UPDATE
(rev 1 October 2008)

Thanks to our investors, the recovery is accelerating here at AMM.

AMM #9 went to the printer on 19 September, and it looks like our best issue yet! Big feature articles include:

• Frank Cuden’s 1/48 scale Silver Star (including Geoff Hays’ summary of T-33 block variations and the first installment of T-33 profiles by Jack Morris)
• Richard Staszak’s 1/72 scale XB-47D conversion (including scale working drawings by Lloyd Jones)
• Chris Savaglio’s “how to” article on creating realistic varnished wood finishes with oils on a 1/24 scale Hansa Brandenburg HD.1 “Starstrutter”
• Carl Knable’s Special Hobby 1/72 scale USAF and USN F-86H Sabre Hogs

We hope to start mailing and shipping to subscribers, retailers, and distributors on or about 6 October, once we’ve confirmed their mailing addresses.

• AMM Subscribers: Please check that your mailing address is correct! We want to avoid any misdirected mail. You should be receiving an e-mail to that effect from us shortly.
• Hobby Stores and Bulk Distributors: Please check that your mailing and shipping addresses and your Standing Order Quantities are correct! We’ll contact you about that shortly.

If you’ve forgotten your AMM profile password, use the “forgot password” utility to get a new one.

The entire AMM website (the one you’re looking at now) is fully re-opened, including the “Contact AMM” and “My AMM Profile” sections and all of the shopping cart functions, including back issue sales, advertising sales, and bulk ordering. You can also obtain AMM back issues from Squadron Mail Order. The home page should be “prettied back up” by the end of next week.

Jerry and Shari Voigt (Hawkeye’s Hobbies / SnJ / Talon Acrylics) have recently created Zero to Sixty Marketing LLC, a new company offering marketing and business support services to small businesses (including small, hobby-related businesses). They’re playing several key roles in helping us re-configure our operations and get back on schedule, including customer support (managing your subscriptions and back issue orders), graphic arts services (getting AMM 10 ready for press and creating ads), and helping us to promote and manage Aerospace AMM advertising sales and new subscriptions. Please bear with us while Jeff and I get them trained. Things will be running smoothly here again in short order.

Jerry, Shari, and I will be attending the i-Hobby Expo in Chicago from 16-19 October, and we hope to see many of you there.

Production of AMM 10 has already started, and we hope to send it to the printer in December. That will fully recover us to our quarterly production cycle.

Thank you again for your patience, encouragement, and support.

Billy Crisler       

Our commitment is simple:

• AMM gives scale air and space model builders more value – more useful information per page and per issue for the same or less money -- than any other modeling magazine you can buy.
• The best authors and builders in the world will give you extensive in-progress photo coverage to show you HOW it was done as well as WHAT was done.
• You get the same high production values (large photos, heavy paper cover, glossy pages) seen in the best European model magazines.

We back that commitment up: If you’re not completely satisfied, we’ll refund the balance of your subscription, including the last issue mailed to you.