But yeah, ISO2 is the best way to go I'd say! 👍 😄

scalemates Author
eumh, that is the correct flag for DR. Here is the one for DO [img1]

John Van Kooten
Hahaha, well, as long as we know what code to use for German WWII items and get the correct flag for them, it's all good! 😄 👍

D. Ninetalis
I know I've said it a few times but,

I can't add my Béhance models... :/

behance.net/gallery/..0-Number-42/14175329

Would be nice if I could
Regards

scalemates Author
well you were, but behance now switched again their templates 🤔

H K
@Tim: I saw this yesterday and corrected a lot of entries. Later I saw that all had reverted. Btw. now it says that this product does not exist ( if I click on the link in this thread). Clicking from my stash works, but is still Brummb.

H K
It seems that correcting the entry works now.

scalemates Author
clicking the link in your post has a "," at the end

H K
I am off correcting 🙂 If anyone finds something suspicious, PM me. I try to translate stuff to english like schürzen to side skirts etc. .

D. Ninetalis
Ah, okay, I did try to add these multiple times, but it never worked😉

Thanks for letting me know nonetheless Tim! 🙂

H K
Tim, it is Brummb again Sturmpanzer IV "Brummbär" S..I. Serie (Dragon 6500, 1:35)

scalemates Author
found the issue, fixed!

H K
I am cautiously optimistic 🙂

Bernd Korte
"Morane-Saulnier MS 760" seems to be listed in the props category but it is a jet.

Bernd Korte
How can you deselect a club? Once you have selected one the system does not seem to allow going back to be a member of "zero" clubs.

Mike Pullen
Shouldn't the Shenyang J-6 come under the MiG-19 topic? It is just a Chinese copy of the Russian fighter afterall

Henrik Stæhr
Thisted kit has a wrong link to Modelbau König. Robinson R22 (Pavla Models 72071, 1:72)

Jan H.
Here are some stray comments from june 2011 related to a tank in the A model Su-11 product News Feed. Su-11 (Amodel 72121, 1:72)

Frank Krause
Hi Tim,

several Humbrol colours are doubled. For example:

- scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=5198 and
- scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=2543

- scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=5199
- scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=671

Colours with Humbrol 240 and up are obviously doubled. The only difference is the MATT in the name, but the colours are the same.

H K
Pegaso company is doubled-
SCM Brand: No longer exists
SCM Brand: No longer exists
And could you add AMMO of Mig Jimenez SCM Brand: No longer exists to the Paints list.

Jan H.
Aren't they two different companies? Mexican Pegaso and italian Pegaso Models?

Jan H.
Here you have the canadian and czech Tally Ho! mixed together. Two different companies. SCM Brand: No longer exists

Jan H.
Pegaso Mexico necomisa-pegaso.publicidadwebrush.info/

Jan H.
SCM Topic: No longer exists
Topic "Sikorsky Ilya Murometz" should be "Sikorsky Ilya Muromets"

John E
Hi Tim, Civil War balloons show up under Ships > Motorships. SCM Topic: No longer exists

scalemates Author
thx all! I'll fix them asap! I'm currently at Bernd's "Morane-Saulnier MS 760" issue

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
Hi Tim, with some kits I can't create an new project. the error message is "not logged in". For example this kit 1965 Ford Galaxie 500XL (AMT 723, 1:25)

Jan H.
Jan H. I guess you have to separate the Xtracolor (Xnnn) and Xtracrylix (XAnnnn) range. I put up all my Xtracolor some weeks ago and now they all are under the label Xtracrylix. You have to reinsert Xtracolor as a company and check that the logo pictures are correct to each company.

scalemates Author
@Jonns: Thank you, the issue was found (a nasty little bug on my side which was only triggered in special cases and which generated a wrong error message adding more confusion). The same bug on another page was also the reason why Phil had issues adding albums to projects. This is now fixed!!!!

scalemates Author
@John: fixed balloons issue

scalemates Author
@Jan: Fixed Sikorsky Ilya Murometz
@Bernd: Fixed Morane-Saulnier MS 760
@Mike: Merged to MiG-19

scalemates Author
@Bernd: Holding the CTRL key on a selected club will deselect it. (I know, need to find a better solution)

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
Thank you Tim, it works! 👍

John E
Thanks Tim.

Steve Wilson
I sent you a PM Tim...

Fabian D.
Hi Tim,
Two shop links leading to the worng item, must be some kind of bug as both linking the same ship: Pz.Bef.Wg.III Ausf.J (Dragon 6570, 1:35)

John Van Kooten
Searching for kits from AFV-Club isn't working properly (or at least, it's annoying the way it does). If you do a search for, f.i., "35S38" you will find nothing. But if you do a search for AF35S38, you will find the AFV-Club kit.

It is like this with all AFV-Club kits I have tested (which are MANY). You MUST include "AF" or you will not find an AFV-Club kit.

John E
Hi Tim. The Fiat CR.40 topic is listed in the helicopter category. SCM Topic: No longer exists

Lionel Marco
What about adding pigments to the paint list?

Mark Ree
Hi Tim, I have been adding the RGB values to the humbrol enamels. When I print out a PDF file the condition and remaining come out reverse. Also when I look at my projects and add colour the colour tiles stay white, you have to open them to give you the colour.

scalemates Author
@John E: Fixed
@Fabian: Fixed
@Vic: Colors are now visible when looking at projects! thx for adding RGB values

scalemates Author
@John Van Kooten: This is by design. If we do a "like" search on all data on scalemates you will get way too many results on many of the searches.

John Van Kooten
That's true, I understand 👍 Just something (for me) to keep in mind then 🙂 no problem. Thanks Tim 👍

scalemates Author
Our new search engine will be a bit more open: "35.001", "35-001" and "35001" will be handled as the same

John Van Kooten
Very cool! 👍 That would make a huge difference in user friendliness, IMHO 👍

Henrik Stæhr
 This kit has also a wrong link to Modelbau Köenig. ROBINSON R22 Beta II (Pavla 72071, 1:72)

John E
Thanks Tim

Mark Ree
Thanks Tim

Steve Wilson
Tim Thanks😄

Jan H.
Thanks to Humbrol there are two no. 157. The old darker blue and a newer revised lighter blue. I've put it in the list but no RGB values.
britmodeller.com/for..-humbrol-157/page-15

Jan H.
Right number, correct links but no picture Fouga Magister CM.170 Belgium (Valom 72087, 1:72) This one had wrong art.no 72085 (FJ-1 Fury) but with picture and users with stash or wishlist Fouga CM.170R Magister (BAF) (Valom 72087, 1:72) the link to super-hobby goes to FJ-1 Fury

berni
Hello Tim, on the "Previous Photo Next Photo" don't looks like arrows. now are displayed question marks behind and before the text.
look here: [img1]

Luka M.
Hello! Do you know why my pages looks so messed up? It looks like this:
(in the first picture I changed the size of scalemates logotype with Imagezoom plugin)

[img1]
[img2]

I've turned off ad-block for scalemates and it still doesn't helps. I'm using Mozilla Firefox, same story is on the Internet Explorer.

Luka M.
It seems that your font style is messing the page ... if I turn off the the function where I let the page to use its own font style then it's everything OK but this influences for every page and that's a difficulty for me because each page has it's own design, so I don't want to "standardize" it. So ... any idea how I could change the font style only for scalemates?

Gerald
Hi Tim the same problem as berni
Alles mögliche | Album by Sir Grobian

scalemates Author
@Luka: Browser version? do you have the same issue in other browser? since when do you have the issue?

scalemates Author
@Berni/Gerald: Fixed the issue in the album! thx

Urban Gardini
At the moment I just get a blank page whenever I click on an album.

Fabian D.
got the same problem with every link in the boy on the left (My profile, My topics eg..)

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
yes, here too, blank pages with much space😉

Augie
Yep. can confirm blank page on albums

Hunter Cummins
Wont let me veiw my own profile

Hunter Cummins
Or anyone elses profile

Hunter Cummins
Or my stash wishlist and everyother thing

Urban Gardini
I'd say that it's a MAJOR bug we're experiencing now...

Ernie Gallegos
Mine too.. (blank)

Dirk Fries
hm... php memory limit to low ? 😉

scalemates Author
fixed

Ernie Gallegos
Thanks for fixed😉

Augie
thanks tim

scalemates Author
restarted all services, weird things were happening 🤔

Frank Krause
Sometimes it's good to be at the workbench. I missed that bug... 😄

Fabian D.
how true, Frank... But I´m also glad it´s working again 😄

Jan H.
Some of the Bücker only show B. SCM Search: bücker Is there a difference between the ü you have on a german keyboard and the ¨ + u ?

Jan H.
Btw the question marks instead of arrows in the albums are back. It looks like the unicode incompability between Mac and PC. If I change from Unicode to Western I get the arrows right but a lot of other special caracters wrong

Luka M.
The last version, Firefox 29 actually. Yeah, same is in the Internet Explorer, didn't checked how it's on Chrome (I don't use it), on my iPhone's Safari the page layout works without problems. Well I'm new and I can't exactly how long ... so I can say it since I've registered on Scalemates.

John E
Hi Tim. Tow tractors are in the Vehicles > Tanks category. SCM Topic: No longer exists

scalemates Author
@Jan: Question marks are fixed again. When we had the issue last night I roll backed last changes. (it was a Javascript file which was not converted to UTF-8)

scalemates Author
@John: Thx, fixed

Henrik Stæhr
Contry names are missing next to the flag on the shop list

Henrik Stæhr
If Type is not filled on shops, they are not shown correct.

Tim van Dooremalen
@Tim, found a problem with the search-box. I tried searching for "Ferrari 641/2" (with quotes!) and got this as a reply:
Searching for "ferrari 64 filtered in scale 1:2" didn't return any results.

It seems the "1/" in the search string causes the algorithm to think it should use that for the scale.

scalemates Author
Hey Tim, great catch! yes indeed. when it detects 1: or 1/ I assumes you added a search filter. I'll improve the check. (must have a space before the 1/ unless it is the start of the search string)

Luka M.
Still no certain resolution for me then? This is how the temporary solution works for me:
dropbox.com/sh/yq2thmnj6oz2qjs/THCZe1Fkft
You'll too see why only 'temporary' ... If can someone give me an idea how to force my own font style for only one page and its subpage i'd be happy for advices!

John E
Thanks Tim.

scalemates Author
@Luka: no sorry, I can't reproduce the issue 🤔

Mike Pullen
I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and guess what the problem could be.
Are you using Internet Explorer Luka?

Mike Pullen
If you are then is it up to date? Latest essential update for IE11 was released a few days ago.
Can you recreate the problem on another browser like Firefox or Google Chrome or SRW Iron which is basically Chrome but with Googles spyware stripped out?

Luka M.
Sorry for late reply, but no as I already stated before I'm not using the IE. I have this problem on Mozilla Firefox and I don't use Chrome.

Günther Debiscop
Aircraft Carrier Zuikaku should be merged with Aircraft Carrier Shokaku-Class

Jan H.
There are some problems with the polish "Ł" , "ł" and "ś". Sometimes you get "Łoś" Check SCM Search: "PZL.37 Los" and here it translates "Sokoł" to SCM Search: "PZL W-3 Sokoł" BTW, shouldn't it be "Sokół" instead of "Sokoł" ?

Jan H.
Searching for "pzl w-3 soko&# 3 2 2;" returned 23 hits. (I had to put spaces between 3 2 2 to show it) It doesn't always translate the html code directly in the search field

Jan H.
It also truncates the "ł" in search for reviews scalemates.com/products/revi..ic=PZL%20W-3%20Sokoł

Rob Tittle
If you change the view so that you can add items to your stash, if you click on an item and then go back the view changes.

Dierk W. Dreier
If i change at Decaloption #1 the Number from "<" to "<A", all other informations of this Decaloption are lost. Try it....
Bf 109E-7 Trop (Eduard 8264, 1:48)

JohnnyO
I don't know if this counts as nitpicking, or a full fledged feature request, but I've noticed that I don't get notifications when people add photos to a gallery I've commented on, only when new comments get added. I'd like to get notified if new pictures come up

scalemates Author
@Dierk: fixed!

Tim van Dooremalen
Tim, JohnnyO's request would be a very nice addition 😉

Steve Wilson
I agree with both JohnnyO and Tim V.D.
I'd also like to be notified of new photo's😢

scalemates Author
PZL W-3 Sokół issue is fixed

scalemates Author
Aircraft Carrier Zuikaku is fixed

Jan H.
thx Tim

Holger Kranich
JonnyO´s request is a very very nice idea! I support that!

Gordon Sørensen
I like the idea of a notification for new pictures too!
My "For Sale" section doesn't list the books I have in my stash "For Sale"

Dirk Fries
I agree with the JohnnyO. Great Idea !

Frank Krause
Mmmh, if it comes together on the general email about notifications, I'd also support JohnnyO's request. If it would be a separate email, I'd say no...

Urban Gardini
Great idea n' best implemented the way Frank sugests here above!

Guy Golsteyn
I would even go a step further: I'd like a notification when new pictures are uploaded, and NOT every time someone has to say something in the thread. I will read the new comments when the new pictures are there anyway...

Guy Golsteyn
Even better would be if any user could separately choose to receive notifications with new pictures, or with new comments (or both)...

Urban Gardini
That's a great idea Guy!

Steve Wilson
QUOTE>>" Even better would be if any user could separately choose to receive notifications with new pictures, or with new comments (or both)..."<<END QUOTE!
Yes Guy that's a great idea😄

Urban Gardini
How about a [QUOTE][/QUOTE] function in the comment field?

Holger Kranich
Hi Tim,

yesterday i created a new project. In the editmode, you have the possibility to give the project a subtitle. But this subtitle is not shown anywhere after i saved the project. Can you fix that, please?

Mike Pullen
Something i have found that is still a problem. Some people are still inserting kits that contain multiple different subjects in as "Full Kit" instead of "Model Set". When it is adjusted to Model Set then the items listed as "Full Kit" are no longer shown when you view that item. Here is an example World Rally Cars (Airfix A50101, 1:43) and clicking on any of the other Model Sets will show Full Kits listed

John E
Hi Tim. I could not categorize these: SCM Search: kit clac!&qs=Search

Mike Pullen
I did the cars and van, have no idea what the bike is

John E
Thanks Mike!

Mike Pullen
Can you add Selega to Alt2 for the Hino S'elega please - SCM Topic: No longer exists

Guy Golsteyn
Looks like a Kawasaki Z1300. I categorized it.

Dierk W. Dreier
This
SCM Book:
is a double of this one:
SCM Book:

Pls delete first one. 😉

John E
I'm showing these as uncategorized. I gave them the topic "Animated Hobby Kit" SCM Search: animated hobby kit

Łukasz Gliński
It looks like a double entry - F-15E Strike Eagle ESCI/ERTL - Nr. 9049:
F-15E STRIKE Eagle (ESCI/ERTL 9049, 1:72)
F-15E Strike Eagle (ESCI/ERTL 9049, 1:72)

Mike Pullen
Sometimes kits can be released with same boxes and ref nos at different dates but in this case that is doubtful. Fixed

Łukasz Gliński
Thx

Łukasz Gliński
Another doublet?
Mil Mi-17 Canadian Armed For..istan) (CanMilAir 512, 1:72)
Mil Mi-17V-5 (CH-178) (CanMilAir 512 72, 1:72)

Günther Debiscop
Fixed the above

Lucas C.
I've reported several doubles using the "Double" button over the last few weeks, but these duplicate product listings seem to still be there. Is that button working?

scalemates Author
It reports but does not fix😉...i'm behind with fixing them! Will be done next week, this week i'm on holiday

Steve Wilson
Hope the weathers better than here Tim...
Have a good time👍

Lucas C.
Have a good time, Tim! And good to know how the button works, too.

