Lawrence:
How many people does it take to pick up a phone and make a call?
That's all Sir Bob Geldof did and he had a staff of one...himself.
You are making it sound as if you'd need an army.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be difficult, or that it wouldn't take time to organise, but If I call a company and put the idea to them, they'd think I was nuts. If YOU call a record company or agent and pitch the idea to them, they'd listen.............
And ah, the cd would be for sale, not for free. You'd recoup some of your "costs".
It is doable, if only the was a will. For there is always a way. I do believe someone on this forum suggested they might have some contacts who could help.
To outrightly dismiss the idea without investigating it a bit, without even putting out some feelers, I think is wrong and lazy.
Again. men and women, mainly from YOUR country lived and died in the very machines we all make as a hobby. Your magazine does benefit from this hobby, therefor so do you.
Maybe a quick call to the aforementioned Sunday supplement might give you an idea of how to appraoch the matter.
For God's sake, it's for charity! The prestige of such a promotion would be immense. As others have said here regarding the T-shirt, would be a massive coup for the Hobby and lift it beyond the percieved general belief that it's populated by nerds and overgrown boys.
It's also a chance to GIVE back. All it takes a phone call or ten to see how you MIGHT go about it..for charity.
They told the Wright Bros it would never work and they thoiught Columbus was nuts.
If I lived in America, I'd organise it myself.........I just felt that coming from one of the leading magazines devoted to the Hobby in the USA, it would have more clout and believabilty (if such a word exists) and might get a few ears to prick up and listen.
Why would I buy a t-shirt representing an organisation that can't bring itself to care enough to even try. For the price of a lousy phone call.
In order to walk a mile, you must take the first step.
Anybody who thinks this is a good idea ( a cd of music to play while modelling, chosen by us on the forum and sold via FSM with the proceeds going to a nominated charity or restoration project...and thus become an annual event) e-mail either me or FSM and let them know how you feel about this.
Otherwise, I kinda feel as if I'm dancing on someone grave here.....the money we spend on the kits and accessoried can sometimes be huge and it's the companies that make them that get the benifits. The service men and women get nothing. You all go to immense trouble to research and detail your kits out of respect for the machine and the person or people who used it (memphsis belle, big beautiful doll, glamourus glennis and so on), but is that all we can do?
i f I wrote this and sent it to FSM magazine, would they print it in their letters page and then see what reader response they'd get?
They'd never let me.
So, I'll float the idea to one of the competiton ad see what they can do.
On this very forum I read that the Col. who flew the Belle recently died and that every day, we lose hundreds of verterns from the Second World War.
Time do to more than say thanks. Thanks is a word. Means nothing really, and it can just easily roll off the tongue with little thought or effort.
But to actually back it up with action, with something more than a plastic kit, something permanet that would last, now that's worth effort.
Hate to say it Lawrence, but if we found ourselves on Omaha beach on D-Day togther, I'd fall in behind someone else.
Best wishes and all that.
Liam