I waited many months to finally see my article on this in
the pages of a major model magazine. I submitted this to Scale Aviation
Modeller way back in October, 2014. After some editing and retaking
the pictures it was accepted for publication and even made it to the "Coming
Next Month" section. Twice. Then they had a change of editors. The
article disappeared. Finally, after re-submitting it, slashing the size
of the article in half and re-taking the pictures (again) to suit the new
editor I was told it would be out in an upcoming issue of Model Aircraft.
Not my original intention as personally I never read that magazine, but
it would have to do. Finally, the July 2015 issue of said magazine arrived
and I rushed out to buy a copy as soon as it hit the shops. To say I was
somewhat underwhelmed would be an understatement. I was gutted. Hardly any
of the 'in progress' shots were there, none of the captions to the pics
were there and the article itself was so badly butchered it was barely recognisable;
so poorly edited that some of the sentences didn't even make sense anymore
and it was now full of spelling and grammatical errors that weren't in my
original text. Needless to say, my next article will not be in the pages
of SAMI or Model Aircraft.
Now I probably shouldn't reproduce the article here because it is of course
now the property of Media House (though their publishing guidelines actually
say I can't submit it to another magazine, they don't mention anything about
websites). It could be argued that the article that was published is completely
different to the one I actually wrote anyway, therefore for those who are
interested, I present here
the article as it should have been. Construction pics with the
original captions are on the following page. |
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