RMweb Gold queensquare Posted October 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 11, 2018 (edited) MRJ 266 is now mailing so should be in your usual outlets over the next few days. Jerry Edited October 11, 2018 by queensquare 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 12, 2018 Thanks for that, Jerry. Newsstand is showing October 16, which suggests a slight hiccough somewhere along the line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBS Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Jerry, Got it this morning through the letterbox. Great edition (though perhaps I would say that)! John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted October 13, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 13, 2018 (edited) Subscription copy through the letterbox this morning. Good to see more from Don Rowland - as in former years, helping us run our railways in a more railway-like manner. The 2mm Society's Midland wagon kits make me, a 4mm modeller, a little envious - the earlier as well as the later version of the long cattle wagon. The real teaser is the presumably scratch-built body of a NSR(?) brake van, sitting alongside Simon de Souza's balsa brush rest! Best in issue - Richard Ellis' Midland Railway lighter of course! Edited October 13, 2018 by Compound2632 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted October 13, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 13, 2018 It's superb! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambiedg Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Arrived today. A little soggy round the edges - thanks Callum. Looks to be another great issue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Got mine yesterday. Have yet to sit down and have a proper read but looks like a really good issue. Well done Jerry - but whatever you say, I still can’t get my head round doing anything in 2mm! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 I like the brush rest made from a bit of balsa wood. I’ve found myself holding both scalpel and brush in the same hand; scalpel between thumb and forefinger and brush in some other fingers. I can just about get enough dexterity with the brush, especially if the bottle is held in a stand as it’s liable to get knocked over! Saves picking up and putting down the brush though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hughes Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Yes, another excellent one, and with a host of niggles addressed. Good to see proper layout plans, for instance, (dimensioned next time, please!) and a broad range of topics. I'll probably never build a 2mm goods wagon, for instance, but it's an interesting article all the same. The next big job is to fix the wretched typos; a magazine dedicated to accuracy really should be a tad more careful in its own back-yard! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted October 14, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 14, 2018 Yes, another excellent one, and with a host of niggles addressed. Good to see proper layout plans, for instance, (dimensioned next time, please!) and a broad range of topics. I'll probably never build a 2mm goods wagon, for instance, but it's an interesting article all the same. The next big job is to fix the wretched typos; a magazine dedicated to accuracy really should be a tad more careful in its own back-yard! Many thanks for your kind comments, I try to get as broad a range of topics as possible. The track plans are hand drawn and dimensions are in the text. We do go over the text extremely carefully but inevitably the odd mistake or omission slips through. I doubt there are many publications out there that don't have the odd typo if you look hard enough. Jerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharris Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 The next big job is to fix the wretched typos; a magazine dedicated to accuracy really should be a tad more careful in its own back-yard! I seem to remember in one of Iain Rice's books 'accurate' was spelled incorrectly. I thought there was a nice irony to that. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hughes Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 Oh, I know all about how typos slip through - a couple of weeks ago I actually found one that the printer had inserted all on his own despite the proof being correct; you can imagine the row that that caused! But some of it is surely down to the technology used - fiuescale would surely have been picked up by any spell-checker. Still, the unnecessary hyphen in demon-strated gave me a few happy moments imagining a chap with horns and cloven hoofs (hooves? - depends on how old you are, I think) showing folks how to assemble kits at our local show. And I should have said how much I appreciate the Norris letters - a fascinating read! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted October 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2018 (edited) Can't wait. Navigation Riad was the layout I kept going back to at Railwells. Stunning. Rob. Edited October 16, 2018 by NHY 581 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonafide Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 I doubt there are many publications out there that don't have the odd typo if you look hard enough. Really! Possibly the odd one but this issue seemed to have more than usual. For example, the second paragraph of the editorial ended, ". . . it illustrates the point that the level of compromise is dependent on the individuals' goals, not some dictate laid down by the finescale police." Perhaps it was intended to be, ". . . something dictated . . .", or, dictate should have read diktat. Either way, laid down should have been deleted to avoid tautology. Also, some of the captions to the photographs illustrating Navigation Road refer to items not in the photographs: e.g. "A small fuel tank added to the side was from a cut-down tank in a Plastikard brick bund surround" on page 244, and the caption on page 245 ends, "The railway overbridge is defended by a scratchbuilt WW2 pillbox", which is repeated at the start of the caption to the photograph on the following page where the pillbox can be seen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 Yes, another excellent one, and with a host of niggles addressed. Good to see proper layout plans, for instance, (dimensioned next time, please!) and a broad range of topics. I'll probably never build a 2mm goods wagon, for instance, but it's an interesting article all the same. The next big job is to fix the wretched typos; a magazine dedicated to accuracy really should be a tad more careful in its own back-yard! At least they haven't descended to the ignominy of spelling the magazine name incorrectly..