How to get the best out of your subscription…!
Use it or lose it! How to get the best out of your subscription
SMN is a fantastic magazine and resource centre and so, if you use it regularly, you’ll love it; if you don’t you’ll lose your interest in it – what a waste…
Keep an eye on the main areas of SMN
- How-to techniques in your Techniques Bank – hundreds of step-by-step how-to demos & videos
- Aircraft, Armour, Sci-Fi, Maritime and more – pick your main area of interest and away you go!
- Modellers walkaround images in the Photo Reference Library
- Extensive in-depth build reviews in Finished Now in each Area, each one an average of 25 A4 pages!
- New and existing kit reviews in Here Now; your questions answered: What’s in the box? Quality? Accuracy? Decal options? Instructions? Video reviews and pics of contents so that you can see and judge for yourself about everything on offer
Visit: What’s New for all the very latest updates to all areas
Every week we have new and updated content across the whole of SMN – this really is a very dynamic site!
Visit WHATS NEW regularly to fully appreciate how active this magazine is!
‘Bookmark’ that page for quick, easy access!
Watch the HD videos – more than once!
There are hundreds of HD Video Demonstrations and step-by-step ‘How-to’ techniques in our amazing Techniques Bank and also in many of our Finished Now builds!
Follow the links in Techniques Bank. There are some great tips and ideas to watch and see how others do it, so that you can have a go too. These videos help to remove the myths of what are often straightforward techniques.
Walkarounds
Modelling reference images, unique to SMN – thousands of images at your fingertips.
Aircraft, Armour and Maritime Areas have huge numbers of photos to help you get that detail right. For example – building the cockpit of a Hawker Hunter? Look up Hunter in the Photo Reference Library in Aircraft. Click the ‘download zip’ file or PDF download button and save the pics for use on your workbench.
This archive is worth hundreds and hundreds of pounds – literally; it’s unique to SMN and is included in your small subscription.
Subscribers’ Gallery
Pleased with your latest build? Or one that you have built in the past?
Whatever your area of modelling interest… Why not take a few pics of it, jot down a short paragraph about it: kit? Scale? Manufacturer? Any accessories? Highlights? Lowlights? Any other comments you’d like to make and e-mail it in to me at:geoff@scalemodellingnow.com (pics about 1200px wide if poss).
Let’s all see what you’ve been up to because sharing what we do, especially the best bits can inspire others as well as ourselves to better things.
What’s your next kit-build? Check out Finished Now first – have we built it? Get an in-depth heads up!
Pick your area of interest: Aircraft, Armour, Maritime etc and click on the manufacturer in the right panel and look down the list; some great tips, help and advice will be at hand. Print only what you need – virtually all the reviews and feature articles in each area have PDF downloads at the click of a button. No need to waste money printing the whole document!
Pick a kit from your stash and save a fortune this time around.
Got a question? Ask away!
Go to our ‘contact’ page and submit your question via the enquiry form. Geoff or one of the team will be right back to you with our best advice and help.
Also all our Build Now and Finished Now builds have a ‘Comments’ section at the bottom of each page so post your thoughts and questions on a specific build and we will reply to you asap!
You see, you’re not alone… help and support is only a click away!
Facebook and Twitter
Got a modelling view, thought, comment or pic?
Come on in… and visit SMN’s Facebook page (Twitter too) to share what you want to say as well as ask your modelling questions. Talk directly to members of the SMN Review Team – one of us will always answer your comments and questions.
SMN’s FB page is genuinely a community now, with friendly modellers and friends that want to talk and communicate with other like-minded people – what are you waiting for?
And so… Take 10!
Take 10 minutes to familiarise yourself with all the areas of the magazine. Just pick the Area you are interested in from the ‘Contents’ or ‘Areas’ pages and away you go! You can easily get to all the main areas in SMN from anywhere in the Mag.
Remember… SMN is your virtual storage space – a modelling archive that is always there when you need it – no more endless hunting for articles you know you’ve read and seen before somewhere in your pile of paper mags.