Dave Ambrose

I have too. They were my go to hobby shop when I was in Toronto. Great shop, and I loved that they had a pot of coffee on along with a box of cookies every Saturday. That’s something I think more of them should do.

I forgot to put them on. I’ll remedy that in a bit, but the Canadian info is above.

I inadvertently left off the Canadian and Australian sellers. Sorry, no places in the UK yet. But if you have a hobby shop who might like to carry it, ask them to contact us. BERG'S HOBBIES PO BOX 527 PARRAMATTA NSW 2124 AUSTRALIA DAILEY HOBBIES 9 Carlow Court WHITBY ON L1N-8T7 CANADA HOBBY CENTRE 6-33 ROYDON PL OTTAWA ON K2E 1A3 CANADA HOBBY HOUSE LTD 80 MONTREAL RD VANIER ON K1L 6E7 CANADA WHEELS & WINGS HOBBIES 1880 DANFORTH AVE TORONTO ON M4C 1J4 CANADA Dan, unfortunately, all the Canadian dealers are in Ontario. The people at Wings and Wheels are first class and might well send you a copy.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Now days, if you want to up in management, you have to have a financial mindset. It involves knowing the cost of everything, but not the value. It's almost always easier to cut cost rather than add value. I find this odd because the companies that do focus on value, have skyrocketed on the stock market and stayed there. Apple for instance has appreciated 3000% over the last 12 years. Tesla is another good example.

We have to be very careful about adding new topics. Too many, and navigating the board becomes a daily problem. We feel like we're very near this point now. I'm a member on an astronomy forum that has so many subforums, that it's nearly impossible to find the interesting content by browsing. I don't want that to happen here. Model cars aren't nearly as complicated as astronomy. I'd like to keep it that way. This means that a lot of good ideas, like this one, just can't be implemented. Tags will help a lot, but descriptive topic titles are also needed.

Unfortunately, the USPS isn't operating as well as it used to. The shops usually get theirs before the subscribers because they go via UPS. We do know that at least a few hobby shops have already gotten them. I haven't seen my subscription copy yet, but it will get here.

Our current dealer list is now on the web site. It can be found at http://www.modelcarsmag.com/where-to-buy/

I've had one or two models in my cubicle. They're nice conversation starters, especially when you bring something new in.

I'm fairly certain that buying kits and building them are two different hobbies. I was initially driven by fear of missing out (FOMO). But realized that these kits are generally going to be available for as long as I might need one. I've backed way off on buying kits though I love to look around at model swap meets. At this point, my kit stash is right about where I want it, tho larger than my wife anticipated. Both my son and daughter build Gundams, so there are a lot of kits around here.

I will be posting a list of dealers on the web site. I'll post an announcement when I do that.

Yes, it will be. All current subscribers will get issues.

That is not normal. The site will happily use browser cookies to keep track of you and you don’t normally have to relogin. what browser are you using? Are you using it in private mode? And if not, do you have cookies enabled?

My worst ever vote goes to "A Boy and His Dog"

That model looks great!

Builders often use weird, off-brand fixtures. Saves them money, but then impossible to repair. I've gradually switched everything here (except the shower mixing valves) to Moen. Install once and forget about it. Come to think about it, probably time to replace the shower valve seats and washers.

Is this the Canadian equivalent to exile in Siberia?

You should attach the images to the posts. At this point, the gallery's long-term fate is unknown.

If I can do this, it will be for all dealers, US and abroad.

Not right now, but let me see if I can get one on the web site.

Hobby shops for sure. We’re still working on other distribution channels.

I've sent you a couple of email messages. Are they coming through?

I'm standing in for Larry today. We're making progress! Thanks to a lot of hard work, the draft magazine is now in its final form, and will be heading to the printer shortly. We're grateful for all who contributed content, effort, and expertise. We're looking forward to mailing this out. Here's the cover. I think the issue looks good. The magazine will definitely be shipped to hobby shops and mailed to current subscribers. We don't know about other distribution channels just yet, but we'll keep you informed. Many thanks to everyone for their support.

While you're correct about the text itself, but the information required to keep that text organized is big. Our current post count is somewhere around 2.2 million. Images get down-sampled before delivery. I'm fine with the extra disk space. It's cheap, and makes our content more or less future proof. Even before we removed the image limits, we were running north of 200GB per backup. Now, we're at about 260GB/snapshot. Interesting thing about phone and tablet images is that they get zoomed into a lot. Typical strategy is to download a high resolution, low compression quality image. At the end of the day, this is all readily handled with our present infrastructure. The one big downside is that maintenance sessions take longer because it takes a couple of hours to back up the site.

And the amount of activity is increasing. We get 7GB of new content every month. I'm having to upgrade the backup drives to accommodate both the content backups, and server logs, which are kept indefinitely. I don't get to read or comment nearly as much as I'd like to. There's so much good stuff going on. Long term, it's a good thing.

Jerry, we're still working out those details. We will do our best to ensure that everyone gets a chance at the magazine. -- Dave