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It seems Paint Shop and Student Fair are the two most often requested former regular columns to be returned to the pages of MR. I stopped buying MR on a monthly basis about a decade ago. Since then, I've bought the occasional article here or there when a set of plans or (amazing as this might sound) when an article struck my interest. Otherwise, I feel MR has become a sort of "Reader's Digest" train oriented magazine. The articles are all pretty much written in the same writing style, are about the same length word/paragraph count-wise and don't vary much month to month. What happened to the variety you could get in the 80's? An Art Current kitbashing article, a Malcolm Furlow scenery article, some electronics project, a nice freight car done by Jim Hediger in Paint Shop, an interpolation of a few letters from teen modelers by Andy Anderson in Student Fair, a beefy Bull Session column towards the rear of the magazine, Club News and so much more I may be overlooking? I randomly picked out a recent copy of MR in a stack by my PC here and the layout feature was about a layout the owner had built for him - it's not his work but rather the work of a professional layout builder, no wonder I skipped that article the first time around. More variety is what MR needs.
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