Have A Suggestion….

[Jay Whittaker]

How about a short, running piece entitled “Model Stuff Is Everywhere!”?

I’m not suggesting anything long and drawn out, but rather a partial-page snippet, a monthly (per sè) tip about something found out in the great wide world that makes for great detailing in our scale world. 
 

For Example:

“Utilizing the individual zipper teeth from a worn-out pair of jeans make for perfect battery terminal ends. Simply pluck them out of the fabric with a pair of needle nose pliers, drill a receiving hole for the battery cable, and attach to the battery terminals.”… Submit  a couple of pictures, one from the source, and one showing it in the build it was used on…

Just a little something interesting that should catch attention, and help modelers along.

 

Just a thought, and any thoughts for or against are welcome.

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Sounds like a great idea to me...maybe pinned under "Tips and Tricks".

PS. I'm off to rip some zippers out of old shredded work pants.  

[peteski]

I seem to recall that one of the model car magazines (maybe SAE?) had a regular column which showed this kind of handy tips.  Often it has pencil drawings of the procedures.  I don't have a SAE issue handy to check.

[Can-Con]

24 minutes ago, peteski said:

I seem to recall that one of the model car magazines (maybe SAE?) had a regular column which showed this kind of handy tips.  Often it has pencil drawings of the procedures.  I don't have a SAE issue handy to check.

It did. I had two tips printed back then. One about making headlight lenses and the infamous "spoon test". ? 

They even sent me the original artwork from the articles using my tips.

[Ace-Garageguy]

17 minutes ago, Can-Con said:

It did. I had two tips printed back then. One about making headlight lenses and the infamous "spoon test". ? 

They even sent me the original artwork from the articles using my tips.

Did they pay you? I recall Hot Rod used to pay something like 5 bucks for tips that were printed, back in the paleolithic.

[bobthehobbyguy]

Great idea on the tips. Have a pinned thread on the forum and then pick a few of the best to use in the magazine. Something along the lines of the forum finds in the magazine.

[peteski]

Do we really need another pinned thread on In the Tips section?  It wouldn't be here as this is a discussion about the magazine, not scouting for contents

[Can-Con]

17 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Did they pay you? I recall Hot Rod used to pay something like 5 bucks for tips that were printed, back in the paleolithic.

No, all I got was the artwork.

[Jay Whittaker]

Some great points have been brought forth on this, has any of the magazine staff piped-in? Asking as I'm not familiar with who's who.

[Dave Ambrose]

I'm the managing editor, and I've been watching this topic Thank you all for commenting. I'm totally going to steal the zipper idea. ? 

This forum contains a huge body of knowledge, but it's poorly organized. The built-in search function isn't nearly as effective as we'd like. There is a solution for the search problem, and I'm looking at implementing that. Another possibility is a single pinned and maintained post that gives us a directory of particularly good topics. Or, we could put something like that up on our web site. 

Putting these in the magazine is an attractive idea, but we need to increase the page count before we consider running it as a regular feature. Could happen intermittently though. 

As always, we welcome your comments.