To quote from the flyer... "for railway modellers who like to do rather than just buy" seems to me that we might have read that before, somewhere in one of Jordan's posts maybe?After my spoof Thread about the magazine "Armchair Modeller", I have to say that this one is genuine...
Bob Barlow, good. Tim S, hmm, not so.
Do I detect something of a "grass is always greener" when applied in Wiltshire?I just realised there is a lot of GW stuff in the first issue.
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"Finescale Railway Modelling Review".
From my own perspective, it seems to be aiming for "all UK-outline" content... ho hum.
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Apart from the articles which are biased towards Swindon the other "titles / summaries" on the flyer are as applicable to overseas modelling as to UK layouts... and could well be independent of scale.From my own perspective, it seems to be aiming for "all UK-outline" content...
Bob Barlow, good. Tim S, hmm, not so.
They seem to be pitching squarely at MRJ territory. Barlow was co-editor of MRJ from the early days, and Shackleton was in the editorial chair for some time. It'll be interesting to see what the actual content looks like.
I'm not sure that I agree that MRJ has gone "downhill" since Tim departed although I agree that in an ideal world a magazine would have an editor rather than editors.
Looking on the bright side though, hasn't the breadth of contributors increased a bit under the "roving editor" stewardship?
Ah, nowt for me then......So presumably there'll be nothing "crude slapdash and implausible" about it
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So presumably there'll be nothing "crude slapdash and implausible" about it
I'm not sure that I agree that MRJ has gone "downhill" since Tim departed .......
..... Looking at (cough) RMWeb there doesn't seem to be much happening in between the "high-end" lot and the toy train brigade. I long to be proved wrong! .....
While I welcome the new magazine – Greystar also publish the Narrow Gauge & Industrial etc – I hope they are not about to plunge into the same waters that have already drowned Iain Rice among others.
I'd agree, I think it's improved. There were (in my opinion) too many articles written by Tim Shackleton himself, some were good, some less so, some smacked of padding, crucially they reduced the opportunity to hear from different contributors.
This was kind of my point. It wasn't just me that thought this, but most of my friends who also read the magazine. I had always subscribed to the magazine - and still do - because it contained interesting, entertaining and inspirational stuff. Things seemed to drift under Tim's stewardship, not that it's much better under the current regime.