A bridge for Middle Earth

This is a bridge I am working for a Middle Earth (Lord of the Rings) sim. This is one of several buildings and the others will include a throne room, library, work room and temple. Then there are all the small props to build, such as a tapestry frame, seats, books, lighting and so on. I just love SL and the ability to try out various things I could never do in real-life.

Disconnected

I am offline and may be for a while longer.
My ISP (Internet Service Provider) has been bought out and to cut costs the new owners are moving everyone across to a cheaper network.

They disconnected me on Thursday 23JAN08 and, this being Monday, I have been offline for six days. I was told I would be re-connected last Thursday but things are not looking good.

I am just angry and frustrated and terribly unhappy with my ISP and we will be moving to an alternate supplier as soon as we can.
We started with Pipex some years ago Pipex and have been on the same tarrif of £20 for a 2Mb connection. Meanwhile Pipex introduced cheaper and better services with a 30Mb connection availabe for te same £20. I also found out that our connection is throttled under heavy usage which accounts for the speed dropping to 1.5Mb when playing SL.

Now Tiscali have taken over we have been disconnected for some time. Seems like time move ISP! Their service desk charges 10p/minute and whenever I manage to get onto them spend something like ten minutes waiting and paying to listen to their selection of music.

Read more here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/28/tiscali_pipex_migrations/
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3373-tiscali-slowly-migrating-pipex-users-to-its-own-platform.html

RPM Car Dealer of the Future

My free racing outfits were reviewed at:
G.L.A.M.orous Thanks to Cherlindrea Lamont for reviewing them so carefully and visiting to find out where they could be located!

Animal print

Three Animal Print designs and my favourite is the Leopard.

Note: The Giraffe and Zebra are from Zoo animals and the Leopard print is from a Leopard hit by a car.

New design postponed

I have a new clothing design which I thought was ready, but I checked it in the new Windlight viewer only to find that windlight renders the clothes with lower contrast so my new top looks flat and listless where in the old viewer it was subtly shaded and coloured. I need to redo the texturing and shading before releasing it.

The same happens with my skin. I have several skins that I use for modelling and all of them are quite light. Under Windlight all the light colours get washed out and my face looks pale and chalky with no detail. My blushed cheeks have gone as well as my eye makeup. I will need too buy new skins which is going to be very expensive. My suggestion is that if you are buying a skin to go for the more suntanned version.

I hope to release two new designs next week.

Racing designs

Hard Days Night

Picking up on the 1960s, the era of the Beatles, Kinks and Rolling Stones, this suit was designed for a Monkees tribute group. With black felt collar and light gray suit I have included various coloured shirts, including white and black. I named it "Hard Days Night".