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Sorry for the delay in getting the video up guys I'll be posting it soon(ish)...

That really is a head scratcher - I'm on Safari 5.1.4 too and having no problems at all. Evidently the system for some reason thinks you as a user have read every post, so when the js runs it returns no new posts... Is anyone else experiencing this?

Hey Carlos, Two questions: 1: What browser are you using? 2: When you look at the left side of the 'New COntent' screen you should see this: What are the settings on that sidebar? Does adjusting them make any difference?

I just sent him a message through ebay saying this: "Hi, I have looked at your Hovi Mic Tips twice now and I see you have changed the listing to say: "Why pay double the price from castfromoriginal for an inferior recast of my Mic Tips!" Aside from being dramatically incorrect, this aspersion is a gross fabrication. I suggest you take a look at castfromoriginal's mic tips and the crisp quality of the casting (I own a pair) and ask yourself if they could possibly be cast from your poor quality molds. If anything it is the other way around. Irrespective, you should be ashamed of your lack of professionalism in defaming another seller to sell your product. Firstly you have zero evidence to back it up - a quick look at both your selling histories shows that C.F.O has been selling these tips since before you were even a member of eBay - making it impossible for him to have cast your Hovis. Secondly it demonstrates a marked lack of faith in your own product that you feel the need to impune another seller in order to move it. Poor Form."

Whoa! Them's fighting words. Mark - contact ebay ASAP. That's a completely unacceptable selling technique and he should have the item pulled. What a nerve! Man...

Yup they're on the radar! If you want to see the full list of birthdays go to the calendar link in the top navigation bar.

Thanks Vern! Now that I've assessed all the necessary tweaks I'll be posting the finished templates from "The Best Sterling Templates Ever?" thread soon. I've also got a bunch of cool stuff from the G of D I've been meaning to post too, so I'll catch that up too. Alas there re no 3D files. Those 3D illustrations I did in the templates are just that - illustrations

Best price is to grab it straight from the manufacturer's website - Aves Studio I used white because I originally picked it up for armour repairs, but it is also available in silver-grey and black which would probably be better for blaster's in the event of any chips or dings.

My apologies - I meant to say it was Vern's holster by make Mathias' by giving!

Wow! You go to try to shoot a quick bit of video and your thread grows a page! Thanks guys The good news is I know the build is sturdy - I dropped it from waist height like a klutz while trying to adjust my tripod, and it survived (I almost didn't) The only 'damage' was a slight chip to the gloss paint on the grip. Once the touch up dries I'm going to give it a clear coat for protection. @ Mark - I love the silver acrylic idea - I still need the acrylic sheet sizes @ Mathias - I take the comparison to Pandatrooper's threads as the HIGHEST compliment! At least I know you'll be pleased your holster is housing this gun. @ Morten and Andy - What a screw up! For some reason I had in my head that A, R & S were Automatic, Repeat (3 shots) and Single Shot with the lock screw therefor being the safety. I better go back and re-read the GofD to see what other stupidly obvious things I missed! It's glued fast now so I guess if anyone asks I'll just tell them it's a deliberate statement about liberty @ Andy - Would you believe I had two sizes of thumb tacks to choose from one which was about 2mm smaller in diameter than the other and I went with the larger! Wrong choice! I think I can prize these off though and replace them. The stock is sitting slightly low in the last photo. That's because some paint touch ups were drying so I hadn't pushed the 'pimples' up as tight as they can go. To sit flush it needs to be fully shut or the strut will weigh down and pull the stock lower than it should sit. I'm going to download this video now and see if it worked...

THE END CAP RELEASE CATCH The last touch needed to complete the Sterling part of my build was the end cap release catch. It's clear int Guns Of Dagenham that the catch is sprung with a simple folded metal spring rather than an actual spiral spring. A nearby construction site supplied me with that thin black metal stripping they use to tie up large bundles of bricks. I trimmed it to shape and size and bent it in a peg shape. It had a nice spring to it so I went ahead and glued it in place: I grabbed a nail with the right diameter and trimmed it into two tiny hinge pegs, which held the laser cut catch part in place: It sprung up and down with a stiff push, as it should: It doesn't actually perform the function of caching or releasing the end cap as it does on a real Sterling - but it looks like does I did a few spots of touch up painting and took few shots while it was drying on various sides. I'll break out my real camera and take some better ones in a bit but meanwhile: Meanwhile I'm off to shoot a quick video of the moving parts in action for those who requested it - back shortly

