Butch, I felt pretty much what you did. To be fair all most
manufacturers in all scales have stretched the truth in what schemes
their cars or engines could wear. SHS did a pretty good job of trying
to get things right.
Your are correct in that the presentations in both catalogs seemed to
lack the idea that I tried to put into prior SHS ads and catalogs. I
thought by making reasonable studio sets and using my own layout that we
could eventually crawl above the 'log loader' mentality.
Maybe we just have to wait a bit, see the final product and make our
decisions from there. Problem is I don't think I'll see any of either
manufacturers products anytime soon. I do hope that there's enough guys
who will buy that stuff on the hi-rail end as their presentation seems
to aimed in that direction. Oh well, I have enough stuff already.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
On 4/18/13 10:37 AM, up148 wrote:
Incredible timing that they both hit the market at the same time. I'm
sure that was a hectic race. I just took a very quick cursory look and
have some brief comments.
The disappointing aspect to me is both catalogs (as presented) are so
A/F Hi-Rail oriented. Heck, Lionel even calls it an A/F catalog and
believe me I felt like I just slipped back 50-60 years and was looking
at an old A.C Gilbert catalog. Nice toys but virtually nothing that
interests me.
MTH is a little better, but the paint scheme on the UP F-3 is wrong.
How can you paint an F3 loco wrong when there are so many examples in
other gauges plus SHS's example to work from. Don't know about the
other locos paint schemes but they all look more toylike than the SHS
locos they're replacing (at least to me). And the 40ft steel rebuilt
boxcars have gray colored brake wheels on otherwise prototype colored
cars. Pleaseeeeeeeeee.
Pretty much what I expected from these two but I was still hoping. I
saw Atlas dumb down the Red Caboose and P&D O scale GP9's and F3's so
why should Lionel and MTH be any different in "S". I think my current
stock of SHS locos and rolling stock just became a whole lot more
valuable......at least to me.
Butch Holtgrieve
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