Model Military International

terrific magazine for the militay modeler order direct or from amazon...stay away from Wise Owl publication in california...they will take your money and provide you with nothing but problems trying to get delivery of it

Model Military International (MMI) magazine is by far one of the best publications on the open market, when it comes to building military models. This magazine gives the reader a first hand, in depth look, at building your military model. The magazine offers various periods of history for the model builder to choose from. There are "builds" from WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Arab/Israeli Wars, "The Cold War" periods, as well as today's modern conflicts.

Each of the articles submitted, "shows and tells" how the model builder assembled his/her model. The builder explains some of the history involved with their model, sets the tone of the model(diorama setting), and then goes into detail about how and what steps were taken to build that model, using the "kits" supplied parts and/or some of today's "aftermarket" products.

After market products are items that were produced, after a model was released. Examples of this would be Resin parts,Photoetch metal, etc. all used to enhance the look of your model. The builder then explains (thru written text) to the reader, how they built the base(used to display the model), then a step by step how-to paint, and finally, a how to give that "weathered" look to your finished project.

I have purchased this magazine in my hobby shop, and now I own a subscription. This magazine is a must have for anyone who is interested in military model building.

Michael

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Sea Classics

I have subscribed to this magazine for almost 8 years. I found it by accident on a shelf in a bookstore. I wait by my mailbox about the same date each month waiting for the next issue.

It combines current events in the US and all other Navies, with articles of a naval nature. It goes into lengthy histories of individual ships, and classes of ships. It provides a complete guide of what is happening to all navies all over the globe. It goes into technical details as far as development of classes of ships, and technologies embarked on board. Many articles are written by the actual sailors who served on board those ships.

It also tell of development and abandonment of certain naval technologies throughout the years (ever wonder what happened to the Navy's old hydrofoils, they had a recent article). They go into details that only someone who worked, lived, ate, cried and laughed on board would ever know. It also goes into historical events and analysis of the significance of those events. They provide a balanced approach and avoid anything of a political nature.

It may be boring to those not ever deployed on a REAL SHIP or embarked on a REAL CRUISE (and not on those whimpy ocean liners). However, if you know of anyone ever in the Navy (not the air side-they have their own magazine called "Air Classics"), who went to sea or served on a ship, then a subscription to this magazine is a MUST.

I have kept every copy of mine over the years and find myself re-reading them over and over.

I have been a subscriber for 15 years. In the last five the quality has dramatically decreased and decreased to the point of ridiculousness. It has gotten so bad that I will not be renewing my subscription and I encourage everyone to find better sources for their naval and maritime stories. Below are the major reasons I will not be renewing my subscription.

1: One of their more prolific authors cannot refrain from inserting his personal biases and opinions into every article. This is especially noteworthy when he is penning the section "Intel File: Latest Naval & Maritime Happening Around the World." That is supposed to be news from the world, but it reads as an ill-informed editorial section. His opinions are presented as fact, and are often quite wrong. Furthermore, this same author has an addiction to the exclamation mark. Looking at the October 2011 edition his "Intel File" entry contains two exclamation marks, this for a section supposed to be factual and unbiased. An exclamation mark, never mind two, is an entirely inappropriate usage of punctuation.

2: There seems to be no real editing done of articles. The staff credits note that the editor is also the publisher, which is a direct conflict of interest (the editor should be focused on getting things right, the publisher is concerned about getting them done). It's clear which of those interests is winning. Every month I am spotting at least three grammatical, or even spelling, errors. I am a Historian by training so while I have a fair amount of experience with grammar and proofreading, I am by no means a professional in the field. I imagine there are many more errors which a trained eye would spot.

3: I understand they must sell add space. They are a print media and like most print media I'm sure that membership subscriptions do not cover the costs. Nevertheless, I read the magazine for enjoyment. What I do not read it for are political commentaries. For perhaps the last two years they have been publishing full page ads for an organization called FLAME, a vehemently and unabashedly pro-Israel lobbying group. Regardless of my own opinions on the Arab-Israeli conflict, it's not something I want to be subjected to a lecture about while reading a magazine for enjoyment.

