Railway Modeller

[Newportnobby]

Just bought the October issue and it's gone up to £6.45
I reckon that's the death knell for it as far as I'm concerned. Every time I buy it I try to justify the purchase to myself but it's just getting too hard.
It's never up to date with news
Sometimes there's no N gauge in it at all
Exhibitions can be looked up on sites like UK Model Shops
Reviews don't seem objective enough for me
Layouts can provide ideas but it's not easy to contact the owner with questions

I tend to spend an hour or less reading it and then pass it on to my friend Rob so, him being a Yorkshireman, he gets it F.O.C.
(Before anyone sends a Wallace & Gromit hitman for me, I do have Yorkshire blood in me )

[Browning 9mm]

can't remember the last time I bought  a railway, model railway, or wargames mag.
all seem to end up with more and more adverts, less and less content, and higher prices

[Nbodger]

(Before anyone sends a Wallace & Gromit hitman for me, I do have Yorkshire blood in me )

You been drinking again

[Newportnobby]

(Before anyone sends a Wallace & Gromit hitman for me, I do have Yorkshire blood in me )

You been drinking again

Nah. Wrong mushrooms for breakfast. Ooh, the colours, man

[Train Waiting]

I really enjoy the Railway Modeller. It has a gentle charm. It and Model Railway Journal are the only model railway magazines I purchase. Both on subscription.

The Railway Modeller subscription brings with it a wonderful bonus - access to the archive of magazines across the decades. It is jolly good fun to select an issue at random - say from 1962 - and settle down to enjoy reading it.

I think Peco is doing a good job keeping the magazine going in this age of new types of communication. One just needs to look at how diminished Model Railroader has become.

Well done Peco.

With all good wishes.

John

[EtchedPixels]

Reviews don't seem objective enough for me

They never were. You don't bite the hand that feeds you. It didn't start with youtube and tiktok influencers, it's as old as the hills.

I've not read paper magazines for a long time - they got too expensive and nobody delivers them any more. I do think they have about as much life left in them at this point as WHSmiths (sorry Jones  ) which in some ways is sad.

I have access to the Railway Modeller archive effectively - at about a pound an issue on ebay and similar sites when I want a particular copy.

The world has changed. Try explaining to a teenager about seeing an advert in a paper magazine, sending an SAE for a catalogue, then sending another letter and a postal order for the items you wanted 

[Roy L S]

Reviews don't seem objective enough for me

They never were. You don't bite the hand that feeds you. It didn't start with youtube and tiktok influencers, it's as old as the hills.

I've not read paper magazines for a long time - they got too expensive and nobody delivers them any more.

I have my subscription copy delivered to me by post every month?? Dawn renews it every year as my birthday present from the cats!

@Newportnobby True, no N articles in this edition, but just like any periodical (or indeed the NGS Journal) there are some with lots of content of direct interest and others with less and you take the "good" with the "bad". As someone who models primarily in N but likes model railways of all gauges (particularly British) I really enjoy it, and find personally that an electronic copy does not replace the tactile experience of reading physical pages.

Each to their own, but I firmly believe there is plenty of mileage in paper copies for the foreseeable.

Roy

[Bigmac]

is continental modeller still going ? I had the very first edition --it featured a friends american HO backwoods layout. He went on to become Pete Waterman's "right hand man "

i bought it for several years--but havent bought a printed magazine for years now.

[Fardap]

As a subscriber it is £3.95 a month (24mth) so is still very good value, along with digital access to EVERY previous issue online.

As someone who has dealt with getting publications printed costs as they are everywhere have gone up.

IT MIGHT be that this issue us more expensive as a one off as they have embossed and foiled cover of heavier weight paper - but I don't know that is the case but it is hugely expensive to do.

I get RM and Hornby and the one I would stop if it came to it would be Hornby and I have come close a few times.

On balance I think RM does a good cross section of scales and even the 'other' scales provide interesting reading to myself, but as ever each to there own where value is concerned.