Go for the Brithish Mags, they are far superior for the scale buff, and very good free plans that are easy to enlarge if you want, unbeatable pictures, we're far to comercialized here, I used to buy just about every magazine available in this country, not anymore, unless there is something (usually a review) I need to inquire about, because I now have no access to the British mags, am going to suscribe to Traplett publications, I used to enjoy Norm Goyer's Scale Modeler, they always had 3 views and pictures of real airplanes which could be used to finish that scale model.
I really believe (I know some of you might think otherwise) that articles in our modelling magazines are just plain bad, there is a lot of talent writing them, it seems to me editing is where the problem is at and lack of sensible how to articles, most of the good stuff is found on the internet, thank God!