Your thoughts please...

The only thing I'd like to see more often in FSM mag is scale drawings to accompany articles, conversions and scratchbuilt projects. FSM remains in my eyes the best 'all around' modeling mag, with a bit of everything. In so many mags nowadays, one can only find reviews of brand new models "accurized" with all the resin and metal bits one can find under the sun. Take a $10 kit and give it a $50 'make-over' kind of things... Or even worse, start off with a $100 kit (that most can not afford!) and yet bring along more costs with yet more resin and metal bits. Yet all those expensive kits and extra stuff usually cost nothing to the reviewer since 95% of those articles are about kits donated to the mag... That really annoys me a lot! To me that's not the 'spirit' of scale modeling. And for those who can not bear reading articles on a Klingon spaceship or a NASCAR vehicle, well, there are plenty of 'dedicated' modeling mags that cater to only a specific genre.

I do have to say that I've sometimes wished that FSM would do a series of articles on some of the more advanced techniques out there, with emphasis on the technical part of things. For example, many times an article will say that someone built a certain detail using Plastruct sheet styrene and U-channel stock, but that's it. So I, as a novice modeller at best, am left sitting there wondering: How did they build it? What steps did they take to get from sheet and channel stock to finished detail assembly? Maybe this is too basic?