Independent Voices

There’s a lot of angst about the current health and future of general interest hobby magazines now. One doesn’t have to look long or hard to see a decline in page counts or the number of titles that have fallen away in the last twenty years. The...

TMC 06 is now available.

Composing a layout scene can be hard and often frustrating for many modelers. The temptation to overcrowd things is alway there and most of us wade right into that trap, myself included. The solution is to study the prototype as closely as you would for a freight car...

What happens when…?

What happens when the hobby wins the race to the bottom?* *(What’s that? The relentless pursuit of turning it into something any idiot can do in his sleep.) What happens when modelers find content specific blogs, videos and podcasts more relevant than general...

New Magazine From The O Scale Resource

Why would one publisher promote the work of another? Because A: I don’t believe in the “We’re at war with the competition” mentality that has infected business everywhere. (B: O scale needs all the exposure it can get and (C: It’s the...