European Cover (-Up)?

[jjdamnit]

Hello All,

I just returned from a spring vacation in Europe; Germany, Belgium, France, Netherlands and U.K.

While in Aachen, Germany, there was a fantastic hobby shop just opposite from the town hall; Modell Center Hünerbein.

While my wife visited the town hall I, of course, visited the hobby shop.

On the magazine racks they had copies of Model Railroader magazine- -in English.

What I noticed was the cover photos were very different than the U.S. versions.

My question is does MR publish a different European versions or is this a different publication?

Thank you your responses.

[SPSOT fan]

Could you have happened apon a really old issue of MR, the current style of text and formatting was adopted in the early 2000s with the Model Railroader title previously being in a smaller, lighter blue color that currently. If you know the date you would be able to see if that is true of not. As far as I am aware there is not a different version of MR published in Europe, but it could be another model in magazine with a similar title. Who knows what it was!

[mbinsewi]

And none of our European friends on here have said the cover is different, unless they don't know that, but I don't think that is going on, because while they are on this site,  participating in the forums, it's easy to see what the current cover is.

Mike.

[jjdamnit]

Hello All,

mbinsewi

...none of our European friends on here have said the cover is different,

Yes, that's why I posted to the forum.

Hopefully some of our fellow modelers from across the pond will respond.

Hope this helps.

[cuyama]

You may very well have seen Railway Modeller, a popular English-language magazine published by PECO. (Yes, the track company PECO). 

“How often the simple answer will elude us”
                – George Carlin

 

[riogrande5761]

Jjdammit,

What is your siggy in reference to?

"Uhh...I didn’t know it was 'impossible' I just made it work...sorry"

Maybe time for something different?

[BNSF UP and others modeler]

Probably to the compromises one always has to make in model railroading...

Makes perfect sense to me.

[chutton01]

riogrande5761

Jjdammit,

What is your siggy in reference to?"Uhh...I didn’t know it was 'impossible' I just made it work...sorry"

Well, if this Goodreads site is to be trusted, Mark Twain said something along the same lines: "They did not know it was impossible so they did it”
Seems to have a fairly obvious meaning to me, along the lines of ignore the doubters if you know it can be done. 

[riogrande5761]

So it's not really impossible and you are just taking the mickey out of people, as the Brits would say.  Kind of like knocking down a straw man, a cheap shot.

[davidmurray]

The first club I was in, the leaders opinion of anything less than 15  years old in MR was  "that won't work".  Even if another club had done it on their portable layout.

I thing the comment in questions is great, that is how improvements are made.

Dave

 

[Steven Otte]

Model Railroader publishes only one edition, worldwide. No different editions for other nations. 

[jjdamnit]

Hello All,

Thank you Steve Otte for the clarification.

Hope this helps.

[doctorwayne]

riogrande5761

...Kind of like knocking down a straw man, a cheap shot.

Hardly a cheap shot, in my opinion.....it seems to me to be a sarcastic apology intended for the know-it-alls who declare something impossible because they're unable to accomplish it. 

I've always rather liked it.

Wayne

[BNSF UP and others modeler]

"I've always rather liked it."

Same here.

I don't see why there is a need to nit pick people's quotes on a completely unrelated thread for no reason whatsoever...