Sunday, April 29, 2018 - 11:22 PM UTC
It seems that the UK magazine Military Modelling has folded after 48 years. From next month it will be part of Model Military International.
Subscribers receiving this month's Military Modelling Magazine by post will have noticed an insert announcing the news that the magazine in their hands will be the last issue to be published. From next month subscribers will receive Model Military International, "incorporating Military Modelling". The magazine will be published by Doolittle Media under the editorial hands of Brett Green. The letter also includes a link to the Missing Lynx website, seemingly confirming, without mentioning it directly, the demise of the Military Modelling web site as well.
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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.
APR 30, 2018 - 05:47 AM
Well I hope they will improve their paper quality that has been like news print quality in the past few years.
APR 30, 2018 - 11:15 AM
I remember back in the'90s when Challenge Publications incorporated the US version of Military Modeler into Scale Modeler. That lasted a few issues and then Military Modeler vanished completely, never to be seen again. MMiR took the lead for a while but I don't even know if they are in business anymore. I have been a subscriber of Fine Scale Modeler for many years. It's not purely military but it has excellent how-to articles and is very interesting. It is always sad to see an old friend go.....
APR 30, 2018 - 10:19 PM
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.
APR 30, 2018 - 11:39 PM
Caught red handed not reading the item properly. Not any more they're not.
MAY 01, 2018 - 05:58 PM
Have a few issues , from way back, was a good mag until they started doing aircraft, and lost the way, same for Panzer Aces, now cost more and name has changed, and a lot of adds.I guess with the modern world,not many mags are needed, as to Youtube. And the kids today not into modeling, all video games now,shame. Cheers Jeff
MAY 02, 2018 - 04:04 PM
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