Dick
Thank you for exposing the reality of Richard Bendever - I was willing to write
an article for him for every issue. But he proved himself unreliable, by losing
copy and photographs. In the end I gave up and it put me off writing for anybody
else (including the NASG dispatch and creating my own website). Now I'm far too
busy at work to find the time to even make up a kit. The window of opportunity
was lost....in ten years time if I can afford to retire.... maybe I'll find the
time.
Kelvin White
Oxford England
PS I'm an architect & my daughter is a graphic designer...I do know what looks
good... Richard's graphic skills were of a low order, there were 100 different
styles on a single page - the magazine looked a mess.
> 2a. Re: S Scale website; 1:64 Modeling Guide
> Posted by: "Richard Karnes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] rnk2202
> Date: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:11 pm ((PST))
>
> All --
>
> Two things:
>
> 1. The proposed S scale e-zine website. I am opposed to this idea. Reason
> is that only about half of us do e-mail. The entire S scale fraternity
> deserves a publication, not just us "techies."
>
> 2. 1:64 Modeling Guide. The reasons 1:64MG is tanking are not simply the
> health and the other businesses of Brother Bendever. It is because of a
> series of judgment lapses on the part of Dr. Ben. Firstly, he changed the
> name of his well-respected magazine from "S/Sn3" to "1:64," and promptly lost
> most of his Sn3 subscribers. He had lost sight of the value of the name he
> bought. Then he made it known that he intended to sweep in vehicles, boats,
> and airplanes, figuring that he'd get a lot more readers. But he forgot that
> the S scaler is committed (as the pig is regarding breakfast) -- Our entire
> layout must be 1:64 scale, whereas the vehicle modeler is merely involved
> (like the chicken re breakfast) because he doesn't need to do all his
> modeling in the same scale. So he lost more railroaders. Then he told all
> his readers that he doesn't know much about model railroading. Whether true
> or not, this is not the way to generate confidence. Finally,
> he told his readers that they needed to support him or he would fail. When
> you actually print this sort of statement, it generally becomes a
> self-fulfilling prophecy.
>
> Ben is not article-shy, at least from me. He is sitting on several as-yet
> uncommitted articles. Based on his now publicized effort to shed the
> magazine, I have asked for my unpublished articles to be returned.
>
> Personally, I like Ben, and I had made it one of my missions to help him
> succeed, despite the fact that he and I had different ideas on what should be
> said and done. I had advised him regarding every one of the episodes
> recounted above, but he had gone his own way anyway. Sometimes I thought he
> asked me just so he could figure out what the exact opposite ought to be.
>
> So why have I told you all of this "inside info?" Well, it's because there's
> a lot more to this story than the seemingly simple explanation that S scalers
> can't support a magazine. Maybe we can and maybe we can't, but Ben's mag is
> not an appropriate test case. Now that he's folding, anyone interested in
> taking up the challenge needs to know why he failed.
>
> Dick Karnes
>
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