BlackRat Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 This is all beginning to sound a bit like Royston Vasey.... My local shop has stopped selling the MRJ, there's nothing for me there...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 I have told this before, but it's always worth repeating:A number of years ago when I lived in one of the more rural (read 'inbred') parts of Cambridgeshire, I went into our local newsagent looking for the Modeller.After a few minutes of vainly browsing the shelves I asked the school leaver behind the counter if they kept it."I don't know", she replied. "What magazine was it?""Railway Modeller".There followed a few moments of intense concentration as she stared at the same shelves I'd been looking at. Finally she asked,"Is it a boat magazine, then?"I moved in case my kids had to go to the same school. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 ..... one of the more rural (read 'inbred') parts of Cambridgeshire..... OT, but are these parts in any way related to the Isle of Sheppey? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 My local shop has stopped selling the MRJ, there's nothing for me there...... The newsagent in Chatteris sells it, and a wide range of other railway mags too. Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adams442T Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 OT, but are these parts in any way related to the Isle of Sheppey? Most folks in the Fens seem to be related one way or another..................................... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 I picked up #247 in WHS Norwich today on a rare venture into 'the fine city.' On skimming through my first thought was 'rather a lot of black and white photos.' Where the original is B&W obviously there is no option but for current imagining work this is the 21st century and nobody models in black and white so far as I know. Grump over. Best option is to drop them an email with your suggestion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardS Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Black and white, luxury, in my day MRJ were sepia tinted prints. Mike. I do wish you hadn't mentioned that.....it might be interpreted as customer preference. To be fair to MRJ on a more measured browse today the number of B&W prints is less than I originally estimated although it does seem strange that new products are pictured thus and also the pics in the ad for Railex. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Can you actually model in black-and-white? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2mm Andy Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Can you actually model in black-and-white? This was one of the layouts at the 2016 St.Albans exhibition.... http://www.cmra.org.uk/exhib16/u68.html Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardS Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Best option is to drop them an email with your suggestion. Ha ha! Although other posts seem to have interpreted my OP as indicating fresh faced innocence where MRJ is concerned this is far from the being the situation. I have bought the journal on and off for many years so am familiar with it's vagaries - but I still find myself puzzled from time to time. If it is to sell more it needs to become I would suggest more 'modern' to attract more people - I note one poster mentioning last month's copies still on the shelf. Still nothing to do with me really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardS Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 This was one of the layouts at the 2016 St.Albans exhibition.... http://www.cmra.org.uk/exhib16/u68.html Andy There was indeed although it was more 'n shades of grey.' As a curiosity it was quite intriguing but as a mainstream modelling genre I wouldn't think it has much future. The licence fee is quite cheap I understand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 ....If it is to sell more it needs to become I would suggest more 'modern' to attract more people .... I suspect the one thing that they don't want to do is to become more modern, otherwise they would lose their USP. Update: actually, that's the last thing they'd do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 I have to say that rumours of Clutton's impending retirement are greatly exaggerated, it will be in 2018, not the end of this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 That was the point. The fact that it needs explaining might lead those of a less generous disposition than I to suggest that you have reinforced the point... (But obviously, I wouldn't say that. ) ....and indeed you didn't, until you mentioned it just there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Are you from the Fens as well? Good God, no. More of a Fenian, though..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Well, one could, and whilst it would only require two tins of paint and no mixing of them, I suspect monochrome might be easier.. The Fens: 100 relatives for every 10 people... SWMBO is 1 of 12 brothers & sisters. Just down the road was a family of 14. Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 No television or electrickery then........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 No television or electrickery then........ Only home entertainment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brightspark Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Met Junction Pt3 will have a colour picture. Steady now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clecklewyke Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 The Fens: 100 relatives for every 10 people... Around here (Wensleydale) they say "kick one of us and we all limp". One of my genetics lecturers (Dr Lottie Auerbach - imagine the German accent) said that the greatest genetic benefit was the invention of the country bus. It greatly improved heterozygosity. Lovely word, "heterozygosity" Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Met Junction Pt3 will have a colour picture. Steady now. Cue Bateman cartoon? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 I think the railways did more for heterozygosity than the country bus: the latter just tied up the loose ends. A place I used to work had both a regular passenger train service and was very well served by the local bus companies. It didn't seem to help there. P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted May 23, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 23, 2016 I think the railways did more for heterozygosity than the country bus: the latter just tied up the loose ends. Transporting genetic material from one lab to another? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharris Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Transporting genetic material from one lab to another? I'm sure the Oxford to Cambridge line must have been responsible for some inter-collegiate coupling! Whether such activities happened in the lab is best left unanswered*. * As I went to the other 'great university'**, I have no idea what Oxbridge students got up to! ** cf. Blackadder goes forth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 ....* As I went to the other 'great university'**, I have no idea what Oxbridge students got up to! ** cf. Blackadder goes forth. Hull. "Well that's right! Oxford's a complete dump!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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