I have not seen Jeff's suggestion yet, but it seems to me that an issue of the Dispatch is exactly "preaching to the choir".
Three possibilities that come to mind are some sort of collaboration with S Gaugian (since they do sell through hobby shops), working with Carstens to do a S/Sn3 Annual like there current HOn3 and On30 Annual magazines, or working with Kalmbach to provide a minimum of one article/year for Great Model Railroads for an extended time. The last would generate the most bang for the buck since people in other scales would see the articles, but might be hardest to arrange. Consider that just one article per year in GMR would provide an on-going reminder that we are here, vs. any "one shot" promotion. A Dispatch issue of this nature, while a nice idea for us, would still only reach NASG members. Even something produced with S Gaugian or RMC that was a pure S publication, while providing somewhat more visibility to the scale by being in the hobby shop magazine rack, isn't likely to be purchased by anyone not already interested in S. Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 11/15/11, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > I was hoping to see some discussion > about Jeff's idea on this list. > > Obviously, the funding would be the largest obstacle. I'm > no longer on the Board of the NASG, but I would hope that > they would seriously consider Jeff's proposal. Although, we > may be excited about having a "scale" SGMR, we shouldn't > forget that the AF-based SGMR would be a great promotional > tool to get more folks into the scale via the tinplate > route. Maybe some discussion on the S-trains list would be > helpful in that respect. > > I looked at all of Jeff's suggestions for the content of > the magazine and thought that it would make for a great > periodic S magazine as well, but we should start somewhere. > If it's a go, I would like to volunteer to help out with the > articles on some of the layouts based in the Northeast, > since several of them are in the Lehigh Valley S Gaugers > club and folks like Dan and Sam are close by. > > IMO, S has taken a beating lately in the publicity wars and > is "s"nubbed more and more. I see it in venues like Model > Railroad Hobbyist and the paper mags. It's not entirely > their fault because the balls in our court. We either keep > preaching to a shrinking choir, or we try to get S back on a > growth cycle. Things like an SGMR would be a great way > to start. > > Roy Hoffman > > royhoffman.com/pwrr > smdnmra.org ------------------------------------ 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/
