I just got an offer for the magazine in the mail and it was a good price but I have hundreds of past copies of the magazine that I am going through. I bought about 10 years worth at a show and I am still reading them. It just so happens they are from back before I subscribed. Problem is I need more magazine like Custer needed arrows and I sat and thought about what of value would make me want fresh copies. I think I will for a while buy at the shop rather than subscribe but I think the magazine is one of the few that articles dating back 30 years are still of value and relevant.
Actually, things like the scale drawings, railroads you can model, etc. are still useful even though they appeared in the 70's and earlier.
In addition to the DVD, I have almost all paper issues back to 1948 and a few earlier ones.
Paul
IRONROOSTER Actually, things like the scale drawings, railroads you can model, etc. are still useful even though they appeared in the 70's and earlier. In addition to the DVD, I have almost all paper issues back to 1948 and a few earlier ones. Paul
I'm with Paul, these mags are a resource no matter their age.
I have nearly complete MR back into the late 40's and Craftsman back to the early 50's. I use them all the time in my modeling. And even when I use the online versions to search, I often pull the hard copy out. They copy better for "shop copies" and are easier to read than on a computer screen.
If you have room for a layout, you have room to store them (under the layout).
But, I'm quickly becoming an "old guy"........
Sheldon
I regularly am re-reading back issues (which I keep in the blue binders), and I am often surprised at articles, and advertisements, that I have no recollection of, even though I thoroughly read and re-read each issue when it is new. Ditto for Model Railroad Planning and Great Model Railroads. I pay particular attention to the letters to the editor because they often alert me to articles in other back issues that I need to investigate.
Sometimes I get annoyed when I see that a product was offered that I would really like to have now, and I had no idea anybody made. This most often happens with the so-called "basement" manufacturers. It seems the 1990s were a particularly good period for basement manufacturers.
Dave Nelson
One should keep in mind at least some of the advertisements were for products that were hoped to be released, but never actually were.
Precision Scale was especially notorious for this, running magazine advertisements for brass models for 5 years or longer hoping that enough reservations would come in--but the models were never made.
Detail parts? I can't specifically speak for them.
John
Add me to the list of librarians, with MR dating from 1948 and lesser accumulations of RMC, Tetsudo Mokei Shumi and several titles of Japanese-language railfan mags. They occupy one long wall of my office/workroom, four shelves high.
What I wish there was more of in the present-day MR is model building along the line of the, "Dollar cars," and "Dollar model projects," of 60 years ago. Thanks to them, I won't hesitite a heartbeat to kitbash or scratchbuild anything I want from a grade crossing guard's shanty to a Mallet. Where do today's newcomers find that kind of guidance?
Of course, I can find it easily. Just pull the binder for the appropriate issue and look it up in the index...
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - since October, 1964)
RMax1
There are other benefits one received from being a member of the MRR. Such as the areas you can go in this website, For instance I really enjoy the videos, this forum, latest product releases.....
At least for now I enjoying being a member. But you never know I may cancel my membership some day and move on.
YGW
I enjoy the magazine and always looked forward to Cody' office. I think my problem is overload. I have 100's of issues and way to much content as it is. I run a lot of videos in the background while I work. The Model Railroader Video may be the way to go for a while rather than the straight magazine.
RMax1 I enjoy the magazine and always looked forward to Cody' office. I think my problem is overload. I have 100's of issues and way to much content as it is. I run a lot of videos in the background while I work. The Model Railroader Video may be the way to go for a while rather than the straight magazine.
Interesting how the world chsnges, or our peoples worlds are different. Never had a job where I could do something like "run a video in the background", not sure I would if I could.
Personally, I can't watch those videos, they make me crazy........Would much rather read.......
RMax1I live by multitasking all the time. I am constantly doing 3 or 4 things at once.
Better you than me, its a skill I never mastered, and it made my life miserable every time I tried. There is no multitasking when carefully restoring the woodwork in a 100 year old historic home, or climbing on a scaffold 30 feet in the air to do trim work, or evn when sitting at my drafting table designing a kitchen or addition. All require total focus.......