So little but so much….
By Mario Covalski
When I think about all I’ve been going through during the last years with regard to modeling, it brings back to my memory 1986, when at a magazines store, I saw for the first time, a popular modeling magazine which had started to be issued in those days.
In its interior, I found short articles on ships, spaceships, sci-fi dioramas…etc, and though I was not really interested in those subjects at all, I read them eagerly. Most of them were just stories about why the modeler had decided to build the model in question, but I was fascinated by the variety of ideas coming from people like me, who around the world, had the same sight and concerns …so, I started to dream of seeing an article of mine published in one of those magazines.
Life circumstances sat me in front of a computer screen with the self-determination of having a personal web page, and it didn’t take me long to realize it could become in a dream I’ve never thought I would fulfil, to be a magazine editor of a humble virtual magazine, at least.
Eight years went by, perhaps not much but on the internet, it seems an eternity, we achieved our first goal, to survive and stay, without giving up our projects or illusions; the second and maybe the most relevant, to reach the soul of those modelers, who like me, from the loneliness and introspection, want to go far with their art and need support, encouragement and help.
Modelersite’s articles have soul, their main aim is to please model builders who search for reliable information, to recreate the process of making a kit parts look lifelike when one meet them for the first time… and share with others their talent and art, definitively, the human being’s desire from the most truly ancient cave paintings.
Modelersite is not a business in the strict sense of the word, though needing incomes to subsist, it’s an ideology, a way of seeing modeling and life, of giving and receiving, sort of a way to show someone that you are really thinking about them, ... of carrying out something that makes us feel proud in the end, even when we pass away, spreading seeds for future generations. So little but so much at the same time is Modelersite.
Internet provide you a wide variety of offers, we’re neither first nor last, but we feel satisfied and proud of our work, when we read at forums or mails we receive from modelers that have been aided, encouraged or won contests thanks to our humble modeling articles.
The message on this 8th anniversary is that we are extremely grateful to readers, friends and relatives who have supported putting their trust in our job, to our sponsors who think like us that there’s always something better to do.
Upcoming years will be the most difficult, we’ll have to fulfil the expectations of those who support us so that they continue doing so, and try to convince those who don’t or have doubt about our potential and the full commitment and value of our project. I just hope that people will understand what we’re speaking about.
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