Page 26 of my October issue of MR is all yellow – which makes Phil Walthers look rather ill in the color photo in the Walthers ad for the N/Z catalog, and more importantly totally obscures whatever point Lionel Strang was trying to make in his photos of using the wire brush for weathering. Is this all yellow page just on my issue or is it on other people’s? I hope the Strang photos will be posted on the website so I can actually see what he was trying to show.
Dave Nelson
not yellow in mine
You must have received one of the very first issues to come off the press as they were setting it up, and the other colors weren’t working for some reason, or the press had ran out of ink for the other colors. That copy may not have even meant to be distributed.
Dave,
If you call us at 1-800-533-6644 and explain the situation (you can mention my name), they’ll send you another copy. And I’d really appreciate it if you sent me the copy you have so that I can share it with our printer. Why don’t you e-mail me off the forum?
Thanks,
Terry
I guess I haven’t gotten my MR yet because I live in Texas and that’s a long way from Milwaukee?
Thanks
Bob
I think they are neighbors.
I’ve got some yellow in my issue, on the Trix ALCO PA add and on the 2004 Modeling winners page.
I noticed at lunch that the mailman had delviered mine, but haven’t had a chance to look at it yet. Now my curiousity is up!
You too! You’re just across the waters.
I didn’t get mine yet. Perhaps my mailman is also a modeler
I got mine today. no defects.
Classic case of “yellow journalism.”
Gary
it’ll become a collector’s item WORTH TONS OF MONEY[:)], either that or … it’ll be worthless[V], your call… Terry has a solution I see [^] , now that’s customer service, way to go !!![:D][:D][:D]
I haven’t bought my copy yet.
cheers
Chuck Walsh (above) speculates that his mailman is also a model railroader and that is why he has not received his issue yet. That reminds me of a true story – the very first model railroad club I belonged to. I was the only teenage member, and one of the older guys was a local mailman. He would tell me when MR and Trains were first being received in the local post office for the local hobby shop and would tell me what was on the cover, etc.
One time he asked me – what did you get from AHC (America’s Hobby Center)? At first I could not figure out how he knew I just got something – but he had seen the package addressed to me. He knew who all the local model railroaders were because he saw the issues of MR and RMC and the packages from AHC that came through the post office.
Dave Nelson
I got mine friday and want to know what that wierd typing paper thingy with all the advertisments on it that was over the entire magazine…and as usual… I tore it off and wouldn’t ya know it …it messed up the staples and now gonna have to put the very middle page back together after the staples were bend from tearing off that weird page…no big deal and it was a nice issue…Chuck[:D]
Mine got delivered, but the mailman had dropped it in some water. (boy have we been getting the rain) So I had to try and dry it out before I could read it. Then I had to try and separate the pages. Oh well, I sent an email to MR to see if they will send a replacement. They have been real good about this in the past, so I suspect they will continue with the outstanding service.
John
I used to be a mailman and on a walking route, sometimes it was impossible to keep the mail dry on long, dismal rainy days. Even inside the mailbag with the flap covering it and a vinyl rain cape covering me and the bag, sometimes mail became something resembling a soggy mass of pulp. Large envelopes, newspapers and magazines inside the bag got the worst of it with moisture wicking through the canvas bag.
Of the snow, rain, heat and gloom of night, carrying mail in the rain is what I miss the least.
Wayne
as noted above - “Mine got delivered, but only the mailman had dropped it in some water.”
I though most magazine subscriptions were (generally ?) mailed in plastic sleeves, perhaps not.
cheers,
Krump
I think I’m going to start the flamers:
It’s UP yellow and MR likes UP
I don’t think anyone can top Gary’s "Yellow Journalism"remark,
(so I won’t try). - D.G.