4: They do not fact check. Let me repeat that. They do not vet their articles. The October 2011 issue published an article that was overwhelmingly plagiarized from Wikipedia in all but the last three paragraphs. I will present excerpts from the article to demonstrate. In each excerpt I will provide the article first and then the wiki entry. The entry is entitled "The Deadly Sting of the Wasp!" and the wikipedia entry comes from the USS Wasp (CV-7).

Article: This experiment-the first time a US Army plane had flown from a US Navy carrier-foreshadowed the use of this ship in the ferrying role that she performed so well during WWII.

Wiki: That experiment, the first time that Army planes had flown from a Navy carrier, foreshadowed the use of the ship in the ferry role that she performed so well in World War II.

Article: Wasp and her escorts passed through the Straits of Gibraltar under the cover of darkness, avoiding the possibility of being detected by Spanish or Axis agents.

Wiki: Wasp and her consorts passed through the Straits of Gibraltar under cover of the pre-dawn darkness on 19 April, avoiding the possibility of being discovered by Spanish or Axis agents.

Article: Early in May in the Pacific, the Battle of the Coral Sea had been fought, then the Battle of Midway a month later.

Wiki: Early in May, almost simultaneously with Wasp's second Malta run -Operation Bowery -the Battle of the Coral Sea had been fought, then the Battle of Midway a month later.

Article: This group transited the Panama Canal on 10 June and at that time,* it became Task Force 18 and carried the two-star flag of R/Adm. Leigh Noeys in Wasp.

Wiki: The group transited the Panama Canal on 10 June, at which time Wasp and her consorts became TF 18, the carrier flying the two-star flag of Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes.

* Grammatical error, no comma was needed. Or, if one wanted a comma, one should have been present after the preceding and. Again, no fact checking or editing appears to have been present.

I could provide dozens of more excerpts, literally going sentence by sentence through the article, but I believe my point has been made. A simple google search for any one sentence would have turned up the wiki entry, as that is exactly what I did to confirm my suspicions. And while this is the most glaring example to date, I have seen dozens of factual errors and incorrect presumptions in previous articles going back several years.

Avoid this magazine. It once was good. It is not anymore.

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Like most specialty magazines, this has rather variable editorial quality. I have to restrain myself from editing as I read.

I expect many of the authors are semi-pro, at best, but that's just fine with me. I'd rather learn from an expert/veteran than hope for the best from a polished journalist who hasn't been there.

Good stories, mostly, and always leaving me wanting more. I think that works out ....

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I ordered this magazine after my husband saw a copy at a friends home. It has brought back memorys that only those that serve can understand. It is interesting to find out where the ships ended up and why. Keep this wonderful magazine alive for the many men and women who find solace in it.

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Got this for my Dad, who was in the Merchant Marines at the end of WWII and was in the Coast Guard after that. In general he's hard to please, but he's told me several times how much he loves this magazine. He even keeps reminding me to renew his subscription!

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Take Aim Airsoft Magazine - North America

it's only published bi-monthly but has great articles and reviews from all over the nation. very few advertisements, actually wish it had more. looking forward to my next issue!

Airsoft is becoming one of the fastest growing game/sport all across the USA. Living here in the United States there isnt alot of options for Airsoft magazines and if you want a printed one then its even more limited. AI magazine from the UK is the only other magazine that ive been able to find. The price is a little over $100 for a year subscription. I have gotten two magazines from Take Aim by the time that ive written this and I have to say that it lives up to the hype. The magazine is printed on high quality paper with eye poping photos. The articals are of high value. I would compair this to the UKs AI magazine any day. If your looking for a good quality magazine about airsoft then I would highly recomend this to you.

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Its awesome, really worth the price. I love the tech tips for the different aeg's, and the reviews are great too.

