For anyone wondering if the Walthers reference books at 9.98 were going to be somehow different than the books at regular price, have no fear.
The book is the same size as usual. 40 less pages than last year, but still at over 1000 pages, not a bad deal for ten bucks! Looks to be as full of great stuff for our hobby as last year.
And a note of regional pride…look on page 427! (it’s the start of the structures section) The modeling is done by one of my customers, Sam Syzdek! Congratulations Sam! And his wife Michele took a fine photo of the scene. Sam does awesome modeling. His “big city” work is the type of modeling I aspire to do.
As posted earlier there is a great history of the Walthers company to celebrate 75 years. Great cover. Even arrived a bit early.
The signed hardcover limited edition book should be arriving soon.
Got my first Walthers book during the big 50th anniversary…don’t know where 25 years went all of a sudden!
Congratulations to Walthers on 75 years! I appreciate all the work you all do up there to help me serve my customers. It’s still true…your dealer CAN get it from Walthers!
Well…that’s one way of looking at it I guess. I didn’t purchase it for the “New Releases” though. I got it because it is an excellent resource book when looking for pieces, parts and hard to find items.
I got mine today and was thrilled to find that I had won second place in the “Magic of Railroading” contest. Not only that, but I had 6 other photos published in that section as well!! I was so excited, that I ordered the hard-cover edition as a keep sake. This has been a banner week for the MA&G as I also had my layout featured on the front page of our local newspaper. Thursday they are sending a camera man out to video the layout with an interview of me for the paper’s website.
Hey Cliff…I enjoyed seeing your work in the book today, great work too! And congratulations on being able to promote our hobby! We all benefit when what we do gets good publicity.
Way to go, Cliff! And as for that grumpy reply a couple above yours, as has been said, that’s one way of looking at it. Sure, I’ll look at my copy while in the bathroom… but I’ll also look at it at my workbench and in a lot of other places where I’m not likely to have a computer or internet access.
My experience is that the internet is good for finding what you already know exists – who has it, what price, etc. But a paper catalog is good for showing you things you did not know were commercially available but always wanted, such as detail parts.
