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Old 03-04-2012 | 01:19 PM
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No RC Armor magazines.

Some of you may remember AFV-G2 magazine published to the mate 1970 early 1980s(?). Went belly up after that.
Very unfortunate as I really enjoyed it. Still have stacks of the old issues. It was focused on 1:1 scale but had modeling articles as well. Loved the paint chips glued to pages; it was a strictly black and white format otherwise.

Museum Ordnance was another, I believe it is also gone.

I published a semi yearly newsletter on RC armor in the very late 1980-very early 1990s; a short run. It was more or less taken over by a local chap here and made into a quarterly affair "Recon Report" ( by Rich Upton ). Microscopic circulation.

There was a British magazine publisher that dedicated a section to large scale AFVs for a while but it also went belly up
after a relatively short time.

Wasn't there a eZine published by that chap out of New Zealand for a while? Never got into that one.

Other than the odd article in other mags ( I wrote one for RCM, now also defunct, which was published in 1992 ) there
hasn't been much. A lot of interest in the hobby has been transitory in nature; when the new wears off the interest is cast aside.

It may sound as an interesting notion, to publish a magazine on the hobby, but anyone taking it on will quickly exhaust the existing news worthy subjects....

Good luck and don't plan on quitting yer day job...

Jerry