SIXTHSCALE Magazine Wants You!!!!

[Sixthscalemagazine]

SIXTHSCALE Magazine Wants You!!!! (Issue Two Teaser Image Added)

SIXTHSCALE Magazine is currently seeking content submissions for our second and third issues.

If you always wanted to see your work Published in print form, now is your opportunity.

You can view our Submission guidelines at:

https://sixthscale.spruz.net/main.asp?page=dp&dis=924345



All submissions should be emailed to: [email protected]

If we publish your article or photo spread, You will receive a free copy of the Issue containing your work.

All genre's of figures, vehicles, and dioramas are welcome...

We are also seeking customizing tutorials of all kinds for a special project...

Deadline for submissions is AUGUST 15

 

[jinroh75]

at $25 a magazine, do we get paid for our work? or are you giving people a free magazine for the labor again?

 

[EVILFACE]

Good luck. I just don;t see the need for a magazine like this with internet sites like Sideshow Freaks, One Sixth Warriors and Mediworld, especially 25 bucks.

 

[Sixthscalemagazine]

at $25 a magazine, do we get paid for our work? or are you giving people a free magazine for the labor again?

Ken,

i'll give this a straight answer even though i'm pretty sure you are just parroting something you saw posted on the Triad forum by someone with a serious personality disorder, who hates me because i declined to go out of my way to purchase a toy he wanted and mail it to him 7 years ago... and seems to be obsessed with me. since by your own admission you are a "chung-wannabe" I assume you are just trolling but since you asked i'll pretend it's a legit question and attempt to answer it.


The print costs for the book (high quality paper stock, Perfect-binding, color ink, etc) necessitate the price. My wholesale cost for the book is pretty close to the retail price.

Most magazines other than the really big widely distributed ones pay only in contributers copies...

Most literary compilations where amateurs contribute work for publication actually make contributers Buy their own copy , often as a condition of printing their work.

In fact so far, in receiving a free copy of the book , every one of my content contributers have made a larger profit than I have since I'm still a few copies short of selling enough to cover the expenses I put into the first issue...

And as it says in the submission guidelines, (which, plainly answered the question you asked) if you don't think a free 25 dollar book is worth allowing your work to be printed, by all means please don't send us anything.

Most customizer's I've conversed with have been hoping for an english language publication like this to come along for years...

up until now the only option was the, even higher priced, Japanese language Mooks...

so, Ken, you can choose to submit work (do you even do custom work? i've never seen you post any) or not... either way the guidelines are pretty clear about what "payment" is involved.

 

[Sixthscalemagazine]

Good luck. I just don;t see the need for a magazine like this with internet sites like Sideshow Freaks, One Sixth Warriors and Mediworld, especially 25 bucks.

thanks, i think you have a valid point...

but most of those i have talked to or who have responded to threads about it, prefer a paper publication by an overwhelming margin...

when i initially proposed doing the magazine as a lower cost cd-rom,

I practically got flooded with emails from people who prefer hard copies.

some of the confusion seems to come from people's preconceptions about the term "magazine"

in japan something can be both a magazine and a book and it's pretty well accepted... but in the west we seem to think the terms are mutually exclusive...

while the content is layed out like a magazine, this is really physically a book...

the binding and look is somewhat similar to the old marvel large sized graphic novel format (not the comic sized trade paperbacks) except on higher quality paper stock.

frankly, some people just want to be able to read about the hobby while in the bathroom....

for others like yourself, digital suffices and that's perfectly fine...

 

[devlinboy]

thanks, i think you have a valid point...

but most of those i have talked to or who have responded to threads about it, prefer a paper publication by an overwhelming margin...

when i initially proposed doing the magazine as a lower cost cd-rom,

I practically got flooded with emails from people who prefer hard copies.

some of the confusion seems to come from people's preconceptions about the term "magazine"

in japan something can be both a magazine and a book and it's pretty well accepted... but in the west we seem to think the terms are mutually exclusive...

while the content is layed out like a magazine, this is really physically a book...

the binding and look is somewhat similar to the old marvel large sized graphic novel format (not the comic sized trade paperbacks) except on higher quality paper stock.

frankly, some people just want to be able to read about the hobby while in the bathroom....

for others like yourself, digital suffices and that's perfectly fine...

