Guest Galleries: Gone in 60 Seconds
March 3rd, 2008 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
… well, at least it seemed like it!
I’ve decided to take down the guest galleries for the time being. It was turning out to be too much extra work that took away what little time I have to devote to the hobby and the website. Thank you all to those who contributed, I [...]
A Couple of Minor Site Changes
February 28th, 2008 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
The following pages have been deleted, and their contents (only one under each) have been moved to the “Hobby Tips and Tools” page:
- Free Downloads: Color Gradient Files
- Good Ideas Gone Bad: Tamiya Flat Agent Shouldn’t Be Used By Itself!
New Site Feature: Guest Galleries
February 18th, 2008 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
I’m very happy to announce a new feature to WeeToySoldiers.com website: Guest Galleries! Here visitors to the website can showcase their finished, in-progress, converted, or scale comparison photos. Please click on the “Guest Galleries” link under Pages to the right to see it.
If you would like to share your work with the [...]
Custom White Balance (huh?)
February 17th, 2008 Hyun Posted in About the Website, Tutorials Comments Off
Let’s continue our discussion of some basic photography concepts. Since the miniatures hobby is so visual, and since my website is so image heavy, I figure it’s somewhat pertinent.
You’ve all probably seen pictures on various websites and forums, where images have heavy yellow or orange tints. That, my friend, is usually the result [...]
Traffic in Review: At Two and a Half Years
January 28th, 2008 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
OK, this is a bit of bragging post. But hey, I am mightily tickled pink by how far WeeToySoldiers has come, in just two and a half years. And who better to share it (translation: shove it in your face) than you, the loyal and random visitors!
I meant to have posted this back [...]
All Aboard!
June 15th, 2007 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
(That’s what my son likes to yell when we watch train DVDs)
Model railroading rocks.
I mean, it rocks.
It’s probably not what the long-time WeeToySoldiers.com visitors wanted to read. For the past month, I’ve been having a blast running steam and diesel engines on my N and HO layouts. Looking at the little mechanical marvels [...]
Out of Commission…
May 20th, 2007 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
Well I meant to start posting again towards the end of the past week, but on Wednesday I came down with a nasty head cold. Right now everyone in our family’s sick, and we’re just passing germs back and forth. Lovely. I missed work Thursday and Friday and have not been able [...]
Taking a Little Breather…
May 15th, 2007 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
That review I posted on Friday took a lot out of me. It took about 10 days to photograph, edit, and write up the review. A somewhat disappointing feedback, though — the actual review itself garnered exactly a single comment. Perhaps there’s not much interest in reviews like this one.
I’m going to [...]
A Few Housekeeping Announcements
May 10th, 2007 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
I’m still working on the mega review of some newer Infinity and Dark Age and Urban War and WH40K miniatures. Hopefully it’ll be ready by the weekend.
In the meantime, here are a few housekeeping announcements.
- The website utilizes a feature plugin called “Subscribe to Comments.” Any post that you comment on, you’ll get [...]
WeeToySoldiers.com: April 2007 in Review
May 2nd, 2007 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
This is something I hope to do on a monthly basis going forward. Basically a report of the immediately-past month’s site statistics, as reported by AWStats, a statistics gathering program that’s included with my web hosting server.
April was another very good month for WeeToySoldiers.com. Over 11,000 visitors (not including search engine [...]
Contributing Scale Comparison Photos to WeeToySoldiers.com
April 29th, 2007 Hyun Posted in About the Website, Scale Comparison Comments Off
One of the biggest (if not THE biggest) draw of this website is the ever-growing galleries of scale comparison photos. In addition to the figures I have in my own collection, I’ve gotten a fair number of figures I’d otherwise never have been able to include via samples and loaners from manufacturers and other [...]
A Little Behind-the-Scene Makeover
April 14th, 2007 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
I’m trying to get more disciplined about posting new contents. There are months like the last one, when I managed to eke out four (four!) posts the entire month. Then there’s this month, where the first five days saw nine posts. Now the month is about 2/5 way through and I’m up [...]
Donate to WeeToySoldiers? Maybe?
April 13th, 2007 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
For those feeling awfully generous and charitable towards WeeToySoldiers — I’ve set up a new page to accept donations (either in funds or miniatures) to help with the upkeep of the website. Please click on the “Donate to WeeToySoldiers” page link to the right to read about it. Thank you.
Why Doesn’t Internet Explorer Love Lightbox JS Plugin?
April 4th, 2007 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
So far I’ve incorporated the snazzy Lightbox JS plugin to two most recent articles on the website, and I must say I am impressed with the ease of use and the snazzy effects. However… and it’s a BIG however… I’m having a nagging issue with its implementation on Internet Explorer browser.
This is what happens [...]
Blogging Momentum
April 3rd, 2007 Hyun Posted in About the Website Comments Off
It’s funny how my blogging seems to go in bursts. Already in April, a mere three days into the month, I’ve posted more posts (excluding this count-inflating filler of a post) than I did the entire last month! Of course, when I only posted four times last month, that’s not really saying much. [...]