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[quote user="Graham Line"] Do your own comparison. Sit down with a 1990 issue and one from 2015, then count up the full ad pages and the stories. It doesn't take too many Hobbies for Men or America's Hobby Center ads etc. to add up to two dozen. Feature columns like Student Fare, Paintshop, the old guys around the stove column, etc. have disappeared but not all of these were hard-core modeling material. Then compare the staff listings at the front of the magazine, and see how many people MR has to work with these days. <div style="clear:both;"> </div> [/quote] +1 And I decided to do that. Dec 1990 Issue 258 pages total 128 pages of adds (approximate, some were 75%+ with a half column of material I accounted for this by not counting every one as an add only page)  Over half of the 128 pages were full page advertisements. 8 pages of classifieds  (most of which were 50% adds, not counted in the above adds) 12 Pages of Hobby retailers (no adds, just a list of retailers)   1 entire page listing the advertisers Which leaves about 109 pages of content (many of which were 30%+ advertisements).  Of which a number of pages were dedicated to Kalmbach video sales and back issue of MR available... If you look through the current MR.... There are a lot fewer adds and MR has shifted to presenting their bookstore/video store/backissues differently.  There are not 12 pages of hobby retailers (its one or two now). Also they just ran the "A railroad you can build" article recently".   Steven Otte mentioned it in the last "OMG MR magazine is dying because it isnt 50% advertisements anymore" thread. I prefer the MR that is actually readable, and I dont have to spend time looking for the article I was reading.
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