On 8/31/2019 at 10:49 AM, FUN&ONLY! said:

Took this with my phone yesterday. I know it is not that good! LOL! The supports definitely look more of a light grey than white in my opinion.

I don't think its a bad shot, its kinda neat how you can see the fog in the background

8 hours ago, fyrfyter said:

That doesn’t mean tomorrow. That could be anytime from now until next Spring.

20 hours ago, on twitter, Kings Island said they will start erecting next week.

2 hours ago, Itsintheshed said:

I don't think its a bad shot, its kinda neat how you can see the fog in the background

Thanks! I thought the fog was cool too especially because it is right above the Little Miami River back there. The picture just wasn’t clear enough to show all of the work that was going on in greater detail, but I am glad you liked it! Here are some more photos of the fog! LOL!

hows it look? I tried my best in paint "not really"

44 minutes ago, collin.klopfstein said:

hows it look? I tried my best in paint "not really"

I can't wait to see how it looks at night with a light package as well as with lights in the distance. 

Here is a picture from Coaster Bob 62 opening day 2017 video of that area when it was getting dark with lights in the distance. Can't wait to see that plus Orion at dusk/dark!

 

1 hour ago, collin.klopfstein said:

hows it look? I tried my best in paint "not really"

It looks pretty good!

I made a random twitter account with a random name and put this , wow thanks chad

2 hours ago, collin.klopfstein said:

hows it look? I tried my best in paint "not really"

Nice drawing, I will try to make my own version using a feature in Paint.NET which allows you to make perfectly straight lines, and perfectly curved curves. 

10 hours ago, collin.klopfstein said:

I made a random twitter account with a random name and put this , wow thanks chad

Uh... random name?

Is anyone doing a timelapse of Orion? I want to get into contact with said person who will be doing a full timelapse.

1 hour ago, CoasterOhio said:

Is anyone doing a timelapse of Orion? I want to get into contact with said person who will be doing a full timelapse.

I have the equipment to do it, does anyone know how much storage it would be to record the whole webcam process? I can get an extra hard drive for it.

^ Id suggest it. Each Image from KI is about 5 minutes in between pulses, Some people also have different intervals set.

 

I'll be getting aerial pics, hopefully once a week, if weather cooperates. I'll try to get them from the same spot every time. @CoasterOhio

3 minutes ago, sixohdieselrage said:

I'll be getting aerial pics, hopefully once a week, if weather cooperates. I'll try to get them from the same spot every time. @CoasterOhio

You the GOAT man

Im just over here waiting on the construction cam!

Hopefully they turn the cam on and begin vertical today.  Hopefully.

1 hour ago, JonahWilliamson said:

I have the equipment to do it, does anyone know how much storage it would be to record the whole webcam process? I can get an extra hard drive for it.

Depends on your sampling rate.  60 per hour or 1 every minute should suffice.  

As far as large hard drives I recommend the WD My Elements or EasyStore 8TB externals. I have 3 of them. They go on sale every couple of weeks for $130 at either BestBuy, Newegg or Amazon.  Just follow SlickDeals or r/buildapcsales and they will come up.  

You can easily shuck them (remove the enclosure) if you want and put it in your PC.  Depending on your power supply you may need to either put a small sliver of kapton tape over the 3rd SATA pin or use a SATA to 4 pin Molex adapter.  Plenty of YT videos with instructions.   

I am pretty sure @malem will be setting this up on our server. He's done it the last few installs. 

1 hour ago, sixohdieselrage said:

I'll be getting aerial pics, hopefully once a week, if weather cooperates. I'll try to get them from the same spot every time. @CoasterOhio

Hopefully the park doesn't have a fit on it this time. lol

48 minutes ago, LovinMeSomeBanshee said:

Hopefully they turn the cam on and begin vertical today.  Hopefully.

They did say it would go vertical this week! With Monday gone....it should be soon now!

42 minutes ago, King Ding Dong said:

Depends on your sampling rate.  60 per hour or 1 every minute should suffice.  

As far as large hard drives I recommend the WD My Elements or EasyStore 8TB externals. I have 3 of them. They go on sale every couple of weeks for $130 at either BestBuy, Newegg or Amazon.  Just follow SlickDeals or r/buildapcsales and they will come up.  

You can easily shuck them (remove the enclosure) if you want and put it in your PC.  Depending on your power supply you may need to either put a small sliver of kapton tape over the 3rd SATA pin or use a SATA to 4 pin Molex adapter.  Plenty of YT videos with instructions.   

I film wedding videos so i have two 8 TB G-Raid Thunderbolts all ready to go. But if this timelapse will take more then a TB then ill just order and extra 2 TB hard drive

1 hour ago, sixohdieselrage said:

I'll be getting aerial pics, hopefully once a week, if weather cooperates. I'll try to get them from the same spot every time. @CoasterOhio

I'd love to join you on a trip in the sky at some point!

 

4 minutes ago, CoasterOhio said:

I'd love to join you on a trip in the sky at some point!

 

yeah, I wish we had the money to purchase a bigger passenger plane and have all of us here on KIC go on a flight over the park lol.

sixohdieselrage taking off with all of KICentral 

7 minutes ago, JonahWilliamson said:

sixohdieselrage taking off with all of KICentral 

I'd go on that ride.... but I'm not chipping in for gas in that thing!! LOL

Nah here is @sixohdieselrage and all of us on KICentral taking off on a beautiful morning to see Orion construction!

IT HAS GONE VERTICAL!!!

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/blog/2019/september/vertical-construction-begins-on-new-orion-roller-coaster 

 

1 minute ago, Fye Coasters said:

IT HAS GONE VERTICAL!!!

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/blog/2019/september/vertical-construction-begins-on-new-orion-roller-coaster 

I cant wait for the construction cam!! I guess @collin.klopfstein was right.

2 different colored supports?

LOL. I mean, if someone wants to give me a better camera, I'd be happy with that.