Phil Marchese
Same product number, same art but different typograph...is that a new box? Most of it is, right?

scalemates Author
Yes this would be a new box

Günther Debiscop
Maybe already mentioned, but what about a feature when a kit has been build in/for a magazine, a remark can be added for that kit mentioning the mag and edition? e.g the HK B-17 in Wing Masters 100

Urban Gardini
That's a good idea Günther!

Hunter Cummins
Soviet T-35 Heavy Tank Track Links (HobbyBoss 81011, 1:35) Soviet T-35 Heavy Tank Track Links (HobbyBoss 81011, 1:35) doubles

Frank Krause
Thanks, Hunter! To say it with the highlander "There can be only one".
Done!

Hunter Cummins
No problem frank 🙂 thank you

Rob Tittle
Every time I click on add new product now the company is filled with KALEAS 🤔

Steve Wilson
Yep!!! same here...
Who are KALEAS???🤔

Gerald
I have the same problem as Rob and Steve 🙁 with Opera 21 Browser

Gerald
Hallo wieso haben wir keine Kit preview Sparte ?

Dirk Fries
Although this kit has no decals at all Town Public Fountain (PlusModel 095, 1:35) it still show up in the "Missing Decal info" section of my contribute page

Dirk Fries
scalemates.com/shops/shop.php?id=93 should be removed. The shop was closed last summer.

scalemates Author
Kaleas issue fixed! Someone renamed company "unknown" to Kaleas

Frank Krause
Now I know, why all the "Expo" showed Kaleas... I was wondering, where this came from.

Dierk W. Dreier
By adding a new book, the field "Number" is always displayed. Even there is no series.
btw: It would be nice, to have a kind of newsfeed for new books on scalemates too.

Fabian D.
@Dirk: got the same problem with this: Wooden Ladder (RB Model 00714160, 1:35)
the entry on the contributers page is showed as long as the kit isn´t "marked" by the code as "completely filled in". this happens only when plastic, brass or resin is ticked (I guess), but not when it´s a plaster or wood kit.

Dirk Fries
@Fabian - Bingo ! I klicked the checkbox "plastic" and the kit disappeard from my contribute page. So it really looks like a kit isn't "completely filled" when e.g. "plastic parts" isn't checked.

@Tim - Could you please change this ? I guess there are a lot of diorama kits like houses which are made only of plaster, not of plastic.

Phil Marchese
Its ok to leave plastic parts uncheck if another material is checked so the fix would be other if the tereis no block for the substance.

scalemates Author
@Guido: fixed! (others, thx for feedback will be implemented in next days)

scalemates Author
@Dirk, Fabian: It should be fixed now!

scalemates Author
@Dirk W. Dreier: Thx, I fixed the number display. It is no longer visible when empty

Günther Debiscop
Can we also have a time-line for the snap-tite kits? A lot of them are reboxes of older kits, but with an altered coloring or marking(s).

Fabian D.
jap, is fixed, thx 👍

Günther Debiscop
And for the boxart, maybe a few more fields showing e.g. the sides of the box? Sometimes these have additional info that can be usefull?

Fabian D.
good call Günther, esp. on figures the rear box would be interiesting...
maybe we could add an extra field for a link to the instructions aswell, which are quite often as Pdf out there... Which would be quite helpful for comparing PE sets or kits without reviews

Rob Tittle
Is it possible to add the option of sorting the stash by year?
Cheers Rob.

Hunter Cummins
For some reason, I cant veiw my notifications while veiwing a photoalbum like I could before?? Please help

Hunter Cummins
Can you put this back to the way it used to be??

scalemates Author
yes you have! just next to the date entry of a comment you have a little icon. If you click it you can disable notifications

Mike Pullen
Spotted after i made comment. Thanks Tim, very useful.

scalemates Author
👍

Fabian D.
Hi Tim,
this is a double:
Matilda III/IV (Eduard 36094, 1:35)
Matilda III/IV (Eduard 36094, 1:35)

Frank Krause
Hi Fabian, thanks for the hint. Done!

Günther Debiscop
Tim, How about adding a kit's condition on the "For Sale" page of a member? I e.g. added the conditions of my kits for sale and hope that these would be visible for those interested in them.

scalemates Author
yes this is on todo! (will push a bit to top, as it slipped already a few times)

Jan H.
Can you please set up Xtracolor as a separate range. Now there is a mix of acrylics and enamels all under the Xtracrylix range. And also, the right logo to the right range of color.

scalemates Author
Fixed 🙂
Paint range: = Xtracrylix
Paint range: = Xtracolor

Jan H.
Dankje wel, Tim 🙂

Jan H.
In the Humbrol range, is there a standard how to or not to use gloss, satin or matt in the color name? There are a lot of doubles, some with satin twice in the name, RML instead of RLM, also check 241, Schwatzgrun, Schwartzgrun. (well, germaninglish spelling?)

Choppa Nutta
Scalemates.com doesn't work very well on my Android mobile for some reason, it works for a few minutes and then it keeps asking me to restart, whatever that means, as though it has lost the connection and won't allow me to explore further or type in the replies. No real biggy for me but does that count as a nitpicking ? 🙂

scalemates Author
asking to restart = asking to relogin?

Choppa Nutta
no I don't think so but when I hit "Restart" it just skips out of the browser altogether. When it happens (almost always) I get two options, "Wait" or "Restart", if I "Wait" I can't do anything other than scroll up and down.
My phone is a HTC Desire C if that helps.

Fabian D.
this does happen on other sites aswell I guess? Basicially your mobile "chashed". Got the same problem on my quite old Android aswell, has not really something to do with th site you´re on...

Choppa Nutta
Actually on my phone it doesn't, not like this anyhow, sometimes pages time out for some reason but only occasionally, this error seems unique to Scalemates.

Anyhow it's not a biggy for me though it is handy to look up stuff when on the move etc. If no one else is getting this and it is just me I wouldn't worry about it. 🙂

Fabian D.
mhh... we´ve got both a quite simmilar hardware and I´ve got this kind of behavior on almost everything, apps, differnt sites, everything...

Günther Debiscop
Maybe put catalogues under books instead of being under products?

Phil Marchese
If the purpose of catalogs is to find products then I d put it where it functions best to that end.

Mike Pullen
I'd agree they need to be put under books, they are reference material, not products

Dierk W. Dreier
Why it's not possible to find MiG-27 in Kit Database?
[img1]

scalemates Author
Mig-27 = Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Flogger

Dierk W. Dreier
Hm, 2 different planes - one (wrong) Name?
Searched a special mig-27 Kit, and couldnt find it. Perhaps better to separate?

scalemates Author
to my knowledge the Mig-27 is the ground attack variant based on the Mig-23. Also companies use the same moulds to create both Mig-23/MiG-27 variants.

Choppa Nutta
A couple of things spring to mind for the picking of nits 🙂

When I do a Kit Database search for models by make, model and then scale it is usually ok but sometimes I get "no results"

For instance when I type "ESCI T55 A (M) 1:35" into the Kit Database search I get "no results" even though the model is definitely in the database...

T55 A (M) (ESCI/ERTL 5045, 1:35)

Also, when sifting through old notifications etc. it would be nice if the title of the thread or the first few words of the opening sentence were in the box next to left hand column of who has replied to a post and the dates etc. which are listed down the left hand side of the screen but there remains a nice big space next to them that could be used for a little more info on what the thread is about, is that a nitpick or a suggestion ? I don't know 🙂

Frank Krause
Hi Choppa,
it depends on how you input your search criteria. Most times it is best to start with the proposed topic followed by the other criteria like I did here:
scalemates.com/search-solr.p..35+ESCI%2FERTL&qs=Search

(You need to copy the whole link, since it does not work correct in the newsfeed.)

Frank Krause
Hi Tim,
some more input - when you look at above posting, I added a complete link. However, it is interrupted starting with []

scalemates Author
yep! that is because the search engine is still in Beta😉

scalemates Author
@Choppa: I agree with your comment, the new search engine will fix this issue and you will have your result as expected using the exact string you typed today

scalemates Author
@Frank: if you edit your post and save it again the link will work

Frank Krause
Got it! Thanks, Tim!

Choppa Nutta
yeah that didn't work for me took me to a search tips section which is handy though.

Cheers though Frank, I see what you mean now, so it is best to search model, scale and then make as in - Tornado 1:72 Revell as per the suggestion of the search tips and yours.

regarding links etc. it would be nice if the links were displayed as one has actually typed them and then for the funky magic to happen showing pictures or youtube links etc.

scalemates Author
@Choppa: that was just fixed, my program was not able to recognise a link containing []. Now it does, have a look at Franks link again
The new search engine is not yet available, need to wait a few more weeks.

Frank Krause
Hi Tim,
sometimes when posting a link, some characters are exchanged with smileys, which disables the link.
Example:
google.de/search?q=t..fficial&tbm=shop

Choppa Nutta
sweet !! 🙂
Nice one Tim, great that you make such a nice effort with this site !
Btw, what do you think about the idea of including the thread title within the notifications listings ?

scalemates Author
hmm, ok on Todo

Frank Krause
Hi Tim,
just another one in Beta.
I was looking for Humbrol colours. In the overview nearly all colours say "transparent", despite the sibngle colour shows "solid".
scalemates.com/search-solr.p..&q=humbrol&qs=Search

scalemates Author
👍 thx

Günther Debiscop
Can someone tell me the difference between the two following kits?

I don't see the difference on the box.

Messerschmitt Me 262 B (Hasegawa 852, 1:72)
Messerschmitt Me 262 B (Hasegawa 852, 1:72)

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
yes Günther, the first one has a blank space between the 262 and B 🙂

Günther Debiscop
Jonns, that's not on the boxart as such.

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
I think that someone has not found the kit and created a new,
Now, the kit is twice in the database, with more or less information. I think we need to merge together

Fabian D.
the release date is different though...

John Van Kooten
Yes indeed, it looks like a reboxed rebox (1985 and 1987). And since the description says "changed box only" in the 1987 version, I think the image of the boxart here on ScaleMates may be incorrect for one of them?

However... it's too late anyway😉 the entry for the 1987 version (second link) has been deleted already.

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
in the second link were specified decal option, which are now gone or were they not important?

Frank Krause
Uuups, sorry! That was me. I obviously was too fast merging. Tim, anything you could get back? Or should we leave it merged as it is now?

The questions are:
Was the rebox really a rebox or just the year mistaken?
Rebox with the same box cover, but "changed box only" cannot be that correct, can it?

By the way, Tim - when merging a product with decal options to another without decal options - shouldn't the decal options be transfered?

scalemates Author
Restored deleted one.
@Frank: yes I agree! now it is NOT the case. So be careful when merging

John Van Kooten
I don't know. I didn't delete it after all 😉 but I would say they are. I think there actually were two versions of this kit. Ot so it looks, at least?

Mike Pullen
The boxes will be similar to these where you'll see a subtle difference on the boxes with extra writing on by the Hasegawa logo on one. The writing is more difficult to see on the Me 262B nightfighter version.

Me 262 A (Hasegawa 851, 1:72)
Messerschmitt Me 262 A (Hasegawa 851, 1:72)

Mike Pullen
The additional writing on the Me 262B box can just be made out, starting from top left corner.

Choppa Nutta
I think it would be simpler if these were merged but with notes & pictures on the variations seeing as these re-editions are essentially the same kit.
Perhaps 😄

Mike Pullen
The idea of the database was to gather info on different boxes and dates of release otherwise almost all kits would be merged together into latest boxings.

scalemates Author
yes, I agree.

Günther Debiscop
I agree also. My question was just to know if they were realy two different issues, or a duplicate with a wrong date. 😉

Mike Pullen
Nothing wrong in asking if unsure

Choppa Nutta
Fair enough, I guess the product history is for what I suggested perhaps ?
a little uncertain, still getting used to how this site works 🙂

Burkhard D
If you do not positively know that one of two similar entries is wrong, then just do not touch anything.
I fully agree with Mike, if unsure just ask 🙂

Urban Gardini
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.22 i..htdog Models FDR72044, 1:72) double with this one Supermarine Spitfire Mk.22 I..t (Freightdog Models , 1:72)

Urban Gardini
Supermarine Spitfire PR.XI (Freightdog Models FDR72051, 1:72) double with this one Supermarine Spitfire PR.XI C..n (Freightdog Models , 1:72)

Mike Pullen
Can you merge these topics - Not sure of best title to have

SCM Topic: No longer exists
SCM Topic: No longer exists

Leandro Krindges
Hi Tim, I've posted 2 new photos in an album, but i can´t see it on the feed. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Frank Krause
Hi Leandro,
you need to add a comment to your album. Just adding fotos to an album does not work for the news feed.

Leandro Krindges
Hi Frank! I'll try this... Thanks a lot.

Leandro Krindges
It Works @Frank, thanks!!!

Lionel Marco
Hi!

I think the Daimler Scout car page scalemates.com/search-solr.p..mp;q=%22Daimler+Scout+Car%22 should be divided in 3:

Daimler Scout Car (Aka Dingo)
Daimler Armoured Car
the Italian Lince

These 3 vehicles are indeed related, but different enough to deserve their one topic

Mike Pullen
It seems to be common occurrence that timelines now get broken when new items are added, happened to a couple of things last week and now just happened to Frog 1/72 Blenheim when i added a new Novo boxing of the kit.

Lucas C.
Searching for "vfa-103" gives some odd results. One kit is listed as an "F-18 Hornet" while all the others are under "F/A-18 Hornet;" for the "organization" selection on the right of the screen, "Navy" and "us navy" are options in addition to "US Navy", but I corrected those kits earlier today. In addition, only five items appear when the "VFA-103" unit is chosen, when 9 of them should appear.

scalemates.com/search-solr.p..=%22vfa-103%22&qs=Search

scalemates Author
Lucas, I just tried it and I can't reproduce the issue. (however I just reindexed all data, so that could have fixed it)

Choppa Nutta
The Academy M60 A1 1:48th scale had a topic heading of M1 Abrams but I fixed that too 🙂

Mike Pullen
I find alot of things listed that are not as per what is written on the box and am constantly amending items, errors and all. I just use postfix to put correct info or additional info 🙂

Steve Wilson
Likewise Mike🙂👍

Choppa Nutta
to be fair and no doubt due to yours & others efforts, most of what I find is all good 🙂

Mike Pullen
It is mainly when items are "scraped" from the shops sellers stock though not all. When i first started contributing the "Title" part was auto-suggested as you typed but that got done away with, alot of stuff was put up that way but they're not the sole reasons.

Lucas C.
Tim--it's working correctly now. I think the reindexing did the trick.

Rob Tittle
Something I would like to see is, when I am in my stash and right click to open a category in a new window I can't just click on products to see all products and if there are not enough products in the catagory there is not a show all products at the bottom. 🙁
Cheers Rob.

Günther Debiscop
Mike, I do the same for several boxes I come across. 😉

Lucas C.
I'm having another search-related issue. When I clicked in the "View all related products" of an item, I got 0 results. I know there are at least six products that should come up, but none do. Here's the search generated by the button.
scalemates.com/search-solr.p..+Experimental+Tank%22+1%3A35

scalemates Author
please send me kit from where you clicked link

Nikolajs Negeriss
Just an idea - make a user search by country, not just town. Then you gen list of all users in one country - this can be useful for clubs, like mine to search for "stand-alone" modelers and requesting to join the club

scalemates Author
when in Beta modus you can already do this. Filters on the right hand side allow you to filter by country. Also if you search for "LV" you'll get all users from Lavia. Example: scalemates.com/search-solr.p..mbers&q=LV&qs=Search

Nikolajs Negeriss
Bingo! Sorry, forgot to check BETA😉 Nice search engine!

