Yes

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Well, it's the aviation section of MIS extended. Same quality of photography, same good choice of subjects, same reliance on European-school modelling (which I'm not saying is a bad thing), same occasional cock-up on the syntax front.

What's new is that the extra room allows space for interesting articles that aren't just "how I built this model". For instance, the first issue has a piece about whether to weather aircraft. Its tone is a bit questionable but it's a good idea and will spur a lot of careful thought.

My first impression is that there's a lower text-to-picture ratio than before, even though some of the pictures are postage-stamp sized. I personally think that, while a picture can paint a thousand words, the two are both needed in a modelling mag because without a bit of explanation you can't always see what's going on. But it's early days yet.

One other odd feature: a phenomenal number of red pages. I think Airfix have bought every available scrap of advertising space.