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As a regular magazine column, Small Scale Scene has appeared within Military Modelling Magazine here in the UK since January 1986. My writing really started however in early 1985, when I began with "Armoured Column" in the then Airfix Magazine, whose editor at that time was Ray Rimmell, who had himself come from Scale Models, the sister magazine to Mil Mod. Then so on from there as they say. In 2001 I have started having some other articles published on the "real thing", with features in Journal of Military Ordnance, and one of these has even been repeated in "Defence Journal", a Pakistani publication (in English). I hope to see these continue with a bit of luck! Writing is a not my full time occupation, though it has become more and more a part of my job, in devising training notes and operating instructions on such diverse topics as Health and Safety Training, newsletters and computer user training for the head office of a large UK supermarket. I write regularly within our company house magazine, though most people there would know me for features on my other great love, military aircraft. Having passed the age where "life begins at..." I have been modelling since the early sixties, when I would shop at the local Woolworths, and a series 1 Airfix kit was about 1s 6d (7.5p in current terms). I'd then catch the bus home and rush to make it. After all these years I don't think I have lost any of that enthusiasm for a new model, and I hope that shows through within Small Scale Scene. I am not a perfectionist and have never been a so-called "rivet counter". So long as a model is close enough, without any glaring errors, and is not a pig to put together, then that is good enough for me. For those of you who like me remember the old times (notice I didn't use the word good), there was much much less reference material available than there is now. Indeed I still am amazed at just how much information is now readily available compared with years ago. I suspect my attitudes stem from that period, when if it looked something close to the subject then that was good enough. I still consider myself a customer, an enthusiast like all who read model magazines. I try to bring the information that you want, based on it being the sort of thing that I want to know myself. I like to try and do the same about aircraft, and bring out details that I hope will attract the interest of both enthusiast and casual reader as well. I am still not certain if it hits the target, but it seems to from what feedback I do get. For any magazine editor/publisher who may be reading this and who would like some work done for them, especially any on military aircraft or AFV subjects, then please feel free to contact me via my E-mail link. Robin Buckland 8th January 1999


		News and Reviews Check this out for news and reviews of new items that may appear in Small Scale Scene as well as some that will not. Here you'll find all sorts, covering AFVs (mainly), plus figures and maybe even a few ships and aircraft.
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