Darío Risso
I'm not sure this is a mistake: Zvaezda 1/35 Panzer I B is repeated?: Panzer-I B (Zvezda 3522, 1:35) and Panzer 1B (Zvezda 3522, 1:35)

Darío Risso
Same with the Italeri kit 207: German Command Tank (Italaerei 207, 1:35) and German Command Tank (Italeri 207, 1:35)

Frank Krause
Hi Dario,
in case of Zvezda 3522 no duplicate, because of different box-art.
That seems to be the same for Italeri 207, because we have different release dates. However, one of these 2 bears the wrong box-art.

Jan H.
Maybe it's not a scalemates problem, but many of the Model Alliance decals like this one World Air Power (Model Alliance MA-72155, 1:72)
are listed as 4 sale /trade from Aero Spezial.
Many of them are out of stock and as Model Alliance is out of business....

Lucas C.
Tim--here's the link to the item I clicked on. Incidentally, when I tried to search for the item by its title, I also got 0 hits--I had to hunt for it in my history. Something is going on here, but I'm not sure what.
Edelweiss Experimental Tank ..oukei-Mura PSSP01-M04, 1:35)

And here is a link to the topic (taken from the page above), which also comes up blank:
SCM Topic: No longer exists

As you can see, there is no topic ID number in the link.

Nikolajs Negeriss
Would be nice to have "Store" function for paints as well, at least a comment field where to put a hint. I have some 10 places where I keep my paints and sometimes it takes a time to guess where is it 🙂

Also in the current version I can see remaining paint right away in my stash list, but I can't see it in Beta. Would be nice to have Remaining in the list so I can decide if I want more paint shortly

Nikolajs Negeriss
And regarding "Store". It can be just one plain text field. So I can type something like "Green Sparmax box" or "Alclad Box 1" or "Table - main bottom shelf 1"

Nikolajs Negeriss
Another hint. Just minor one. In Contribute page we have "New Color". In my mind color is just a name for Green, Red, etc. In fact we use Paints with different colors. So, "New Paint" would make more sense 🙂

Nikolajs Negeriss
I manage my paints now. Finally got to this point 🙂 It's a lot of fun to go through my boxes and see what I have.
When I search paints, I can see some are already in my stash - that's cool. Then I add some found paints to my stash and refresh the search results by pressing "search" button. I can not see sign "Stash 1x" for just added paints. Also I can not see some paints in my stash: e.g. Mr. Color Iron 212 and Dark Iron 214

Mike Pullen
Just merged a Hobby Boss T-6 Texan and lost the Doyusha kit on timeline. Needs resetting or whatever.

Mark Ree
Can somebody give me a bit of advice. I been collecting the Antonov An-74/72 kits in 1:72 scale. I have amended the time line to reflect the kit production. The trouble is now when you search for the An-72 it doesn't show up but it does on an An-74 search. This is a bit like the MiG-23/27 time line. Do I keep it as is or do I split off the An-72?

Martin
Don't know if it has been mentioned already, but the total count of kits in my stash is not correct. It seems some kits are counted multiple times (maybe kits that are in project?), so stash count is higher than the actual total of kits in my stash.

Mike Pullen
Personally Vic i think the An-72 and An-74 topics should be merged. They're basically the same aircraft and have the same Allied codename.

John Van Kooten
Shouldn't we be careful here? Merging things? This is a kit database and as such if a kit is different, even only one letter on the box, it should be added as an individual kit. This is a collectors corner, not a military database😉 just saying...

Steve Wilson
...
I with agree John VK on this one, using a Ferrari 412 T1 and Ferrari T1B as an example same car but with updates, making the kits different.
I'd be well annoyed someone merging those, you ask Tim!!!😢

scalemates Author
@john: Mike talks about merging topics! Not about merging products😉

H K
Regarding merging topics, I suggest to merge Sturmgeschütz III SCM Topic: No longer exists and Sturmhaubitze III SCM Topic: No longer exists. Also Sd.Kfz. 231 SCM Topic: No longer exists , Sd.Kfz. 232 SCM Topic: No longer exists , Sd.Kfz. 233 SCM Topic: No longer exists They are more like Sd.Kfz. 234/1 - 234/x The distiction to make would be 6 wheels or 8 wheels.
And 10,5 cm Leichtgeschutz LG 42/1 SCM Topic: No longer exists , 7,5 cm Leichtgeschütz 40 SCM Topic: No longer exists to simply Leichtgeschütze.

John Van Kooten
@Tim: yes, in his last post Mike did but I was talking in general, not specifically targeting Mike, or anyone for that matter 🙂 I see the word "merged" and "duplicate" coming along quite often and I think we should be careful not to lose important data. Especially for collectors even the smallest change in detail on the box can mean the difference between a unique, high value item or just a regular, low cost one.

So I'm just trying to make people aware of the dangers of simply going with what "you" think is right 👍

Steve Wilson
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QUOTE>>>@john: Mike talks about merging topics! Not about merging products<<<END QUOTE
You say that Tim, but members can also then see the topic merged and automatically assume, Oh! I'll merge the kits too, if the topic's the same so's the kit... Especially those not familiar with the subject including the real subject, the real subjects are updated on a regular basis, especially F1 and road cars. So if you don't know leave it alone...
I do not, will not make changes to Military, Ships or Aircraft topics/products, UNLESS I'm 200% positive!!!

Mark Ree
The point I was trying to make was not about merging actual products but as Mike has pointed out about "Topics" The An-71/72/74 are all the same airframe but have been modified updated over time. The kits reflect this. If you put An-74 in the topic box in the details form all the kits will be grouped under that topic. It is when you then you conduct a search "Antonov An-72" the kit no longer appears. Should the search be looking at Topic or Title.

Steve Wilson
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@Vic I'm not having a pop at you or anyone, like John I'm speaking in general...
If AN-71,2,4 and any others out there are all from the same egg and you're happy merging them, then you merge away my friend...
My subject is CARS, not just Ferrari, any Cars, although Ferrari are my passion and what I build (model wise).
I have limited knowledge on other modelling subjects although I do admire, appreciate, am easily impressed with all the Military builds I see, I learn techniques in weathering, building, painting, building materials, tools etc etc etc...
But as for building one, that does not interest me one iota.
So I leave all the topic, subject, reference, kit stuff and all the other knowledgeable details to you Guys😢

Phil Marchese
This issue and insturctions in different locations on scalemates are confusing and perhaps in conflict. I typed a post a few days ago using ferarri as an example. for some reason it did not generate and I did not retype it. however this string bears testimony that there is confusion.

the product history should be just that...one tool per product history, to include new parts added to the tool and /or decals and boxes. if the same tool is reissued by various brand it is still the product tool.

however the subject is another matter. the new B-17s by Airfix and Revell are new tools and thus new production which should have independent product history. When you open a box there should be no surpris...this is the old renwal tool of 1954!

now if tou want a SUBJECT history of kits then different tools and introduction dates would be timelined. however that is a distict info tool from the product history.. the Airfix P-51 for example would have three product lines for the D and one B and be soon relative to the two Hasegawa D product tools.

topics I guess relate to the catagoized choices. Are all Rolls Royce Silver Ghost one topic although the car spans several decades from 05 into the classic pre-war period? ditto Chevy Corvettes... do they cluster by body vevision (generations) or are all 60 model years one topic?

Related products should be decals parts and acessories for the subect.

competiting product choices would be in the subect history...is the 1:j32 hellcat offered by different copanies? or are they all one tool (product history)?

Günther Debiscop
@ John, I follow your opion as a (small) collector myself.

That's why I also don't like to have kits merged when there is e.g. a price extension on a kit's catalogue number. Some of those are really just a small difference on the box (the number) but for some of them there is really a difference in the contents in the box.
And for us collectors that's also a very important indicator, because kit's with a low price extension are older and therefore (not by default) more rare.
That's one of the reasons I asked SMC (Tim) for the possibility of adding pictures of the box sides/back.

Regarding the box numbers, I see a lot of users pitting in other box numbers as the alternative number, although these are really other issues of the same kit (Different country/year/etc). Although clearly stated in the remark, they still do it wrong.

Next to this, I see in some topics that a de-merge might be more usefull than a merge. E.g. the Chevrolet Corvette. OK, they are all CC's but a 1950's Corvette is not the same car as a 1990's Corvette.

The search function should indeed be able to select both topic and box name. And it does if I remember right.

The problem is that we have a lot of contributers, and some of them do it wrong, and then it's up to us to correct things. Also for e.g. the decal options. Why someone puts "no decal" in the decal options always buffes me, but I just correct it, "et voila". 🙂

I'm also pro fur typing in the box name as it is stated on the box. If it is in capitals, I do the same. Sometimes I'm wondered why people put in other boxnames then clearly stated on the box... But then I correct it also... 😉

In any case, Tim can't check all the data himself before approving the additions/changes. So it is up to us to help him out, and I clearly love doing it. 🙂 🙂

Mark Ree
@Steve I was just trying to highlight a little quirk about the topic/title search. I am like you and my only interest is aircraft kits and would have no idea about cars etc. I have an avid interest in collecting the kits and following the time lines/history (probably more than making them) and I would only update a product if:
1. I have the kit in my stash.
2. I can 100% confirm that the update is correct.

Mark Ree
nice 🙂

scalemates Author
euhm, I can no longer follow! all stays the same as is 🙂

Mark Ree
It looks i got nowhere with this Topic / Title issue. I do not want to merge any kits i was just trying to find the best way of constructing a time line with the same tooling but different product names on the box. There are quite a few like this, the MiG-23/27 also has the same problem. When you search the data base for a "Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-27" it only gives me 3 results. Is this how the data base works or am I missing something?

Mark Ree
I am also missing some kits I added to my stash. They do not show on my stash list but if I view product it shows my avitar and holdings at the bottom of the page.

Mark Ree
This seams to be a glitch in Modus BETA have switch back to normal and missing items are showing OK.

Steve Wilson
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Vic, I've been using Beta since it was first introduced, I'm not getting the problems you are!!!
Check it again, if still the same e-mail Tim...

Mark Ree
I have just switched back to Beta and they are still not showing.

Steve Wilson
...
E-mail Tim he'll get it quicker than posting it here!!!

scalemates Author
on it! there was a background process which crashed and didn't trigger the sync process. Restarting now, will be fixed in 5mins

scalemates Author
issue should be fixed! current delay between adding an item to the stash and having it visible is 5secs. Trying to reduce this even further.

Mark Ree
Thanks Tim 🙂

Phil Marchese
Gunther, I have on occassion put no decals in the first option and I will tell you why. I was prompted to in the contributor page where a kit would remain in my contribution page as nneding decal info until no decals was entered. there is no option to elect no decals in content and stating it in the first decal option puts that info into the database. one can argue that by deleting it you are deleting useful infomation that was prpmpted by SM. this is an answer not an admonishment.

scalemates Author
Do not change data because scalemates prompts you for something!!!! Rather tell me about it so i can fix!!!

Phil Marchese
the price extension topic has pros and cons however until there is a place to state what is different in the box and were the typography and art otherwise Iidentical, I have made a praction of stating so in the alternate number field. proliferation for price extension as separate listing is debatable. personally I leave them if there but only note them if its my contribution. again' even identical boxings may be molded in various colors at various times and some are far less common. Certain colors are more desirable to certain building styles however this type info is beyond the current framework of SM so the best options for collectors would seem to be adding a REVIEW from a collector site which addresses the indepth twists in collecting a given product. the general rule seems to be don t delete without discussion.

scalemates Author
Ps: this post wi be closed, this is no longer a nitpicking thread as it was the intention. Way too many different discussions going on at once 🙂 to be honest i no longer understand yhe context

Lucas C.
Tim--the problem I posted about earlier still exists. Not sure what is causing it, but the Edelweiss tank products are not even showing up in normal searches. See my post above for more details.

David Lengyel
Impossible to edit or delete my own comments in the SCM Mobile. Using Android.

scalemates Author
Thx Lucas, will have a look at it! I was the last days in the road

scalemates Author
Thx David, will check

Stefan Suessemilch
Tim, suddenly my stash is showing some kits I never added, seems to be all from the company "Tenariv", I didn't even knew them... so I had to remove all Tenariv kits from my stash.

Stefan Suessemilch
btw.... a "sort by company" filter woud be great 😉

Frank Krause
Hi Stefan,
a company filter is available, when you filter for kits. As long as your are in "all" mode, the company filter doesn't appear.

Stefan Suessemilch
Ahhh OK, thanks Frank😉

scalemates Author
@Stefan: can you give an example of such a kit which was in your stash?

Stefan Suessemilch
Here's a picture of it Tim: [img1]

Steve Wilson
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Although I like/love the new system, there does appear to be some teething problems, although I have not found (this time, but have done in the past) extra items in my stash, as...
Stefan did, (BTW, reading that is why I checked my stash,) every single item has now plussed x1.
So if I had just one in my stash, I now have x1, if I had x1 I now have x2, was x2 now x3 and so on...
Not a big problem as such, just a real pain having to go through it all to correct it...
The problems seem to be different member to member, judging by the comments above.
Anyway! just letting you know... Back to the Grand Prix!!! stash can wait😄

Frank Krause
Just checked my stash. As far as I am concerned, I cannot confirm Steve's experiences. Stash looks ok. No strange kits, correct numbers, nothing missing (except those, I haven't bought yet😉 ).

scalemates Author
if you had 1, you have 1x
If you had 1, you have 2x

?

I don't understand what you want to say. When I look at your stash they most are "1x". Which specific kit has an issue?

Rob Tittle
I have found three of those kits in my stash and deleted them, all 1/43 scale Grand Prix cars.
Cheers Rob.

Steve Wilson
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@Frank... But it does confirm problems are different for different members...
Something that is similar between our two stash's...
Mine doesn't show ones I haven't bought yet either😄

scalemates Author
Please, when it happens do NOT make a change. And tell we which kit it is. I can cross check with the old version. But AFAIK this has nothing to do with the new version of scalemates. We made layout changes, no data changes

Steve Wilson
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Haven't touched it Tim... British GP first, I also thought you'd look at it👍

scalemates Author
"British GP"? please send link of kit

Stefan Suessemilch
😄 Tim

Rob Tittle
Found one more in my stash: Toleman TG184 Monaco GP 1984 Tenariv 1:43 291. I have not deleted this one.
Cheers Rob.

Choppa Nutta
Steve means the Formula 1 race at Silverstone, British GP, is on TV right now and that he wants to watch it before doing anything else 🙂

scalemates Author
ah ok, understand 🙂! no worries Steve

scalemates Author
@Rob: Thx! will investigate now. As it is also an Tenariv I see a pattern

Rob Tittle
All the kits I found were Tenariv. I found it odd as I have no 1/43 scale kits. 😄
Cheers Rob.

Glenn
When showing "All" listed Aircraft kits in your stash "de Havilland" now appears at the bottom of the A-Z list ???

scalemates Author
yes! known bug! nothing you need to do, will be fixed

John E
Hi Tim. I was looking up expert's-choice decals and found this: scalemates.com/search-solr.p..ert%27s+choice&qs=Search. Technically, I guess that is correct since Experts Choice is a Bare Metal Foil product. I know this isn't a bug but am not sure if we should change those two or the other lot.

John E
I meant as opposed to these: scalemates.com/search-solr.p..s-choice+decal&qs=Search

scalemates Author
Thx John! I will investigate. I would have expected seeing all of them in both cases.

John E
I believe searching on "experts-choice" shows all of them. My point is that a few say the company is "Bare Metal Foil" but the majority state the company as "Experts Choice" I don't know how picky we want to be but "Bare Metal Foil" is probably more correct.

