Archive for July, 2010

Sponsored Product Reviews Coming Soon

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

One of the many train stores that I buy train from is going to start “sponsoring” my video product reviews. He’s going to sent me trains to review. In exchange for me doing a review on the item and mentioning his store in the video, he will sell me any items that I review at cost. Pretty cool, eh? Of course, I told him that when I do product reviews I will point out both the good and bad features of anything I review, so I’m not going to give everything he sends me a glowing review just because I’m getting a good deal on stuff. Fortunately for both of us, MTH and Lionel and others really don’t put out a lot of “bad” stuff so it should be pretty fun.

New scenic work

Friday, July 30th, 2010

I’ve been doing some scenic work on the South Tunnel area. Check it out…
Scenic Work July 2010

New Videos in production

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Right now I’m working on 3 videos simultaneously, all 3 of which will be included on the upcoming “Eric’s Trains Volume 1″ DVD. 2 of the videos show fixes for power problems on a steam engine and a diesel engine. The 3rd video is part 2 of my scenery how to and shows how to scenic the area around the tunnels that I built in the first scenery video. The 2nd scenery video will be available on youtube. The 2 other videos will only be available on the upcoming DVD.

Impulsive weathering

Monday, July 5th, 2010

For some reason I felt like weathering this older MTH SD90 over the weekend. I think it looks pretty good.
Weathered MTH SD90

Layout Update #4

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Here’s the newest layout update video, #4 in the series…