Nice picture of Shawn V's layout on the cover
Full color full page ad of Aristo trying to unload PCC cars (I hope they recoup some of their losses by re-using the trucks for the long promised S1 switcher)
Full page ad from Train-Li facing the table of contents... wow, that must have cost a lot... the new Zimo handheld looks pretty trick
RLD's ad right in the front too... go Robby!
Nice mining complex kit from gtrainbuildings.com although higher res pictures and more detail on the kit itself would be nice for $270
Class 66 locos from trainworld for $400... beats the $600 from texas!
MTH is still selling PA's direct (screw the dealers?)
Nice article by Kevin on "How to Videotape your railway"... the only error I found is that no mention of real video tape was made (ha ha, maybe talk about making a digital video?)
Nice article on Canadian layouts and plants, nice pictures always gets interest
Good weathering article with various methods
Shawn's layout article interesting on how it came to be, and very photogenic
St. Aubins ad looked sparse, not packed full like the other guys... wonder how they are doing? Their prices seem higher, $580 for an Aristo Consolidation from St. Aubins, the once price leader?
Good how to article on making figures from sculpey...
Really big indoor layout, wow, I guess you can do a lot in a 1,400 q foot basement!
I was disappointed though:
Kevin failed to give the wheel gage of the Aristo Consolidation in his review, which is way out of specification, causing many people to have running problems. There's a lot of detail in the review, picking up many small points, but leaving off the glaring wheel gage problems is disappointing
Again, in the Piko 37430 review, the back to back is way out, and no mention of the wheel gage. One would surmise that unless the flanges are also way out of spec that the wheel gage must also be out.
The magazine finishes off with a final Aristo ad, where one of the bullet points for the dash 9 is "extra weight for better performance"
Well, Aristo went from three 2 pound lead weights (6 pounds of weight) to one 2 pound weight with 2 more "free" ($5 each) to 2 more for $10-$30, to changing to zinc weights at HALF the weight of lead, and you only get one free, to the dash 9 on the back cover, where you get an VEN LIGHTER stack of steel plates...
So the magazine went from good to poor as I went though, but overall I think it was a very good issue, with obvious effort by the GR staff to have more how-to articles, and great photographs.
Greg
Full color full page ad of Aristo trying to unload PCC cars (I hope they recoup some of their losses by re-using the trucks for the long promised S1 switcher)
Full page ad from Train-Li facing the table of contents... wow, that must have cost a lot... the new Zimo handheld looks pretty trick
RLD's ad right in the front too... go Robby!
Nice mining complex kit from gtrainbuildings.com although higher res pictures and more detail on the kit itself would be nice for $270
Class 66 locos from trainworld for $400... beats the $600 from texas!
MTH is still selling PA's direct (screw the dealers?)
Nice article by Kevin on "How to Videotape your railway"... the only error I found is that no mention of real video tape was made (ha ha, maybe talk about making a digital video?)
Nice article on Canadian layouts and plants, nice pictures always gets interest
Good weathering article with various methods
Shawn's layout article interesting on how it came to be, and very photogenic
St. Aubins ad looked sparse, not packed full like the other guys... wonder how they are doing? Their prices seem higher, $580 for an Aristo Consolidation from St. Aubins, the once price leader?
Good how to article on making figures from sculpey...
Really big indoor layout, wow, I guess you can do a lot in a 1,400 q foot basement!
I was disappointed though:
Kevin failed to give the wheel gage of the Aristo Consolidation in his review, which is way out of specification, causing many people to have running problems. There's a lot of detail in the review, picking up many small points, but leaving off the glaring wheel gage problems is disappointing
Again, in the Piko 37430 review, the back to back is way out, and no mention of the wheel gage. One would surmise that unless the flanges are also way out of spec that the wheel gage must also be out.
The magazine finishes off with a final Aristo ad, where one of the bullet points for the dash 9 is "extra weight for better performance"
Well, Aristo went from three 2 pound lead weights (6 pounds of weight) to one 2 pound weight with 2 more "free" ($5 each) to 2 more for $10-$30, to changing to zinc weights at HALF the weight of lead, and you only get one free, to the dash 9 on the back cover, where you get an VEN LIGHTER stack of steel plates...
So the magazine went from good to poor as I went though, but overall I think it was a very good issue, with obvious effort by the GR staff to have more how-to articles, and great photographs.
Greg