Like Buckaroo Banzai said, “Wherever you go, there you are”.
Clearly I wasn’t getting the joke… my bad. All is cool. Take care.
No problemo. Not your bad, my humor is, shall we say… complicated? Okay, “complicated”… [:p]
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Complicated you say? Nuclear Engineering is complicated, Space travel is complicated, getting the almond INSIDE the Hershey’s kiss is complicated. Your sense of humor is out there like Pluto ! [;)]
Thanks, Wayne.
Nice to know that my friends stand behind me, even if it’s WAY behind me! [;)][:p]
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Take a walk down to your local hobby shop and do a quick survey. Count the models available in the various categories. You’ll find that the largest two categores are airplanes and autos which are about evenly matched. Next, you’ll find military vehicles and related stuff, followed by a dozen ships and finally you’ll see the odd sci-fi kit.
I think you’ll find FSM reflects this mix pretty closely except for autos and thats because their companion magazine, Scale Auto Enthusiast, takes up the slack in this category.
As to WWII swamping most other subjects. Since entering the airplane and tank era about a hundred years ago, the vast majority of airplanes and tanks designed came from this block of history. How many new airplanes or AFV’s have entered service since 1945? How about 1965? How about since 1985? My point is that the variety of subject matter for both airplanes and tanks peaks between 1939 and 1945.
This business of WWII popularity has been going on as long as I can remember, and it may be a baby boom phenominon. I can remember model magazines from the late 50’s and early 60’s with the same WWII slant. This would be an interesting study for some marketing bubba. I submit that the plastic model hobby is itself directly linked to the baby boomers and will be for at least another 15 years until we boomers get too shaky to build and start to die off in large quantities. Do an age survey at your next club meeting. Scary!