Immature adults?????? Bad pun.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: Robert Frascella Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 6:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} re: S People for Pass Cars (was AM's models) Wayne Hills once taught me a neat trick for popoulating S-scale passenger cars. He uses O-scale seated children which scale out to be adults in S. I don't know where he found them, but I imagine there out there somewhere. Bob Frascella Wenham, MA On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Bob Werre <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > 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 ------------------------------------ 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/
