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'AirMighty Megascene', the new European Aircooled VW Lifestyle Magazine
We bring you the "bigger picture" on the aircooled VW scene

Who?
In January 2010 Niels Timmerman and Kobus Cantraine will launch a new aircooled VW magazine. A European publication called ‘AirMighty Megascene’ and it will be printed quarterly.
The lead language is English but the stories will be translated into German and French. Three major languages inside one publication, it will be an all European magazine!

What...
AirMighty Megascene will be an exclusive high end magazine, a quarterly print on thick high quality paper with a glossy finish. It will be a magazine that you want to collect and we hope to be an addition to the VW scene in general. We in no way want to be a competitor to the already existing media, we want it to be an extra, something that people will want to get on top of their usual monthly favourite aircooled magazines.

AirMighty Megascene magazines will feature News, Tech-Tips, Columns written by celebrities of the VW scene, Show Reports and Car Features. We are mainly focusing on European subjects but we will also bring you stories from the USA, Japan and Australia!

The Team
We have associated ourselves with reputable companies, famous photographers, writers and editors. With these connections we will be able to bring you the latest developments and news from all over the world. We are a European publication using global input.

The AirMighty writing team consists of Niels Timmerman (NL) and Kobus Cantraine (B) flanked by Georg Otto (D) and Yves Maertens (B). Georg and Yves will take care of the German and French texts. All of them have been into the aircooled VW scene for many years and will now share their experiences and knowledge with you inside the ‘AirMighty Megascene’!

“What you are about to discover, thanks to magazines like AirMighty, is that there is a massive community of guys and girls just like you who are searching for fun and information about the mighty Volkswagen.”
Dean Kirsten, Hot VWs Magazine

“Niels and Kobus have come up with an idea to give you a magazine which is available more than one language - hopefully your language - and I am sure this will appeal to you.”
Ivan McCutcheon, VolksWorld Magazine

How to get it!
Subscriptions will be available in ouw web shop. You will be able to find the magazine at some of the major aftermarket aircooled parts suppliers around the world plus of course thru their distributors and your local VW shop in Europe.

Niels Timmerman

(http://airmighty.com/megascene/images/News/news_issue_00-2010_02.jpg)

http://www.airmighty.com/index/index.html

VERY COOL, CAN'T WAIT TO PICK ONE UP...

I think it's a quality idea, Kinda like the rodders journal but for dubs :D

Cool idea Niels, good luck with it but I guess the market is already kinda 'flooded' with magazines..

@ jesus, Rodder Journal is a real high quality magazine! Think it will be hard to get a new magazine up to that standard.

it will be high standard  ;)

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Gunter

I think it´s awesome that someone is taking the plunge and going for a real hi-quality vw mag. This would never be viable in a big scale so I´m glad it will be published only quarterly.
I will buy it for sure!  :)

I'll buy it too, Niels is really good guy and been following his site a long time.

I don't agree there are volksworld and ultra both are difficult to get.
Then you have a few german magazines that don't cut it for me anymore because of all the watercooled stuff.


I am curious to see what Niels and Kobus come up with but I am sure it will be good.

Michael


 

That's great,good luck boys (Niels,Kobus,Georg,......and co)
 ;)

Can't Wait !

 ;D

I've seen the preview, looks  8)

I have a subscription to rodders journal so know exactly what it's like,

It's an exclusive high end quarterly magasine (isn't that enough similarities?)

Why not strive to be the best it can be by already saying you don't expect it be to be up to the standards of rodders journal you seem to be accepting mediocrity?

Having seen Niels great eye for detail in his photography i think this is shaping up to be an UBER cool VW publication, I for one will be getting a copy!

I think it´s going to be a good one!
The mixture of cars will be great when Niels and Kobus take care of it (Callook, Resto, Drag...)
When you take a look at Niels website you can see in the gallery that he really takes part on the major events in europe.
So I think that he has a good survey of what´s hot or not.

