NEW MAGAZINE FOR MODEL ENGINEERS

£25 for 6 mags what a bargain...

Reminds me of various magazine start ups in the 1960s and 1970s.

Many only ran for a few issues, now highly sought after by collectors because of their rarity.

A new mag startup was never an easy option for anyone, will be interesting to see if this new kid on the block can survive.

Hi

It strikes me that not many people will sign up for a subscription without seeing the magazine first. Especially when monry is tight.

I saw that you can do a two magazine subscription, but I may not like the first one let alone a second!

Regards

Keith

Leeds UK

It would be good to know how many pages the mag is likely to contain excluding adverts so you know what you are getting for your money, that £25 may not be such a bargain for 10 pages per mag.

If its kit based then I'll not even be trying the two issues out, the making is what I enjoy.

J

This was the guy that undertook to be the editor of the Southern Federation Newsletter last year. Only produced one interim copy, which was, as this Editors Profile shows on the link metioned above, laced with information about his home club, then for whatever reason left. Now we know the reason. Best of British to whoever subscribes!!

He could well have a market. In the early days of kit Locos the guys certainly needed a lot of help especially as a high proportion had no idea what model engineering was or the tremendous support system there is for the traditional part of the hobby. Someone who has just spent >£5k on a loco kit will think £25 for the support mag is quite cheap and it is compared to my weekly petrol and food bills.

Although the kits are I understand much better that just means more will be sold to the inexperienced. You only have to read a few forums to see how many people buy lathes with no engineering knowledge nor even the wit to work out what the levers on their shiney lathe do. Lots of "men" even get the AA to mend a puncture these days.

Also I believe there is a massive following for tank kits and other militaria which are not traditional ME subjects. Model boating magazines seem to be mostly about building kits and glossy pictureres of them.

It might survive if we give it half a chance.

Anyone ever noticed the mountain of women's mags in the shops? What the hell are they all about

I'm prepared to risk £9 to give it a try. One good nugget of information could repay that investment many times over, so I say that if it is a flop, it's just one more amongst the myriad of others out there.

Martin.

Sorry, but not for me for the simple reason it's about steam.

Nothing wrong with steam, just don't rev me up and most of the current mags are steam heavy anyway. There are ooddles more to do in a home workshop than make loco's or even models for that fact.

Did you know that a large proportion of vintage vehicle members have never heard of ME or MEW ?

Or even the suppliers we use every day, to them you can only buy bits from Machine Mart or Seeley?

There is a vast market of the unwashed running about out there with money to spend.

As some know I do a lot with the small CNC and get to install and train quite a few machines and their new owners. Now this isn't about CNC but taking a rough split 25% of new owners are model engineers, the other 75% are people making thier own lines, prototyes etc

Even had one Oxford professor who wanted his to engrave fancy patternson styrofoam board so he could study water running over different patterns !

John S.

Edited By John Stevenson on 19/02/2012 12:11:59