Jan H.
If you check the instructions most of them are An Experts-Choice Decal and only a few a Bare-Metal Decal.
You have a similar problem with Almark Decals and E.D. Models

Jan H.
When exporting my wishlist with 42 posts I only get the 41 kits, not the book I have.
The same with my stash.
Different items in stash: 1402 = 1254 kits, 110 paints, 38 books.
When I export I get 1390 lines in the csv file.

Glenn
Jan i have the same problem... My stash list seems to be missing items too. And it doesn't load up all in one hit anymore as you scroll down i keep seeing "loading" I have the 4 largest stash on scalemates and now it takes a long time to scroll down. People with much smaller collections may not see this? I much prefered the older way of viewing the stash. If this is the way it is now i won't bother to visit here too often... 🙁

John E
@Glenn: Is the loading problem only in Beta mode? I like the sorting features of that mode but I disabled it because I like the non-beta kits list better. IMHO, it's better organized and loads more quickly.

Glenn
Hi John, I don't know which mode it's in? I'm just visiting the scalemates page via the usual web way. I've tried it with explorer and firefox and it takes about 10 "loading" messages to get from the top of my "jet" stash which is around (970 kits) to get to the bottom of the list so i guess it only loads up about 100 at a time. My system is Win 7 with a pentium 2.7 dual core, 8 GB of memory (fine loading everything else i run) all drivers/ browsers up to date. I've also tried it on two other systems and no faster. I would like to see the catagory placed to the top of the search because most people have one interest such as Tanks, Cars etc etc then break it down with scales and so forth. I really miss just going to the " My Stash" then choosing the section i want to look at! MUCH FASTER!!! 😮

John E
Glenn: Sounds like you are in Beta mode. Go to the Contributors page and select Disable Beta Features. That should restore it to the way you like it.

Glenn
John E, I just checked i'm seeing it in Normal modus NOT Beta!!! ? 🙁
I realise not everyone has such a big stash list as mine but i do miss the "good old days" Things were just much simpler...

Glenn
Tim, I really would like to see "Category" as the first thing you see on the sidebar. Think about it... most people don't want to see everything in one hit, They have a interest in say "Tanks" or "Cars" so choosing this first filters out everything in your collection (if you have other items?) then you narrow it down by "Scale" (not a problem if you only do one scale) or "Brand" depending on how far you want to narrow down your search. I just find seeing everything in your collection at once a big messy list unless you refine (it everytime you do a search!) Then when i have "jumped" back a page it's ALL GONE and you have to start again refining the search! ARRH....???

Glenn
The jump back bit refers to looking at a item closer on it's own page then jumping back to the main stash list (it's all gone and you have to start again) searching....

scalemates Author
Hi Glenn, let me dig into this this evening. I don't understand that during the BETA testing you replied that all was great and fine and that now you make statements like 'i won't bother to visit here too often' … As said, I will look into this evening.

At first glance: The issue is not that you don't have a big stash, it seems that you have so many different scales (compared to others) in your stash which pushes the "category" to the bottom. I'll see what I can do, to make your category selection easier.😉

scalemates Author
@John: Beta modus was a way to test new features for some key users in advance for feedback. What was beta 2 days ago is now the standard. (enabling/disabling beta will go away in a few days)

scalemates Author
@Jan H.: good catch, indeed the export only exports kits at the moment. I will make changes so you can export all data.

Günther Debiscop
I've noticed that for some kits that hadn't their decal info added yet, after the release they disappeared from my contributer's page due to having no more box contents anymore. I already updated their box content, but I think there will be some more like this, not in my stash.

John Van Kooten
@Tim: maybe a good/handy option in such cases where people have enormous lists would be to be able to collapse/expand all filter sections with one button that's at the top? Or, maybe even better, a button to collapse/expand all filter sections but keep the filter sections where boxes have been ticked open.

That way, if you collapse all filters they will all be within easy reach and one could open just the filter he wants to use. Not sure if something like that is doable but it may make it easier for some users?

Another small question, something I just noticed: is it possible to see the total number of physical items in the stash somewhere? I do see the number of DIFFERENT items in stash but not a total count? Or should I maybe open my eyes and take a closer look? 😛 if it's not possible no big deal of course but still a valuable piece of information (for me) 🙂

scalemates Author
@Gunther: should not be related to the new release. No data changes were done. Nor has the contributor logic changed. (Since when are you seeig this?)

scalemates Author
Good suggestions John, i was also thinking about having the option for every individual to select the order of filters. So if in Glenn's example category is preferred as first item he can save his preferences. And others can keep the order as is....@Glenn: would that work?

Phil Marchese
Agree. That is similar to what I tried to convey in my PM on electing how to sort. Consider also please being able to rank order the elections and sub- categories. In other words, maybe elect sort planes, then cars, then ships and within, sort scales ascending or resending. Or sort first by company, then scale,then type.

Glenn
Tim, I have always loved how easy it is to use the Stash lists (in the past!) it was a simple list of different categories at the top of your stash summary (I would love the option to allow this still?), You could then jump straight to the section of your stash! Not worrying about sorting scale, No problems and it loaded up very quickly (even with a long list of kits!) Most of my kits are constant scale eg: 1/72 Aircraft or 1/25 scale Cars ,Trucks or 1/35 scale Armour (Not that many others scales) I know the new expanded list will make it faster and easier to "find a certain kit" when looking something up. But from a "stash" point of view it's a bit of a pain just looking for your items without filtering everything out. It seems to "auto default" to "show" everything in your stash (at first) until you block out all other things you don't want to see. I hope you can understand what i'm getting at? I have always believed in keeping things simple if it gets too tricky I loose interest trying to sort it out. Like I said before it's very annoying if your in your stash list and take a closer look at one of the items "clicking on a certain item" then when you try to "backpage out of it" and it sends you right back to the top of your stash list instead of the position you were in before you took a closer look at one item, (like it used to!) You then have to scroll all the way back down the list and wait for the page "loading" stuff to get back to he same place again. My concern may not bother people with only a dozen kits in there stash list. But it sure makes things difficult for a larger list. O.K I'll let you get back to sorting things out! cheers Glenn.

Glenn
Just tried to look at only "Jets" section in my stash (928 items) when it loaded and I scrolled down a bit to look at a "Boeing 747" kit in greater detail, then backed out of that page (with the backspace arrow) it through me back to the top of an "unfiltered search" after thinking about it for a long time... (a good few seconds....) not good! then I have to filter out everything again to continue down the stash list (This never happened in the past) That's enough to stop anyone looking any further... 🙁 HELP!!!

Günther Debiscop
Tim, sended you a PM with details.

John Van Kooten
@Tim: oh yeah! custom ordering of the filter groups would be awesome! 👍

And if we'd take that one step further, which I think would definitely solve Glenn's problem, is to be able to create custom filter sets. Like you tick a few boxes and have the ability to save that selection under a name of your choosing. That way Glenn could define the filter sets he wants (the ones we had in the "old" system) and it would definitely also come in handy for everyone else.

If those filter sets are also grouped under a separate header (which can collapse/expand individually), we could drag that to the top of the list and have it available and handy at all times.
Maybe even an option to set one of those custom defined filter sets as default, so it will auto-load if you go to your stash?

That might take a fair bit of extra programming though, so this is more like a suggestion for a future update maybe?😉

Glenn
I "LIKE" your thinking John!!! I hope something can be sorted out! Tim is a genius!!! I'm sure it will be sorted out sometime! Because right now i don't want to bother looking at the stash page, It's too slow (at the moment for a large list) and it don't remember things when you go back a page.(it used too) Maybe that's something to do with cache? After i scrolled down the list a bit clicked on a subject to look at it then back out of the page it was sending me way back to the top again... Making it very difficult to look at things in closer detail as you go down the stash list. I guess it's not a problem with only a few kits in a stash? Maybe the 3 other guys above me in the largest stash list can tell you more?

Mike Pullen
I've had to stop contributing as i can no longer search anything in the database while logged in, all is fine when i am logged out.

Mike Pullen
Make that fault intermittent

Rob Tittle
I would like to be able to filter the stash by Year. 🙂
Cheers Rob.

scalemates Author
Year of release of the kit, year of the date you purchased it, year of the specific decal options of the kit?

Rob Tittle
Year of release. 🙂

scalemates Author
Year of release was added as an option to filter when looking at "kits"

scalemates Author
@Glenn: I'm working on the User interface so every user can choose which filters appear on the right hand side, as well as the order. The UI is not ready, but when YOU are looking at your stash you will already see the modified order. (scale at the bottom)

My question now for you and the others: When looking at for example 'kits' in your stash or 'kits' in the full search engine. Do you want these filters to be the same? or do you have other requirements when searching in general?

Choppa Nutta
a little consistency in the filters would be good 🙂
Extra features should be extras 🙂

scalemates Author
"a little consistency in the filters would be good"? where is there no consistency?

Choppa Nutta
you asked if you want these filters to be the same 🙂
yes please and any extra features should be extras 🙂

scalemates Author
ah ok, got it!😉

John Van Kooten
@Tim: for me personally the filters could be the same. My search methods are the same between stash and general searches.

Jan H.
@Tim . I would like to see an own main category for hobbytools.
Airbrushes, saw blades, pliers, etch benders etc. They are all under kits now.
scalemates.com/search-solr.p..TION[]=All&q=%22Tools%22
Generates 1716 hits.

scalemates Author
Thx John!

John Van Kooten
@Jan H: I just click on category "Tools" (no other things selected) and then I have all the tools. Right?

John Van Kooten
Jan H., Tim is superfast! Just watch! 😛

Jan H.
Tim is the best! 🙂 👍
I had to narrow down the search for "tools" or "hobbytools" to no or 1:1 scale and it was a bit better

John Van Kooten
Aaah, right! 👍 Good to know. Thanks 🙂

I think the filters may take a little getting used to at first (finding our way to best results) but I really like them 🙂 and seeing how Tim is (very) actively and constantly improving things, user request or not, I think in no time we will have a system that works wonders for everyone 😄

Dierk W. Dreier
How it is possible to edit a review link?
Set the wrong link of this kit:
Bf 109G (G-2, G-2 Trop, G-4, G-6, G-14) (Eduard R0009, 1:48)
If i klick on "edit", there is just the option to report this link as failure.
No way to change direct.
Thats the right link for the MB-Review:
modellboard.net/index.php?topic=50028.0

scalemates Author
@Dierk: fixed!

scalemates Author
@John VK: Clicking on the "refine by" header in the filter will collapse all filters. (still requires some work but it quickly gets complex)

John Van Kooten
@Tim: just what the doctor ordered!! 😄 Awesome! Thank you VERY much!! 👍 👍

And I totally understand the complexity of it all. I'm a programmer myself. Take aaaaaall the time you need 👍 We are not going anywhere 😄 😄

scalemates Author
Fixed the "de Havilland" issue in a temp fix by renaming all "de Havilland" topics to "De Havilland". When fixed this will be renamed in bulk again.

Gerald
What is that Alles mögliche | Album by Sir Grobian

Jan H.
When I choose Tools

The Instrument Bezels decals show up there
Grouped as: Hobby Material - Bits & Pieces

Other no scale decals like this
Loga Hamilton 1,2 a 4 mm (APC Decals 90003, No)
show up Grouped as: Accessories - Other

Regroup of all the Instrument bezels to "Accessories - Other"?

scalemates Author
fixing...

Urban Gardini
When I just added a sheet of decals from Starfighter Decals there was two Starfighter Decals to choose from in the popup list.

scalemates Author
Fixed

H K
I cannot click on the scale filter - for example SCM Brand: No longer exists

scalemates Author
oops, bug! will fix

scalemates Author
@HK: I made some changes to the company page. The "show" all will now kick off a search showing only the company kits. This gives you the option to filter as well.

scalemates Author
The same is true, for gallery articles. A link was added to easily find all gallery articles from a specific company

H K
Working. Thanks 👍

Jörg Luther
If I add a newly contributed product to my stash it nearly always is added twice.

ricmac50
Someone help!!!! I'm looking for the ACADEMY 1:48 SCALE F8F Bearcat "French Air Force" kit # 12201. Last week I was surfing the web and came across this model but in Blue Angel Decals for sale, I thought I had ordered the model but It did not go through as a sale, don't know what happened. I can't remember who (hobby shop) I ordered the model from. Price if not mistaken was about 20.49. Anyone available to help......

Jörg Luther
@ricmac50: In the so called History your webbrowser remembers which sites you visited. In Firefox and Chrome you open it with [Ctrl]+[H], in Internet Explorer with [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[H]. The history gives you a timeline, so that you should be able to identify the relevant site without problems.

John Van Kooten
Is there a way to get to see the actual physical number of items in the stash without having to do an export first? At this moment I can only see the number of DIFFERENT items.

The difference in number is not small in my case. If I select Full Kits + Figures, the stash tells me I have 196 different items but in reality there are 292 actual physical items.

I would love to be able to see the actual number of items in the stash, not just the different items, for the current selection. Is it possible?

scalemates Author
Is it possible? No 🙁
Will it be possible? Absolutely 🙂
When? soon😉

John Van Kooten
Hahaha! 😛 Alright Tim 😉

Very cool! 👍 I will await the arrival of that feature patiently 😄 thanks!!

Ludovic
Hello Tim,

There is a little problem with the filters on the right panel. When you have filtered a result and you open an item, then if you go back to the result page, the filters are still checked but not applied to the list. A little of work for you during this sunny day😉

Thank you!

Rob Tittle
When viewing your stash and adding a extra item the site becomes unresponsive and does not show the extra item till leaving the page and coming back, I did have one filter on.
Cheers Rob.

John Van Kooten
I can confirm the not updating the page part. I added extra items to some Vallejo paint bottles and the small box when you click the PLUS-sign said two items but the page itself didn't update (until I left the page and returned).

I can kind of understand why it doesn't but it would be nice if there's a way to dynamically update those "Stash 1x" fields as well 🙂

For now I just click one of the filters checkboxes on/off (or off/on) and the page updates itself😉

Everything kept working smoothly though. No hangs or unresponsiveness. With and without filters selected.

scalemates Author
@Rob: Are you talking about the extra stash which is not visible when the "green +" is still expanded or after you clicked on the "green +" again?

Rob Tittle
I think John described it better, at one point I added six extra items because they don't show until refresh.
Cheers Rob.

Phil Marchese
When using the main search in upper right, there is no album choice in drop down menu. I don t understand why not.
also if one elects members and starts to search the auto fill prompts topics or products but not member name. that would be a good fix to have it prompt names.

Jan H.
SCM Topic: No longer exists
or
scalemates.com/search-solr.p..tonov+An-24%22&qs=Search
All the An-124 Ruslan has become Antonov An-24 Ruslan in the gallery.
and, the real An-24 isn't named Ruslan

Frank Krause
Hi Tim,

might it be possible to do the filters of a search in numerical/alphabetical order?

E.g. when you look for Tiger I and you want to filter for a certain company, it is difficult to find the company, because presently the filters are lined up by number of kits the company has in the database.
For the scales it is still ok, because there aren't that much, but other filters I prefer alphabetical order.

[img1]

John Van Kooten
You can already do that, Frank 🙂

You need to click on "A-Z" under the REFINE BY (sort filters) entry at the top of the lists. Its default is "Relevance".

scalemates Author
It is already possible! There is a link called "A-Z" close to the reset all link

John Van Kooten
Right here: [img1]

Frank Krause
Got it! Thanks!

Hmmm, I would still prefer, if it would be alphabetical from the beginning, and sort for relevance, when needed. I still haven't found the importance of relevance in the filters (for me), when it is sorted for relevance.... There is an explanation for it...?

