Possible new column for FineScale Modeler - input please

Sounds like a good idea to me. Maybe you could have an honourary 'dope' of the month - someone who owns up to doing a really, really dumb thing.........like the time in my youth when, lacking plasticine for a tail sitting F14 Tomcat, I got the bright idea of filling the kit nose cone with styrene cement. Worked great at first, then I got up next morning to see my nice streamlined nose shrunken to 1/5th it's normal size and with a shape like an English Electric Lightning.

Hmmm, maybe that's why I'm an Armour modeller now, Ha, Ha.

Lawrence:
I lean towards adding the extra information to the tips & techniques column.

Unless you are enlarging the mag, it begs the question what will you leave out to make room if it is something totally new?

Thanks for asking,
Bruce

Excellent idea!

QUOTE: It sounds good to me. Will it bump another feature or shorten the usual content?

I think it's a good idea also, but not at the the cost of anything else. I wouldn't want to see something traded off for it either.

Great idea, you could pull techniques/tips from the forum, but you'd have to ask the author first & not everyone has their email address on here. Plus, if you'll pay for tips used, how will it be done? Free subscription? A free kit through the mail? or a U S cheque? (sorry, check?). Oversea's, sometimes the mail isn't so good (here in saudi for instance, so a kit wouldn't get through, and some places it would be hard to cash a check, or could take some time.
Pete

I think that type of article comes under the heading of "negative". Much of this is covered in "tips", and done in a positive way. I agree with Jeff from modelwarships on thi one.

Bud

I think it sounds like a pretty good idea. It could save novice modelers from some mistakes that can ruin a kit, like Lawrences Krylon eppisode.

I'd say give it a try anyway.

BTW, I once decided to use some Squadron green putty to hold some lead shot in the nose cone of a Harrier. I was a bit zealous with the putty and a few days later my nose cone looked like it had been in an oven. It was fixable but not very easily. Stuff like that can really turn a novice off the hobby so maybe it would be helpful.

Eric

Like Michaelvk, I've often thought a monthly cartoon would be a great idea for the magazine! If any of you know how to draw, perhaps you can contact FSM about submitting a regular cartoon.