Butch, et al, If you haven¹t seen some of the recent Flyonel stuff up close and personal you don¹t know what you¹re missing. Most of the new stuff is anything but toy-like.
Roy Inman From: up148 <[email protected]> Reply-To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:37:54 +0000 To: S-Scale <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} New Catalogs 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
