| Grelber | 19 Jul 2019 11:24 a.m. PST |
National Geographic (a US non-profit magazine) is famous for producing high quality photographs of people all over the world, and its articles on historical and archaeological subjects frequently include drawings of people from past eras incorporating the latest research. I've used back issues as a painting guide for my Touaregs, Vikings, and Greeks. They are also a potential source of information for scratch building scenery. 1. Yes, I subscribe to the magazine, save them, and use them as source material.
2. I subscribe, but get rid of most of them after I've read them.
3. I buy them from the newsstand from time to time if they have articles that are interesting or applicable.
4. I never bother with the magazine.
5. Never heard of it/not available where I live. Grelber |
| 14Bore | 19 Jul 2019 11:39 a.m. PST |
Had them since I was a kid but stopped a few years ago.
Do have a Viking cover on my paint table to use as idea on a dwarf but haven't do it yet. |
 Flashman14  | 19 Jul 2019 11:48 a.m. PST |
Are they on the newsstand? They might be so ubiquitous I never noticed. I'm somewhere on 3, but without ever having done so. |
| DisasterWargamer | 19 Jul 2019 12:00 p.m. PST |
3 – helpful from time to time |
| bsrlee | 19 Jul 2019 12:04 p.m. PST |
I have the DVD & BluRay collections which cover from issue 1 until around 2015, as well as a few print issues from when I subscribed and some from the 1930's. |
 etotheipi  | 19 Jul 2019 12:07 p.m. PST |
1. Besides painting guide for figs, also maps and history. I also have a CD set of the NG archives. Smithsonian, too. |
| skedaddle | 19 Jul 2019 12:36 p.m. PST |
2. Most issues are interesting reading but not really source material for me. The ones that are, though, I do keep. |
| ZULUPAUL | 19 Jul 2019 3:22 p.m. PST |
4 had some in the past but not recently. Threw them away. |
| robert piepenbrink | 19 Jul 2019 4:19 p.m. PST |
6. I pick them up in thrift shops when I need to see what some portion of the world looks (or looked) like. |
 StoneMtnMinis | 20 Jul 2019 6:37 a.m. PST |
4. Since they jumped the shark on global warming I would have to question any of their "research" or "science". However, the pre-1970's issues are good. |
| 14Bore | 20 Jul 2019 3:07 p.m. PST |
They do sell new issues in stores |
 Old Contemptible | 21 Jul 2019 4:20 p.m. PST |
I never buy them, my Dentist provides them for free. |
| JimSelzer | 26 Jul 2019 11:52 a.m. PST |
only in the bathroom as a preteen |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 25 Dec 2020 4:21 p.m. PST |
I have used pictures from National Geographic in role-playing games (1) to help the set the scene and (2) as portraits of characters. |
