Discussion on the Future Direction of Model Engineer and Workshop

[Charles Lamont]

On Charles Lamont Said:

I agree about the overabundance, irrelevance, and excessive size of many of the photos.

The Mill Engine piece is a glaring example. Five half- or nearly-half-page photos, and five of a more sensible size for less that ten column inches of text. The half page drawing, generally good, but some details small.

The subject matter of Tony Bird’s piece on his depthing tool is fine by me, but do 5 strips of metal and some spacers really warrant 7 pages (a total of about 2 of which are text) and 25 photos?

We are getting used to a new layout, it means we are less familiar with how much space to allow for articles. It just isn’t practical to lay out each article in turn, amend its length, then move on to the next one, which would be the ideal. Instead, we’ve refined how we calculate article length, and hopefully the next issue will have less variation in image size.

As for the depthing tool, as it was described without drawings, I felt it needed plenty of photos so people could follow the steps of construction properly.

Neil

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