Here is my perspective on the MTH catalog. Being a scale modeler I have a lot
to say about this. First lets take a look at the F3's. Could they have gone
with a few more obscure paint schemes. Seaboard and Central of New jersey!
Seriously! I understand the whole east coast thing, but come on! Second I'm
going to have to look into this a bit more, but the Santa Fe scheme looks all
wrong. I didn't think the warbonet went that far back onto the carbody. Also
where the hell is the undecorated offering for these! Who offers dummy units
now a days? I find this very weird. For the most part they look ok as models,
but I was really expecting a lot more from them.
I like the 2 bay PS-2 cars. Nice to see basically 8 car numbers available.
However, these don't look to be that much "improved" over what SHS did. I'm
not even sure if they are painted. Looks like just grey plastic to me. I will
be purchasing some Milwaukee Road and DT&I cars from these, but I hope they
have more coming in the future.
The ore cars, oh my god! First of all, anyone who is into ore hauling
railroads at all should know this and be disgusted. These are "Minnesota"
cars! Not "Michigan" cars! The Milwaukee Road, CNW, and SOO didn't have ANY
of this style car. Not sure about the CP and CN, but this to me is a lack of
research and the whole "screw it, they'll buy anything, they're all idiots"
mentality when it comes to a manufacturing perspective.
As for both boxcar offerings, they look to be toys. To me I don't see the
appeal of these cars at all. Now I don't model that era, so maybe that's it,
but to me these look to be nothing but glorified, out of proportion models.
I'm sure that I might be wrong, but they just don't look right to me. Too
squatty or something.
I think that I will be limiting my MTH purchases, after seeing all of this. I
know I won't be purchasing any trucks from them that's for sure. I'll stick
with my Smoky Mountain Model Works ones! I really am disappointed that the
SW1200 didn't come out with these. Now there's a model I could use a couple of!
Just my two cents
Michael Ostertag
Green Bay, WI
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