Junior Friends’ Gallery to launch!
SMN introduces Junior Friends’ Gallery
This has long been something I have wanted to start in SMN – an SMN Junior Friends’ Gallery for all our younger friends out there – whoever you or they are…
I am determined to encourage younger modellers to get involved and enjoy our great hobby that is scale modelling and this is the first step, one of several initiatives that we will be embarking on in the coming months aimed at encouraging and supporting junior modellers – if we continue to get the support of modellers of all levels, experience and standards from around the world.
It matters not whether you subscribe now or not, the SMN Junior Friends Gallery will be for everyone and anyone if you or they are a junior – completely free for all to access!
So… do you have sons, daughters, cousins, friends… whoever, if they like to build models, then this is going to be the place for our Junior Friends to display their best models – if they like their model, that’s all that matters to me.
It may be that they have made a great model in the past or are working on one right now or in the future… this is what you, or they have to do – it’s simple:
- Take some digital pics of your model – about 6-12 images will be great (tip – shoot your model a bit further away to make sure as much of it is as possible is in focus – we do want to see it nice and clearly!
- Write a paragraph or two about your model: - What is it? - What scale? - Manufacturer? - What you like about your model now it’s finished? - What you didn’t like when building or painting it? - What you did like about building or painting it? Type it up into a simple Word document and…
- Send your pics and Word doc to me, Geoff Coughlin, Editor Scale Modelling Now by e-mail: geoff@scalemodellingnow.com
Your SMN Junior Friends’ Gallery will start later this month, so do encourage your children, friends’ children and anyone you know who is young and new into the hobby or just likes making models to get involved and I will make sure we get their contributions out there for everyone to see and enjoy.
Photo Reference Library Sets…
As any of you who have browsed this key area of SMN will know, SMN has a huge and growing number of modellers’ walkaround sets – all easily downloaded for you to use in your model build projects. There are literally thousands of unique, high quality images in here that you can’t get anywhere else! No more hunting and frustration being unable to find all the angles and views you need…
PDF format on the way
Rather than provide the images as zip files we are creating all new PRL sets as PDF documents that are:
Easy to download
- Easy to print
- Easy to store
- Easy to upload to i-tunes and i-devices
- Easy to view on i-pads – just load i-books and read your PDF like a paper magazine!
- Easy to view on i-phones
- Will be easy to view on Kindle Fire (well we hope so! No reason to think not)
Do you have an i-phone? i-pad? (and soon, a Kindle Fire…)
There are over 200 completed build projects in SMN’s Finished Now and it’s growing all the time. Just load i-books onto your device and upload all the PDFs into i-tunes and then your ‘Newsstand’ on your device. This is a fantastic way to view all the builds, read them just like a paper magazine – it’s genuinely amazing and will transform your SMN experience.
And it doesn’t stop there!
From now on all the PRL sets will be created as PDF documents (starting with the two latest armour sets to go into SMN, Sets 167 and 168), so that you can easily view these too on your devices, such smart phones and just about all i-devices as outlined above.
Increasingly and when time permits, we will be backdating as many of the sets currently on offer in your PRL so that more and more of the mag will be available wherever you are – at home or out and about, in the bath or the other place!!! It matters not, you can read SMN wherever you are – how good is that? Funnily enough, just like a paper magazine.
Remember what you get with a subscription to SMN, it blows away what is available in any paper mag in terms of value for money and content. This isn’t me being big-headed, it’s a fact that I want to reinforce and now even more of you can access all the great content whenever and however you like!
I will be back on or before 27 April for an important announcement, so watch this space! More info when I have it.
Geoff