Geoff editorial – 21 Dec 2012
3 years in – Thank you!
So here we are at the end of our third year and boy has time flown, it’s incredible to think that it’s been three years since we launched Scale Modelling Now. Let me tell you that it is as exciting now, perhaps even more so than when we started the world’s first on-line only scale modelling magazine; and for so many reasons.
When Sara and I started SMN we were convinced that the future lies in digital on-line content and I am even more convinced of that now and so it still is my goal, to create the world’s best and most comprehensive on-line scale modelling magazine for modellers across the world. I hope that any of you subscribing to SMN in recent months will see that what you get for your £12.00 annual subscription fee offers extraordinary value for money. It’s worth taking a look at what the equivalent of just £1.00 per month gives you if you subscribed today:
- 4 years worth of content – that’s everything we’ve ever published to date, plus of course the next 12 months content!
- 271 completed build reviews and feature articles – they are all available in Finished Now and are the most in-depth articles containing more how-to than any other resource anywhere, on paper or on the Net
- 60 HD video demos of specific modelling techniques, plus hundreds of other how-to techniques that are contained in the builds and feature articles and of course your Scale Modelling Techniques Bank – the logical place for that support to live!
- 193 sets of modellers’ walkaround reference photos of the real thing to help you with any specific detail you need – that’s nearly 10,000 reference pics! All in your Photo Reference Library
- Hundreds of kit and accessory reviews of new and existing products available at the touch of a button in Here Now
- e-mail help and support – you can ask any specific questions you like of me or any member of the Review Team by using the Contact form in SMN – just click on the main red navigation bar link
- Dozens of book reviews so you can pick up on some of the best and latest reads being published, see Scale Modelling Book Reviews
- Subscribers’ Gallery – truly a place of inspiration! You can send me photos and a few words to explain any of your best model projects, just e-mail them to me at: geoff@scalemodellingnow.com
Not bad is it?
The £12.00 offer is extended until further notice
Our pricing policy is simple here, Sara and I want as many of you as possible to join in the fun and enjoyment that SMN has to offer – whatever your budget or experience! More modellers that pay much less is far better for everyone than fewer that pay more – simple as that.
Our plan is to keep the subscriptions for all of our existing and new Gold members at just £12.00 until further notice. If you are still on any other subscription rate we urge you to save yourself money by upgrading/signing up for the new £12.00 Annual Gold subs and we’ll cancel your old subscription – you’ll save a lot of money and we are keen to make sure you all get the best value for money possible! All you need to do is click the ‘Subscribe’ button on the cover, follow the directions to pay your £12.00 and upgrade (you can keep your existing log-in details) and you’re good to go – simple as that. Should your old subs go through in error, we’ll immediately refund it to you.
What’s coming in 2013?
The simple answer is much, much more of the same! Feedback has been excellent from many of you at the various shows that we have attended and the message is loud and clear – keep doing what you’re doing so that is exactly what I promise we’ll do!
More HD videos…
I have a lot more planned for your Techniques Bank with new HD video demos for how to use Alclad 2 metallic paint and how to rivet your models – these are both at an advanced stage of preparation and will come in a number of parts, so keep an eye out for those. They are just the next in the line of what we have planned so remember, if you have any suggestions for techniques that you’d like to see in your TB, just drop me an e-mail to: geoff@scalemodellingnow.com
Great builds on the way!
You will be as aware as we are of the many great new kits that have been released in 2012, well, 2013 looks like it will be equally as productive from the manufacturers.
SMN has consistently been the first to publish completed build articles and reviews for many new kits in 2012, in fact ever since we started. I remember we had 3 Airfix Lynx builds done and dusted in SMN before any appeared in any paper mag. This is just one of several examples where we have brought you, our subscribers, brand new kit builds that feature unbiased, objective reviews and articles that contain more photos and how-to words and content than any other publication. Long may it continue.
We make a great team – together!
Sara and I are supported by some fantastic scale modellers and friends – thank you, every one of you and you know who you are… I promise that we will continue to do our stuff at this end if you keep supporting us by subscribing. If you like SMN, please tell your friends and the more modellers that take out a subscription the more we can do for you, it really is as simple as that.
Have a great Christmas and Happy New Year to you all and we look forward to saying hello again or for the first time at one of the many shows we plan to attend in 2013.
Best wishes
Geoff