New Airfix Magazine

[RotorheadTX]

Got issue 3 yesterday. Best of the bunch so far from my point of view.

Great news to me - I'm keen to see the Puma article.
Ishoos 1 and 2 have hit the shops here in Texas, so perhaps late next month I'll get satisfaction. 

[philp]

I am part way through #2.  Not as much that interests me in this one but 3 sounds pretty good.

Since they have been doing the Apollo stuff, wonder if they will branch out with some Sci-Fi stuff?

[Army of One]

I subscribed last year online....it was only £15 or so....got the Harrier double kit boxing......

Got my Feb edition n have to say I like it........is it me or has the artist got it wrong...? Done a short Google search but come up nada....does the F86 when dropping its tanks....drop the pylon as well.. Seems like a major mistake on a lovely bit of artwork.....

Had a look through Larry Milberry's Canadair Sabre, and there are several photos showing the tanks off
the aircraft, either lying on the ground or on carts. In all of the photos the pylons and sway braces are attached
to the tanks, not to the aircraft. The majority of the photos show the aircraft with either tanks or clean wings.
Only two photos, both of Pakistani Sabre 6s, show aircraft with bare pylons attached to the wings.

JC...........many thanks for the enlitenment   

[PR19_Kit]

The latest issue of the mag, with a Halifax on the cover, has full page adverts for the He-111P and the Whitley V, but doesn't mention them anywhere in the mag itself. 

[Weaver]

The latest issue of the mag, with a Halifax on the cover, has full page adverts for the He-111P and the Whitley V, but doesn't mention them anywhere in the mag itself. 

The Airfix website is still showing them as due in October. I wonder if Airfix have sent the adverts to the mag too early?

In general, the editorial team on a magazine won't know what's going to be advertised in a given edition. The ad sales are usually done by a separate department at the publishers who cover many publications. The best they can do to synchronise things is for editorial to tell the manufacturer when a review or article is coming out, and then leave it to them to buy an advert in the same issue.

[NARSES2]

Recently the kits have appeared about 4/6 weeks after the ads have appeared in the Airfix magazine.

You'll probably find that the Airfix advertising department gets confused with the dating system used by the magazine (this is the July issue) and thus gets the ads in a month early........and I only part joke 

[Captain Canada]

I get a Yamaha mag every couple of months. Big pic on the cover and the title New Yamaha R3 hit's the street ! And not a single mention of it inside. 

[Thorvic]

I think the Whitley and the HP-111 may be out sooner than October, box art for both is already on-line and i think they want the 111 out for the BoB 75th set so are really aiming at September.

Hmmn just thinking if they do a Ju-88 then they pretty much have the makings for a cracking BoB set with the Luftwaffe Do17, He111, Ju87, Me109, Me110 plus a Ju88 against RAF Hurricane, Spitfire, Defiant, Gladiator and Blenhiem.

[JayBee]

On a slightly different note, does anyone know of an e-mail address for contacting the magazine/editor I certainly can not find one in the mag itself.
Why? Well there is an error in the caption of one of the photos of a geographical point.
The photo at the top of p78 shows a TAV-8A at it's homebase of MCAS Cherry Point, Nevada.
OOPS, geographical displacement, Cherry point is on the other side of the continent on the Atlantic coast in North Carolina.
OK I know this is just a little bit JMNish, but really you would think they would get that kind of thing right.

[Gondor]

An advert on Facebook was similarly containing errors, ridiculous in this day and age considering that decade's ago there were fewer errors with less technology. 

Gondor

[Weaver]

An advert on Facebook was similarly containing errors, ridiculous in this day and age considering that decade's ago there were fewer errors with less technology.  

Gondor

Decades ago, there were actual copy editors who operated on the quaint old-fashioned notion of checking your stuff for errors before publishing it.....

[Dizzyfugu]

An advert on Facebook was similarly containing errors, ridiculous in this day and age considering that decade's ago there were fewer errors with less technology.  

Gondor

Decades ago, there were actual copy editors who operated on the quaint old-fashioned notion of checking your stuff for errors before publishing it.....

Today, there's google instead of editors and "people who know". And it will become worse. I also notice that copy-editing also seems to become an art of the past with regards to professional publications, both on- and offline.

[NARSES2]

Worked with a girl who'd been a proof reader in a previous job. Do they still exist ?

Jim I've PM'd you with email address

[AS.12]

Worked with a girl who'd been a proof reader in a previous job. Do they still exist ?

They do, but recognised proof-readers tend to be part of guilds / societies that set very high rates so quite often publishers do without their services, or double-duty one of the junior staff.

Edit: here's the Freelance Fees Guide, which is the lower end of rates that I've seen.  Still 3.5x UK minimum wage.

http://www.londonfreelance.org/feesguide/index.php?&section=Print+media&subsect=Editing%2Fproducing+books

[NARSES2]

Now that is interesting