Now I'm disappointed that DeAynes Gallery has been offline for so many years and my own web site has been off for a year too, and I miss both. So I decided to try something along the lines of a self serving Single Gallery.
Aim:
* A self serving central open area for people to upload their own Epic images
* An easy and simple structure to viewing the images while still maintaining some form of structure
Two simple goals I set myself. Now I chose photobucket because its the only place I know. And its quite commonly used. I haven't checked the t&c yet, but the plan is to EVENTUALLY allow everyone access to the same account for people to uplaod their images. I think I may be opening up the account for abuse, but hopefully unlikely because its easy to get your own account and we're all sensible here.
I'm still building the structure and uploaded a couple of my own images so far, so I want to open it for VIEWING only to test the structure, rules and interest.
Epic40K GalleryHere are the rules I have so far;
1) You can only upload your own images, no-one elses.
2) You can not delete or move or edit images that you do not own.
3) You will only upload images of Epic material.
4) You will not edit any settings or account options or restructure folders.
5) You will add a sensible name and if you wish, a description. But always end the description with "by
". You can include your web site if you want to.
6) Avoid placing the same images in multiple directories (there are exceptions, but limit it to two folders).
7) This is a central place for people to view epic stuff, not a storage area (create your own account for that), so if you link to it and the owner removes their image, don't complain.
Only photos of painted models should be uploaded. Anything that is not belongs in WIP folders only.
9) Keep images small/reasonable. Please don't upload full 10meg images as this not only fills up the storage space (1G allowed) allocated as well as eat up bandwidth allowed (250G).
10) Please don't abuse as it will spoil it for the rest of us.
How to organise the photos.
i) Battle Scenes - contains photos containing mixed army for whatever reason.
ii) Scenary - contains any sort of scenary organised into the subfolders for the style (Tyranid, Tau, Humanoid etc). If the scenary is none specific, then placed directly into the Scenary folder
iii) Race folders - for each different race, place the pictures into the corresponding sub-folder. If there isn't a sub-folder (such as Dark Eldar) then leave it in the main folder and once sufficient images are there, new folders will be created.
iv) Xtras - anything that doesnt fall into the above including other 6mm. Currently one folder, but if the interest and amount of pictures expand, I can create the structure required.
v) The images are ordered by date, please don't change this. If you absolutely need to put your images together, the trick is to move your own images out of the directory, and put it all back in.
Sub-Folders
a) Army - Group photos of mixed squads
b) Flyers - Anything that flies including machines and troops that fly (not hover). Originally this was named Navy, so the order of the folder appears after HQ. Still trying to decide.
c) HQ - Any HQ stand, or special HQ style characters. If it is a HQ stand with transport and honour guards, then that transport and guards can be placed here too. HQ Tanks do not belong here. Although if a special character on a bike can be placed here.
d) Troops - Group shot of a single company/squad and images of the squad. If the group has supporting vehcile, you can include here too, but preferably moved to vehicles unless specific reason such as company's HQ transport for instance.
e) Vehicles - Any vehicles including bikes, dreadnoughts, small machines and small tanks.
f) War Engines - Any heavy tanks and any form of titan, war machines and knights.
g) WIP - preferably completed stuff, maybe because you have never got around to painting it.
h) If you are unsure where something goes, place it in the main folder, and PM me.
I wanted to keep the structure simple, so I want to avoid creating a fourth level folder. Also unsure how to approach the Chaos Daemons and Chaos Space Marines yet, whether this should be one or two folders.
So....
Please can you respond with your interest, if you would be willing to participate and any comments on the above rules or structure.
Many Thanks in Advance
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