According to Chris...
Patrick and Jennifer in miniature, perfectly balanced on my ‘HO’ layout.
As Patrick Swayze tells Jennifer Grey as he teaches her the celebrated ‘lift’ in the movie Dirty Dancing, “It’s all about balance”. In magazines and model railway manufacturing there’s a lot of emphasis on balance, too. I was reminded of th is recently when a reader of another magazine on which I work complained that he had counted the picture content of the current issue and it was unbalanced and had too much Southern content. I must confess, I’m never that forensic in my assessment!
From time to time, Model Rail receives similar grumbles, usually that there’s not enough ‘N’ gauge coverage or that we have only produced an exclusive locomotive model in ‘OO’ gauge. Oddly, although the amount of ‘O’ gauge interest in relation to ‘OO’ is much the same as ‘N’ gauge, I cannot recall similar complaints from ‘O’ gauge modellers. The fact is, compared to ‘OO’, all the other railway modelling scales and gauges are minorities. That doesn’t mean that they should not receive our attention – and they do, it just means that the emphasis will be on the majority, and that’s ‘OO’.