MRP 2007

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Does anyone have thiers yet?

Picked it up at the bookstore last night - a pleasant surprise.

Haven’t spent lots of time looking at it yet, but it looks like a nice balanced issue - some small layout ideas, large, etc.

It also came with a cool layout design booklet. Most of that stuff was repeat type stuff, but really nice to have in one place. I bet they probably put it in the booklet because it wasn’t theoretically new material. But the booklet is so good I’m glad they threw it in there.

Also, I don’t recall if MR has done this before or not, but they included a detailed list of different manufacturer’s turnout dimensions. How cool is that?

I’m looking forward to reading through the issue over the next week or so.

Oh yeah, I alsmost forgot - our (the forum’s) own Harold Minkwitz has his 4 x 8 On30 layout in there. Harold, it looks like you settled on a scale for your multi-scale layout [:)] Great job! Looking good.

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Mine came in the mail Friday. I am pleased with it.

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Alright, been enjoying the issue this week.

I have to say, Mike Confalone’s 1ft x 16ft shelf switching layout has to have some of the most realistic scenery I’ve ever seen.

The materials appear to be all natural (as far as I can tell anyway).

Very inspiring.

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All of Mr. Confalone’s scenery is great, but I am most amazed at his backdrops. I’d love to see an article describing how he made them.

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Great mag, enjoyable reading. And agree that Mike’s scenery is really fantastic.

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Sounds like MRP 2007 is definately worth the purchase. I’m still waiting for mine to arrive in the mail, hopefully tomorrow seeing as how others have theirs already.

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I have to say, I love reading MR, but for some reason whenever I pre-ordered these special issues, I’d get them after seeing them on the bookstore shelves. I don’t know if it’s a case of the store putting them on the shelf before they’re supposed to or what.

So now I just buy them at the store. My regular monthly MR still arrives way before it appears on the store shelves, however.

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I’m still waiting for mine. I like to pre-order because I save a buck or two and I USUALLY get it before the news stands–but not this time. Even with the big ice storm here a couple of weeks ago the news stands and LHS had them early last week. Mine still has not come. I emailed Kalmback Monday. They said it was in transit and guaranteed delivery by the 25th, so I suppose I will call them when it doesn’t arrive on Thursday. I will say this–the few times I have had a lost or damaged issue, they have always quickly sent me a replacement with no argument.

Ron

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I picked it up at Wally World last night. Finally got a chance to page through - my typical method of reading model magazines. I skim through, stopping at the real attention grabbers, then return later to read the whole thing. Two things annoyed me - almost all the photos have been digitally enhanced to add smoke, sky, etc. Guess it’s just a pet peeve of mine, but especially in a magazine devoted to designing a layout, I would expect not so much of that and more of “this is what it actually looks like if you were standing there”. Now Great Model Railroads - that would be different. I AM glad there are plenty of benchwork pictures in this issue of MRP. It al had to be built sometime, it didn;t just magically appear fully sceniced - and I applaud the use of more pictures with PEOPLE in them so you can get a sense of proportion.

The other annoyance was the constant // in front of sidebar captions. ANNOYING! VERY! I’m half expecting yet another paragraph or two on some BMWs after seeing the // .

–Randy