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Very sad to hear it's going. I had lost interest in Military Modelling after they tried to "modernize" the mag a couple of years ago. Gone were the phenomenal research articles (that often equlled an Osprey book for information and photos). Intead, Mil Mod was going to be flashy, breezy, and light in content. Big type, small words, bright graphics. In other words, like every other magazine.
Gerald, while I must admit that I didn't follow the evolution of the magazine over its whole life, being much more familiar with it in the 70s and 80s, and then again in the last few years, I'm not so sure that losing those highly researched articles was necessarily an editorial decision. I wonder if some of those who used to supply that type of content simply retired (or died) and no one came along to replace them. I think some of those authors were of a different type, perhaps, for want of a better term, more scholarly, than those who supplied more of the recent content, which tended to be modellers talking about building models, and often, in my view, in not a particularly adventurous way.
In fact Martyn Crowther had made an effort to bring back some of that more in depth reseach type of material relatively recently, and also had reverted to including more diverse subject matter generally instead of just concentrating on military vehicles etc.
But of course, nothing would probably save it, things just move on.
It does bring back recollections of things such as sending 15pence worth of stamps to Skytrex in order to receive a catalogue with no illustrations, reproduced on a Gestetner machine, from which one would then order by writing a letter containing a postal order, the whole process taking literally weeks in order to receive your items.