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I subcribe to and read MR mag. I read with an open mind and find a lot of good info in every issue and every article regardless of the writer's choice of scale. Whether an article is on Z scale or O scale I take the info and apply it to my layout. I have read layout articles from an N scaler's perspective and always find something I can apply to my HO layout. Same goes with O,S and Z sale articles. I read all articles, over looking the bias of the writer's scale of choice. If a person doesn't read and learn from an article because the information was directed at a specific scale then they are missing a lot of good info. About the only articles I find that are truly scale specific are product reviews. Even at that I sometimes find a building that I like but is not offered in HO so kitbashing comes to mind. Take a similar building and add the detail that you liked about the other scale product. There is an article in the March 2004 issue "Easy House Kitbash" by Vic Roseman. Although the article uses a specific Atlas kit (# 711) and the exploded view diagram's show HO scale measurements, the basis of the article, four ways to make a sturcture unique, can be applied to ANY structure in ANY scale. Using photo's and drawings of what he built as examples, I think Vic Roseman was showing us that with a little thought and kitbashing, the same kit can look like different unique structures. IMO this is not a scale specific article. His theory can be applied to a freight building or any structure. BTW for those that don't know "Kate's Colonial Home" kit comes in N scale, kit # 2844. There are a lot of "how to", "try this" and "look what I did" articles in MR mag that apply to ALL scales. If you read a modeling publication, even scale specific, you get from that publication whatever you want by keeping an open mind while reading the articles. I have found through the years that everyone has a bucket on their shoulders. Some have their bucket right side up and others have theirs up side down. Every month someone complains about the information presented in MR mag. IMHO if you don't like what is printed, and this goes for ANY publication, then simply don't buy it!!
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