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[tedp]

Fancy a career in politics, Tom?   ;D ;D ;D

[MickT]

As he's a civil servant he's already half way qualified.

Mick

[invercloy]

As Mick has said, it comes with the job ;) Not sure that's a good thing, but rather a product of repeatdely defending why you don't have any money to do xyz...

Anyway, back to the News.

[Hobby]

Keep Branchlines where it is and at two pages max, Tom, people can cut their articles down if needbe. I always felt that it was starting to take over the old mag... This one as a consequence seems much better balanced with much more stuff relevant to encouraging people to model...

Oh and I've written the article and will stick it on a CD and bring it along to the convention on the Sunday!

[B.Meldon]

It is a thumb

[JulienW]

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My only slight concern is with the new cover page, which has the cover photo using most of the page, This is great if you have a suitable photo, but when I was part of the editorial team we rapidly discovered that Portrait format photos with the loco in the right place to avoid being hidden behind the title banner of the mag were much more difficult to source or crop to fit than the much more common landscape format photos.

Similarly we'll continue to assess how well this works, if we find ourselves without an image that suits that format we'll do something different!

Thanks again everyone, keep the comments coming.

I must admit that it might be nice to consider some of the artwork that we used before we were able to easily and cheaply put a photo on the cover, but then I might be biased as Dad did quite a few of the pen and ink drawings that were used!

[Hobby]

Thinking about what i said about Branchlines has given me an idea... You mentioned that you were looking at articles on "members", how about a series on the Local Groups. One thing that always annoyed me about BLs is that among the "howmanyturnedupwhatweateandwhereitwas" there were some gems about what people were modelling but we don't get to find out any more...

So an article on a Group could include their Member's interests, any Members Days they put on, where to find them, how often and where their meetings are, etc., etc. A plug for the group but with a bit more depth about what they model, with photos, so as to encourage other people to come along?

[Elmgate]

Thumbs up from me too!

[Hobby]

I'll speak to Julien... If he's not already seen it!!

[Malcolm]

Rather busy at the moment but felt I needed to take the time out to say job well done.  Like the clarity and Branchlines at the back.  I agree with Mick a list of committee members names would be helpful.
Malcolm

[invercloy]

Thanks for keeping the toughts on the new format coming.

Like Steve has said, I like the idea of an article on area groups. If anyone is interested in this please email contents@009society.com to discuss.

[JulienW]

Thinking about what i said about Branchlines has given me an idea... You mentioned that you were looking at articles on "members", how about a series on the Local Groups. One thing that always annoyed me about BLs is that among the "howmanyturnedupwhatweateandwhereitwas" there were some gems about what people were modelling but we don't get to find out any more...

So an article on a Group could include their Member's interests, any Members Days they put on, where to find them, how often and where their meetings are, etc., etc. A plug for the group but with a bit more depth about what they model, with photos, so as to encourage other people to come along?

Yes, this is definitely something we'd like to do. Would the West Mids group like to lead the charge? We can work with you to figure out a good format for it.

I'll speak to Julien... If he's not already seen it!!

I have now...and thanks for dropping me in it mate! :o Not to worry ;D

Steve, Tom, perhaps we can have a chat at Kegworth (Blair too if you are going to be there).

[invercloy]

Julien, Blair, happy to have a chat about an article next weekend - let's catch up in the bar to discuss at some point :)

[Hobby]

Julien, I'll write something and you can add/amend it, I didn't mean you to do the lot! I'm only at the Convention on Sunday as I'm working the rest of the weekend so have your drinks and let me know what you want and I'll get on with it!!

[Graeme Dunbar]

I have just got around to reading the latest issue this morning in bed. It arrived earlier, but it's been pretty much a case of coming home, eating and straight to bed!

I do like the new layout. It is tidy and not too much of a break with tradition. It is the little things like sans serif font, good line spacing and appropriately wide columns that add such a lot (dyslexia apparently didn't exist when I was growing up, you were just a slow learner).

I like the range of articles (but of course the editors don't have ultimate control over this).

My only "complaint" is that it was too short! (Of course this was because I pretty much read it from cover to cover in one go.)