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Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« on: July 27, 2018, 07:34:28 pm »

Model Boats mag - Sept 2018.

Kirklees club Article.

Hey Stan, where are you?
   JayDee made it in, twice .... were you down the pub?!!    {-)
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2018, 11:00:42 pm »
Hi Martin no not in the pub just keeping things running like a Swiss watch
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 A visit to the pub would have been nice due to the very warm weather.




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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2018, 11:16:23 pm »
September issue? It's not even August yet!!!  {:-{
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2018, 01:41:02 am »

Yeah.... publishers!   %%
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2018, 07:34:01 am »
The problem is that they have 13 issues a year - one every 4 weeks. That is why there is a "winter" issue + one for each month. I prefer 13 issues and a slight date problem  to 12 issues & no date problem.
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2018, 08:43:54 am »
Not so, other non model boating magazines do the same silly thing, and they only have 12 issues.

This business of bringing the publication date forward in an attempt to 'beat the competition' has been going on for years in the magazine world. Now that MB has no competition it would make more sense to revert to the calendar date, but then someone would moan that they're 'missing a month'.
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2018, 09:28:36 am »

Most magazines have 12 issues per year. Forward dating is because they believe that some people like to buy a "new issue" and if your September issue was still on the shelf 25th September some customers would consider it to be old.

Model Boats magazine has 13 issues per year. This means that if they date each issue as the next month they gradually get further ahead. Once a year they have a non month dated issue to get back to somewhere near the correct date.


https://www.isubscribe.co.uk/Model-Boats-Magazine-Subscription.cfm

We all know that the dates on the front of magazines are fanciful but then what is the commercially viable alternative?
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2018, 09:45:29 am »
The actual publication date of the September issue is 3rd August. Subscribers usually get it a few days earlier.

As Tug Fanatic says, the on sale dates do vary from month to month to allow for the Winter Special issue.
You can see the contents and some header pages of the September issue here (plug!)
https://www.modelboats.co.uk/news/article/model-boats-september-2018/26479


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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2018, 09:51:54 am »
Was there not a period way back when they never used to put the month on the Mag ? have to have a shufti at my stash
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2018, 10:02:41 am »
Yes, many years ago in John Cundell's time as editor although he didn't agree with it. The issue was just given a number. It caused a lot of confusion and the idea was soon dropped.
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2018, 10:05:38 am »
Thanks Colin used to be a big PIA looking for an article
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #11 on: July 28, 2018, 11:13:34 am »
Can I just add that I think it a great idea to republish the old centre page plans for small simple easy to build models. The Talisman trawler is a good example. There have been lots over the years & I have enjoyed looking at them more than most of the large never to be built models.
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2018, 02:30:52 pm »

Mil mod (and I expect many other publications of that or many publishers did 'Volume and Edition', which makes sense for readers who collect them and file them in the binders made available by the publishers.


Model Engineer used month and year for ages. I read some in my model engineering club's archives from 1944 with that system, so publishers do and have used both over the decades.


One article of interest that I recall reading was by an engineer who made his funnels and vents by making wooden masters, casting from them lead blanks and then electroplating a shell of copper on them before melting the lead out leaving perfectly (dependant on a high quality of finish on the lead blank) finished fittings. I would like to have a go one day but I think the cost would be prohibitive to get the thickness of copper required.
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2018, 02:44:01 pm »

Having the Issue, Volume Month and year on the front top left right corner is the best since the Publication started, Keep it like this  <*<


Some info here :-



www.runcornmodelboats.co.uk/Model_Maker_Mags.html


Umm, Just noted 2017 and 18 not showing.

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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #14 on: July 28, 2018, 02:54:21 pm »
Casting lead blanks and then melting them out................ :o  I hope he did these operations outside in a force 10 gale.
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2018, 04:15:30 pm »
to get the thickness of copper  wow the mind boggles my job from leaving school till national service was electroplating.Plating variable thicknesses  were mainly with Hard chrome which would be on mechanical parts and that was 1000's of an inch. Decorative plating mainly chrome either Bright chrome ,which was only a flash of chrome onto  bright nickel plate. .almost transparent if you ever had a cheap lighter   or such that looked a little bit tainted brown in places that was the nickel showing through. Or chrome  forusually bumper bars and the like
That was a Heavy coat of copper onto polished metal this was then hand scoured bright then plated with dull (matt) nickel which then went back to the polishers before coming back to get bright chromed. Have you still got the  article Ballastanksian  I would love to read it.
Just to add a nautical touch we also did a lot of cadmium plating for the navy main thing was the launch arm for the carriers the wee bit you just see poking up through the deck
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2018, 04:56:57 pm »
Wee bit?
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Re: Model Boats mag - Sept 2018
« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2018, 07:31:35 pm »
Not all that wee Ned looked a bit like a big shelf bracket  with crossed struts underneath maybe 6 to 8' long and Heavy as for its purpose only going by what we were told. This was early 50's
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