N-SCALE MAGAZINE has released their NEW CD. Contains issues Jan/Feb 1995 thru Nov/Dec 1999. The CD is available from N-SCALE MAGAZINE direct. My issue of the CD came in the mail last week. Same top line contents and quality as we have come to expect from N-SCALE MAGAZINE. Another winner here in my book! The cost was about $25.00(estimated[I don't remember]). You can read articles, printout templates, and SAVE SPACE on storage of all the magazines you have. I've also got the first N-SCALE MAGAZINE CD(1989-1994). And will be pre-ordering the next CD when it come available. Wish other magazine would do this. MODEL RAILROADER, RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, N-SCALE RAILROADING do you hear me?
Thanks for the reminder Mark. I'm a ( new ) N-scale magazine subscriber and I almost forgot about that CD. I checked, but it appears that the CD is not offered on the magazine website ( yet ) so I'll email my purchase order next monday. Is the scanning quality good ? One reason I like that mag is that it is printed on high quality paper. Jacques
Good news. I love the CD format and will order one this week. I too wish other mags would follow this lead and not just the model mags.
I am willing to bet the other magazines will have a similar program soon. Model Railroader already sells much of its content on its site, but you can only purchase an article at a time. Theres only money to be made.
It's not exactly one article at a time, it is about a specific topic. For example I purchase the weathering topic. It is a 22 .pdf format document with 5 topics, such as weathering rolling stock, weathering engines, weathering structures, weathering tracks ... I like that format because I can purchase the topics I'm interested in, without going through pages and pages of advertisement or O scale layouts I'm not interested in Another advantage is that being a downloaded document I don't pay any Federal nor provincial tax on it. :tb-smile: Jacques
Good to know. I just picked up 1989-1994 on eBay and received it yesterday. It's pretty neat. Most of the material is over my head at this early stage in my MRR career.
I just got this email from Pamela a few minutes ago: "I am working with my web designer as we speak. It will be on the website for purchase today. Please check back later this afternoon. Thank you for your support. It is greatly appreciated. Pamela Clapp Publisher N-Scale Magazine "
Representatives of Model Railroader have very definitely stated on their forums that they presently have no interest in offering compilations of past issues of the magazine in a CD format. Doing so would obviously defeat their PDF sales, much of their how-to book sales (many are based on recycled MR articles), as well as curtailing the sale of individual back issues. For them and perhaps RMC, the issuing of CDs would be a decidely loosing situation. NYW&B
Thanks for the information satokuma, just 5 minutes ago I ordered both CDs directly from N-Scale Magazine website. Jacques
That was largely due to Jim Hundmann's (original owner/publisher of NScale Magazine) way of publishing and writing ... since Pam took over, things have really become much more "modeler" oriented. :thumbs_up: I also had the privelege to meet Pam at the NScale Collectors Convention in Lousiville. She definitely knows what she's doing. :tb-cool:
That does make sence. They do offer the Dream, Plan, Build videos that are probably as close to the magazine content as we will get out of them.
I also got onto the N scale site straight away to order my CD's and I'd do the same with MR, Trains, RMC, and others if they ever decide to do them. Kalmbach are a bigger company than N Scale Magazine, and the bigger the company the more the focus seems to be on the shareholders than the customers. If they did a CD I'd still buy MR, but I'd only need to keep the physical magazines until the CD came out, freeing up the space they take for a bigger layout, and it'd be good to see them do some books that were more than just reprinted MR articles.
Just received both CDs yesterday. 10 years of N-Scale mag for $ 40 is a very good deal. The quality of the scanning is good. I have plenty of reading material for the looooong Canadian winter that's just around the corner. I went through the first 2 issues and my 1st impression is that N-Scale mag 10 years ago was more oriented toward the newbie that it is now. I subscribed to N-Scale mag early this year . I find the mag very interesting but my only complain is that it devoted too much space about modifying ,kitbashing and superdetailing N scale engines. Maybe that impression is caused by my old age: my eyesight is not what it used to be for such superdetailing projects. Of course that's just my opinion. Anyway, I recommend those CDs. Jacques
Thanks for your post, Jacques. I just ordered both CDs (because of this thread) and look forward to many more years of Pamela's quality work with the magazine. We are lucky to have two good N-Scale only magazines..... Henry
