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dangerous – why staying in the armchair is much safer
Let’s take the first column title about pushing your shelf width to
zero and see how useful such a column could be.
An important concept supporting the choice of narrow benchwork
is that narrowing the benchwork to get more aisle space actually
makes the layout more enjoyable. It’s easier to get around and you
can get more modelers into the layout room – all big pluses. Also,
the narrower you make the benchwork, the less scenery you need
to build, saving valuable money and time.
The obvious solution to the layout space problem is to push the
aisle width to all of the available roomwidth and to shrink the shelf
width to zero, thereby reducing the layout cost to virtually nothing
and allow getting the maximum number of modelers into the given
layout space. The armchair modeler who never builds a layout is
crazy like a fox when you realize these benefits!
Armchair modelers need to know their approach to the hobby
makes a lot of sense, and that we can and should promote the
great wisdom of only contemplating the hobby and never doing it.
So it’s settled. No longer will MRH overlook the armchair modeler.
Our newmonthly column, “Sitting there” will show armchair mod-
elers (and active modelers who need to break their bad habit of
over-achievement) how to get more out of never spending money
on the hobby and promote the benefits of ever longer armchair
contemplation time.
In case you're wondering when this new column will debut, see
spread 3 of the Staff Notes.
Publisher’s editorial - 3
MRH-Apr 2013