John Van Kooten
If I'm not mistaken, once you have selected "A-Z" this setting is stored in a cookie (or somewhere else, linked to your account) and is the default for your account from then on. Even if you close and re-open the browser.

The relevance setting is probably explained best by its name 🙂 when sorted by relevance, the list is ordered so that if you search for TIGER, for instance, the list shows the things that are most relevant to a tiger tank first. Like, "GROUP > Vehicles" would be more relevant to a tiger search compared to "GROUP > Science Fiction". And "CATEGORY > Tanks" would be more relevant compared to "CATEGORY > Propeller".

At the same time, I must admit that I do not know how relevance is linked to a certain search query 😄 I think Tim can answer / explain that one much better than me😉

scalemates Author
"Hmmm, I would still prefer"... it remembers your preference😉

scalemates Author
Relevance = the more results returned belonging to that filter the higher the relevance. or it is sorted by the number between the brackets

Jan H.
Here is a double to merge
SCM Book:
SCM Book:

Lucas C.
I found a slew of doubles and reported them, too.

Dirk Fries
Double-Alarm

Dodge WC-51, WC-52, WC-54 placards (Eduard TP506, 1:35)

Dodge Data Plates (Eduard TP506, 1:35)

Henrik Stæhr
I've just added two kits to my wishlist. But only the first one is shown in the newsfeed/wall. But both kits were added to my wishlist.
HTL-4 U.S. Coast Guard (Academy 2200, 1:35)
Bell 47D MASH Helicopter (MRC BA102, 1:35)

Urban Gardini
The newsfeed only show the latest additions in order to not clutter it.

Henrik Stæhr
Makes kind of sense. Is it only when adding more of the "same" kit?

Urban Gardini
Wishlist n' stash additions is separate in the feed so if you add a lot I think you'll only see your latest wishlist item n' your two latest stash items in the public feed. Could be wrong with the numbers of course but it's along that way it works.

Lucas C.
I found two entries for the company Fotocut. I think the one with the two products should remain--the other needs to be deleted. Here are the links.
SCM Brand: No longer exists
SCM Brand: No longer exists

Gustavo Antonelli
I changed the status of my project "Albatros D.V/Va" from "work in progress" to "completed", but this is not updated in the project list, and remains as "work in progress". I also changed to "completed" the entry in the stash list, but it still remains there.
I also added a new entry in the stash as a completed project from the Revell 1/72 Heinkel He 70 "Blitz" entry, but the list is not updated.

berni
hello tim, i have seen that in the "For Sale" department there is no selection possible like "Stash". on over 100 kits it is difficult. 🙂

Lucas C.
Two more duplicate companies--this time for Real Model. The first one ( 538 ) is the one to keep, as the second one doesn't have any products in it.
SCM Brand: No longer exists
SCM Brand: No longer exists

Mike Pullen
Can internet etiquette be used when contributing. One of my pet hates is ALL CAPITALS and it is considered shouting on the net. I have been changing a load of entries (mainly Airfix) that have been done in capital letters, there is still loads to do.

Urban Gardini
Some stuff should be all capitals. SAAB for example as that's an abreviation.

Steve Wilson
...
QUOTE>>>"Some stuff should be all capitals. SAAB for example as that's an abreviation.<<<END QUOTE
Excellent point Urban...
AUDI is another one that is oh! so often written Audi, AUDI is not a word it's an abbreviation/acronym meaning:
Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt...

Steve Wilson
...
SAAB by the way means: Svenska Aeroplan Aktie Bolaget...
NOT Swedish Automobiles Always Breakdown😄 titter!!!

Urban Gardini
Well, we say "Sist Av Alla Bilar" (Last place of all cars) or "Sälj Aset Annars Byt" (Sell the crap or Exchange it). BTW I drive a Volvo myself...

Jörg Luther
@Steve Wilson: "Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt" is a backronym. The company name is based on the Latin translation of the surname of the founder, August Horch. When Horch exited his first company, Horch Motorwagenwerke, in 1909, he founded a secondy company, Horch Automobilwerke. His former company immediately sued him for copyright infringement. The german Supreme Court decided that the brand name belonged exclusively to the first company. So Horch renamed the new company as "Audi". Horch in German means "Listen!", which is "audi!" in Latin. The trade register entry indeed is "AUDI Aktiengesellschaft", but for any other purposes the company itself uses "Audi AG". Just have a look at the Audi website.

Stefan Suessemilch
@ Steve: it doesn't happen that often, but in this case I have to correct you. "Audi" is based on the latin word "audire", which in german means "höre or horch" August Horch is the founder of the company. After some disagreement with the Horch company he decided to launch a new company. To circumvent the naming rights, with a little help of a student he created "Audi", which is not written in capital letters. 😉

Phil Marchese
Tim, the drop down menu in the decal option organization field still contains the non-existent US Army Air Force. The 1941 -1947 US air arm commanded by Arnold et al was plural: US Army Air Forces complementing the Ground Forces and Services Forces in 1843. The proper form has some odd capitalization. Both the singular form and the odd capitalization should be removed after all entries are globally replaced. At one point there was also an erronious US Air Army Force. Check for that. There does exist US Army Aviation as a speciality branch and that should be available.

Steve Wilson
...
Hi Guys, I did it to get you talking, didn't expect you to take me seriously...
I got it from here: abbreviations.com/AUDI
As I got the SAAB one from here: abbreviations.com/SAAB
Don't shoot me I'm only the joker, and that's a play on Don't shoot me I'm only the piano player Elton John...
Sorry if I upset you all...🙁

Holger Kranich
Is this a double or are there differences? I cant see any...

F-14A (Eduard 1192, 1:48)
Danger Zone (F-14A) (Eduard 1192, 1:48)

Jörg Luther
@Steve, not upset at all. 🙂 As I know that you're a hard-boiled car modeller - I'm a fan of your Ferraris - I just wanted to let you know the real background of the Audi name.

Choppa Nutta
Not upset !!!!!!
I am positively outraged !!!!!!!!!!!!
how dare Steve muddle up AUDI with Audi !!!
Whats next aUDI or audi ????
Simply outrageous !!!

Choppa Nutta
😄

Stefan Suessemilch
LOL Steve.... gotcha 😄

Steve Wilson
...
You all thought you knew me so well, I can still surprize you mates😢
Thanks for your thumbs up on my Ferrari's Jörg🙂
Chop' you forgot ALDI (((😄 ))) Lol!!!

Choppa Nutta
and Lidl's........

Choppa Nutta
and ASDA......

Lucas C.
There are two entries for Korean company Def.Model. The first one ( 927 ) is incorrect, the second one is the right one. Can they be merged?
SCM Brand: No longer exists
SCM Brand: No longer exists

Phil Marchese
If the policy us to be that a price extension change only is to be considered a new box the should the drop down menu have an election for New Box - Price Chance Only

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
I have a question, maybe I'm too stupid, but when I go in the stash on colors, I see all my colors. Ok!. But when I want to export a list of colors (PDF, CSV,..) then I see the entire stash in list, without colors! How do I export a color list? Thank you! 🙂

Jan H.
Here's a lot of stray comments about Zimmerit to the Lavochkin La-5 🙂
Lavochkin La-5 (Print Scale 72-011, 1:72)

scalemates Author
@Jan: Stray comments: fixed!
@Jonns: you are not too stupid😉 this will be fixed soon (currently no option to do it)
@Lucac C: Merged
@Phil: "Price change only" will just create more confusion.

Dierk W. Dreier
next double:

HMS Warspite 1943 Detail Up Set (Pontos Model 35001F1, 1:350)
Detail Up Set - HMS Warspite 1943 (Pontos Model F35001, 1:350)

Dierk W. Dreier
And this:
DKM Scharnhorst Wooden Deck ..ontos Model 35012WD1, 1:350)
Wood Deck - DKM Scharnhorst ..Pontos Model WD35012, 1:350)

and this:
IJN Yamato(New Tool) Detail ..Pontos Model 35003F1, 1:350)
Detail Up Set - IJN Yamato 1..Pontos Model 35003F1, 1:350)

The Product-Number of Pontos Model are different at the box and some shops. But its always the same kit.
So we have many doubles... :/

Dierk W. Dreier
Next example:

IJN Yamato Wooden Deck Set 1..ontos Model 35029WD1, 1:350)
Number: 35029WD1

Wood Deck - IJN Yamato 1945 ..Pontos Model WD35029, 1:350)
Number: WD35029

Burkhard D
Not necessarily doubles. It is the purpose of the timeline to show what precisely is in different boxings. If the same sprues and decals are in 10 different boxes with 5 different catalogue numbers, great.

Phil Marchese
...and since the tops may be identical but not the end panels, it gets impossible to tell!

Choppa Nutta
I find this all very confusing having several different entries for essentially the same kit.
My preference would be to have just one entry with the variations listed under the one entry, especially if the kit variations contain the same sprues and decals etc. I know we have the "timeline" thingy but even so....
Anyhow, thats just my thoughts on it 🙂

Steve Wilson
...
Choppa!!! Good idea... BUT!!! (there's that but again😠)
The " timeline " thingy is there exactly for that reason...
It shows the researcher the variations of a particular kit, which variation was released first and when the subsequent variations were released, when dates are known they are included...
As and when new information is found/available or the information is wrong, the researcher/viewer has the facility to update or change that information, any information that you can't include/change you inform Tim and he'll do it. Here is a good example: Ferrari 126C2 (Studio27 ST27-DX2014, 1:20)
What I'd like to say about this Kit is it's actually produced by Model Factory Hiro kit, but made in conjunction with Studio27. Apart from the label on the box in photo image, there is no facility for me to include this information, when I asked Tim... He said mention it in comments, which isn't very conducive to my idea, I'd like to be able to include History and other useful information to a prominent area as Decal information has...
But then I notice that the decal information is not included in this link???
That's what's wrong, no continuity!!!🤔 I spent hours including the decal information🙁

Steve Wilson
...
BTW, I mean History and other useful info related to the kit...
I've noticed decal info is included, sorry🙂

Lucas C.
I found two entries for the company Fotocut. I think the one with the two products (1864) should remain--the other needs to be deleted. Here are the links.
SCM Brand: No longer exists
SCM Brand: No longer exists

Lucas C.
I also found a slew of duplicates in the last few days and reported them.

Choppa Nutta
Steve, I kind of of imagined a separate pair of arrows to take you through the variations, I get the timeline thingy but it just seems REALLY messy to have a separate entries for all these slight variations of a kit 🙂

Steve Wilson
...
QUOTE "I kind of of imagined a separate pair of arrows to take you through the variations, it just seems REALLY messy to have a separate entry for all these slight variations of a kit" END QUOTE

Not really... with an arrow you have to keep flicking backwards and forwards to see all the different variations, at least the way they are, you can see them all together at once in row, any other info you need then you click on the necessary image in the row. I'd rather that than a series of arrows, what arrow should I click on? oh B****R that's the wrong one, flick back... click S**T another wrong 'en... and so on, that's messy!!!
I vote leave it as it is... Until Tim finds an even better way, sure there's things that need cleaning/tidying up, but Tim's getting there.

Choppa Nutta
haha perhaps 🙂
yeah Tim has done a good job thus far for sure

Dierk W. Dreier
@Burkhard: Maybe at other Kits. But the Pontos-Kits are doubles.
Check the Website of Pontosmodel.com:
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Every Kit starts with a number (23001 for example) and then the versionsnumber (F1, F2, WD1, etc.)
The requestet Kits on scalemates starting with the letter (F) and then the id-number (23001).
Thats wrong. Check google. No other website or onlineshop gives a result for the wrong number except scalemates.com.
So there are no updatet kits, or later releases. Just doubles. And there are a lot of pontos-doubles this way. :/

scalemates Author
@Dierk: fixing

scalemates Author
@Dierk: fixed! scalemates.com/search-solr.p..s&q=pontos&qs=Search

scalemates Author
@Lucas: fixed fotocut

Dierk W. Dreier
THX. 😄

Jan H.
SCM Brand: No longer exists
If I choose "Show all Products"
scalemates.com/search-solr.p..rop%20&%20Jet%22&q=*
resulting in no hits.

Jan H.
I guess the & messes it up

Lucas C.
I found two entries for the Bare-Metal Foil Co. The first one (3819) should be eliminated. The second one is more accurate and has all the products liked to it.

SCM Brand: No longer exists
SCM Brand: No longer exists

Rob Tittle
This needs to be removed: SCM Brand: No longer exists

Cheers Rob.

Henrik Stæhr
A few companies to merge. Merge the first and keep the second:

SCM Brand: No longer exists
SCM Brand: No longer exists

SCM Brand: No longer exists
SCM Brand: No longer exists

SCM Brand: No longer exists
SCM Brand: No longer exists

SCM Brand: No longer exists
SCM Brand: No longer exists

Phil Marchese
Tim, in posting the Revell '57 Ford Fairlane 1:32 I inadvertently created two. The one with the incomplete product number should be deleted. Sorry. Phil

Burkhard D
Merged a handful of double book entries.

Allocated all books listed under "in Detail & Scale" to "Detail & Scale" (the latter where in 5:1 majority)

Merged the D&S KC-135 entry mislabeled as "707" with the correct entry.

Dierk W. Dreier
next double:

Bf 109E wheels (Eduard 648058, 1:48)
Bf 109E Wheels (Eduard 648058, 1:48)

Dierk W. Dreier
DB 601A/N engine (Eduard 648059, 1:48)
DB 601A/N engine (Eduard 648059, 1:48)

Daniel
This is not a jet:
Optica (Sharkit SHAR7263, 1:72)

Todd Payne
Revell KIT 5865 MiG-29 Fulcrum 1/48 is nowhere to be found in the database

Urban Gardini
Have it been added before? If not then it's just a case of adding it to the database! But shouldn't there be a zero in the product number when it comes to Revell?

Burkhard D
Depends. In the 80s they used 4-digit numbers for a while. The preceding zero came later.

Luc B
@Todd: do you maybe mean 85-5865? MiG 29 Fulcrum (Revell 85-5865, 1:48)

Todd Payne
Luc - yep that must be it. I've looked 30 different ways and never found it. The search function is very very specific. For example if you searched Revell Mig-29 it never came up. I'm new hear and some of the functionality is not straightforward - ie addind a "mate" took me forever to figure out etc. I'll try to add to the database with a pic of the box but I'm not sure I know how. It's the first model I've done in 30 years so it was a bummer not to find it!

Burkhard D
Todd, punching in 5865 into the search window will do. Likwise, just enter MiG-29 and then wait a little for the autocomplete function to suggest related topics. 🙂

Steve Wilson
...
Todd don't blame yourself!!!
I saw your post and added the product myself, that's why it's magically there now (((😄 )))

Ulf Petersen
(0., )
Does not accept my attending. 🙁 Any idea why?

Steve Wilson
...
Ulf what's actually the problem???

Burkhard D
@Steve😎 😄

Ulf Petersen
I chose the option "Attending this event", filled out the small pop up window and saved but that was not accepted/saved/whatever. I still dont show up in the attendants list.

Steve Wilson
...
Try signing out of scalemates, come out of scalmates completely, wait 5 or 10 minutes, go back in, sign on and try again...
It's worked for me before in similar situations, if it doesn't work contact Tim it could be a bug!!!

Bernd Kehm
This book can be deleted:
SCM Book:
It's the same as SCM Book:

Rob Tittle
Luc, is that Mig 29 not just a rebox of this: MiG-29 Fulcrum (Monogram 5825, 1:48)
Cheers Rob.

Günther Debiscop
Bernd, The books have been merged.

