rgmichel Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 rgmichel said: walkingthedog said:How old is old rgmichel?I am not sure that is a relevant question. I will observe that those of you who consider any locomotive to be new if it was built after a two-tone green brush type 4 might consider yourselves old, although I could not possibly comment on my own age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Fair enough. Think you'll find a large majority on this forum remember when diesels were the up and coming thing. Some even the same for steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgmichel Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 walkingthedog said: majority remember when diesels were the up and coming thing. Some even the same for steam. You obviously missed seeing my tongue in cheek when I posted my message. To me it is self-evident that the hobbyist end of the contributors to this forum are of an age that steam is still the best thing since sliced bread, and that a good fraction of us are likely to have eyesight that is less than optimum to read the exceedingly fine print evident in many of Hornby's publications. It seems to me to be most inconsiderate of Hornby, given that this segment of the market must be reasonably significant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 I did see your tongue. I'm not a member of the Collectors Club so I have never seen the magazine. I'm pretty sure that most of my model railway has shrunk over the years. I'm sure everything is much smaller. I've only ever thought the Collectors Club was for younger members going by the the free loco you get. Obviously I'm wrong. I'll settle for Hornby Magazine, it's gone from strength to strength. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgmichel Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 walkingthedog said:thought the Collectors Club was for younger members going by the the free loco you get. Hornby Magazine, ..gone from strength to strength.Actually, the Collectors club has a nice diesel as a collectors item, at the present, although that "ring the changes of livery" little 0-4-0 is still extant. Hornby Magazine is in my "good" but not perfect list right now. I won't make a comparison here with another set of options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 There's a sample issue you can download WTD. https://www.hornby.com/_assets/files/Collector-Club-Sample-Newsletter.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 As Hornby magazine is nothing to do with Hornby you can say what you like. I used to subscribe to Railway Modeller. I still buy it occasionally but they seemed to have a fixation about the Isle Of Man and narrow gauge for a time so decided on a change. Perhaps I should give the collectors club a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Thanks for that poliss. It's quite good, think I might subscribe for a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 rgmichel said: I just received my Issue 13 of The Collector (Plus) today, together with the 2013 Product Range flyer. I can't read the text in the flyer, so it is not very useful to me. The font is too small. The Collector's fonts are slightly bigger, but it is still very difficult to read. There are a number of layout issues with the Collectors Club magazine: 1. Many of the fonts are too small 2. Red ink is often used with captions. The combination of small italicized red fonts on a coloured background is almost illegible for anyone. 3. There is an evident effort to constrain the magazine to a fixed number of pages. Many articles include photographs that are compressed down to the size of a large postage stamp. A picture of a room-sized layout in say 3cm x 5cm is silly. Nothing can be clearly made out at such a reduced size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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