subgenius13 Posted June 16, 2015 Report Share Posted June 16, 2015 Just looking for general opinions here. The new one looked interesting and then I started looking at some of the back special issues. I get the magazine every month and I usually find a few things of use in there monthly. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted June 16, 2015 Report Share Posted June 16, 2015 I look at it this way. If I walk away with just one tip that I didn't know about beforehand, then it was worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkipZ Posted June 16, 2015 Report Share Posted June 16, 2015 Some of the special issues are collections of reprints of articles from past issues pertaining to the same subject. Take a close look at the articles to see if you may already have most of them. If not they are usually good as they cover one topic in some detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghodges Posted June 16, 2015 Report Share Posted June 16, 2015 The biggest criticism of FSM (and the Journal for that matter) is that they usually don't have enough articles on "my own" interest/genre, or that they offer too many articles with the simplest and most basic of techniques that they already know. So, if you have interests in more than one area of modeling, or can at least be interested enough to read the articles on the stuff you don't build, your chances of picking up techniques and finding more of interest in each issue, or in the "specials" that may have older articles, greatly increases. I still subscribe to FSM (and have since their first issue), and buy a special if and when it grabs my interest, without worry as to whether I may have something in it already (buried somewhere in the pile of old mags). GIL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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