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[phil_parker]

I am cutting my losses now as my experience with digital only publications has not been good.

Since you are being given access for free, you might as well at least try it.

Digital issues vary enormously as it's still a very new world compared to print. There are lots of possibilities, but making the best of them costs money so everyone in publishing is still experimenting to see what works best for their readers.

[DaveM]

No, that is not correct at all if you read the statement and my last post. There are no further issues being produced at all in the immedate future but existing subscribers are now being given access to the back issues (digital archive) going back to 2008 which the terms of their current subscription might not have given them access to. A sort of consolation prize if you like!

Colin

A bit like 'Britbox' i.e. pay extra for something you've already seen and, in the case of BBC productions, already paid for once.
DaveM

[phil_parker]

A bit like 'Britbox' i.e. pay extra for something you've already seen and, in the case of BBC productions, already paid for once.
DaveM

Assuming you've bought and read every issue for 12 years. If you haven't then there is something new to see.

If you have, they are doing what they can, stop kicking them when they are down. Publishing is hard enough right now as it is.

[Colin Bishop]

That does assume you have been subscribing since 2008 Dave, if you are a relative newcomer then there is still treasure to be mined. People's circumstances differ. And times don't always change, Model Maker/MB ran Norman Ough's drawings in the 1950s and repeated most of them again at the end of the 1960s.

The Special issues I edited a few years ago drew heavily on repackaged older material that many current readers would not have seen. These were well received and many people who'd seen them first time round when they were at their Mother's knees very much welcomed a second look through sheer nostalgia.

Colin

[KitS]

Empty message as the forum editor made a RIGHT HASH of what I'd written! 

[KitS]

The Special issues I edited a few years ago drew heavily on repackaged older material that many current readers would not have seen. These were well received and many people who'd seen them first time round when they were at their Mother's knees very much welcomed a second look through sheer nostalgia.

I'll try again...……...

'At my mother's knees'? 

My eldest daughter was 2 years old when that Surfury edition came out! We'd watched her win the Cowes-Torquay Race from Durlston Head the previous year. Magic stuff.  

[raflaunches]

That is a stunning front cover- does anyone know who painted it?

[John W E]

I have the Surfury magazine and I also had built the Surfury powered by an Enya 19 engine - I sold her with great regret really.   However, I am going to replace the one I sold with a new version, still with a glowplug engine in - this time though I wont sell it    there is a lot more information nowadays about the Surfury than there was when I first built it.


lets hope I can do a write up in the future for Model Boats magazine.

[Colin Bishop]

That is a stunning front cover- does anyone know who painted it?

Laurie Bagley, he was their in house artist during the 1960s. He painted many covers including cars when the magazine was Model Boats and Model cars.

Have a look here:

http://magazineexchange.co.uk/cw/Model-Boats-1966

and here for some examples.

http://magazineexchange.co.uk/cw/Model-Maker-1963

Colin

[raflaunches]

Thanks Colin, I’ll have a look.

[TheLongBuild]

Better Quality of them here..   


http://www.runcornmodelboats.co.uk/Model_Maker_Mags.html

[Charlie]

What are the chances the entire Model Boats Magazine Forum will be completely deleted overnight? Again.......

[Colin Bishop]

What are the chances the entire Model Boats Magazine Forum will be completely deleted overnight? Again.......

We have no idea, please enlighten us...

Colin

[Charlie]

Well it happened before, although due to slightly different circumstances, so there is precedent for this. So I would rate the chances of it happening again as not insignificant. But I’m surprised you don’t remember this Colin, being part of the MB Team.....

We have no idea, please enlighten us...

Colin

[Colin Bishop]

Well, if you look at my post #37 on 4th April you can draw your own conclusions.

If the magazine does not start up again there will be no point in continuing with the website and Forum from the publisher's viewpoint and as the Forum is built into the MyTimeMedia IT software platform there is no prospect of it being detached and run independently by somebody else.

So it all depends on whether the magazine resumes publication or not and none of us know the answer to that, including, I suspect, the managing director at the moment!

Colin

[Tug Fanatic]

Well it happened before, although due to slightly different circumstances, so there is precedent for this. So I would rate the chances of it happening again as not insignificant. But I’m surprised you don’t remember this Colin, being part of the MB Team.....

As I have said before whilst I hope that it doesn't happen again this forum and Model Boats Forum / Articles have both lost content in the past and Photobucket action resulted in other problems.

My motto is grab it whilst you can. I know that you cannot predict everything that will interest you in the future but you can guess at most of it.

As to the MB forum deliberately disappearing overnight I think it unlikely as long as Model Boats Magazine is published,, or the intention is there to resume publication, and as long as it remains in current ownership. Which all leaves plenty of room for doubt.

[Colin Bishop]

My motto is grab it whilst you can.

Very good advice, especially making a note of useful links. Other forums I belong to have also crashed for one reason or another with lots of useful information lost. OK, quite a bit of it can be made up as people ask the same questions over and over again (e.g. what should I stuff up my prop tube?) but it all takes time and things like informative build topics are rarely replaced.

Colin

[coch y bonddu]

having read all this what i can only say is conjecture and scaremongering and i honestly don't think for one minute that this thread is doing us readers no good at all,i do hope Martin has not been sacked as said by Colin and when this is all over we see the mag back on the shelves and if not then i do hope this forum has not helped at all in it's sad demise...remember the old saying lads and lasses walls have ears and it is readily available for us all the read,i strongly suggest that common sense prevails and this thread is locked but tbh i don't hold much hope as common sense seems rather lacking around everywhere these days .



Dave...a concerned reader

[canabus]

Hi All

If you do not support the  Model Boat Magazine by buying it, it will go under !!!
I will put my support behind it !!!!

Canabus

[Colin Bishop]

This is Martyn's last week at MTM. Like other Editors, he is freelance and not a permanent employee.

Colin

[roycv]

Does this mean the editor@modelboats... is, or will be unmonitored for items for publication?

Also, do you Colin look after the forum?  Should we start downloading items of particular interest?
regards
Roy

[Colin Bishop]

Roy,

No, it looks as if the MB Editor email will not be monitored as far as I am aware - nobody there!

At the moment I am moderating the Forum on a voluntary basis as, like Mayhem, it helps to keep people in touch. If the magazine is closed down permanently then it is most unlikely that the forum will remain. Not sure about the digital archive. Maybe the title will be sold off, who knows?

It's rather up to you what you do about the material which is of particular interest to you.

Colin

[Tug Fanatic]

............................................  Should we start downloading items of particular interest?regards
Roy

I would & I have.

If, as we all hope, Model Boats continues to a glorious and bountiful future then you have not lost anything but if the worst happens you have gained a lot.

And if you are a subscriber and have sudden access to digital issues where you do not own a physical copy then...................

[jaymac]

Well so much for the  accesss to the Digital Archive     Just spent some considerable time signing in    Got the ok reply with the we sent you an email for you to confirm Ha!. Over half hour and no sign . Rang up  the subscription lot  took a while to  explain   (think we were in Mumbai)  he said  he could not see any record of it  but I should get an email in the next 21-48 hours

[Capt Podge]

Snail mail would probably have been quicker 


Regards,
Ray.