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So I am into my first real foray into scratch building in N and I'm all excited. I choose the "Build a Giant Steel Grain Elevator" by Jon Greggs in the February 2000 issue of MR. First before I whine and moan, let me say I have thoroughly enjoyed building what I have accomplished so far. But in building the structure not every moment has been Utopian. First may I suggest some standards so that when an author puts forward an article, certain basics can be covered before it hits the mag. Rules to live by: 1) There should be a picture of the completed structure showing "everything" that is visible. For example, in the article of Feb 2000 I am working on the one person elevator and I am having a hard time visualizing it in my brain - but no pic. 2) The article should tell you how to build everything. For example, back to the one person elevator - how is it attached to the track, and what did he use for track? I'm building in N so I had toyed with Z scale track. But how is the elevator hocked up to the track. And is there a cable that runs down to lift the elevator, what is its source of locomotion (in theory, not reality). 3) The article should be accurate. Jon Greggs shows how he made a curved "ladder" and safety cage. But from the diagram, the "ladder" (or the hopped safety cage) is over the one person elevator area, which is not the ladder. Or so the picture seems to imply. Again, I'm having a good time with this structure, but it seems to me the directions could have been more revealing and the pics could have shown more.
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