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. As
a final insult, it took them almost three months to pay
me for the article, and only then after I emailed them
several times to chase up payment. 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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