Sorry, I have received mine as well. Perhaps yours went astray in the post?

I started taking the magazine again about 4 or 5 issues ago and in that time, two have not been received. All credit to Mortons, a phone call to their office, and each time I got an apology, was advised the date that the original had been dispatched and a replacement was received within a couple of days. I also find the current editor to be very good, any emails sent are responded to in good time, unlike one of the previous editors who populated a couple of pages of the magazine with little snippets "allegedly" sent in by readers stating how good the magazine was, but somehow he never received any adverse comments from disgruntled readers like myself. I sent him three, but sadly they never reached the pages of the magazine.

Hi there, if Model Boats deliveries are anything like my wife's Garden News in the post – you will probably receive 5 together. Last issue was 5 days late, my wife informs me this week's issue hasnt arrived at all. Well we can't beat Royal Mail these days – perhaps a stagecoach with a horse might be a better option.

My December issue is here – it came by a well fed horse and cart.

John

Edited By John W E on 02/12/2022 18:36:49

Well they are quick enough at touting for their subscription ''Your last issue will be April''

I agree that for a monthly magazine a weeks delay is OK.

Generally our post is OK apart from our weekly TV magazine which is on subscription and has a definite shelf life.

Normally they come the Tuesday before they begin on the Saturday. At the moment they can come anytime. One hasn't turned up at all and another arrived half way through its week and after the following issue!

As you say not the fault of the publisher but that doesn't solve the problem. I also think that postal strikes are a very convenient excuse for lots of problems.

Edited By Chris E on 11/12/2022 13:50:57

Hi David,

Yes I agree, I wouldn't want my neighbours or the post person to know I read Model Boats !!!!

Regards Ray

Hi Ashley,

I will be buying a few copies of the January issue soon, was that you dressed as Santa on the cover of the Christmas issue ??

Regards Ray

Hi Ashley,

Thanks I enjoy producing the articles, but since Covid this attracts a standard fee of £250. at pre Covid this article would have been worth £600, so it's my charity work to support the magazine and Mortons really, you know how much effort goes into producing the drafts, photo's and building the model

But I have recouped some money the Eventide is sold to Graham Ashby

Regards Ray

Edited By Ray Wood 2 on 12/12/2022 15:51:08

I have never looked on the article money as “income”, I look at it as being reimbursed for building a boat. Free boatbuilding…great.

i like the fame that goes with appearing in a world-wide distributed magazine! (And I don’t even have to take my clothes off)……

Ashley

It still makes me smile when I have a conversation with someone who thinks we make good money from writing for the magazine! I am currently doing a kit build review for the magazine, which initially sounds like I am getting a free model boat kit. When you then consider it has cost me a speed controller, a receiver, a servo, a motor, a coupling and a battery not to mention special glues to stick wood to vac formed plastic such as Stabilit Express at £28.00 per tube, by the time I get paid for the article I am not going to have a great deal left. And that does not take into account the hours that have gone into the build and the writing.

As Ashley and Ray said we must do it for the fame and glory or the love.

Hi Ray, completely agree! Yes this one is a motorised one. Just a quick and easy project thinks me, now I remember the fun of working with vac formed plastic!