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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Aircraft in Detail - Military Boeing 707's - Andy Sheppard chronicles the development and service use of the military Boeing 707 and its sub-types followed by six pages of full colour artwork by David Howley 4
Tackling a TACAM0 - Andy Sheppard modifies the Airfix 1:72 scale AWACS into an E-6
SEAC Storms - Neil Robinson tropicalises a pair of 1:48 scale Hasegawa
Hurricanes using three Airwaves Accessory Sets
Air Lines Plans - F-86D, L and K 1:72 scale line drawings by Mark Rolfe
Favourites Revisited - Peter Scott offers some colour schemes for the F-86D, I and K in readiness for the forthcoming Monogram Pro Modeller kit 31
Newfoundland Sub Hunter - Tom Broomhead improves the Airfix Hudson and finishes it in US Navy markings
Market Place - The regular kit, accessory, book and decal news & reviews received by SAM, PLUS the 1991 British Toy Fair announcements
Tailpiece - More musings from the maestro of modelling meanderings, Mike McEvoy
Front cover. Main photo: A US Air Force E-3 Sentry is prepared for a November 1997 Exercise Amalgam Warrior mission at Cold Lake, Canada. The Sentry was deployed for the exercise from the 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (USAF) Inset: 1:48 Hasegawa Hurricane Mk 11 fitted with Airwaves 44 gallon drop tanks.
Article Snippets
SAM comes of age - but what of the future?:
This volume of 'SAM' will see the title enter its twenty-first year of publication.
An awful lot of changes have occurred in our modelling world since that first issue way back in October 1978.
When 'SAM' was first launched it had virtually no equivalent or competition. It is a very different story today with so many good quality modelling magazines available from all over the globe.
Maintaining any magazine's viability by continually developing its style and fine tuning its design and content to attract new readers without disenfranchising its existing core readership is never an easy course to follow, but it has to be attempted if the magazine is to remain an integral part of the current modelling scene.
The Editorial Team here at 'SAM' have looked long and hard at our publication, (and it must be admitted, 'the competition' both here in the UK and the rest of the world -well we are modellers as well!), and we feel we must make some changes and adjustments - some minor, some a little more major - to reflect the expectations and requirements of today's enthusiast modeller.
You may have already noticed the slightly re-designed titling on the front cover and the greater variety of styles and article presentation we're starting to use - all of which will be monitored and developed over the next few months.
This is where you - the reader - comes in. We need your feedback.
We need to know what you like and don't like; what you'd like to see (within reason I) that we don't already do; what you think our role should be within the international modelling community; and suggestions for forthcoming 'Aircraft in Detail' and general modelling subjects.
In short, your views will matter and could make a difference in the future direction the magazine might take.
Over to you. Looking forward to hearing from you
This volume of 'SAM' will see the title enter its twenty-first year of publication.
An awful lot of changes have occurred in our modelling world since that first issue way back in October 1978.
When 'SAM' was first launched it had virtually no equivalent or competition. It is a very different story today with so many good quality modelling magazines available from all over the globe.
Maintaining any magazine's viability by continually developing its style and fine tuning its design and content to attract new readers without disenfranchising its existing core readership is never an easy course to follow, but it has to be attempted if the magazine is to remain an integral part of the current modelling scene.
The Editorial Team here at 'SAM' have looked long and hard at our publication, (and it must be admitted, 'the competition' both here in the UK and the rest of the world -well we are modellers as well!), and we feel we must make some changes and adjustments - some minor, some a little more major - to reflect the expectations and requirements of today's enthusiast modeller.
You may have already noticed the slightly re-designed titling on the front cover and the greater variety of styles and article presentation we're starting to use - all of which will be monitored and developed over the next few months.
This is where you - the reader - comes in. We need your feedback.
We need to know what you like and don't like; what you'd like to see (within reason I) that we don't already do; what you think our role should be within the international modelling community; and suggestions for forthcoming 'Aircraft in Detail' and general modelling subjects.
In short, your views will matter and could make a difference in the future direction the magazine might take.
Over to you. Looking forward to hearing from you
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