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Ordered this magazine as a gift for my son for Christmas 6 months later we still haven't received a single issue...save your $$$

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Rider (1-year auto-renewal)

This magazine is for people that like to combine motorcycles with travel. It's for guys/gals that ride bikes to enjoy new places, find new twisties, and just plain put mileage on their machines. Flip through the pages and you don't see Super Sport/Nitro or V-Twin Ultra-Customs with zero miles on the odometer. Writers don't really care whether a bike does a 11 second quarter mile (don't get me wrong, more HP is better than less!). What you do get are stories about weekend and week-long rides in places like the Grand Canyon, the Pyrenee Mountains, or the Dakotas. Bike reviews are mostly on machines like the BMW K1200 GT (a sport tourer) or Yamaha Silverado (cruiser with bags/windshield). Columnists concentrate on riding skills, what to pack for the road, and gadgets that can make riding more fun. It's practical and entertaining info. It's my personal favorite magazine.

Largely geared towards the rider attracted to the larger bikes capable of logging lots of miles. Seems to feature a smattering of sport bikes, sport-tourers as well as touring rigs, the larger touring cruisers and liter sized open-bikes. The commentary is often based on longer rides, as well as long-term tests, and they occasionally dig up stuff on the classic bikes of the 50-70s, for those senior riders who want a trip down memory lane. They do not always have the most technical of write-ups, but feature good useful information for the enthusiast who wants to keep abreast of what's happening... Not a squid or scene mag.

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The thing I like about "Rider" is that it's more real world related that other magazines like "Motorcyclist" and "Cycle World." It focuses more on the ride rather than plugging the latest and greatest cutting edge motorcycles. It's very well rounded. If I could only subscribe to one Motorcycle magazine this would probably be the one I'd choose.

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For the type of riding the majority of people do, Rider magazine can't be beat. From Sport touring to scooters, the coverage is excellent. In-depth equipment reviews, ride reports, maintenance how-to's, and motorcycle reviews round out it's offerings.

Highly recommended for the beginner and the experienced.

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I ride a cruiser and used to subscribe to Motrocycle Cruiser nad Cruising Rider. After they stopped publication of cruising rider, they sent me issues of rider and I enjoyed it. Covers all types of bikes including cruisers and have some very good travel reports.

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MSDN Magazine

People building serious MS apps, the kind where you have to figure out just what "volatile" really means, must subscribe. This is the map to the world they live in. There are lots of ads, covering just about every add-in, add-on, API, component, and service you can imagine, plus some. Do you need to know the difference between clusters, multiprocessor board, multicore, hardware multithreading, and application multithreading? You need this. UI, I18N, .NET, COM compatibility sooner or later, it's all here.

However, not all of us work as MS app developers. If you live outside that world, you'll find just about nothing of interest.

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Great magazine. Covers the full range of .NET technologies. Every issue is packed with windows, web, and xml development articles plus industry news and a lot more. High recomended.

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I have subscribed to MSDN Magazine for years now, and it really is quite good. Unlike most Microsoft publications, it is not "sales-pitchy" in that the articles are usually applicable to resolving common development issues, and there is very little subliminal verbiage geared toward buying other MS products that you don't need.

One thing to note is that they are very big on emerging technologies. This has its pros and cons...for example, they had tons of Visual Studio 2005 articles well before it was released, so it's nice to know how to use what's coming down the pike. And now (Sept 2007), there are a lot of Orcas (VS 2008) articles.

However, there is usually a large gap between when a platform is released and when you actually use it...so those articles most likely won't be useful to you until you actually have a reason to use it (i.e. when you employer adopts it). I often find that the most useful articles were written a year or two before I need it.

Another great thing about MSDN is that the entire magazine is available on their site for free, so you don't have to fork over the money if you don't want to. I just subscribe to give my eyes a break from the monitor once in a while.

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You can read this online, but I like to have a physical thing to read. Also, I like to be able to give a little back to keep the content comming. This keeps me on top of some new stuff and give's me some ideas that I might not have considered in the past Like code contracts. I'll keep renewing until it doesn't make sense anymore.

