SMALL STUFF

David Ashby finds some modern parallels in a pile of old magazines and flies a recent acquisition words & photos David Ashby

I love leafing through old model flying magazines, which is just as well because the club donations I was talking about last time also included a very big pile dating to the late 1980s and 90s. Along with plenty of good (still relevant) reading, I’d forgotten how old mags also offer the inestimable pleasure of seeing friends and well known hobbyists from the good ol’ days when they had hair. Some were barely recognisable. From the same period do you remember The Small Models Association? Back then models were getting bigger and the SMA was a little bit of reactionary fun. It wasn’t a real association, rather a tongue-in-cheek device, the creation in Peter Miller and Dereck Woodward’s scribblings in RCMW magazine and referenced in Radio Modeller and RCM&E too.…

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RCM&E (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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