Ulf Petersen
@Steve: no success! 🙁
Neither here: (0., )
Nor there: (0., )

Günther Debiscop
Daniel, The "Optica" has been set correctly to propeller.

Steve Wilson
...
@Ulf, you'll have to mention it to Tim, I've had a look and if I was attending I could do it on both the links you've mentioned. I do not know why you can't!!! it's a conundrum🤔

scalemates Author
I'll check tonight

Ulf Petersen
Thank you!

scalemates Author
@Ulf: issue fixed!

Ulf Petersen
It worx!!! Great!🙂 Thank you so much!

Dirk Fries
Double :

Assorted miscellaneous US ve..ite) (Archer AR35001W, 1:35)

U.S. Fahrzeugmarkierungen un..iß) (Archer AR35001W, No)

Dirk Fries
Just had an error message "Unable to select database" from 16:06 'til 16:09 CET.
Maybe max_connection setting reached for mysqld ?

scalemates Author
nope 🙂 gzip script running on the backup of the database which takes 100% of the CPU

Dirk Fries
Ok, the problem of maintaining websites of international interest throughout all timezones ...

Dirk Fries
Me 262 B-1a (HobbyBoss 80378, 1:48)

Review on Modellboard is double

Łukasz Gliński
The company 'Plastyk':
SCM Brand: No longer exists
is a duplicate of 'ZTS Plastyk':
SCM Brand: No longer exists

Derek Huggett
Company 'Armory Models' is the same (duplicate?) as 'Armory'.

Lucas C.
I've got a small bug for you to chase down--in Firefox the "Home" and "Notifications" icons on the top ribbon do not show up. The only thing I see is a small rectangle that says "F015" for Home and "F086" for Notifications. The icons show up in Chrome, however.

scalemates Author
Version of firefox?

Lucas C.
Version 31.0

scalemates Author
Hmm, i have the same and it works...anyone else?

scalemates Author
Do you see them here? fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/

Lucas C.
I did a bit of testing and figured out what it was. I have NoScript installed on my copy of Firefox, and, even though all scripts were enabled for Scalemates, it apparently needed me to enable scripts for the Font Awesome site. Once I did that, the icons showed up.

Ulf Petersen
Found a double:
SCM Book:
SCM Book:

Steve Wilson
...
Tim you have this as too many new tools, but they are two different kits with two different item numbers...
The only similarity is they are of Wallace & Gromit by Airfix:
Wallace & Gromit (Airfix 51101, 1:12)
Motorbike & Sidecar Model Kit (Airfix 5100, 1:12)

berni
Hi Tim actual i Can Not Open pictures. When i Open a picture there i only an White surface.

Ulf Petersen
Hi Tim, I added one book to the database but I am not quite sure about the meaning of the "Important..."-note. Does it mean you do not want books like this:
SCM Book:
which is not according to a special vehicle/plane/ship in the database? If yes, please let me know and delete this book and the related company. So far I will only add books that fulfil the criteria.
Regards Ulf

Ulf Petersen
Sorry, I forgot to describe the topic: it's about the aerial battles in WWII with lots of photos, color schemes a.s.o.

scalemates Author
Correct, these type of books are currently not allowed.

Ulf Petersen
OK, sorry!
I obviously can't delete it. Would you please do this for me?

scalemates Author
@Berni: do you mean in albums? when yes, is it in the "image per image" view? if so, can you try mosaic/all at once view and let me know if it works?

Dirk Fries
Most of the Ak Products here are double : Paint range:

scalemates Author
I'm blind, which ones are double?

H K
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=4061 and scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=3859 for example

Dirk Fries
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=3845
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=4366

Dirk Fries
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=4061
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=3859

Dirk Fries
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=3860
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=4059

Dirk Fries
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=3861
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=4058

Dirk Fries
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=4060
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=3873

Dirk Fries
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=4062
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=3874

Mike Pullen
Timeline broken for PZL P.7 - PZL P.7a (PZW , 1:72)

Lionel Marco
There's a new batch of missing link review which appears as Escala Espanola

H K
I can`t remove kits from my wishlist.

Mike Pullen
Why not? Click on your name at top of page (next to logout), then select wishlist, click on green boxes with the + sign, click on arrows to the right of 'actions' then select remove.

Bernd Kehm
I had the same problem like H K but I realized that sometimes it last some minutes until the database will be altered.

H K
Thanks Bernd. Seems that this was the " problem".

Łukasz Gliński
Another doublets - result of the Plastyk merge I assume.
Sptfire:
Spitfire LF IXE (ZTS Plastyk None, 1:72)
Spitfire LF IXE (ZTS Plastyk MJ2769, 1:72)
and Czapla:
LWS Czapla (ZTS Plastyk S-01, 1:72)
LWS Czapla (ZTS Plastyk S01, 1:72)

Günther Debiscop
Lukasz, both have been merged.

Daniel
Is this a double? The same Boxart but different companies:
Sęp (PZW , 1:72)
Sep ( , 1:72)

Łukasz Gliński
PZW and PZW Siedlce are the same producer in fact.
There's no producer called PZW72, it's just PZW - "Siedlce" stands for the location

Jan H.
Here are some more PZW with the whole name written
SCM Brand: No longer exists.
and
the last "Mikro 72" to be moved to the company name ZTS Plastyk.
scalemates.com/search-solr.p..E[]=%22Mikro%2072%22&q=*

Łukasz Gliński
It's not even a double - I found another PZW instance:
SCM Brand: No longer exists

Mike Pullen
Sorted above

Todd Payne
Seems impossible to export Cost Data (Price) from stash entries. Can this be done?

scalemates Author
Not today, but i'll fix soon

Günther Debiscop
When is a figurine a model kit, and vice versa?
I've seen quite some figurines being added as full kit, whereas they can be considered a figurine. IMHO it should be always a firgurine if the "kit" is mainly a person (real or fiction).
Next to this, why do we not split the fiction characters in their own topic? e.g. Superman i.e. DC Comics. If Irom Man deserves his own one 😉

Urban Gardini
Whenever I try to look at an album the pictures doesn't load at first. I need to refresh before they load. SCM Errors | Album by McCoy

scalemates Author
A figurine is in principle always a figurine!

scalemates Author
@Urban: I don't have the issue (but I have done a change which can exactly have this result. my testing didn't show it)…. anyone else?

Günther Debiscop
I don't have that issue either Urban. Maybe some cookies giving a counter effect?

Urban Gardini
Strange!

Phil Marchese
ELCO 80 foot Class PT Boat

IM, THIS TOPIC/category is dupicated in lower case, I.e., elco.

scalemates Author
fixed

Mike Pullen
I have a load of icons that have disappeared Tim, am using Vista/Firefox/Adblockplus.
For instance, on homepage the 1st and 2nd tabs (home and notifications) have a square box with letters and numbers in. The same boxes appear within the box on the right in front of "My Profile" "My Topics" etc and now there are 2 of them in upper right on messages i have written like this will have.
On the contribution side of things the option to add a second number to kits is now hidden. A white box will appear when i hover mouse at the end of the "Number" box which i have to click now.
No doubt there will be many more things i will notice in time.

scalemates Author
if you have "1" you'll have all... you should check if you didn't block "Font-Awesome"

Mike Pullen
Fixed. I had to untick "Forbid @font-face" in noscript options.

scalemates Author
👍

Mike Pullen
Mostly fixed. Option to add second number to products is still hidden but i'll manage as it is.

Lucas C.
I have the same issue with the second number option being hidden. I've got Win8.1/Firefox/Noscript, if that helps.

Phil Marchese
TIM Under EDIT product information ,Manage Timeline, the left column is labled OLDER kit and the Right ,This kit . However the box between them say rebox from ..... and the right column drives the relaationship. So should the LEFT COLMN BE THE OLDER KIT for this to read and perform correctly. ( Or conversely the left (older kit) be the master and box read " was reboxed as" this kit (right). also the unlinck reverks to this boxing issue.

Jan H.
Is there any way to get the full version on a smartphone?
Even if I have desktop version ticked in on my phone it shows the crippled mobile version.

scalemates Author
As from now you can switch back to the "desktop version" in case you prefer to view this one on your phone. Please let me know (can be a PM) when you did, what device you use and the main reason for the switch. Cheers Tim

scalemates Author
second number issue = fixed

scalemates Author
@Guy: Below issue was fixed!
"Tim, if you have more than 6 identical items in the color stash, it is impossible to manage the 7th and 8th item because of the 'add color' field.

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Can you please fix this? Also, is it possible to create a single field for every single color that you want to manage? Because it it not easy to keep track in which color field you're working if you have many the same.."

scalemates Author
Another request implemented:
- When you upload new pictures there is a checkbox, when selected (default) it pushes your Album to the top of the newsfeed.
- Another change is that when viewing an album (newsfeed, or anywhere else) you will see a green box when pictures are uploaded in the last 6 hours.

Burkhard D
Hi Tim,
Re timelines...how about starting a new line when there is a new tool of a manufacturer for a certain type?

Two examples
Focke Wulf Fw 200 C-4 Condor (Revell 04312, 1:72)
F-14A Tomcat (High Visibility) (Hasegawa 00533, 1:72)

Re-boxings of Hasegawa second-last tooling kits were released after last new tool was out.
The rivet-monster Revell Fw200C-4 was re-boxed after the new-tool transport versions were out.

In both cases, the ancestry lines are not correctly drawn. Starting a new line with every new-tool would fix that and help disentangle some very long and complex lines...me thinks 🙂

Phil Marchese
I have been trying to make this distinction between product history vs subject (topic) history for months. Moreover, instructions conflict in places and the mechanics to de-link or correct do not either exist or work. In trying to be all the baby has gone out the window.

scalemates Author
"Moreover, instructions conflict in places " where specifically?
"mechanics to de-link or correct do not either exist or work" => specific example please (If the scale AND topic do not match, there is NO way to link.)

@Burhkard: yep, I agree we need to do something here.

Phil Marchese
Tim, I be pointed out specifics so many times to no avail I have no appetite to re-respit examples. I will generalerize with some specificity that in some places the rule ( and I believe correctly, is only one new tool per product history. Yet one can find this violated time and again the two examples from Burhkard are far from unique. Moreover topic linked timelines infer that kits are based on other kits merely because the subjects are the same. Ford model T of the 09 -15 era; 1917-27 era; Model A B and 18 of 27 - 32 and 34 era are all particularly ripe with examples as are P-51 and B-17 kits.

scalemates Author
Hi Phil, first if you don't tell me that it is related to a previous comment = I can't know it.

When the TOPIC is wrong the whole system crashes… when someone chooses a too generic topic = BAD. When someone chooses a too narrow topic = BAD. (e.g. AUDI for categorizing an A4 and A3 = Bad, also creating a topic For Audi A4 Diesel and one for Audi A4 Hybrid would be bad)

It think I said it already a few times as well. Just change the topic if it makes sense to do so. If there is an Aircraft called "ABC" and a car called "ABC", we should find a way to rename one of them. Keeping them both as ABC will mess up scalemates and indeed links can not be chosen or unlinked.

If a car called Ford Model T from 1700 is different than a car called Ford Model T from 2020 = we should split the 2!!!! (=problem solved, rename one of the topics and DONE). For example do a search for Toyota Corolla and you'll see how we managed it there?

Ford model T of the 09 -15 era; 1917-27 era => Please split 🙂 and call it Ford model T (1909-1915), Ford model T (1917-1927)

If there are 300 kits from one topic and only a few of the other. Rename only the ones which are "special". And I can bulk rename the rest very easily.

Makes sense? So to summarize, if the the TOPIC is bad = big issue with data = big issue on scalemates (including timelines and related products)

Have a look at Toyota Corola, would applying the same scenario work for Ford Model T and the others you mentioned in the past?

Tim

Henrik Stæhr
In Stash, under Purchase and Price, one can only use . (dot) for Postage, but for Price both , (comma) and . (dot) are allowed. Also both values are saved with only one decimal.

scalemates Author
@Henrik: Thx! all fixed

Phil Marchese
Tim, thanks, Phil. That Topic guidance will help. The view that is most most problematic is the one which is not structutured as a timeline but rather as a left and right column with"is based on" between them. most of those relationships are just not real.

Phil Marchese
The Academy and 1990s Airfix link is correct. The Revell kit for example is totally unrelated as a product tool.

Günther Debiscop
Phil, what is the problem with the Monogram Ford T? As far as I know, both T show models are from the same base mold.
As far as splitting car topics, I agree with Tim. There are e.g. far too many Mustangs (for my taste) in one specific topic. Although some might be using the same basic mold, with some small newer parts added via e.g. a seperate sprue.

scalemates Author
@Phil: are you talking about the "edit" page now? if they are not related you should not add a link. if there is no link they are not related. The edit page shows all potentially related kits. It is up to the contributor to select one. If I knew the relationship from the start I wouldn't have to have an edit page.

Phil Marchese
Tim, yes, I guess so. I mistook the section as a "de-conflict" area because so many are labled "impossible." The instructions and format did not lead me to see this as linking tool and , by phone, my usual interface, until recently the green box did not appear. Which is why I had asked questions about linking and unlinking. Let me use this new understanding for a while before commenting. Tim thanks for clearing that up

Phil Marchese
Gunther, Are the Black Widow and Green Hornet on the chassis...well I say this: The Black Widow chassis is designed to accomodate mortization. Not so the green Hornet. Tires, axels and hubs seem common, a common trait of the era. If you have comparision chassis shots, photos or photo-Iinstructions of the era to substantiate your believe, this would be an opportunity to demonstrate you claim.

Sebastian Osaer
Hi, I've been trying to add some paints (e.g. Tamiya Clear Green) to my stash but they're not showing up on my stash page. On the product page they are marked as "in stash" though...

scalemates Author
Hi Phil, ok! glad this is sorted out. Indeed if you thought it was like you said scalemates must have been a terrible place to be 🙂 🙂 🙂

scalemates Author
@Sebastian: let me check

scalemates Author
@Sebastian: changes to the paint stash where only synchronised 2 times a day vs. every 5 seconds. This is now fixed

scalemates Author
@Urban: Fixed the following => "The x in the closing button on the member pop-up box you get when you hover too long over an avatar is not in the center of the green button."

scalemates Author
This thread will be closed and a new one openend.

Sebastian Osaer
Looks okay now, thx Tim! 🙂

Sebastian Osaer
Can I still use this thread? I've noticed a lot of the Vallejo Model-Air paints show up twice or more in the database, sometimes under slightly different names, but a lot of them seem to be exact duplicates.

Henrik Stæhr
I've noticed the same with the Vallejo Model Air. I have a complete list (Excel) of the Model Air range for bulk update if needed.

Henrik Stæhr
When you remove paint from your wishlist only action is "Remove from stash". If it's a kit the action says "Remove entry".

Derek Huggett
Tim - an easy one! Duplicate entry for 'UMMT 1:72 Two Axle Pilot Car' - suggest you delete the one I have renamed with post script 'DUPLICATE ENTRY', as I have updated the other one (the things I find myself buying - Choppa Nutta should worry!!!).
Thanks,
Derek.

Burkhard D
Hi Tim,
Looks like one can edit a new comment only once. Given my clumsy fingers, multiple editing would be fine😉

scalemates Author
@Burkhard: fixed 🙂

Burkhard D
Thanks! 🙂

edit: Works?
edit 2: Works!
edit 3:😎

Ian Albinson
Just added some kits to my stash, but they're not showing up in my main list. Bug?

I can see the history on my wall, visit a kit page and it's logged as in my stash, but they're just not in my main list.

Łukasz Gliński
Is it possible to assign more than one topic to a project?

scalemates Author
@Ian: should be OK now?
@Lukasz: Not yet, I'm currently working on something which allows to group multiple projects into one "collection". Eg. your project "Polish Air Force in exile during WW2" is in fact a collection of multiple smaller projects.

