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I feel that I have to chime in here. I've only been in the hobby for alittle over a year, and have been buying MR and other mags, as soon as they hit the shelves. The entire reason that I got into the hobby was because of the scratchbuilding, that is something I enjoy. I found a hobby shop that had alot of old mags that was for sell, and I bought boxes upon boxes of them and started reading. I figured that if I was going to learn how to do anything in this hobby, I should learn it from the ones that prefected it, made it what it is today.I have noticed the lack of scratchbuilding articles and also the electronic how to's. Even as young as I am, I understand the change. With the way that the hobby has become so commercialized, you have to make your sponsers happy. What they are producing is what you push. Without the sponsers there wouldn't be a MR. So unfortunately I do understand. With saying that I would love to see some more scratchbuilding and electronic articles.Maybe I'm naive but I plan to scratchbuild every structure on my layout, and also build every pc board. It gives me that satisfaction that "this is mine and only mine".All of this, is just my own opinion, but even with or without a magazine to help with scratchbuilding, there is always going to be scratchbuilding. Norman....
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