R/C Modeler Magazine...Gone?

Since they've obviously had a working relationship with the British Traplet Publications, I'll guess that Traplet may take them over. Unfortunately, Traplet isn't one of the Britmags that supplies full-size plans in each issue, but their content is generally good. Just speculation, mind you - we'll see!

Geoff

This thread came full circle and finally actually discussed the original topic. :>)

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Miss three car payments with the bank and tell me you're not a pedestrian. Same thing.

Ed Cregger

Excerpt from e-mail from my LHS guy. Looks like they are gone.

"I just received a letter from Kalmbach Publishing informing me tha the June

2005 issue of R/C Modeler was their last.

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Could they possibly be changing FROM Kalmbach Publishing to someon

else?

Jerr

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Ditto from my LHS in Sacramento this morning.

Guess they pulled the plug:(

Jerr

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Regular columnist Col. Art Johnson said he just received a call from Jim Pearson, RCM Technical Editor, informing Art they were done and he was returning some unpublished articles (scheduled for future issues) to Art.

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On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 07:47:12 -0400, "Lyman Slack" wrote in :

Wow.

That seems to me to put the nail in the coffin.

I enjoyed Art's articles very much. I hope he catches on with one of the other magazines.

Same goes for Clarence Lee. I loved his column.

And the plan sets were fantastic.

R.I.P.

Marty

I finally e-mailed them and spoke with them by telephone on Monday, August 22nd. On that day I was told by the phone person that they were skipping three issues and extending my subscription by that many issues. On Thursday the 25th, I received a response to the Monday e-mail saying the pretty much the same thing, but adding an extra issue.

If the thing has run its course, so be it. I enjoyed it almost from the beginning. But I don't appreciate having been told tales by the office staff, who must have been saying only what they'd been told to say.

Anyway, this all seems kind of unimportant and small at the moment.

Texas Pete

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:16:39 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Pete Kerezman) wrote in :

I imagine that they may not have known what was REALLY going on, either. I'll bet they didn't want to see their jobs evaporate. :o(

True.

Marty

Just to toss my two cents in here gents, but my LHS{hobbytownusa} tol

me today they received a memo stating june was the last issue a well...after reading your thread here I decided to email the hea editor and ask the simple question "are you totally done, dropping bac and punting or going to a "web based format magazine only"?...mind yo this email was mailed roughly 10min ago, but when/if I receive a reply so will you. I, myself, would hate to see them go...plans service and all...

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It makes me glad that I ordered and received my Kaos plans from them before they closed their doors.

Ed Cregger

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The columnists for RCM have received notice that the magazine is shutting down and they are returning unused articles and columns.

Red S.

magazine is shutting

I hate to see them go.

I met M/Sergent Ed Thompson while working at my part time job in the Luke AFB hobbyshop in 1966. Ed was the Technical Editor/Director for RCM in those days and was the creator of the Digitrio radio control system. He was an excellent representative and spokesperson for RCM.

I had been flying control line models on the base. I also founded the Luke AFB Eagles Model Airplane Club in mid 1966. Ed was instrumental in helping us attain a meeting location, complete with dedicated building rooms and even funding from the base recreational office.

Later, Ed took me flying with a buddy of his and introduced me to R/C flying. At days end he gave me a built Ambroid Charger R/C model, sans wing, but with receiver, compound escapement and a battery pack. It was Ed and RCM that started me on my way in R/C.

I'll miss both Ed Thompson and RCM as time goes by.

Ed Cregger

Well, I was a subscriber from the first issue. Iam truly sorry to see it go...however, if criticism is appropriate, I have seen it go from a greatly informative and inspirational R/C magazine that almost every R/C'r that I encountered in those days considered RCM to be absolute gospel and relied on the magazine. Nowadys, in my opinion, the magazine came to be nothing more than a slick presentation of endless product reviews and advertisinig. I know, advertising is what really pays for the magazine...but, again, my opinion, there wasn't much in it any more. So, very sad. The hobby is changing and buy and fly and so on with ARF's in predominance..those of us, myself included, who take great pleasure in kit or scratch building are now dinosaurs. I'm pushing 80, but I sure hope I can stick around another twenty years or so and see what I going to be the fate of the hobby as we knew it only a few years ago. MAN and others with Flying Models excepted are following RCM with the continuous reviews and not much else... Nowadays, I subscribe to Flying Models, and two British magazines which are absolutely great..RC Model World and Radio Control Models and Electronics (RCM&E) Superior magazines, full of information and light on the ARF product reviews. Regards t all, Frank Schwartz AMA123 in Hendersonville, TN

Sad to say, but all those "product reviews" are published as "thank you's" for advertising. Several publications have graciously accepted our FREE kits which we donated for product reviews. When we declined their invitations to run expensive paid ads, they subsequently declined to run our kit reviews... but, of course, they kept the kits & motors we sent them. And some people probably believe that the product reviews that do get published are unbiased :-)

Randy Roman Model Airplane Engneering

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:32:28 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@bellsouth.net (Frank Schwartz) wrote in :

I loved the Clarence Lee column and the plan sets.

Idle and uninformed speculation: the editor who died was the one who was holding things together. May he rest in peace.

Marty

"R.J. Roman" wrote in news:8PXUe.5288$zG5.1886 @bignews1.bellsouth.net:

I prefer to think that there are none that dumb, but I fear you're right. I'd certainly take the (RCM, MAN, MA, etc) reviews more seriously if once, just once, I saw a conclusion that "this product is deeply flawed and we cannot recommend it in its current state" or "You'd be better off buying Brand Y instead, because it's slightly cheaper and higher quality," or even "This is a good product. If you're interested in this sort of thing, you might also consider the similar products made by Brand Z and Brand W."

It *is* possible - there's RC Reports. And in the computer world, if you've ever read MaximumPC - I remember one review where the product's only 'good' feature was that most stores have a 30 day return policy.

But never, never, in RCM, MAN, MA, etc. More's the pity, because I suspect there are some inferior products out there . . .