Łukasz Gliński
Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking about, thank you

scalemates Author
👍…I'll add you to the beta program once i have some results to show

Ian Albinson
Yup, the stash began to update yesterday. Thx.

scalemates Author
sometimes the sync process hangs, still figuring out why it does.

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
I had the same update problems last time with added colors, kits and gallery article. It it needs over night to show it correct. I thougt the database will update over night, ok now it's a bug😉

Ian Albinson
Anyway for users to flag/delete duplicate paints? I've been added a bunch to my stash (and adding in missing ones), but I see a bunch of dupes that I'd be happy to tidy.

Ian Albinson
Any thoughts on my paint question @Scalemates?

Łukasz Gliński
Looks like a doublet:
Mitsubishi F-2A `Air Combat Meet 2013´ (Hasegawa 02085, 1:72)
Mitsubishi F-2A Air Combat Meet 2013 (Hasegawa 02085, 1:72)
and I saw lately there are two Attack Squandrons on the companies' list

Urban Gardini
Yes, that's a double!

H K
Not anymore 🙂

John Van Kooten
With all this talk about doubles going on, a random (kinda) question springs to mind:

What happens if a double gets deleted and some people have been using that double in their stash? Does it get deleted, i.e., their stash no longer contains the item? Or is there a (back-end) mechanism in place that replaces the deleted double with the correct, still existing, one?

scalemates Author
@ian: on todo

scalemates Author
We have a "merge" function, it makes sure data is transferred (comments, stash, projects, reviews)

John Van Kooten
Aaah! Right! Makes sense 🙂 Thanks Tim! 👍

Rob Tittle
Tim, I just added 5 Model Master paints to my stash and they went in a different category.??
Cheers Rob.

berni
Whats the different with paint and painting in the stash?

John Van Kooten
Hi Tim! This is not a report of a glitch but more of a question/request:

Would it be possible to add an option to export the kits contained within a manufacturer to a CSV file? Much like the option we have in our stash. The reason I'm asking is because I have my own database which I use to pull kit descriptions and numbers and it would be great if I could use the data from ScaleMates for that purpose (because descriptions and kits are always correct and up to date). Basically it would contain what is displayed when you go here, for instance: SCM Brand: No longer exists

That is: kit description, company name, scale and kit.no.

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
I think this is doubly: Mr. Surfacer 500 (GSI Creos SF285, No)

H K
The whole GSI Creos is a nonsense in my opinion SCM Brand: No longer exists

Choppa Nutta
Hi Tim,
this kit aint coming up in mys stash for some reason even though I have added it 🙂

Messerschmitt BF109F-4 & Sup..e MkVB (Airfix A50014, 1:48)

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
Since yesterday, I can't see the update site on every device in different networks. It's a bug or a Feature?😉

John Irwing
In my profile I selected a club in error now can't find how to clear it.

Phil Marchese
Curtiss XP-55 Ascender (Czech Model , 1:48)
Duplicates a more complete listing.

Phil Marchese
Someone has deleted the airmodel XP-55 Curtiss Ascender in 1:72 I had posted. I would appreciate you reposting. I can repost image and missing element once you undo the damage done.

Frank Krause
Hi Tim,
presently the "Updates" page isn't working and shows just a white page:
SCM Updates

Rob Tittle
Frank, Updates page works for me. 🙂
Cheers Rob.

Frank Krause
Hi Rob! Thanks! Yeah, for me, too.
It didn't work for a while. Now it's ok.

Albi Hitz
Tamiya 1/48 Road sign set (Tamiya - Nr. 32509)
Got a wrong link for the reviews (the PMMS link is wrong)

John Van Kooten
You've probably already noticed, but are we experiencing "smiley troubles" at the moment? They appear at the bottom of the post, enlarged. Inline still only shows the text representation for the smiley.

scalemates Author
fixed! ... comments/posts with the wrong smilie should be edited and saved.

John Van Kooten
THNX!! Going to go and re-save my latest posts now 👍

John Van Kooten
Except... I just noticed, I can't edit my posts anymore 😉 lol

scalemates Author
thx John

Luka M.
Mi-8 Balkan Veterans (Balkan Models BM-7212, 1:72) - In the Decal options, the Serbian flag is missing, can be this fixed?

scalemates Author
Hi Luka, yes! I'm sorry my flags are still outdated. I'm changing it as we speak

scalemates Author
Hi Luka, please have a look. Serbian Flag is now visible. I also added some historic country names in the drop down with a time indication.

Choppa Nutta
for some reason my image links are not working and I can't work out why
they used to work by simply copying image location and pasting the address into the comment like so.

[img1]

Steve Wilson
...
That's what I reported back on the 3rd October in another thread Chop' virtually the same as how you said it!!!
Tims not got back on it🤔

John Van Kooten
Tim, for reference about (more) issues with the images and inline HTTP links cutting off the rest of the text of a post, please look here:

www.scalemates.com/profiles/mate.php?id=12853&p=projects&project=9730

If we use "http" in the link, the link does not get translated properly and will cause all kinds of problems. If we leave the http part off, the link works but does not translate like they used to (in images of kits, for instance).

Even worse, some issues with the http links cut off the post.

The first message I posted in the link provided above shows this effect. The funny thing is, if I edit that message (while I am still able to do that), the text IS still there. It's just not showing. Probably because of a problem with the link translation of the link proceeding that missing text.

scalemates Author
Test from external ing
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John Van Kooten
Looks like things are working again? 🙂 Thanks very much Tim! 👍 👍

Lionel Marco
When returning on a followed subject, could it be possible to see only the new messages since the last visit? On some lengthy subject, the last one are hard to spot.

John Van Kooten
Good idea, Lionel 👍

If it is not too hard to implement (I realize this is not a forum / forum software), I would like to second that suggestion.
Or maybe even just a visual indication of which posts are new (different background color, for instance). But maybe it's not possible because the software doesn't really (cannot) store which posts / threads are read and which are not?

scalemates Author
I have implemented your request Lionel. When you are viewing a topic it will show the unread comments in green.

John Van Kooten
That works great, Tim! The different colored background on new posts! Very, very nice!

Once again, you're as fast as lightning😉 Thank you!! 👍

Wim van der Luijt
I'm not seeing it....not in chrome or firefox

scalemates Author
it only works when you click on a notification

Stefan Suessemilch
Works fine for me, fantastic idea & implementation 👍

Wim van der Luijt
nope still not seeing it & didn't get notifications from the reactions of scalemates or Stefan and I guess I should have had??

scalemates Author
Ah 🙂 you only get it when you enabled notifications on the post. You probably once disabled it on this thread?

Wim van der Luijt
yes! and completly forgotten about it 🤔

Es-haq Khosravi
Nice retouches on the website Tim!

Lionel Marco
Thanks Tim for the implementation of this new feature!
If only some peoples I work with were as fast as you...

Fabian D.
Nice feature! 👍

H K
I like the new green highlight 👍

Derek Huggett
I agree...the new green highlighting makes life much easier! (K.I.S.S.) Well done Tim. 👍 👍

Derek Huggett
A new wrinkle in the system (to me, anyway) - when entering a new Publication, the 'Add book' does NOT flag up duplicates like the 'Add product' screen! Hence (and totally my fault for not checking) there are now 2 entries for Squadron/Signals publication 'Schnellboot In Action' on the system! (Please delete my error entry which I have re-titled to include the words 'DUPLICATE ENTRY'). Sorreeee! (Or did I not save it to start with, as I cannot see it now?!!!! Sorreee2)

H K
I want my green back 🙁

John Van Kooten
Me too, please?😉

H K
It is back. Hooray 😄

John Van Kooten
Jeej! 😄 😄 👍

H K
And it`s gone 🙁

John Van Kooten
Hahaha! Indeed! I guess Tim is working on updates 🙂 Let's give it some leeway for now 🙂

H K
Or drive him insane * evil laughter* ( and get banned for spamming)
Anyway, it`s back ( last post, I promise 🙂 )

John Van Kooten
Hahaha!😉 we need a "laughing devil" emoticon😎
Anyway, it's gone again for me 😄 LOL! I promise as well, this is the last time I'll post on this 👍

scalemates Author
Strange it is gone …. I'm not working on anything. Looks like this post is affected

Steve Wilson
...
You're right Tim, only this thread is afflicted with this not green, is green trite...

John Van Kooten
Ah... that's weird indeed? I now have green posts again in this thread 🙂 but you seem to be right in that it is only affecting this particular thread?

Rob Tittle
Seems to be a issue going on with paints 🙁 I was trying to add two AK Interactive products to my stash and clicking the AK logo only got me 6 entries, I had to search by bottle size to find them.
Cheers Rob.

John Van Kooten
Is it possible to allow adding the same inbox review link in multiple products? It sometimes happens that one review, i.e., one url, contains reviews of several items. For instance, for these two products I just added:

Inbox review link: amps-armor.org/ampss..?ID=1152&Type=FL

Product 1 : German Armored Car Lifting H..r Model Designs 10027, 1:35)
Product 2 : German Armored Car Lifting H..r Model Designs 10028, 1:35)

scalemates Author
add #1, #2... at the end. It will be work. However scalemates sees it as a different link 🙂

John Van Kooten
Tssk tssk, I should have thought of that myself😉 😄 LOL

Thanks Tim! 👍 👍

Mike Pullen
Shouldn't these all be 1 topic? SCM Topic: No longer exists SCM Topic: No longer exists SCM Topic: No longer exists SCM Topic: No longer exists The last one, although numbered the same as second, appears seperately, see scalemates.com/search-solr.p..awa+volkswagen&qs=Search

Soeren R.
My stash and wishlist isnt updating correctly since 1-2 hours...

scalemates Author
@Mike, Soeren: fixed

Soeren R.
Thx a lot😉

Henrik Stæhr
Topic "Volkswagen Typ 2" should be merged into "Volkswagen T2"

Günther Debiscop
Tim, Pro Modeler and Promodeler should be merged. In fact, Promodeler (or Pro Modeler which is the more correct naming) is a Monogram sub-brand, as is e.g. Advent within Revell.

Günther Debiscop
Regarding "Dragon": the correct name is "Dragon Models Limited" (in short DML). Both DML and Dragon ar used as "box" name.

Troy W
Hi Tim,
"Real Space Models" and "RealSpace Models" are the same company -
SCM Brand: No longer exists
SCM Brand: No longer exists

The letter head used by the company would suggest "RealSpace models" is more correct, but I feel listing it this way will cause issues, maybe the company can be self-referencing under one data entry?
Thanks

Holger Kranich
Hi Tim,
there is a topic called "Battleship Scharnhorst". But the Scharnhorst was not a Battleship, it was a Battlecruiser. Can you rename the topic? The correct name is: "Battlecruiser Scharnhorst-Class"
Groetjes
SCM Topic: No longer exists

Łukasz Gliński
Doublet:
Wiesel 1 MK20 (S-Model (China) PS720116, 1:72)
Wiesel 1 Mk 20 (S-Model (China) PS720116, 1:72)

Günther Debiscop
Both Wiesels have been merged.

Stefan Suessemilch
Hi Tim, is there a option for editing links to inbox reviews? For example I made a mistake and added a link to the wrong item, but I can't remove or change it 😳 🤔

Soeren R.
Hey Ive the problem again that my stash and wishlist arent updating correctly - again 😭

Edgars Bizūns
Some products are dissapearing and appearing in my stash again and again!

Bart Goesaert
it seems that if you have a kit on your wishlist, and then you add it to your stash afterwards, that is stays as in your wishlist..

Dirk Fries
For some days the "hot products" are shown above "new on the web".
I can only speak for myself, but I find the "new on the web" much more interesting than "hot products".
I'd appreciate to see the "new on the web" again above" hot products.

Christopher Dworjan
Can you add ISO country code XK for Kosovo? That is the temporary code international organizations are using until the ISO formally assigns one.

scalemates Author
@Christopher: XK for Kosovo was added! thank you

scalemates Author
@Dirk: fixed

scalemates Author
@Bart: Thx! it seems to be the same issue as soeren pointed out. So when my assumption is correct, they should all be now in the correct spot?

Dirk Fries
Cool -Thanks 🙂

Frank Krause
Hi Tim,
when you click on "Same topic" of an item, theb search opens, but with no result. Only when you remove the quotation marks and click again on search, then it works.

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Frank Krause
Another one - found that my album "Various" is gone, despite I haven't deleted it.

Bart Goesaert
It's working fine now, thanks for the effort on this holiday...

Christopher Dworjan
Thank you for adding Kosovo

scalemates Author
@Frank: Good catch with the "Same topic" not working. Several other topic related links had the same issue. These are all fixed.

Frank Krause
👍 Yepp, works fine again. Thanks, Tim! 👍

Frank Krause
Hi Tim,
have you noticed that when a new gallery article comes in and bears any words with special characters (e.g. ä, ö, ü) that the word is cut off before that character? See screenshot as an example:

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Frank Krause
And another one - I nearly scrolled my ass off to find this thread. Would it be possible to have also a search function for the news feed? I tried to use the Firefox search, but it didn't work for the news.

James Turnbull
What about an app?

Christopher Dworjan
The following three product pages are all for the same boxing of the same kit. Is there a way to merge them without everyone losing their information on it?

Macchi MC 202 Folgore (Hasegawa JT32, 1:48)
Macchi C.202 Folgore (Hasegawa 09132, 1:48)
Macchi C.202 Folgore (Hasegawa JT32, 1:48)

scalemates Author
merged to Macchi C.202 Folgore (Hasegawa 09132, 1:48) ! only the the release year of 2008 and the "new tool" sounds a bit strange

Christopher Dworjan
Thank you! I'll correct the info

Christopher Dworjan
I found another pair of duplicates in the Macchi C.205's. This time one of them is basically empty and can just be deleted.
Macchi MC 205 ANR (Hasegawa 09754, 1:48)

Christopher Dworjan
Can you merge:
Messerschmitt Bf 109C (Hobbycraft HC1567, 1:48)

into:
Messerschmitt Bf 109C (Hobbycraft HC1567, 1:48)

Ulf Petersen
Hi Tim, I would like to attach an album to the (0., )
How can this be done?
On the event page I can't start an album, on my album page I can't link an album to events, only to projects. Is there a way to do it?

scalemates Author
Please change topic of your album to:
Expo - Jiří Vojta Memorial

H K
Pz.Kpfw. III Ausf. M w/Wading Muffler (Dragon 6558, 1:35) is broken to me. Only goes till timeline and never loads the rest.

Łukasz Gliński
I think these are in fact the same company - VEB Plasticart Zschopau:
SCM Brand: No longer exists
SCM Brand: No longer exists

Jonns Pfeiffenberger
I think this is a double:
Fanhansa Siegerflieger (Revell 01111, 1:144)
Boeing 747-8 (Revell 01111, 1:144)

Dirk Fries
I think here's something wrong
Horse Drawn Convoy (Italeri 6437, 1:35)

There's a Thread started by Roland where Roland and Frank talk about the first Book of the Clervaux Diorama ( SCM Book: ).
So this discussion should be on the page of the book, I guess.

Alex
I think that reviews, which are supposed to be on the site of the "Modellbauclub Wyland", lead to China... have a look at this review, for example! F-16CJ (Block 50) Fighting Falcon (Hasegawa 00448, 1:72) . I'm not sure if I have seen other links, but I think that's not the only wrong one.

