I agree, and well remember the Proto 2000 ads with the nice car or locomotive surounded by Lifelike's cheap grass paper and lichen trees.
The opposite is Bachmann with Ken Patterson's photos which make even a scene with mediocre G scale fgures look good by excellent composition, natural lighting and weathering. If anyone is wondering if the MTH illustrations are real samples or photoshop, check the boxcar page. Note that a spring is missing on the right hand truck - of every car! Either a batch of bad trucks, or... Pieter E. Roos --- On Fri, 4/19/13, David <[email protected]> wrote: <SNIP> > SHS was something of a rare bird in that it was basically a > prototype-oriented scale company with tinplate > compatibility. MTH and Lionel are more the opposite, and > that thinking is reflected in their offerings. Even the > catalogs are a middling to poor representation of what the > actual product is like. Reminds me of the old Proto 2000 > ads- the pictures looked almost Lionel-grade and the actual > models were 1000x better. > > David Thompson > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
