Bob, Did you check the MTH website for the needed people.
If they don’t make them anymore, I bet you can find them on ebay. Mike From: Bob Werre Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} re: S People for Pass Cars (was AM's models) Earl (and all) I cut my Dutch door open as suggested by Sam Powell in a long ago article in either the Dispatch or 3/16's. My people are from a 'bag of people' once sold by MTH. About half were seated and the other half standing. Obviously they weren't as well detailed as the 6-10$ people from Artistia or Railmaster, but in the windows they look fine. I painted the seated figures and sold the standing figures. That was a mistake as I could have cut the standing people off at the waste and used them in the seats. I only problem I had was finding enough colors to paint all the clothing not to mention the skin tones. One tries not to make the colors too bright, so you get a lot of reefer gray suits, black suits and boxcar red suits on the men! I did do my women in bright reds, dark blues and a fair amount of whites--that seemed to work fine. I need another batch of people but I'm not certain if MTH still makes them. I haven't figured out exactly how to populate my dome riders yet, but my two coaches and observation are well populated. Also remember to have some guy laying on the back of the tender with a microphone recording all the sounds from the excursion run. We photographers just hated that guy for messing up the shots. Bob Werre > > First of all, let me apologize for accidentally hitting the send button > before I had typed my message. > ---------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------- > > Bob, I am interested in the S people you used to populate your JC/Chester > passenger cars. When I finish applying Laser Horizons sides on a short > dining car and a short steam excursion recording car, I will have a > complete > model of the Southern Railway Steam Excursion train as it looked in the > mid-1970s. Trouble is I have no people riding the train. And steam > excursions > usually were sold out and railfans were hanging out the windows, the > vestibules, the mid-train club car, the recording car, and the open > platform > car. It may be a monumental task for me to put seats and people in all > the > cars, and also expensive. The cost of some of the S people can really add > up, depending on what you buy. Plus, a lot of the S people really are > not S. > So I am interested in knowing more about the riders in your passenger > cars. > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > I would also like recommendations on how to open the top half of the > dutch > doors in the vestibules so that railfans can be leaning out the > windows as > they always do on steam excursions. > > - > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