Nikolajs Negeriss
Hi Tim, one mate has issue with having project in his project list. Please check it over here: scalemates.com/whatsnew.php?topic=1255064

Urban Gardini
The first two entries in this timeline is doubles with this one that is a correct listing. Hanomag Sd.Kfz. 251/1 (Tamiya 35020, 1:35)

Urban Gardini
There seems to be a few old Tamiya kits in the database with a faulty serial number! This for example. Pkw.K1 (type 82) Kübelwagen (Tamiya 3506, 1:35) The correct serial number should be #35006

H K
I saw the 251 yesterday. Look closely and you will see that these are different boxes. And Tamiya did the MM numbers for a while.

Christopher Dworjan
Here's two that can be merged. The second one is the one which is fully correct:
Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt I..ot Tube (Master 32059, 1:32)
A-10 Thunderbolt II - GAU-8 ..ube (Master AM-32-059, 1:32)

Fabian D.
Can somebody please delete the double?
Tool Clips German Double! (Eduard TP005, 1:35)
Vehicle Tool Clips (Eduard TP005, 1:35)

John Van Kooten
Huh? That's weird? Is it my fault for creating a double? 😮 or was that one without the image created after my version already existed?

I created the one with the image of the clips but I always do a thorough search before adding anything. I'm pretty sure there wasn't an entry for this item before I added my version?

If it was my fault, please accept my apologies!

John Van Kooten
Hmm.. now I'm confused 😛 I don't think I added any of those 😛 lol

Fabian D.
It´s not about blaming someone John, things tend to happen (even if you weren´t responsible at all)😉
Based on the internal product number (check url) I´d say the one without picture was created much later. All relevant data is in the one with the picture, which you have in you stash.

John Van Kooten
Haha! I understand😉 it's not blame anyone indeed 🙂 but I just felt bad 😄 since I'm the only one with this one in my stash I probably did create that item 🙂 correctly too. So phew! 😄😉 lol

And yeah, good call, checking the internal ID 👍 didn't think of that.

Anyway, indeed, the "no image" one can go 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Another doublet?
CH-47D Chinook HC.Mk.1 (Revell 04419, 1:72)
CH-47D Chinook HC.Mk.1 (Revell 4419, 1:72)

Martin
Could be a reissue

Mike Pullen
Updated pic for 04419, it's not a double but 4419 would probably have been issued first

Edgars Bizūns
AV-8B Harrier II plus (Revell 64038, 1:144)
AV-8B Harrier II plus (Revell 04038, 1:144)
These two are equal..

Mike Pullen
64038 is a model set. It is supplied with kit 04038 in a blister pack with paints brush and glue

Mike Pullen
64038 pic updated

Edgars Bizūns
Thanks!

VILLIERE Julien
Doublet
Dassault Super Etendard/Hawk..t Decal System 72/060, 1:72)
AMD/BA Super Etendard; Hawke..t Decal System 72/060, 1:72)

VILLIERE Julien
Doublet
Dassault Mystère IVA - West..t Decal System 72/036, 1:72)
Dassault Mystere IVA, Westla..t Decal System 72/036, 1:72)

VILLIERE Julien
Doublet
Bréguet 1150 Atlantic, West..t Decal System 72/047, 1:72)
Whirlwind HAR.3, HAR.10, Mk...t Decal System 72/047, 1:72)

VILLIERE Julien
Doublet
Northrop B-2A Spirit (Begemot 72-017, 1:72)
Northrop B-2 "Spirit" (Begemot 72-017, 1:72)

Mike Pullen
x4 above merged

VILLIERE Julien
It is possible to create multi topic for decal sheet whit multi airplane models ?

Mike Pullen
It used to be done so that the decals would appear with both subjects but the filters are much improved now so there should be no need for duplicates

Dirk Fries
Ahm .. both my stash and my wishlist are completely empty 🙁

scalemates Author
refresh please

Dirk Fries
Yes - everything's back🙂

Sebastian Osaer
@VILLIERE Julien: As far as I know, it's one topic per item. I've been wondering too if it would be possible to use multiple topics. This would also be useful for sets that have multiple kits in one box (like the Airfix "Dogfight Doubles" )
@Tim: would it be possible to implement this or would it cause too much conflict with other features on the site (like the Timeline)?

Erik Leijdens
Double on the timeline:KF-5E (Academy 12229, 1:48)

Is a rebox from the AFVclub kit from Academy.

VILLIERE Julien
doublet
IPMS USA 2006 Nationals (IPMS USA 2006, 1:72)
IPMS /USA National Conventio..on Graphics IPMS 2006, 1:72)

Thomas Kerl
I found another doublet: MasterBox

SCM Brand: Master Box

SCM Brand: Name

Alex
I find it inconsistent, that some british ships are listed as "H.M.S.", others as "HMS". Not nitpicking, more a general item.

H K
You are not alone Alex. I am not happy about some german WWII entries, some start with the Somderkraftfahrzeug number, others with the name.

Murad ÖZER
duplicates: id=106049 and id=149891

scalemates Author
@alex, Hk: do you talk about topic names or productnames?

Fabian D.
I think it´s about product names, their inconsequent spelling is a quite a few times an issue, even with the search engine. Searching for "Stug III Ausf. A" gets me 13 kits while "Stug III Ausf.A" (Without space between Ausf. and the following letter) generates only 3 results.
It seems to be the case with most of other designations
scalemates.com/search-solr.p..tug+III+Ausf.A&qs=Search

H K
I am talking about topic names. Product names should be like on the box, for example the famous whells set Sd.Kfz. 251 Wheels & Tracks (AFV Club AF35043, 1:35) 😉

Fabian D.
Problem with that is, such kits are impossible to find via the search... We should consider correcting such obvious spelling mistakes. The Brumbar for example: scalemates.com/search-solr.p..amp;q=brummbar&qs=Search

H K
Good point 👍 .

scalemates Author
Topics: i agree
Productnames: i don't agree! If there is an issue finding items we should fix the search engine

scalemates Author
The Brummbar example is similar but not the same. Many times it was entered as Brummbar while it was on the box as Brummbär

Steve Wilson
...
@TIM...
The Brummbar example is a good one, I have not got " ä " on my keyboard if I type it, it will come out " a " so...
I always copy and paste it as I did here... But not everybody will do that or think of doing it, this is just me sympathizing for people who hadn't thought of my way of dealing with this problem!!!

scalemates Author
Propagating change so searching for Stug.III or Stug III or Stug. III will return same results

scalemates Author
Please check! Pz Kpfw IV or Pz.Kfw.IV or Pz.Kfw. IV all give same results now

Fabian D.
Thanks, does work as it should. 👍

Mike Pullen
Any idea why Arado keeps reverting back to prefix instead of being in title like it should be? I have edited to include Arado in title several times but it always reverts back to this.
Arado Ar (E) 555 (Revell 04367, 1:72)

John Van Kooten
Tim,

In the example below, I am wondering about the prefix and postfix fields...

The instructions say they should contain references to time/country/units. But then certainly "Heavy 4WD" should not be included in the prefix and "Schwerer Lkw 4,5 t" should definitely not be present in the postfix... in my opinion?

If I understand correctly, it should have been:

Prefix: WWII German
Title: Heavy 4WD Cargo Truck L 4500 A Schwerer Lkw 4,5 t
Postfix: [nothing]

Or am I wrong?

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Cargo Truck L 4500 A (Zvezda 3596, 1:35)

Troy W
Doubles:
Steam Traction Engine (Bandai 8026, 1:16)
Steam Traction Engine (Bandai 8026, 1:16)

'32 Ford Street Rod (Revell 07492, 1:8)
'32 Ford Streetrod (Revell 7492, 1:8)

Günther Debiscop
Maybe merge Fokker E.I, Fokker E.II, Fokker E.III and Fokker E.IV to Fokker Eindecker? They are all the same except the engine. Next to this they exist also under Fokker M.5 and Fokker A.II and Fokker A.III

Günther Debiscop
Same with the Fokker E.V and Fokker D.VIII, both are the same as D.VIII (best known) is a re-designation for the E.V.

scalemates Author
@Mike: no clue, I changed it and it remained
@John: will answer this weekend
@Günther: would from a tooling perspective an E.II also be based on the E.I (or any other mix)

Günther Debiscop
@SCM/Tim: yes. as all the Fokker E's have the same fuselage structure. And for the E.V and D.VIII they are totally the same.

Thomas Kerl
Wouldn´t it be helpful to merge these topics?

MAN 5t mil gl SCM Topic: MAN KAT1
MAN 7t mil gl SCM Topic: No longer exists
MAN 10t mil gl SCM Topic: No longer exists

Basically the same vehicle but with different cargo beds. It would make it easier to find after market stuff.

New topic name could be "MAN KAT I"

Günther Debiscop
Tim, same goes for the Hanriot HD.1 and HD.2, the latter being simply a water-based version of the first.

H K
I'll try again 🙂 What about merging
Sturmhaubitze III SCM Topic: No longer exists and
Sturmgeschütz III SCM Topic: Sturmgeschütz III
And change
SCM Topic: Sd.Kfz. 231
SCM Topic: Sd.Kfz. 232
SCM Topic: Sd.Kfz. 233 to
Topic: Sd.Kfz. 231/ 232/ 233 8-Rad
Topic: Sd.Kfz. 231/ 232 6-Rad

Troy W
Double:
Munster Koach (AMT 647, 1:25)
The Munsters Koach (AMT 647, 1:25)
Thanks

scalemates Author
@Thomas: Merged MAN's
@Günther: Merged Hanriot HD.1 and the Fokker E and Fokker D.VIII
@Troy: Thx, fixed
@HK: Merged to Sturmgeschütz III, the 231/232 suggestions needs some thinking

John Van Kooten
Is there currently an issue with the timeline? Or is it just a problem with the Italeri #6502 kit? See image below.

[img1]

scalemates Author
@John: fixed, it was a specific issue for 6502. Multiple issues at the same time
1) The kit shown twice was linked to 2 older kits. (in 99.999999% of the cases, only one link is required)
2) The kit from 2006 was removed from the database although it is clearly NOT a double

The combo of these 2 issues resulted in the messed up timeline.

John Van Kooten
Thanks Tim! 👍

Some additional info (if it is helpful): when I editted the item, there was no link to an older kit (at least, not visible in the edit mode). But when I added the link to the 2003 kit (I saw only one older kit, not two), it started showing the two items in the timeline (of which one was pointing to a version of the older kit that indeed appeared to have been deleted and wasn't available in the link section in edit mode).

So I think: not seeing a linked item in edit mode for kit #6502 + adding the link to the one available older kit = set off the issue.

Bart Goesaert
KV-1 model 1942 Heavy Cast Turret (Trumpeter 00359, 1:35)
it is called KV-I instead of KV-1, and so you can't see it when searching.. it's only by the timeline then that it shows...

Soeren R.
Isn't I and 1 the same?!
It also stands "1" on the box and not "I"

Troy W
Possible double? :
Tyrannosaurus (Tamiya 60102:2200, 1:35)
Tyrannosaurus Diorama set (Tamiya 60102, 1:35)
Numbers are the same (with only the small addition on one), box art same, kit certainly the same - but not sure if this number difference represents a rebox or not.
Thanks

Bart Goesaert
@ Soeren, it seems not searching on KV-1 gives other results then KV-I

Lionel Marco

Could it be possible to have a simpler way to add a walkround (More like adding a review?)

Jan H.
If I search for strutter in the search field, the "recommended" Search for Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter generates no hits.
scalemates.com/search-solr.p..p;q=Sopwith+1+1%2F2+Strutter

Vegard Øksenholt
Hasegawa's B-24 timeline is split in two: B-24J Liberator (Hasegawa 00559, 1:72)

Henrik Stæhr
What's the thing with the topics "Paint" and "Painting"?

scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=3190
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=1328
Vallejo 71.069 is Rust. Gungrey is 71.072.

scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=3193
scalemates.com/colors/color.php?id=1332
Vallejo 71.073 is Black

I have a complete list with Vallejo Model Air for bulk load.

scalemates Author
yeah, this is an issue with my search engine config. I will fix asap!

" I have a complete list with Vallejo Model Air for bulk load." go for it! I can bulk assign all to the same topic = Painting

scalemates Author
@Vegard: Yes, this s because there are "2 new tools". One in 2007 and one in 2008. So if the kit of 2008 is a rebox = click edit timeline and correct the data. After that it will show as one.

Vegard Øksenholt
Ah, ok! That's a good way to show the different kinds of tools 🙂

Günther Debiscop
Tim,
Please have a look at 1925 Ford Model T Street Rod (Lindberg 72146, 1:32), the timeline is completely f* up and the kit is linked to 14! kits...

Troy W
Double:
(better listing) Internal Combustion Engine (Haynes HM01, No)
(bad listing) Internal Combustion Engine (Unknown , No)

Günther Debiscop
Troy's Engine has been merged, but I doubt it's Airfix. It seems to be Hays as Company. Who can confirm?

Steve Wilson
...
I doubt it's Airfix as well reading the back of the box here:
auctiva.com/hostedim..s=0,0,0&format=0 I'd say it's more likely Trumpeter or similar... I know Monogram did the original visible Engines now being re-released by Revell, but this seems different🤔

Kerry COX
You can buy these models at any Post office or super cheap auto shops here in Oz. :-/

Günther Debiscop
I've set it to Haynes. The company already existed in the db.

Steve Wilson
...
Hey! Günther just to mix things up a bit and confuse matters more I just found this:
Ebay.co.uk Item - NEW NSI Motor Works Visible Working 4 Cylinder Engine 49013 NIB
I know! I know I'm a pain in the proverbial bottom 😄

Günther Debiscop
Other box art, thus another entry. You can add it to the db with company NSI.

This will be one of those kits that have been reboxed by several companies.

Troy W
Sorry for the confusion - I looked up 'Haynes' and all the kits with a Haynes boxing showed as Airfix - which is how I found the 'Haynes - Airfix' listing of the engine - wasn't sure of how it should be listed (ie under 'Haynes' or under 'Airfix' (kit showed up under the 'unknown company' banner on the contribute page)) so posted it here for further guidance.

Kerry - I too saw these in Oz, thought it looked familiar to those Aust. Post kits.

Cheers

Kerry COX
I am amazed at to how much the general public is coming into contact with scale modelling now, AND, in the most obscure places. !

Steve Wilson
...
Kerry that's the power of the internet...
It has made the World a whole lot more smaller, by making information and communication far more accessible even in the most remotest places on Earth!!! Power to the People😢

Kerry COX
I was meaning the fact that you can see model kits of see through engines in a Post Office now, a most obscure place to find one.

Derek Huggett
Definitely the power of the internet - I just hope my search 'engine' isn't see-through!! 🙂

Troy W
Another double - presumably:
This one is the most complete - Midnite Cowboy (Revell H-1383, 1:25) (carries or the info of the double),
Midnite Cowboy Custom Chevy Wrecker (Revell H1383, 1:25)
Thanks

Dirk Fries
Double :

Jeep Riders (Verlinden Productions 1731, 1:35)

Jeep Riders (2 Figures) (Verlinden Productions VP1731, 1:35)

and mayby this one :

M38 Jeep Detail & Accessorie..nden Productions 1548, 1:35)

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I'm not 100% sure because the "LIM" in the product number

Phil Marchese
tim, regarding the post on the Lindberg 1925 Model T Street Rod the previous 14 links seems just about right if price changes are counted as new boxes. The lindberg Instructions still show the Pyro Rebel hearder. before Pyro, it was the Palmer Tiger Vat starting with the 29 cent "new tool." The texan variation shares many common parts and is also in the history as are the Jersey Bounce and Yankee Doodle. I had this all explained and corrected. The two linked lindberg are not product ( kit) related and should be removed. they are TOPIC related but not tool related.

scalemates Author
@phil: you can only have one previous link (based on). The kit it is based on of course can be based on another kit and so forth.