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MSDN magazine is pretty good. There are a wide variety of topics they cover (Windows phone, Azure, etc). Of course they are very biased in favor of Microsoft products, but I think that they're pretty honest about them, considering.

Hi-Fi +

I am an Audiophile and appreciate good print material. Hi Fi+ gives me a different perspective on equipment as viewed from across the Great Pond. This was an extension/renewal to my existing Amazon purchase.

I love HIFI Plus magazine for its well written reviews and ethically honest journalism practices compared to the older British trash publications like What hifi.

However, because HiFi Plus is imported from the UK it is prohibitively way too expensive to subscribe to in paper format. I wish the publisher would offer a Kindle version for North American subscribers. As an audiophile I do have to say it is one of the best magazines published in the world today. I have listened to equipment at local HIFI salons that was reviewed in the publication and found many of the reviewers claims to be spot on sound wise, which can often be very subjective depending on the perception of the person hearing a particular audio component and what it's hooked up to. A couple of years ago HiFi Plus reviewed an Sim Audio Moon integrated Amplifier,(that was given hi marks in many well known U.S. audiophile publications), and the writer thought it had a rather disappointing sterile sound quality.

Being an old fan of Sim Audio I heard that same amp before reading that review and came to the same conclusion.

I was shocked and angry when a so-called American journalist gave an A rating to the same amp in their prestigious publication. I suspect he had been bought off. Whenever you read the phrase, "it sounded so good that I bought the review sample," be very skeptical of the writer. For the writer either gets the component for free or at manufacture cost. I know this for a fact because I have known Audiophile journalists who have told me that's how they get compensated for writing positive reviews of products that may or may not be as great as they are touted to be.

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Games World of Puzzles

This bi-monthly GAMES Magazine spin-off offers sixty-plus pages of 'crosswords, word searches, picture puzzles, cryptograms, trivia, logic, double-crostics, cryptics and other pencil puzzles' reminiscent of GAMES' signature Pencilwise section. Most puzzles are rated on the standard one-to-three star scale of difficulty. The center of each issue contains a ten-page 'special section' of related puzzles. Each issue also features a contest with a $500 grand prize (and famed GAMES T-shirts for lucky random runner-ups). These puzzles are better crafted than those of the cheaper Dell or Penny Press competing publications and at $3.25 an issue this still offers good value. I enjoy the crosswords and double-crostics best.

Over my year-long subscription I accumulated a backlog of unread issues and eventually decided to cancel my 'World Of Puzzles' subscription. I'm saving the unused issues for future use. Single issues are highly recommended for airport bookstores and long airplane or train travel.

Amazon's annual rate is currently about $3.50 less than that directly offered by the publishers (each issue is loaded with subscription cards). However, be advised that subscribing through Amazon takes a LONG time to start (Amazon currently estimates 3-4 months between payment and first issue).

This magazine is on the pricey side, but it is packed full of really clever puzzles -of all kinds. There are the staples: crosswords, paint by numbers, cryptoquotes, battleships -but also all kinds of original, unique puzzles as well. You get what you pay for with this magazine. It keeps me entertained for many days (and nights). I save the old ones and go back to find a little nugget of a puzzle that I hadn't finished when I first looked at it. Great magazine -so glad it is on the market.

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I have tried the basic crossword and logic puzzle magazines out there, the kind you get at the airport and so on (usually by Penny Press), and the Games Magazine publications, World of Puzzles in particular, are by far the best. The simple physical quality of them is better, the puzzles more interesting and just overall a better buy. I admit I have never finished all the puzzles in it, but it's also great because I can keep them a while and still find puzzles to do! If you do a lot of puzzles, get a subscription. If you're more limited on time and never finish as many of them as you like, you can generally find this at places like Borders and buy every other edition.

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For those who love puzzles, Games and World of Games magazines are the ultimate in fun and variety. The crosswords are unique and include different varieties of wordplay. The sudoku has challenging designs, the picture logic I have not seen anywhere else, and the cryptic crosswords are amazing. There is a bit of everything for every kind of puzzle fan, but my personal favorite is Mixed Doubles which is a crossword play on homonyms. I have subscribed to this magazine for years and enjoy each fresh new edition.