Thanks for all the kind words and encouragement guys! It really makes all the time taken post worth it when you know people are getting something out of it THE LITTLE DETAILS Today was a day for finishing all those little details that round the whole thing off. First I mounted the folding stock to the main body of the gun and let it set: Then I needed something to use for the small dome type shapes that that are the real ends of the hinge pins on a Sterling. After staring at it for a bit I thought "What better than common old thumb tacks?" So I nabbed some from the pin up board, painted them black and secured them in place: I also needed the small domed screw that fits into the grip and operates as the safety. I was hoping I could just pick some up at the hardware store but it seems domed, flat head screws aren't so easy to find these days - at least not for me. They all seem to have a sort of semi-dome (like the top of an AM helmet.) And besides - only one side is a flat head screw. The other is just a dome. As luck (or fate) would have it I stumbled across the old board game Mastermind in my shed which just so happens to use game pieces that look like this: How's that for perfect? Well not quite... the domes were a little too high - more of a half sphere. So I had to come up with a way to grind the domes down. I took the chuck out of my dremel and jammed each dome in the chuck hole, turned the dremel on and just held a sanding disc to the underneath of the dome. After that I used a small hand hacksaw to cut a screw slot in the top of one of the domes and took really blurry photo of it for y'all. Both sides fitted to perfection, so I glued them securely: While I had the glue out I instead my phoney laser cut hex bolts. Two in the muzz;e: and one in the base of the grip: RETURN OF THE SELECTOR SWITCH Something that had been bugging me this whole time was that my selector switch was glued fast and therefor static. It was grinding on me that the bolt could weenie and fire (well it could after Andy suggested oiling it with sue WD-40) and my folding stock was accurate and functional but the selector switch was a big phoney.. so I pulled it out and came up with another idea... I drilled a small hole in the underside of the switch based and glued a small rare earth magnet in place of the little stalk that connects the selector switch to the trigger assembly: A matching magnet fixed into the hole in the trigger group and I had a set up that held the switch tight but still allowed it to rotate freely. Now I'll be able to sleep at night again...

Walking on ice in armour - now that's impressive!

You're going to have an arsenal! I'm green with envy...

Roger that - you can ignore my cache question in my reply to your PM then!

"Also Tagged With" overun issue also now fixed.

I have now applied this fix to all buttons. Please let me know after you empty your cache if it works. Screenshots appreciated!

OK - this is what the top navigation bar looks like for everyone but IE: Clearly it's rendering transparent in IE. I have added a safety that should at least get IE users a solid colour, which is not as nice as the shiny metal look but at least legible. Can someone using IE 7 or above please let me know ASAP if this fix has worked?

There it is! IE 10 supports CSS gradients natively (or will do when it is officially released) 9 does not...

Your absolutely right Brent - Browser compatibility ain't the challenge that it used to be but that damn IE is the last hold out of the web designers nightmare! Thanks for posting these. I have no access to Internet Explorer so it's good to see screenshots. That issue with the menu bar was pointed out during testing by RogueTrooper who also uses IE, I thought I had fixed it (it's the IE margin bump thing) but evidently not - back on that then! The overrun on the Also Tagged is a universal problem. I need to apply a different div tag to the header but due to the way IPB breaks up it's code packets I'm having the damnedest time finding the "Also Tagged With" template... Working on it. From the buttons (and the nav bar) It's clear that IE can't recognise CSS gradients or rounded corners. (I was under the impression that had been fixed in 9). In a smart alec (and obviously misdirected) move I changed out all the buttons at the last minute to remove any image links and replace them all with pure CSS to speed load times. That will clearly have to be reverted at least for IE. The horrific alignment issue is a tricky one for me - as I said I don't have any access to IE to check. I'm guessing it's either the margin thing again or a float property. Brent could you see if you can spot the CSS causing this and I'll fix it, That really is the worst of all the bugs. Meanwhile I also have a look at that left active content ID/Class issue and see if that's what has happened. Thanks again Brent - more screenshots for any issues are welcomed! P.S I always forget how horrible fonts look in IE until I see it again. Urgh!

You must be using the white skin - you can select the new skin using the skin selector in the bottom left corner. If you're not using the whit skin a quick refresh should do the trick!

Thanks Brent - this is good info to have. 99.9% of the javascript is built right into the forum software so the software developers will need to be aware of this. There are currently no IE10 update scripts available but I'm sure it will come. Your solution definitely seems to make sense on paper - if it maintains workability in all other browsers I will implement it in readiness for IE10 full public uptake.

That's definitely out of our control I'm afraid! Your computer is loading the fonts from it's own font library. When you say sharp do you mean aliased (jagged like in IE) or sharp as in super smooth (anti-aliased - which font smoothing should do but sort of cheats..) That probably is a CSS issue on our end but it's not set to do that. I just checked it out in Firefox but it's not happening for me... maybe that's also connected to font smoothing?

PS: I should have mentioned before - we have a new "Also Tagged With" function. This a great addition that helps you find topics of the same vein using the topic tags to group them. If you're looking at a topic on, say "applying helmet decals" below the topic posts you will see a menu with any other posts that reference this subject. It's a great way to get the maximum amount of information on a subject in the minimum amount of time

It's probably an issue IE9 has with CSS gradients (and those buttons are pure CSS) - I'll make an IE fix for it