News Flash from the 30Squares Shameless Self-Promotion Department: The Experimental Farm layout appears in the January 2025 issue of Continental Modeller magazine! Six scintillating pages illustrated with 18 glorious, never seen before colour photographs! Just in time for Christmas: makes an excellent stocking stuffer for mom, dad, hubby, wifey, the kids, and that hard to buy for uncle! On sale now wherever fine model railway magazines are sold! Don't delay, get yours today!
Oh, no, I've worn out the ! key!
But seriously, I'm very happy that the editor at Continental Modeller published the story. Back in the 1970s when I was model railway obsessed I would often make the long hike from our house to the W H Smith in Scarborough Town Centre to peruse, and sometimes buy, English model railway magazines. That's how on one such mission I became familiar with Vivien Thompson's work in an issue of Model Railway Constructor.
To the best of my knowledge W H Smith hasn't had any stores in Canada, well, at least here in Ontario, for a very long time. But, my English cousin who lives in Solihull tells me there's one near his house and they stock Continental Modeller. It's quite satisfying to me that my first full length article has been published in an English model railway magazine and is for sale at Smith's. It's one of those 'circle of life' things :-)
Congratulations! I'll definitely be getting a copy. Would be nice to find a paper copy somewhere...but odds of that are slim without going down to the bay area. Full circle indeed! (Oh, btw, can you email me at the gmail account? My juno account has gone down...maybe for good. Thanks.)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I think paper copies can be ordered online.
DeleteHmmm. I don't seem to have a gmail address for you. If you could send me a comment with your email address in it, I'll make note of it, but not publish the post.
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