Scale Auto Magazine Pdf Download
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I was just on the Scale Auto Magazine website. Tim Kidwell announced that the October issue of Scale Auto Magazine will be the final issue. That is really unfortunate as I enjoyed reading that magazine. Just another indication that building models is a disappearing hobby.
Since 1979, Scale Auto (originally Scale Auto Enthusiast) has been proud to offer the latest tips and techniques to help car modelers build the coolest, hottest, most realistic scale replicas on four wheels. While we remain committed to serving scale-auto builders, we regretfully announce we are discontinuing publication of Scale Auto magazine. October 2020 will be the final issue.
The Scale Auto Magazine website and forum will be closing as of this Friday. The October magazine was the last SAM magazine. We all thought that the SAM website would live on. But no, that is going away also. Too bad. There were a lot of really good and helpful modelers on that website.
There might not be enough car modelers who are willing to pay to subscribe to a magazine, and maybe not enough to support a specialty forum-again, we can see a parallel in the figure painting area of the hobby. But there are still enough modelers of all interests who are willing to subscribe to keep FSM and this forum going. So, we adapt.
I tried viewing the site at about 3:15 Eastern time and got the same page as your link. I figured one more look while I had the chance but it wasn't in the cards. Very disappointed by these events, hopefully we'll see more auto and truck builds being posted here and just maybe and expanded auto section to compensate for the loss of SA
Sad that Scale Auto magazine and forum are gone. Model Cars Magazine forum is still very active. I believe that a new associate editor named Larry Greenberg is now on board to try and help get their ?magazine up and running again. In view of Scale Auto's demise for commercial reasons I guess, it will be interesting to see if MCM makes it back into print on a regular basis. As far as I know Model Car Builder is still going. Truck Model World a UK magazine exists along with an American Truck mag I believe.
No one forced them. They just as easily could have settled here. That forum is rather sleepy, they could take over the auto forum in a short while and the general modeling forum just as quick. The only forum at FSM that has decent movement is the armor forum, and even that is slow compared to forums that specialize in armor modeling.
You guys in the States have always been far better served by long lived auto related modelling magazines down the years. So with MCM getting back up and running and Model Car Builder in production even with the loss of Scale Auto you still have two magazines. Not to mention another USA magazine devoted to truck modelling that I believe you have.
I looked through the latest Fine Scale Modeler Magazine recently and the 'absorption' of Scale Auto into it comprised of just one article as far as I could see. Being a multi interest modelling magazine I guess that this was inevitable in order to have a balance of subject matter within it. Ex readers of Scale Auto will be disappointed however if their expectations were somewhat higher.
I haven't bought either for sometime now. Yes will be ineresting to see how they add the car section. Guess the Annuals will be gone to. I guess they have nothing for the truck section anymore? I did see the other day, an armor version of the magazine. Think it was called scale armor. My biggest complaint was that they always showed perfect models or always the same things most of the time. The how to's are not bad.
Can't remember the last time I bought a model magazine. I stopped buying Tamiya magazine when they brought out separate magazines for military and aircraft, then persisted in filling the normal Tamiya magazine with military and aircraft articles and very few car related articles. When I wrote to them to ask why there were so few car related articles, bearing in mind they now had separate magazines for military and aircraft, I was politely told to mind my own business and they'd put whatever they wanted in their magazines because very few people are interested in model cars. That was when I stopped buying it and never bought it since...
I had a subscription to SA in the '90s, I can't remember if it became too expensive, or the content too repetitive, maybe both. Used to buy the odd copy of FSM around the same time, but like the old Scale Models magazine, there'd only be one or two interesting car related articles per year. I haven't bought magazines in years. The internet made them redundant.
As far as I know there is only one dedicated car modelling magazine now in print. It is Model Car Builder, an American magazine run and edited by Roy Sorenson and is subscription only. The other american magazine Model Cars Magazine seems to have just fallen by the wayside over the last 3 or 4 years, although their forum is lively. Not sure if it is hanging in or not.
On a vaguely related note, I just got a letter telling me Modern Classics magazine is closed. I think a whole lot of magazines were operating on a knife edge of costs versus ad revenue and sales, and Covid has pushed them over the cliff...
The following magazine archive DVD's from Kalmbach DO NOT work on Macs using the MacOS 10.15 "Catalina" or newer version operating systems. The Kalmbach web pages for these DVD-ROMs do clearly state these two DVD's are not compatible with MacOS 10.15 Catalina or newer:
I found this out the hard way when my 10-year old iMac died a couple years ago, and I had to buy a new iMac that came with MacOS 10.15 Catalina pre-installed. Imagine my surprise when I was unable to install the SA: First 35 Years and FSM: 25-Year archives on the new computer. That was many years of magazines I no longer could access.
At the NNL North model show this past May, FineScale Modeler was there to photograph models for the magazine, so I asked whether there was any chance that the incompatible DVD archives might get updated to work on newer Macs, since the second DVD volumes for both magazines did work. My thinking was that since they already had the necessary compatible programming created for the volume two DVD's, that it should be fairly easy to migrate the older magazine archives into the new compatible programming. But he explained that the software developer said they would charge Kalmbach nearly as much to upgrade the archives as the original DVD programming had cost, and that Kalmbach's management decided the programming cost was just too high for them to justify.
Because I really wanted to be able to access the old magazine archives (and also still use some older apps that also do not work on 10.15 or later), I was lucky to find an inexpensively priced older iMac (but still newer model than my old one that had died) running MacOS 10.13 "High Sierra", and I am now able to run the magazine archives and other older apps on that Mac. But not everyone will be able to justify doing what I did because they love the Mac. But I considered it worth doing.
Oh well... , the downsides of computer technology progress. Apple finally decided it was time to cut support for the old legacy 32-bit programming for it's OS and apps, and use all newer 64-bit programming beginning with 10.15 Catalina. But they gave years of advance warning that this was coming, and I still don't understand why the first two magazine archive DVDs were programmed using 32-bit only.
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This although unfortunate for car modeling enthusiasts, does not surprise me. I quit buying many years ago as it was mostly a parade of American Muscle car modleing. It did not have enough consistent coverage of subject matter I enjoyed like F-1 or Motor racing subjects in general(not incluidng drag racing). So in the end it was just too centred on American Muscle and Hot Rods to keep my attention. I have picked it up a time or two recently and there was just not enough there to make buy. The current issue on the shelf has a feature on building the new 1/12 Alfa Romeo Monza and I considred it but it was so general as to not look useful. I did not see much I could not get from the instructions. So passed. Also just not enough meat in the article as compared to some of the other modleing magazines. I get more out of tamiya model magazine for subject matter that I am interested in.
OVERVIEW:
Scale Auto Enthusiast magazine was published bi-monthly starting in May, 1979. Operating as Enthusiasts, Inc., in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, the owner Gary Schmidt consistently produced the title until 1996 when he sold it to Kalmbach Publishing. Kalmbach continues to publish through to the present, and the only notable change is the retitling to Scale Auto in 2002. Mr. Schmidt died in March 2010.