Archive for April, 2010

MTH 2010 Vol. 2 Catalog

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

I just finished looking over the new 2010 Vol. 2 catalog from MTH. In a nutshell, it’s got more European stuff, less new American stuff and no response to Lionel’s Vision Line. It is what it is and I’m sure MTH has solid arguments, from a business standpoint, for doing what they’re doing. I won’t say anything else about it, except to say that this is the first time I will be ordering more Lionel stuff than MTH stuff. Hopefully the 2011 Vol. 1 catalog will be better.

Scenery Tutorial Update

Monday, April 19th, 2010

I now have 10 minutes of completed video for the upcoming scenery tutorial. Working on more today.

Follow me on Twitter

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

In addition to my blog, you can now follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ericstrains. I’m going to use the blog for the same regular updates I’ve been doing, but I will now start to tweet some of the random thoughts to come to mind when I’m working on my layout. Enjoy. Here’s that link again:

http://www.twitter.com/ericstrains

Lionel Corporate Tinplate 400E Reviewed

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

A little break

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

Not a whole lot going on right now. I had knee surgery a couple weeks ago and have been taking it easy. I’ve done a few things here and there but nothing major. I’ll probably start doing some more tunnel work this next week. Going fishing today with my son. Spring is here.