tures), scenery building techniques and layout features. We are also interested in articles on industries that are served by rail, as well as articles on prototype cars and locomotives that are aimed at the modeling audience.
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Projects that are good subjects for RMC articles include locomotive and rolling stock detailing articles, scratch- building and kitbashing articles of all kinds (cars, locomotives and struc-
But I’ve never written before We know that most of readers are not professional writers or photographers, but we’ve got years of experience helping readers become authors. Here are a few suggestions. Tell your story in your words and, following the modeling advice Bob Walker provides in his SCRATCHBUILDER’S CORNER this month, take it a step at a time. Thinking through what you want to say before you start writing can make it much easier. Preparing an outline listing the important points or steps can help you with this.
Writer/photographer guidelines While this is the electronic age, we still like to receive a printed manuscript, preferably double spaced done in 10 or 12 point type, along with the electronic file. Articles can be sent in on a CD, DVD or inexpensive flash drive. Our work is done on PCs and we use Word Perfect® Word®
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your project includes a parts list, charts or tables, prepare them as separate files and print those out, too. Please do not embed any photos in the text. Photo cap- tions should be done as a separate file, keyed to the photos and printed out, as well. Please be sure to include your name, mailing address, phone number and email address on all disks, printouts, photos, etc. that you send us. Good photos are a must. Magazines are a visual medium and our hobby is all about building things that we see, so fuzzy, out-of-focus, or poorly lit photos will not do. However, you don’t need to be an Ansel Adams or Richard Steinheimer to take publication-quality pictures. Again, we can work with you. Bill and I have explained the basics to plenty of first-time authors. Due to their small size, it sometimes takes a couple of tries to get good model photos. (It is much eas- ier taking photos of real trains.) Howev- er, if you are willing to work at it a bit, we can almost certainly teach you. Once you’ve got the basics down, it’s not hard to get good results. Since your camera’s lens is probably going to be one to three feet from the model subject for most shots, it is important to get the greatest depth-of-field available to keep as much of the scene as possible in focus. The key here is to use your camera len’s smallest aperture (f22 on most SLR and DSLR lenses) and, because the small aperture is going to require a slow shut- ter speed (often a second or two), you will need a steady tripod to mount your camera on. To get good results, you will probably need a few lights, as well. You don’t have to buy fancy photo lights.
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