Folks:
I just bought the June 2007 RMC and I must say it's very good.
Scratchbuilder's Corner is shaping up into a wonderful
series, and I love the chatty tone. It's fun to read and full of good
info, like an E. L. Moore article. Better yet,
there were two other construction articles, and both
very useful! I love to see the sort of 'technique' article
that Carl Traub used to write; just as much, I enjoyed
the station-building article simply because it was a
good, normal construction writeup, and had some
unique ideas in it...bread and butter.
I don't want to put down the rest of the magazine,
by any means...it was fine, but having three good
model-building articles in one issue was fantastic!
Put in an article by the Layout Doctor and a few
semi-random scale drawings scattered around the
pages, and this issue would have had all the
content-heaviness of a mid-60s RMC, but with
better pictures.
A nice bonus was Hal's foreword and the inside
article on early scale models. Instead of just an
offhanded word about how "we had nothing in
those days", actual discussion of what just did
exist! Astonishing...history and not legends;
that's another thing this hobby needs. Why be
scairt of the banshee when the truth is that your
great-granduncle heard a screech owl?
Buy it, folks. If you've got friends in model railroading,
buy one for each of 'em. It was that good.
Cordially yours:
Gerard P.
President, a box of track and an unassembled table
- posted 14 years ago