Iron Wind Metals Babylon 5 license to expire in June

[McKickaha]

Sitting here with about -1 / -2 degrees outside, I would not ecessarily count "up north" as lucky.

Fortunately I live in the warm bit of Scotland.

 

[Jal]

Hmm lucky up North I guess :wink:

I suppose that AOG carry on as before ?

as AOG is just reselling previously made stock and not manufacturing them it will not be affected.

 

[Narchy]

The painting guide is probably gone now then as well?

 

[McKickaha]

Hope not, (at least for a PDF version), been looking forward to this for a long time now.

Thinking about it PDF is probably better anyway since easy to enlarge the photos.

 

[Tolwyn]

Honestly I wouldn't hope for much new for B5. With the End of the licence in sight P&P will be IMO the last official thing B5 Acta will get. Hopefully it will not be a second Armageddon desaster

 

[MongooseMatt]

The painting guide is probably gone now then as well?

We would very much like to still bring this out - however, the enemy is time, as we have a lot going on at the moment.

 

[H]

why not put it out to the community to help finish? there are many talented people about (alas i am not one) and even if you end up releasing it as a free download PDF, it would be a nice thank you to the B5 acta players?

 

[MongooseMatt]

why not put it out to the community to help finish? there are many talented people about (alas i am not one) and even if you end up releasing it as a free download PDF, it would be a nice thank you to the B5 acta players?

If someone wanted to volunteer, someone who had done some proven weork on PDFs in the past (. . .), this could indeed be something we look into.

 

[Narchy]

why not put it out to the community to help finish? there are many talented people about (alas i am not one) and even if you end up releasing it as a free download PDF, it would be a nice thank you to the B5 acta players?

If someone wanted to volunteer, someone who had done some proven weork on PDFs in the past (. . .), this could indeed be something we look into.

How long is it?

 

[McKickaha]

If someone wanted to volunteer, someone who had done some proven weork on PDFs in the past (. . .), this could indeed be something we look into.

Sadly I don't have any PDF creation skills however, for what its worth, if there is anything that I can do to help towards the release of this PDf then consider my time yours.

 

[H]

creating PDF's is easy, it's creating the shiny layouts and content that is the difficult part

 

[Narchy]

Have the photographs been taken already?

If provided with the photographs, the B5 artwork and the copy then I could probably knock something together in my spare time.

 

[McKickaha]

creating PDF's is easy, it's creating the shiny layouts and content that is the difficult part

Something to keep you from getting bored in Spain?

 

[H]

I am not taking my PC to spain, and I vey much doubt my mum has Quark on her Laptop!

I will be busy working on another project if I find time behind swimming in the pool, walking on the beach, and drinking sangria

 

[McKickaha]

Understand. Hiff, have a few targets to hit myself over the holidays.

Have a good time.

 

[Poi]

I wonder if Court Jester could be persuaded to lend a hand. His B5 stuff is damned nice, and he has turned his hand to a pdf or 3. He did the design work for the German vehicle guide for WaW.

 

[Chernobyl]

everything I've made for B5 I've done with Word, Excel, and Adobe Standard/Professional, and Adobe elements.
Don't have quark.

 

[Terrible Tim]

I wonder if Court Jester could be persuaded to lend a hand. His B5 stuff is damned nice, and he has turned his hand to a pdf or 3. He did the design work for the German vehicle guide for WaW.

I second this statement! CJ would be a natural.

TT.

 

[Da Boss]

Indeed his painting skills are most impresive

 

[Narchy]

I can put together a decent looking product in a fairly short period of time using Adobe InDesign. Also, I can create artwork from scratch if necessary with Photoshop/Illustrator - though utilising borders, backgrounds and graphics from existing Mongoose products would be faster.

If the likes of Court Jester and the other super-talented painters produced a step-by-step photo guide then it would be relatively simple to lay it all out in "book" form.

Mongoose must have a lot of the written/photo content done already - at one stage this book wasn't too far off release?