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[quote user="luvadj"] I'm catching up on my Febuary MR and it got me thinking about their content of late. I mean, a few years back, anyone's layout would be featured..Mr Joe Jones's small layout could be viewed on their pages and not just someone's polished and unbelievably detailed empire. It almost makes me feel that whatever effort my family and I put into our layout will never be as good as the guy who gets a writeup in MR.Now I know that what we accomplish is not in vain and is a joint effort; one that we are proud of.  But I for one would like to see more of the average guy's efforts grace their pages instead of someone's magnificence. That kind of work mostly results from spending all their free time at it and most of us work and don't have that amount of time, degree of talent  or amount of money ( 5 MRC #1501's on a shelf layout..must be nice to put out $100.00 for convience [8D]) to achieve those kind of results. Sorry for the rant, but it just struck me as they use to showcase a broader spectrum of modeling..is  it too much trouble or is advertising more important? I'd pay more for the magazine if they offered more.... [/quote] Not many people wll admit it because they would rather kiss MR butt since this is their forum but the fact is you are right.  It matters on who you are to get in the mag and how money is invested in the layout to make the magazine.  If you look thru 2007 MR magazines you will be able to figure out the majority of the Model railroaders are some sort of ENGINEER.  The likely job is a Computer Engineer, retired pilot, Retired Colonel in the Air force.  Basically all the contributors are rich!  Remember the layout a few months back in the guys garage with the two matching corvettes in it?  That is a typical type of people who contribute.  OR OR OR the contributor will go into a story of who helped them bulld their layout and when they say the names it is always in the circle of previous MR contributors or employees.  If you do not meet the two standards of a great career and knowing someone the chances of getting into that mag decreases much much much more to less than imaginable and it does not matter if you have a fantastic looking layout either SORRY!  Then just for the heck of it the MR might throw in one or two new guys thru the whole year but thats it.  Sort of like an affirmative action hire. :)   So the move you need to make before trying to get published in the mag is locate someone like TONY KOESTER, befriend him a little bit kiss his butt and then later one boast how he helped you take a picture or build a kit or two then BOOM your in!!
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