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Scale Aviation Modeller International

Description: Published by SAM Pulications. / SAM International is a magazine dedicated to scale plastic aircraft modelling.

Newest Review: ... cover price and took it home for a proper read. Finding a suitable hobby magazine is a trickier proposition than you may ... more

... think. Modeller's are a strange bunch and don't work particularly hard to dispel the lingering stereotype of forty-somethings pottering about in the garden shed trying to recapture lost youth. This is not the kind of hobby you tell people about at parties - it seems to carry the same sort of social cachet as trainspotting, bird watching and collecting beer mats. Many of us have very specific interests (mine is World War II single seat propeller driven combat aircraft), so finding a periodical that caters to a wide au...more

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Scale Aviation Modeller International: SAMI: Super Models Revealed for the Jet Set (958 words)
by - written on 15/08/09 (Very useful, 154 readings)
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~~~~~~~~~~ INTRODUCTION ~~~~~~~~~~ About five years ago, foolishly thinking that the birth of my first child would leave me at a loose end during paternity leave, I jumped head first back into my childhood hobby of building model aeroplanes. Head first is the only appropriate description, as in the space of a few short weeks, I accumulated more plastic kits than I could ever build. My wife thinks I am mad at the best of times, but my enthusiastic imitation of an over-excited magpie had her questioning my sanity a bit more than usual. Of course along with the kits, paints, glue and other periphery, I needed some decent reference material. I ... Read the complete review