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| Subject: | AFV periodicals again |  |
| Date: | Jul 10, 2003 |
| From: | Chris | |
Is there any new comment on Jack Crabb's post from last December? What
is the best English-language more-or-less monthly periodical, heavy on
WW II afv subjects? Best non-English periodical?
On the one hand I'd like to see kits built out of the box so as to judge
the quality of the kit rather than try to guess what it was like before
adding oodles of aftermarket items, and on the other I'd like useful
information in the form of sketches and measurements on how corrections
and modifications should be made when necessary rather than just
suggesting that the reader look at the mediocre or worse photos provided
or find another, usually op or hard to obtain, periodical or
"guestimate" dimensions.
Maybe the past couple of months have just been summer vacation slow, but
I am becoming increasingly dissatisfied with what I now get (Tamiya
Model Magazine & Military Modelling) because they carry so many "off
topic" articles and do not usually fulfill the criteria above with the
afv articles they do have. I also get Military in Scale, which seems
more satisfying, but it is usually weak in providing useful info on
corrections and modifications.
AFV Modeller (bi-monthly) and MMiR (quarterly, when we're lucky) fill
their niches admirably but do not usually offer the corrections and
modifications info, either.
So, what else is out there in any language that one can actually get a
subscription to?
("'In German oder English I know how to count down, und I'm learning
Chinese,' says Wernher von Braun." - by Tom Lehrer, for those of you
with enough age to really feel)
CTew |
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