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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by ACL Fan Now this is funny. "Devoted to beginners" now? Not according to people posting on the "Best Magazine" thread; they're complaining that it's ALL "wow" factor and no basic how-to. Amazing how perceptions can differ, ain't it? [/quote] Hmm... maybe I should explain my perspective. I've read about 98% of the MR's ever published, so my views arn't based on the last ten years worth of magazines or anything. Given that, I like to look for articles that push people towards realism in their modeling. Take a recent article by Tony Thompson about moving the trucks on a CB&Q caboose farther inward in order to run the car on tighter curves. How much inspiration is there when the head editor is taking a nice prototypical Walther's caboose, and making it unprototypical by moving the trucks inward and cutting corresponding details off the side sill of the caboose? MR used to be about converting 3-rail toys into 2-rail models, about adding details and bashing readily available models into better representations of real life, about creating real life in miniature. Now they are including articles about moving backwards when the market supplys better models to start with? What's the deal?
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