A guide to using MSW

[James H]

Hello all,

 

Ron @hollowneck has put together a very comprehensive guide to using MSW. It also includes how to register, so will also help those of you who are only seeing this as a visitor, and wish to join our community. 

 

Please head over here and take a look. You can also download it as a PDF from the page too:

 

https://thenrg.org/resource/usingmsw

[Thistle17]

James I have been a member for over 5 years but seem to have to sign in each time I enter the web site inspite of clicking the "Remeber Me" selection. This is new after I returned from a trip last week where I used my laptop rather than my desktop which is the most frequently used device.

Joe

[James H]

Hi Joe,

This is at your end. Shut down MSW, clear cache and cookies and then come back to MSW and login again. See how that goes.

[Thistle17]

Hmmm! Tried this 2X and it did not work. Any other suggestions. Could it be it still recognizes my laptop id?

 

Joe

[James H]

Have you tried another browser etc?

 

The only solution I have to this sort of problem is to clear cache and cookies and try a different browser to see if can work. It's very difficult to provide solutions to IT when it's not at our side. 

[VTHokiEE]

Sounds similar to this thread, but it appears as if the issue simply resolved itself over time: 

 

[glbarlow]

Are you using two different logo IDs on your laptop and computer?  Should have just one ID and password regardless of device. 

[Thistle17]

Well, it appears that while I was away and using my laptop I used another browser. That browser automatically admits me. I tried clearing its cache, cookies and site preferences to no avail as Google Search still requires me to log in. I will continue to work it.

 

Joe

[mtaylor]

Clear all the browsers.  Also, check the "history" on each one and remove MSW from there.  Each browser is different so you'll need to "settings" on each one.   Chrome does has "reset" which seems to do the same thing.

[Thistle17]

Wonder of all wonders. Using the Google Reset function worked this AM. Resetting each element, cache, cookies, history independently did not do it. Thank you Mark!

 

JOE

[KurtH]

I have mistakenly put my HMS Sphinx build log in the wrong time period.  How does one move the log from one period to another?

[mtaylor]

I moved it for you Kurt.   All done.

[atomj123]

New to the forum.

I read through the guide and was wondering about something I saw on posts.

At the bottom of many posts, there is a : "On the bench" "Finished" designation. Is this something that populates when I add my projects to the completed or Build Logs boards? or do I have to add that to my profile somewhere.

 

Thanks,

Atomj

[Dan Poirier]

I was struggling with this the other day. I edited my profile over and over and my signature never changed. It turned out that editing the profile only changes your profile page, which people have to deliberately go look at.

 

To change my signature, I had to click my name at the top, select "Account Settings", and on the next page, at the bottom of the menu at the left, "Signature".

[SiriusVoyager]

I believe you have to have a minimum number of posts (not sure on the number) before you are allowed to add a signature. Before you reach that number, the option will not even appear in your profile to edit. 

Edited July 31, 2024 by SiriusVoyager

[ccoyle]

17 hours ago, Knocklouder said:

I think it supposed to be only 4  lines but they let you get away with a few more.

 

That's not an acceptable excuse. 🤨

[hdrinker]

If I want to search a specific topic, such as beveling individual frames, how would that be done without going through the list of some 400 subtopics in the framing and planking section?

Henry Drinker

[palmerit]

I find using Google is a better search option than using a search bar on a web site (any web site). In addition to the search term add on the same line site:modelshipworld.com and that will limit to posts on this site. 

[robert952]

I agree with @palmerit.  I always advised my colleagues to use Google and not our intranet web site to find stuff.  Ironically, we were using the Google search engine in our public websites and intranet. 

[mtaylor]

You might go to the Kit Area and in the 1751-1800 do a search on the 18th Century Merchantman Half Hull.   The kit designer did post her work on this which became the instruction manual.   I think that might be the best answer I have.

[palmerit]

It might be nice to see a new section under "Shop Notes, Ship Modeling Tips, Techniques and Research" on "Tutorials". These could be organized by particular "How-to" topics. These could be posts with new member-generated How-tos. It could also be links to build logs (parts of build logs) that show particularly detailed How-tos on particular techniques - these could be links posted by the people who wrote them, or from people who found them in a build log and found them useful. It could also be link to YouTube videos and other external sites. It wouldn't be posting questions on "how to" but posting solutions members wrote or found, even if just links to possible solutions. I know there are lots of build logs that show different techniques for different elements of ship modeling, but unless you read through 100 build logs it is really hard to search for them, and doing a google search will often not find them. I posted a question on my own build log on how to seize a block (I didn't even know that was the name of the technique I was asking about) and someone said "do a search" (which I did and did not find something complete) and said that there are some on videos YouTube (without a link). If I find some good things, I'll post them on my build log, but unless someone is building the Sherbourne, or reading 100s of build logs, few will find what I post. I know there is some great materials in the NRG Articles and How-Tos page, which is linked on the Articles Database, but there are certainly some great tutorials on existing build logs, on YouTube videos, and that some members could generate that could supplement what's there. I've found some build logs where people take a wonderful tutorial approach (and some that were suggested to me) but they can be hard to find and will not come up as "tutorials" in a google search (and certainly not from using the search bar). I know there are some of these tutorials posted in other sections, but they're often mixed with dozens of other posts. Just a suggestion.

[ccoyle]

1 hour ago, palmerit said:

It might be nice to see a new section under "Shop Notes, Ship Modeling Tips, Techniques and Research" on "Tutorials".

 

This probably won't happen, for the simple reason that as the forum main page gets larger, it get more frustrating to sift through. This balance between too much and not enough has come up regularly in the past -- at one point, believe it or not, we used to have a significant number of additional subforums listed on the main page. Based on member input, coupled with site traffic data, a number of the lesser-utilized forums were eliminated in order to make the remaining forums easier to navigate.

 

Ultimately, no single format will make everyone happy.