Hi Bill; I gave up on the prior owner of the magazine as well, but have since re-subscribed. Bob has really turned the publication around, and I have not only re-subscribed but purchased most of the back issues I missed. Even under Mr. Bendever, Dick's track articles were almost worth the price of admission by themselves. The new magazine IS about modeling, and I find it worthwhile. It can still be improved; which is where we all come in by supporting it, making suggestions and submissions. Or we can wait until Bob gives up and then go back to bemoaning the lack of any Scale Only publication in S.
At this point refusing to subscribe because of the last owner is like not speaking to your neighbor because you had a fight with the last owner of his house. As to differences between the modeling guide and S Gaugian; I haven't seen any articles on repairing Flyer, or photos of anybody's extensive Gilbert collection shelved on the walls around his six loops of track with Plasticville buildings, in the Guide; so I don't see the comparison. Yes, S Gaugian occasionally has an article on a prototype car, and the scale column is quite good. Most of any given issue has nothing for the scale modeler. If you feel the magazine still owes you, contact Bob. Maybe you can work out something like a discount on on-going subscriptions to fulfill what you were shorted, but that is really not any of this group's business. Pieter E. Roos --- On Fri, 2/11/11, Bill Rigsby <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't subscribe to 1:64 > Modeling Guide, because under the Richard Bendever > administration, received only half of the magazines I had > paid for, and I was the first person to buy a subscription. > When I have compared the Modeling Guide next to The S > Gaugian, didn't seen any real difference between them. What > I expected in a "Modeling Guide", is exactly that a Guide, > not just another magazine that has the same advertisements, > the same photos of Joe Blows layout. I want to be guided by > such things a DCC, layout construction, track laying, etc, > not just the some ol', same ol'. Why is there no way of > contacting a featured layouts owner so as to ask question > about their layout? > Why is there no section on Tips & Tricks, where > people can submit what they have found, and how it works for > them? > At a Convention, I had shown Dr. Ben some square > Toothpicks, with pointed ends that could be used as wire > fence post, and some others that had been machined that > could be used for stair railing, nada, zilch, no interest. > Perhaps that is part of trying to model a dying scale > that is full of whoa is S, and filled with people, and > manufactures that are non-apostolic about the scale they > profess is "the right size" > Bill ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
