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Things I leave out when modeling N scale
“I leave it out if it’s Too dang small.” I agree. Here in Australia there is a person casting Kangaroos and emus which are a good size, but he also makes N scale koalas. These look like a dot in the trees, but a magnifying glass shows some details too! Way too small for me.
One of the great advantages of N scale for a non-rivet-counter such as myself: if you can’t see the rivets how will you ever count them?
I recently had the privilege of visiting Jim Kelly’s layout – it is filled with beautiful details so he doesn’t leave them all out that for sure! But oversized detail which might look ok in real life is a dead give-away in a photo, and fences are a prime example of that. Jim’s layout photographs very well.