JB73 said:wish you would have mentioned you were working on that particular skin. that was my first attempt at a skin, and spent over 2 months on it : (
I'm on the road for at least 14 days at a time. During that time, I'm able to get online about once a week at most. Last year at this time, damn near every truckstop had Wi-Fi, but last Fall the main provider, Truckstop.net, went belly up. Thus, these days I can only get online at a specific chains of truckstops that have their own Wi-Fi systems: TAs and Flying Js. Neither of these chains is as widespread as, say, Pilots, plus all the independent truckstops were on Truckstop.net, too. Thus, I'm not usually able to stop at a Wi-Fi truckstop these days, and even when I can, sometimes I either don't have time to mess with it, or can't park within range of the antenna. And when I'm home, which is only for 2 days at a time, I'm stuck with 26.4 dial-up, so I tend to avoid threads with lots of big pictures in them. I've got enough problems downloading several hundred emails totalling several megs.
This last week has been an exception. I was stuck the whole holiday weekend, from Friday to Tuesday, at a Flying J, and I've been home the last 2 days. That's why I've been posting a lot lately. In between, I work on skins offline as time permits, as my entertainment on the road. So I'm usually operating in a vacuum, with no knowledge of what's already been done or what other folks are doing.
Usually, I discover that the skin I've spent a lot of time on has already been done. Before the new FW models came out, I called dibs on Schwarz 12, Rudel's ride, and a JV44 red/white belly Dora. But nobody cared, and I've since found that the latter 2 were already done before I got even my 1st Dora submitted. A couple of the A5s I was interested in have also been done already. Now I see I've stepped on your toes with Schwarz 12. I'm sorry, and believe me, I know EXACTLY how you feel.
However, with yours coming in about the same time mine did, I'm sure Skuzzy will hold them up for comparison, especially given his backlog. Thus, perhaps yours will beat mine out in terms of quality. In which case, you'll owe me a drink
