ME articles in MEW

I do not get MEW any longer. What I want is a magazine that prints articles on Model Engineering, so I get ME, and I am happy with it. Now I see the cover of MEW announces an article on a topic that definitely is not a "workshop" issue but very much a ME issue; making tracks for a tank. What is up with this!? Having trouble with the genres?

At the same time ME has more "Workshop" content now than it has had since MEW was started. Not a bad idea, it is something I can understand, but the "tank tracks" is definitely not at home in MEW. I feel the publisher just tries to screw me over so I take another subscription, just to get that one article I find interesting.

I have taken ME ever since I started model engineering in the early 1960s and currently buy it on subscription. I also get MEW via the local paper shop as I like to give some support to local business. Since ME has been under a new editor it has improved greatly and I now find something of interest it most issue.

I think MEW is suffering from an identity crisis - sometimes it is very similar to Old Glory, sometimes ME but most of the time is OK.

I recommend that people dissatisfied with ME & MEW try Engineering in Miniature. I find it very well laid out, clear to read (important at my age) and very like ME in the good old days. Don't forsake ME & MEW but give it a try.

Eric

Axel have you read the article as you say you don't take MEW?

The track article could just about be anything as the subject matter is moreabout casting than making a model tank and the links and wheels are just being used to demonstrate the methods.

No difference to the white metal casting article that was in ME a while back that used chuck jaws to illustrate the methods.

J

Edited By JasonB on 13/11/2013 12:53:04

Fair points!