Don´t you feel that MRR is always the same? I´ve seen the article about “how to make trees” dozen of times during 20 years. There are hundreds of topics in this hobby, in example: “how to move a layout to a new house”, but never aboarded that…and so on…
How many subscribers read that article about how to make trees the first time it came out? Or the second time, or the third time. Just because you read it doesn’t mean they did. If you want to see a certain type article printed, write in and request it.
unless your new to the hobby and never seen MR before, dont buy any of there books, as there just reprinted articles from the mag, what a crock of s==t
If I’m interested in the subject, I will buy the Kalmbach books that are essentially a collection of prior articles from its magazine even if I have some or all of the specific magazines. The books provide a convenient way to retrieve the article, and the books are differentiated by particular subjects, and not a hodge-podge as in magazines. “Pays your money and take your choices.”
Mark
mark, i think i will recant my above statement and partially agree with you on that.
Jeffrey, I’m going to make a small edit to your statement to bring it into line with the realities of publishing a hobby magazine:
If you want to see a certain type of article printed, write it and send it in!
If you can’t do that, but one of your modeling buddies can, have HIM(her, it, YX) send it in.
Model Railroader can’t print articles that nobody has written - and the staff writes only a few of the articles each month. Also, it takes rather specific expertise to write an article, and the staff members, good as they are, may not be experts in the particular area some reader(s) might want to see.
I’m sure that it wouldn’t take a wannabe author much searching to find Kalpubco’s writers’ guidelines. (So why don’t I look for them? I don’t feel a need to demonstrate my comparatively low level of expertise - and almost everything that interests me can be found in my 58-year collection of MRs.)
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
No…I have read the alike tree articles but,notice each one use different techniques and tree type.We don’t make trees today like we did just a few years ago.We went from “lollipop” trees made from lichen to very realistic trees we have today.