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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by APG45 [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by aardvark What I was really meaning was if these things are so valuable (witness the responses on this thread) how come they are so cheap and plentiful? KL [/quote] Maybe helpful or useful would be better words than valuable. It's like that 1/4 inch screw you find you're missing while holding up the ceiling fan you're installing. You wish you had it but it doesn't have much market value.[/quote] Well to continue with your analogy, people are talking as if a set of mags are of incalculable value in modeling, sort of a box that held " every possible screw you could ever need!" That would be valuable, wouldn't you think? Really though, for as many people who think a complete, intact set is a fabulous thing to have, there doesn't seem to be many people putting down the ca***o create their own complete, intact set, otherwise they wouldn't be sold at swap meets for a quarter a piece or go begging on ebay for 6 bucks a year - and with free shipping, no less. [quote]QUOTE: It sounds like you're mainly interested in the "how to" type articles, which have little or no <s>value</s> use after 10 years. [/quote] I wouldn't say that first part is true, but I agree that much of the how-to stuff ages poorly (as I said before, because of advances in the state of the art in materials, kits, electronics, and modeler expectations). I find their main value in the prototype info that supports it. [quote]QUOTE: OTOH, cutting up a MR is a terrible thing. I would suggest scanning in everything you think you might be interested in and then giving them to your library or sell them (for 10 cents each) to a used bookstore. That way other people can enjoy them and you will be helping ensure that they are still be plentiful if you change your mind.[/quote] Scanning? Good gosh you're crazy - I'm talking 500 mags here. Heck, if I could get somebody to commit to paying the shipping for this heap I'd consider letting them have them for nothing after I'd copied what I wanted. [This may be a copyright violation. If so, please consider this a purely hypothetical discussion. . .] KL [/quote]
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