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There, then gone

Every month there are magazines published. About model railways, about dolls houses, about military modelling. They're the ones I'm aware of. There are surely still more specialist magazines or journals on architecture, on souvenirs and giftware, on film and other subjects which don't make it onto the high street newsagent And this happens in each country. Most of them feature at least one article on the modelling of buildings.

And then they're gone. Some of you, like me, will keep piles of back numbers but they are not really accesible. Some of mine stayed packed away in boxes in a storage unit for years. Goodness knows why I do it.

Trying to build a worthwhile archive of these articles is way way beyond me. It would be a huge task and probably infringe the copyrights of some big publishing houses whose interest is monetising interesting and helpful information. But, as I threw away (or gave away or sold) my stash of old UK mags, and a few Dutch ones, I have tried to preserve some of the more interesting articles or extract bits from them. Hopefully a small enough piece of preservation not to upset any commercial interests.

Here is the first one. A 4mm project from way back called 'The Forth Hotel'.

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David, March 2020