I´m lookin´forward for the first issue and for sure...I will have a look at it!

Good luck for them!

If it's in a Rodders Journal style, it will really stand out. RJ's photography is really high end studio stuff. Publishing a mag is a labor of love, it's an expensive venture and the market is small. I wish them alot of luck. I wonder if they will be selling subscriptions or if they will only be selling through distributors.

-jeffrey

Looks very cool. It takes a lot of hard work to get a magazine off the ground, well done to all involved.

While VolksWorld and Ultra are both great magazines, with different styles, AirMighty should bring a fresh, more European focused perspective to the shelf. I hope, and suspect, we'll get to see more from the shows on mainland Europe, including the smaller meetings?

I hope everyone supports you guys, you deserve it.

It's a tough time to be launching a magazine, but if anyone will see it through, it's Kobus. Good luck guys! :)

Looks nice, good luck with the magazine! See it at KWF

Fred, from the preview, it's looking like some ugly stuff might have crept in there...Time will tell. Let us pray.

Interesting that this magazine will be printed sheet fed and not web off-set (single sheet instead of rolls of paper). 

Maybe the run quantity is not high enough.

-jeffrey

I wasn't going to say that, but you get the idea. You can get awesome quality control with sheet fed. Web off-set is super high speed, as they chase the color and registration on the fly... if at all.

Making a cal-look only magazine would be kind of foolish, don't you think?  ::)

Ive been asking / wanting a VW rodders journal type magazine for years, so hopefully these guys will pull it off and succeed.

All the best, you have my full support regardless of what cars are in it (as long as they are aircooled VW's)

Cant wait.  ;D

The difference in opinion on what makes a "finished" car differs greatly. Some people have told me that a car isn´t finished unless it has nice shiny paint.
Every man to his own...  :)

Mark, what would you rather have? A ratty looking car with the right attitude, or a very clean car like, say, Darrell Baker's car in its latest guise???
I know which one I'd like to see in a mag.

As for grammar and punctuation, I agree with you. I think the first issue is far from perfect from that point of view, but I'm 100% sure it will get much better with time. (FYI, Im the one who did the french translation).
 

I can forgive a little grammar and punctuation issues specially because it's gonna be in three languages. As for the content, I think it should be open to all styles, as long as they are well crafted and executed. It could be a purple metal-flake Beetle with flared fenders, nurf bars, zoom tube and those black bubble tinted rear quarter windows ['70's style], or a bone stock '74 411, as long as they are done well, with alot of detailing, then it's all cool in my book. I hear what Mark is saying about the whole "rat-rod" scene. Guys who slap together a ground scraping death trap because it looks "cool". Although I'm not a big fan of the rust bucket look, a car that has a "historical finish" [I hate the word "patina"], that has some nice engineering, detailing, and a significant amount of effort put into it can garner my appreciation. It's all in the overall theme and craftsmanship. That's what is important to me. What I don't want to see are daily drivers. I see those all the time, I want to see top show cars, I want to see things that haven't been done before, or a level of detail and craftsmanship to aspire to. I want to see dream cars.

I like the Rodders Journal model. It's a class act. Impeccable feature cars, great historical articles. If AirMighty can do that, then it'll separate itself from the rest.

And I don't mind paying for it. I sent them an e-mail about a subscription to the states, I hope I hear back form them.

-jeffrey

just for your information

CSP will be a distributor of the magazine

I will have stocks on Monday 11th ...

it can be sent with orders or grouped with dealers ... so many outbacks of Europe can be reached without paying fortunes of transport ...

email to gh@csp-shop.de ...


Gunter.

Got my magazine today just and all I can say;   :o  just GREAT.
(layout,pics,3 languages,.....)

what with volksworld dropping their cal-look issue due to lack of sales this will be of interest.

I think ill be ordering this and a hot vws and giving the uk mag market a brake, seems to be to much focus on Campers ova here   :-\