Model Engineer/Model Engineer's Workshop

[ettingtonliam]

Since the editorship of ME and MEW split recently, I've noticed that both magazines are starting to cover the same ground, ME has articles on workshop equipment, and there is a suggestion that MEW will run model construction articles. I thought the whole point of MEW was that it did the workshop equipment stuff, leaving ME to do the models? I've bought MEW pretty much from the start, more regularly than ME in fact, although recently I'm becoming less interested in it, due mainly to the increased frequency of CNC articles and others with complex (well, complex to me) electronics. No criticism of MEW for this coverage, I know there is a lot of interest in these topics, its just not for me. I've tried reading the articles, but can raise no enthusiam for CNC myself. If ME is going to run workshop topics again, I may well just buy ME on its own, but is there room in the marketplace for 3 magazines covering models and workshop equipmet, that is ME, MEW and EIM?

Richard

[uuu]

I never understood the point of MEW. Why buy a cookery magazine with no recipies, just articles on knife sharpening and how to automate your barbeque. I want to see the food - or in our case, the models.

[ettingtonliam]

Jun 18, 2013 12:18:07 GMT uuu said:

I never understood the point of MEW. Why buy a cookery magazine with no recipies, just articles on knife sharpening and how to automate your barbeque. I want to see the food - or in our case, the models.

Most cooks don't like to build their own cookers as far as I know.
Richard

[joegib]

I've been an MEW subscriber since its introduction around 1990 and I've followed the ME site forum since it was set up.

David Clark has explained from time to time what the publishing policy is as between the 2 magazines: —

1. Authors submitting work are free to nominate which magazine their article(s) appear in (within limits). In practice, most 'modelmaking' writers nominate ME. Conversely, 'toolmaking' writers tend to nominate MEW — but not exclusively. Some of the latter may express a preference for publication in ME — because maybe that's the magazine they subscribe to or perhaps because it's the 'senior' magazine and they like the idea that their contribution adds to the historic legacy.

2. On the other hand 'modelmaking' articles would not be accepted for MEW because they're outside the magazine's brief. Broadly, this could be described as toolmaking and related production techniques with special reference to the needs of model engineers. This was made clear at the magazine's outset.

3. David Clark's explained several times that the publishers have conducted reader surveys for MEW over the years and these have consistently shown that there is no significant desire for the inclusion of modelmaking among the readership.

So, the appearance of toolmaking articles in ME is almost certainly down to author preference, not a change in publishing policy. As regards inclusion of modelmaking in MEW, I'm not aware of any slippage on this point on the part of the publishers. It's true that occasionally you'll get a plea on the ME site or in the MEW letters pages 'Why can't you include model construction in MEW?' These almost invariably come from new subscribers who, having bought an orange, want it to be turned into an apple just to suit their tastes! They generally get a dusty answer!

Joe