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Bipe...I disagree. There IS new stuff in 1/2 A. I recently found a couple stab photos from Dickeybird which showed how he designed and built the stabs for two projects. Labor intensive? YES!! Beautiful? YES again. I need these construction techniques to keep my interest...and spur by work to a higher level. Is it magazine quality? YES !! But isn't this thread a 'type of magazine', even if the subject is everchanging? Did RCU and other threads put some mags out of business? Maybe. What happened to 'Smallnet" and the weekly printings we used to recieve? I believe they are RIGHT HERE...on these threads. But nothing new in 1/2 A.... debate required!
OK, but it relative terms there is very little new 1/2A stuff compared to other disciplines. What Dickeybird does is more of a lost art and while he has a passion for 1/2A, his building techniques can be applied to any type of model. So, you're right in the sense that we need people like him to pass on his skills and techniques to others, but increasingly that wisdom is falling on the deaf ears of today's ARF flyers. Milton's skill and passion for building is something that is inspirational for the rest of us who enjoy scratch building and we owe a debt of gratitude to him and others like him who are still willing to put in the time and effort to pass on their knowledge. The fact remains that there is not enough new in 1/2A coming from the manufacturers to attract new people and not enough demand for them to want to create new 1/2A products. It's the chicken and the egg, and unfortunately there aren't many spring chickens interested in 1/2A. <--- (Ow, that was brutal.[:@])