BINGO. That would be my category.

 

[devlinboy]

and who is that orange dude with the blue light on your website?

 

[EVILFACE]

God bless the LAPTOP!!!!!

 

[devlinboy]

God bless the LAPTOP!!!!!

But answer this: If for some reason you run out of Tp can you wipe your ass with your laptop? lol

 

[Sixthscalemagazine]

But answer this: If for some reason you run out of Tp can you wipe your ass with your laptop? lol

you can try but some of the keys may get stuck up there

 

[DarkArtist81]

Cool bro... I might send you something. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Mooncat]

Wouldnt it make sense to ask for $5.00 and run it from a secure server with account login ??

Rather that than the antiquated medium of knocking down trees ?

How are people submitting their articles ? .doc ? email ?

Rather than printing them in a book ? why not digitise em ?

Surely that would make more eco and financial sense ?

 

[Sixthscalemagazine]

Wouldnt it make sense to ask for $5.00 and run it from a secure server with account login ??

Rather that than the antiquated medium of knocking down trees ?

How are people submitting their articles ? .doc ? email ?

Rather than printing them in a book ? why not digitise em ?

Surely that would make more eco and financial sense ?

well we also offer it as an eco friendly pdf download for those who don't like paper... it also has the advantage of being lower priced.

But some of us prefer books to be paper rather than pixels...

remember, all the electricity your computer uses has an ecological impact as well... probably quite a bit more than the paper used to print a book...

trees are a renewable resource.

Articles are submitted via email... typically attached jpegs and text files, although some have chosen to send their files on CD..

frankly though i don't digitize them on a website because i have absolutely no interest in doing so... People have been requesting an english language paper publication like this on the various 1:6 forums and newsgroups as far back as i can remember... and the requests got particularly loud when the Japanese language Specfigures Books were published...

if you don't have an interest in something like this by all means don't purchase it... i'm not even trying to advertise the Book in this thread...

i'm merely trying to offer those who might be interested, the opportunity to be involved and to have their work published if they so choose...

no one is being required to submit content... no one is being forced to buy a book...

 

[Darren Carnall]

i'm actually with sixthscale on this.... there are plenty of websites where you can read about or follow this hobby, but very few (any?) printed publications.

When doing customs I do all of my research and reading online usually, but there's something more 'real' about looking at images and reading in a book. Also, images usually look clearer somehow when in clear print. (go to any clothing websites, and then get the catalogues from the same companies... you can see details much better in print)

I'd submit something myself if I had the time, but these next few months are more manic than usual for me... maybe after the wedding, lol

 

[Les Walker]

I'll send some stuff. Thanks for the invite. Already joined your site. Hope to forum sometime.

 

[Sixthscalemagazine]

and who is that orange dude with the blue light on your website?

In reality he's more red than orange but That is Sireatonflipflop's Mars Camo soldier... featured In SIXTHSCALE Vol. 1.

 

[devlinboy]

In reality he's more red than orange but That is Sireatonflipflop's Mars Camo soldier... featured In SIXTHSCALE Vol. 1.

Whatever the color is, it looks great. I may buy an issue on the strength of that custom alone!!

also, are there any intructional articles or just showcase articles in the book?

 

[Sixthscalemagazine]

Whatever the color is, it looks great. I may buy an issue on the strength of that custom alone!!

also, are there any intructional articles or just showcase articles in the book?

There are three large articles about individual custom figures with Photo spreads and extensive "how i made it style descriptive text...

a massive 15 page diorama making article

an article on tips for trading without being ripped off

2 tool/materials reviews

2 Photostories

and a bunch of other smaller articles and pictorials...

some sample page shots can be seen here:

https://sixthscale.spruz.net

 

[devlinboy]

Thanks for the reply. That is such a cool figure. The book looks great. I wish you the best of luck. anytime this hobby can grow im all for it.

 

[Sixthscalemagazine]

Thanks for the reply. That is such a cool figure. The book looks great. I wish you the best of luck. anytime this hobby can grow im all for it.

thanks

i think in a lot of ways this sort of thing might help to "legitimize" the hobby in the eyes of some people who may not have otherwise been willing to give it the benefit of the doubt...