Sharing our experiences
By Mario Covalski
Building a model means an arduous task, either for beginners or advanced modelers. Some will pour out hours and hours of work on detailing, painting…etc, for others, the matter will be just to find out and be able to use the respective techniques successfully.
For a long time, the “technical” knowledge about modeling has passed on by word of mouth, till around 35 years ago, when the first magazines devoted to this hobby, started coming out.
On those days, when clubs or associations nearly didn’t exist, two or three modelers, at times friends, met to share all they knew or the things they had discovered.
Paper magazines, first, and Internet, later, filled the world with the information for modelers and even those with scarce social relationship, or those reticent to go to clubs, could get all the information, ideas, techniques…etc, as soon as they were available.
The key of all this process was, however, the need of the modeler to show his work. The same loneliness in which he had worked, compelled him to do so, and was there anything better than publishing one’s work in a magazine that could be read by thousands of persons around the world?
All the publications are based on the modelers will, to write about their models, their experiences when building, and finally, showing their achievements and final results.
Nowadays, most of the serious magazines reward the authors with cash or kits, even, some modelers make a living from this activity, since they devote much of their time on this.
Somebody will say that Modeling is NOT a job, or activity that you spend time on, just for money. Nevertheless, everybody knows that money is an usual reward in our civilization, thus, I think that rewarding a note, is a demonstration of respect towards the author.
Modeler Site as other magazines, are supported by contributors who share their talent and experience, and that by their example, have inspired others with an expected result: this lets everybody enjoy the high quality contents encountered nowadays when surfing our magazine, and if you was patient to read this editorial up to this point, let me say that we are needing authors, modelers willing to show and write about their models.
Modeler Site will go on offering superb notes about excellent models, provided that you, as well as your friends help us. We need everyone’s cooperation!!!
Get back to your friends and keep up sharing our models…and skill, to aid one another, and, for the benefit of this activity.
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