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[quote user="Marc_Magnus"]The all year layout building project which is just a small tabletop layout with nearly no countours, mountains or scratchbuild parts, come every time on a plywood panel or a door size table, is repetitive really repetitive.[/quote] Im just guessing here, but I think that MR's main market is the casual/beginner model railroader.  Otherwise you would see things like Proto87 wheelsets, Sergent couplers, superdetailed handlaid track (separately applied jointbars and tie plates), building a steam locomotive from brass etc.   The layouts have to fit in their van so they can take them to shows, kind of limits what they can do. Also Virginian Project Layout, had mountains, hills bridges, water features, kit bashing, and laser cut wood structures.   Winston Salem Southbound (its next years layout) has already shown up in MRVP. Plywood 4x8 is the "standard" beginner layout on this side of the ocean.  (I had an entire thread on that subject alone).  While not a fan of the 4x8, I get their point.  Most people have built or will build a 4x8.  Its where many people start.   [quote user="Marc_Magnus"]No articles or rarely small one, about LASER kit, but on each visit of a layout MR publish, we see laser kit, they are a great part of the market now.[/quote]  They did a whole video series on MRVP about building an American Model Builders caboose (Laser cut wood kit).  I think it was 9 parts, showed every single step of construction, even mistakes, all the way up to painting and decaling. [quote user="Marc_Magnus"]Undless articles about weathering a car or a locomotives, but a structure need weathering and add ons details too, no or rarely articles about it.[/quote] MRVP videos about structure detailing. (WSS and others) MR moved most of the detailed explaining into videos (some makes it to print).  Video is a better medium for teaching techniques and tips.   Gerry Leone does a monthy show on techniques and tips (speaking of), called off the rails.   [quote user="Marc_Magnus"]Fastrack[/quote] Are you talking about the hand laid track company?  If so, just go to their Youtube channel....they tell you everything you need to know in their youtube video series, which is probably why MR doesnt do an article on it.  Fastracks own videos are more comprehensive than MR can posibly do in a series of print articles. <a href="https://www.handlaidtrack.com/fast-tracks-videos">https://www.handlaidtrack.com/fast-tracks-videos</a> Tony Koester did a series on the Winston Salem Southbound project layout about handlaying track.  He doesnt use Fastracks jigs for any of it.  In case you hadnt checked them out, the fast tracks jigs are pricy.  Its about $200 or somewhere in that neighborhood to get all the tooling for the first turnout.  I built my first handlaid turnout by watching those videos, then repeating the process.  I bought a couple of the fasttracks tools to speed the process. [quote user="Marc_Magnus"]Arduino is the future of animation in our world train, a few quotes about it in some basic articles, no more.[/quote] Printing a sketch (I believe this is the proper term) would be a waste of paper, as you would have to type it back into a computer, but they could do one of those "online extra" things where you can download the sketch.  But they would have to pay someone to write it.  They would have to buy the legitimate Arduino boards (not really good form to use the clone in a published magazine).   I wouldnt necessarily call it the future (on its own).  I would like to see a series of Arduino boards linked on a communication bus so that they can coordinate their actions, instead of a bunch of disjointed animations.  Maybe a controller area network...cough. This months Sticky Stucco article was pretty neat. In case anyone cares. DEC 2017: About 23 pages of advertisements out of 88 (Im counting the back page). 26% advertising.. Also the theme of this thread was mentioned in this months "build an Ambroid helium freight car kit".    And I want to thank them for that.  I now know what it takes to build one, and I have better things to do with 3 months of my free time (assuming I actually match the pace that Eric White achieved).  I'll just 3D print one if I want one...
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