The Magazine Collector community supports builders of static and flying models
Welcome to The Magazine Collector!
Being a model aviation enthusiast is almost synonymous with magazine collecting. What model builder – whether of static-display or flying aircraft – doesn’t rely on hobby-related information published in specialty magazines?
Just as the earliest generation of pre-WWII modelers thrived on the plans and latest modeling products in the pages of Model Airplane News, and thrilled to the aerial adventures printed in Air Trails, the popularity of modeling experienced another “Golden Age” after the war. This second renaissance of modeling brought forth publications such as American Aircraft Modeler, Model Airplane News experienced a resurgence, and there were also Flying Models, R/C Modeler, Model Builder, and Scale R/C Modeler. This rebirth of modeling was so strong that American Aircraft Modeler hit a circulation of over 250,000 copies in the mid-1970s!
Today copies of these, and other hobby magazines like Scale Modeler, are (or are becoming) true collectables. It would seem that there’s an untapped market for these periodicals. Supply is perhaps driven by the inevitable hoarding decades ago of these titles in modelers’ attics and garages. Casual observations point to buying/selling/trading mostly happening among modelers at the local club level. For a collector, that’s somewhat limiting, of course.
A Global Online Modeling Marketplace
On the demand side of the collectables equation, The Magazine Collector is providing a global online marketplace (the Buy/Sell page) on which collectors can post their want lists. Such postings enable magazine dealers to respond by providing collectors with hard-to-find copies that are essential to successfully growing a collection. Even if you are not a collector, per se, you might be looking for a specific copy of a magazine, perhaps one that published a set of plans you want. Connecting buyers/sellers, and collectors with other collectors of model aviation periodicals and collectable modeling paraphernalia…that’s what our online community is all about!
Read an observer’s review of our site at http://www.scribd.com/doc/50314204/The-Magazine-Collector-An-Alternative-to-Recycling
Our founder is a trophy-winning modeler, as well as a retired aviation author, publisher, and editor.
Members and Non-Members Welcome
Membership is FREE, and by joining you get to:
· Buy and sell magazines and aviation paraphernalia on the Buy/Sell page
o Includes a free e-mail blast promoting your offering
· Engage other members on the discussion Forum page
· Post your own guest blogs
· Contribute to the Resources page
· Submit photos and images to the Gallery page
Click here to sign up as a Member.
You don’t necessarily have to become a member of The Magazine Collector community to get access to and use of this website. Non-members can:
· Access all web pages, except members-only Forum and Buy/Sell
· Pose questions on the Q&A page
· Get advance e-mail notification of the latest happenings at The Magazine Collector
Click here to sign up as a Non-Member.
