Speaking personally, I absolutely loved MRJ when it first came out, and my father's model of Aylesbury featured in issue No.0, but since moving up-scale there is less in it for me personally and I have not bought it regularly for the last eight years or so. They have said that Gauge 3 is not within their remit. FRM however have said that anything goes and they have an open mind, so I am hopeful and look forward to seeing it tomorrow, at Scaleforum.
Either way, it deserves to succeed.
Mike
What Mike says strikes a bit of a chord with me, nothing to do with the new magazine but more to do with scale.
Modelling in Gauge One is a bit like doing Gauge Three in that it just isn't covered in any of the magazines, although I like to think it could be, and of course any magazine can only publish material that has been put forward.
One of the things (the main thing?) that appealed to me about WT when Cynric drew my attention to it was the high constructive element of the content and the fact that being (then) predominantly 7mm the techniques being used (not to mention Phill Dyson's bloody brilliant garden railway) were applicable to my aspirations in a way that nothing else was, magazine, society journal or internet based.
So back to magazines, I guess what I'd really love is a mag that caters for and inspires "big finescale including outdoors", the G1MRA newsletter is lovely but useless in this regard, and will remain so in my lifetime, and I guess that the Gauge O Guild journal would quite probably suit me better.
So there is or was the ALRSM and Migo, what happened to them?
Perhaps we need a new magazine "Large Scale Fine Scale Modelling Review" G1 and upwards - any takers, arf arf arf.
All joking apart, there seems to me to be a lot in common between G3 as it is now and G1 as I'd like it to be.....
As for WT, well that's another subject, but in all honesty it doesn't interest me in the same way that it did when Cynric drew me here, and I think what Steve Cook allude to on his earlier thread is something to do with it.
We also seem to have become the Internet arm of the Provisional Scaleseven Brigade, which I have to confess seems out of shape with Cynric's original aims.
Is it perhaps time you chaps set up your own place?
Sorry for sounding so out of sorts but that's just the way it feels this morning!
Simon