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Old 06-07-2005 | 07:22 PM
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Default Unrecognizeable scale models

Gee, I haven't started a post on any site for a while. I just thought I'd test the water by asking opinions about the reason I just stopped getting a couple of the new ERC oriented magazines.

When I started in Model Aviation, Jets were less than 10 years old. There was considerable emphasis on planes looking like plains, and people writing articles knowing what was what. I just got fed up with captions like "This great flying Sopwith Camel" appearing twice in one mag, two different editorial sections, on pictures, one of which was a DeHaviland Jenny, and the other what looked more like an SE-5. And another had a review on an ARF that was supposed to be a Beaver being labeled as "A highly accurate scale model", although the plane on question looked like it had the Pinoccio syndrome. These are only a couple of things that got my attention over the last year. There has been some good info in these mags, but the frequency of statements like those I mentioned makes me doubt the actual knowledge base of the people running the mags.

What do you think