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New type of article for FSM magazine

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  • Member since
    August 2006
  • From: Neenah, WI
Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Monday, March 17, 2008 2:01 PM

Kit availability shouldn't really be a factor. As long as the procedures are covered in a clear and concise fashion. The basics of building a model are the same regardless if the kit is an OOP or new release.

What it boils down to is someone to build, photograph and write the article. Then hopefully there is sufficient amount of space in the magazine to accommodate it, whether it is a three page or twenty page spread. In How-To articles, editing them down to conform to allocated space, they lose critical amounts of information.

So what's the option...do a teaser in the magazine and publish it in the series of How-To booklets they offer.

I'm doing a series of articles, which I've put in my newsletters and blog...someone suggested I do the whole thing as a course making the chapters available on my website as a downloadabe PDF.

 

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

 

 

"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."

jwb
  • Member since
    February 2006
  • From: Parkton, NC
Posted by jwb on Monday, March 17, 2008 8:40 AM

 DURR wrote:
Jon  i knew you could fit spitfire somehow into this      lmaoLaugh [(-D]

Well, it WAS the plane they chose..... I just happened to notice it.... I mean, it could have been any plane really.

Big Smile [:D]

But I must admit... if they had to choose a plane, that was the right one. LOL 

Jon Bius

AgapeModels.com- Modeling with a Higher purpose

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~ Jeremiah 29:11

  • Member since
    December 2002
Posted by SNOOPY on Sunday, March 16, 2008 2:02 PM
I just think there is a lot that is cut out of the one month How-To articles.  For instance with modeling cars and painting them, how do some of the experts paint the in side of the body?  Is it by brush or airbrush before or after the outside is painted.  I have yet to see any article or book show the inside of a cars body being painted.  Much information about painting the outside of the body with a spray can or airbrush.
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:21 AM

Paul Boyer did that about 15-20 years ago in FSM.  I trhink it was called FSM finishing school.  Great series IIRC.

 

E

  • Member since
    July 2013
Posted by DURR on Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:32 PM
Jon  i knew you could fit spitfire somehow into this      lmaoLaugh [(-D]
jwb
  • Member since
    February 2006
  • From: Parkton, NC
Posted by jwb on Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:25 PM

I've seen that done in another publication, and it was very informative. It was a very skilled modeler taking you through a Spitfire build, and introducing many techniques and methods throught that. It was actually spread over a long period..... maye a year or more. Lots and lots of photos for clarity.

I'd love to see that too, in FSM!

Jon Bius

AgapeModels.com- Modeling with a Higher purpose

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~ Jeremiah 29:11

  • Member since
    December 2002
New type of article for FSM magazine
Posted by SNOOPY on Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:59 PM

I think it would be great if FSM would take a fairly simple subject like a muscle car of prop plane and do a series of articles from getting a model and actually go through a build slowly for new modelers than one article quickly going through the build.  They can set up oh let's say a three to four month article on getting the and doing the prep work, doing dry fits and repair problems, painting the model, and then finish with decals.  Do not get me wrong I still love the articles FSM has but sometimes when I read a How-to-build article it seems vague and rush do to space within the magazine.  How taking this approach.

One series of three to four month articles do a muscle car.  Then another three to four month article on Aircraft, then armour, then figure assembly and painting.  If FSM uses a kit that is readily available instead of some of these article the model is one that has been out of production and cannot be found, the reader/beginner can follow along and produce a nice kit.  Then later on how about a series on a fully scratchbuilt subject like some of these ships you see that do not have plans and someone did the whole thing from scratch.  I read an article I think last year where someone in a weekend built a nice German submarine.  I went out to get a kit and follow along with the article but the kit was nowhere to be found.  I have had the same run in with articles on planes and space subjects.  I just think this would be a great idea especially when my finished work is not what I call good because I overlooked something.  Just a thought.

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