Product Review - Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling Review

 

Product Review

I just received Issue 124 - Volume 16 (October 2020) of NG&IRM Review. Yes, this periodical may well take the prize as the longest title in publishing history. That said, every quarter, I find this beautifully illustrated magazine a joy to receive in my mailbox. Each issue covers about two superb layouts - profusely illustrated with color photographs. In addition, one will find a few scratch building articles. Not atypical, this issue includes plans for a Porter locomotive. Also in this issue is a locomotive weathering article by John Clutterbuck.

Inspiring is the level of scratch building many authors display in these pages. In addition, there is often an article that details how a kit was assembled (this is not a product review per se). As do most model railroading publications, each issue is chock full of cool advertisements as well as product reviews. Interestingly, its page numbering does not start at page one but rather is numbered to be part of a numbered volume.

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Try this magazine for a year and see whether it speaks to you; you will not be sorry. A subscription is especially apropo as we find ourselves indoors more as we battle the Covid-19 pandemic.

Young officer Harry Truman, on the eve of WWI, was manning an sign up table in his native Missouri when a newly immigrated Brit came by his table to talk. Harry asked him how long he had been in the United States. The reply was: "about six months". Harry proceeded to compliment him saying - "For a fellow who has been here only six months, your English is pretty good." Don't be like our president, you will have no surprise with the language spoken in this publication.

Oh, and "modeling" is spelled with two "l"s in the United Kingdom, so I did not make a typo in titling this review.