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I really enjoy the magazine. However, it did take a bit longer to get the first issue than I anticipated.

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Vogue (1-year)

As Vogue documents the hottest looks from the world's best designers, the entire fashion industry holds its breath in anticipationthen scrambles to interpret what Vogue dictates: the magazine is that influential. If you're looking for good, practical advice on cosmetics or picking the right style swimsuit for your body type, you're better off with Glamour or Marie Claire. What you'll find in Vogue is not really "practical" but rather high falutin', haute couture kind of stuff. Compared to other popular women's magazines, what distinguishes Vogue from the rest is how it successfully situates the fashion/beauty business as a vital, viable and artistic component of culture and society. So you're not just getting fashion layouts to look at, but also great articles on writers, architects, actors, art exhibits, and so on. Most everything pictured in Vogue is of course, out of the average person's price range, and the overall magazine's tone makes no apologies for this snobbery. But I still think it's a beautiful magazine to look at for its artistic vision, and for well-written articles on culture.

Oh, I love Vogue and its flashy, flaunting of fashion, its articles lauding vacuous socialites, "it-girl" actresses and the occasional over-40 writer/power moguls, and pages of outerspace-priced clothing on willowy martian-looking mannekins (who we all know now on a first name basis). Really, I love it! Okay, well, it is a bit in love with itself and its authority on fashion, but really ladies, fashion won't save the world, no matter how many charity balls you cover. It's hard to get as worked up over a (last season) pair of ostrich shoes or clutch purse, and enter a mosh pit at some Barney's outlet sale at your "insider's" behest. It really could whip some impressionable young people into a froth of rampant materialism! Makes one wonder if those bound-in perfume samples are starting to smell like "advertorial!"

Vogue does have its merits, including great photography, the occasional thought-provoking article by a guest writer, and bits on designers lurking on the fringes of affordability. Still, it's a fun bit of eye-candy and fantasy/vicarious luxury living each month. Yes, I do have a subscription, but I read it with a boulder of salt lodged firmly in my cheek.

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This month's issue of Vogue (July 2008, with Nicole Kidman on the cover) clarified for me the significant drop in quality at American Vogue over the years. The magazine has reduced in size, now smaller than US letter paper. The spine measures less than 1/4 inch. The printing and paper quality are low. The content of the July issue, in particular was watery. Vogue used to contain expansive descriptions of trends and details, but if the last few issues are an indicator, they must have fired a lot of writers. What exists now is not much more than product placement ads. The photo pages are few in number as well. I know that there is much more to fashion now that what was in Vogue lately. What's going on? Maybe there needs to be a change in editorial leadership. In the meanwhile, sadly I probably won't renew.

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Vogue is full of ads. I pick this magazine up and I don't start getting to the articles until I am a fourth through the thing. I find the articles quite boring and not informative at all. One good thing about Vogue is the photos are pretty artistic and you get an idea of how fashion is art, but that is about all I get out of it. So, if you like advertisments this mag is for you.

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So I usually get magazines through the mail (old-fashioned way) and overall I had gotten great results. I believed that if I got a magazine subscription through internet it would be easier and faster. Was I wrong! First of all it took almost 2 months to get the first magazine, and when I did I got a 2 month old magazine, and up to now I have yet to receive the august issue which came out to stores almost three weeks ago. I definitely DO NOT recommend getting magazine subscriptions through anywhere else besides the ancient, yet effective way of mail.

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Marie Claire - French Edition

This is my favorite magazine. I was going to oder it from France but it was too expensive. This first issue arrived on the due date and for an excellent price.

It took quite awhile for me to get my first copy of the magazine (like longer than they claimed).. also I'm pretty sure that I missed a couple issues (probably got lost along the way).. but I love the magazine and I'm still happy that I ordered it! I will probably renew my subscription!

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