Porcy Mane Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 (sausages, although other foodstuffs are available - but when it comes to fishy puns, I suspect that the whiting is on the wall). Maybe , in the style of a good 1970's European Art-house film which would usually include a train, a scene of people reading magazines and neked wimmin, we should end this thread now? >>> FIN <<< Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Budgie Posted October 23, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2015 Unless my postie is abnormally strong my copy does not fit through the letter box. Do what I did and fit a larger letter box. All my subscribed magazines fit through my letter box. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebbles Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Now two days after I first saw it in Smiths, it still hasn't arrived. I hope it will eventually, but at the moment I feel as if I 'm being treated as a captive audience. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 23, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2015 Got a copy (one of the six still on the shelf) from the local WHS this morning - no sign of yesterday's idiot, maybe he's decided to keep a low profile. On more sensible ground brief acquaintance with its pages suggest a nicely varied and interesting issue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete55 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Now two days after I first saw it in Smiths, it still hasn't arrived. I hope it will eventually, but at the moment I feel as if I 'm being treated as a captive audience. "Smiths" is quite appropriate to this issue too ..... (I'll say no more to spoil it if yours hasn't arrived yet) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iak Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Well I have a copy frae the local WHS. Having peeled through the pages, I'm a bit peaved no one mentioned the Cattle Van article. Anyhow, off to the local frying emporium for some sausage and chips. Chippy sauce anyone? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted October 23, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 23, 2015 Packed by Cygnets not Swans these days... there's yer problem with the subs copies! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted October 23, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 23, 2015 I find it outrageous that you should ask this question. As you should know by now, these threads resolve entirely around one question (is it out yet?), one grumble (why has my right of receiving a postal copy before they are in the shops been ignored again?)*, and a diversion (sausages, although other foodstuffs are available - but when it comes to fishy puns, I suspect that the whiting is on the wall). Anything else is simply bad taste, old bean. * I thought that the point of a subscription was to be guaranteed a copy, and to not have to go to the effort of visiting the shops and running the risk of meeting ordinary (non-railway modelling) people, but it appears from some comments that the main point is to get a copy before anyone else. You missed the most divisive topic, the size of your flanges!! Tin hat and coat and I'm gone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 For those still waiting for the MRJ to pop through your letter box, is your barely containable excitement as great as this little charmer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvpCmKUo1Aw P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete55 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 For those still waiting for the MRJ to pop through your letter box, is your barely containable excitement as great as this little charmer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvpCmKUo1Aw P She didn't have a bag of crisps though...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 or a Big Mac & Fries, a Macflurry all washed down with a good helping of E numbers. P (Wandering off topic) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted October 23, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 23, 2015 E is my favourite number(s) Edit: As you may be able to tell my subs copy has not yet arrived, this doesn't bother me - as it still gives me the opportunity to learn to read. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Is this the Moan Rant & Jabber thread? P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 .....seems more like the Mandy, Rachel, Jennifer thread to me. I collected 242 out of Leek an hour ago and have now settled into the armchair to savour the contents. As usual the various articles all look appealing and whether they relate to my modelling period/area or not I'll still be having a thorough read of them. Keep up the good work guys Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I really must stop this; P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted October 23, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2015 .....seems more like the Mandy, Rachel, Jennifer thread to me. I collected 242 out of Leek an hour ago and have now settled into the armchair to savour the contents. As usual the various articles all look appealing and whether they relate to my modelling period/area or not I'll still be having a thorough read of them. Keep up the good work guys Dave Supposed to be potatoes not leeks Dave, wrong vegetable. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 ....thanks for 'chipping' in Mike ;-) Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 All this fuss re the MRJ..........The bible it aint........re the flanges....with static grass or without? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigw Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 All this fuss re the MRJ..........The bible it aint........ Nope, far more important thanks Craig W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bigcheeseplant Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 My subs copy arrived today, looks a good issue although in the Manchester Show advert it states just 3 minutes from Piccadilly train station! I would have thought railway station would have been better. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Supposed to be potatoes not leeks Dave, wrong vegetable. Mike. Parsnips was the in vegetable when I first encountered Rmweb. No sign of 242 here yet. But it is in the local Smiffs. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Sorry to butt in, but I must say that my local newsagent has had 242 since the end of last week... Its Quite Interesting and the spuddy story is nice - once spent a weekend on the bend at Outwell, fixing a leaking sterntube, you know..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 There's no need to be coarse. Really, some people will find any way possible to lower the tone. Absoooolutely, if its at all possible. ps I prefer my static grass to be fine, as opposed to coarse, nothing worse than rough undergrowth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Zero Gravitas Posted October 24, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 24, 2015 Subs copies now appear to be arriving, probably to the collective sound of knickers being untwisted up and down the country. So, because I don't think it's been done yet: Contents: Small Suppliers Forum Tales from the Chitting Shed - Iain Rice Lowleigh Part 2 - Peter Harrison LMS Cattle Truck - Gerry Beale Improved Lining - Rodney Cooper An Update on Llanfair - Roger Lycett-Smith Ex-LNER B2 61632 Belvoir Castle - Tom Mallard Croft - Mike Palmer Optical Wheel Quartering using a Laser - Douglas Smith Real Atmosphere Two 4mm Bedfords - Paul Karau Letters Diary Plus several Portfolio features: Sidmouth - Richard Harper Bourne End Signals - Peter Squibb St. Ambrose - Gerry Beale Note: Edited because there are actually more articles than listed on the "contents" page, as I found whilst reading :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium t-b-g Posted October 24, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 24, 2015 MRJ arrivals have always been a bit, shall we say, erratic. Sometimes it is problems with distribution. Sometimes it is at the printers and sometimes it is last minute hold ups at Wild Swan/Cygnet. I would have thought that after all these years people would have got used to the little foibles of this lovely publication, put together in a way that reminds us that people used to sometimes manage to create great things without relying totally on computers to do it. To me, it is all part of the charm and appeal of the magazine. Anyway, I picked up a nice crisp copy from the shelves of Smiths in Doncaster yesterday. Pretty much all the current crop of railway magazines are so "over produced" by folk with fancy computer publishing software. It is an absolute joy to pick up and read a publication that feels as though it has been put together by real people, with a great deal of love and affection for the subject matter. MRJ seems to let the modelling do the "wow" bit, rather than an "in your face" brash approach where people are trying to convince us that the modelling is superb by wrapping it up in fancy presentation. When magazines have to put fancy little bubbles round the photos telling you that what is in the picture is "amazing" then it only makes me wonder why I couldn't work that out for myself. I haven't seen that yet in MRJ and I don't think that I ever will. Which is why it is the only magazine I buy now. Good (often superb) modelling. No 15-20 pages of reviews. No 50% plus of pages with adverts, often mixed in with the editorial content so you can't tell when one ends and the other begins. Articles where the text doesn't go all over the photos and jump about on the page so you have to search for the next bit to read. Long may it continue. I actually enjoy the surprise factor in the arrival time. Life can be so dull and predictable sometimes. Tony G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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