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We are putting on theatre, so looks is more important than reality. People is my pet peeve in N scale. Even if they are to scale, they just look to small for my taste, so I am seriously planning on using TT people where I can get away with it. Another example is ballast, in N scale your ballast would almost be a powder if done to scale, which wouldn't "look" right. We can never make mountains to scale, but people believe our creations are mountains anyways. Or scale train lengths for us contemporary runners is usually out of the question for us - 150 cars through the Fraser Canyon in BC is normal. Or forced perspective, with an HO house in front, a couple of inches behind an N house, definitely not reality. We as a people read so much, watch TV and movies, look at plays and participate in pageants; we are prepared to hang our reality hats at the door. I'm a firm believer in the "wow factor"; if you knock the visitor's socks off with great scenery, weathering and structures, they will forgive you your scale transgressions.
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