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharris Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 Really! Possibly the odd one but this issue seemed to have more than usual. For example, the second paragraph of the editorial ended, ". . . it illustrates the point that the level of compromise is dependent on the individuals' goals, not some dictate laid down by the finescale police." Perhaps it was intended to be, ". . . something dictated . . .", or, dictate should have read diktat. Either way, laid down should have been deleted to avoid tautology. Dictate is a valid word as a noun - from the Oxford dictionary website "An order or principle that must be obeyed." - the sentence makes sense to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 I suppose it deepends wot your skooling wuz lyke ..... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2018 For example, the second paragraph of the editorial ended, ". . . it illustrates the point that the level of compromise is dependent on the individuals' goals, not some dictate laid down by the finescale police." Not having full context yet, should that be a singular “individual’s”, or is it correct as “individuals’”? Anyone seen any of these “finescale police”? Since almost all of us aren’t even sure what “finescale” means exactly, seems hard to enforce, even were it enforceable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted October 16, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2018 (edited) Anyway, are the trainsets any good in this months Modern Reading Journal? Rob. Edited October 16, 2018 by NHY 581 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharris Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 (edited) Anyone seen any of these “finescale police”? They're the ones with 18.83" long truncheons. Edited October 16, 2018 by sharris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Anyone seen any of these “finescale police”? Since almost all of us aren’t even sure what “finescale” means exactly, seems hard to enforce, even were it enforceable. There are several topics positively teeming with them; whether they are police or just some angry villagers with torches and pitchforks I can't say but I suspect the latter. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted October 16, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2018 There are several topics positively teeming with them; whether they are police or just some angry villagers with torches and pitchforks I can't say but I suspect the latter. But these pitchforks, how accurately dimensioned are they? If to 1:76.2 scale, then the tines will bend so why worry? (You can’t scale fire: it obeys physical laws that operate on a 1:1 basis.) I think the only thing one can criticise anyone for is purposely failing to model to their own defined standards* and tolerances** for accuracy. Assuming they have shared them. Assuming they have set any. (If not, then personally, I would argue that it isn’t really “fine” scale, but scale.) * Level of detail, e.g. must have brake rodding on steam engines - or not. ** Degree of measurement fidelity, e.g. brake rodding must be to scale dimensions even if it’s very fragile - or not. These are neither mutually inclusive nor mutually exclusive. They are orthogonal (independent of each other). But surely, as in early editorials, MRJ is intended to be finescale and for the finescale modeller, i.e. for those concerned with trying to move their models closer to the prototype, about setting targets for (self-)improvement? On this basis, MRJ can only expect to be critiqued (not the same as criticised) against its self-proclaimed standards? And that’s good, for it means it does high standards (which also applies to spelling, grammar, caption checking and proof reading. Or should). High quality journalism about high quality modelling is what MRJ was created for. Are we wrong to expect this? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted October 16, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2018 I now have my own copy from W.H Smiths in Cardiff. I have allocated time this evening to look at the trainsets therein. First impressions are that this is a top issue but I am less troubled by gramer and smelling than otters. Rub. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted October 16, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2018 Anyone seen any of these “finescale police”? My wife and I once saw one of those old Fiat 500s from the 1960s (?) parked up in Victoria Park, Bath. It was painted in blue and white 'panda car' colours, with a large key in the boot and the legend 'Lilliput Police Department' on each door. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted October 17, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 17, 2018 The previous issue has just appeared in our bookstore. There seems to be a grievous lack of articles on collecting Tri-Ang. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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