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Model figures Add Life To A Scene
Model figures of people and animals can be used to give a realistic look when designing a railroad system. A layout doesn’t usually look complete until figures are added. My opinion is you can never have too many people on a model railroad layout. You can have people positioned on station platforms, working on farms, walking the streets, coming out of shops, working alongside the track… and not forgetting, driving vehicles. After all, a vehicle driving down a road without a driver looks a bit strange, and sometimes it is the little details (or lack of them) that can be the difference between a realistic looking railroad scene and one that just looks like an artificial model.
Figures are available in many types and forms. They can be made out of plastic and sometimes wood. Some of them are painted in a factory, some are hand painted and some are just unpainted so that you can choose your own colors. The passengers, ticket man, traffic controller, driver, guards and all others are available from various model railroad suppliers at reasonable prices.
The figures are manufactured according to common scales such as HO scale (1:87). Some companies also sell figures in non-standardized ratios.
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I have lots of people on my layout and I have a revolving platform with people on one side of it, when the train arrives at the station and the people are hidden from view behind the carriages I simply roll the platform to the side with no people on it, when the train departs the platform is empty and everyone assumes they got on the train. when the next train arrives the platform is rolled again and when the train departs the people are back waiting for the next train. The platform is best hidden behind the carriages and kept to size where you don’t see the platform above the height of the train I usually have something else happening to take the viewers eye momentarily off the stationary train.
Neat idea. I like a seen fitting to the situation from Newman
I have been collecting people for quite a while. Although not ready for too many of them yet, When the scenes start coming together I will need a lot of folks. But the time to get them is before I am ready for them. Although pre-painted figures are a easy way to go they really add up in costs. So I have been collecting unpainted figures as much as possible and will be setting up a painting assembly line soon. So during ball games this summer I will be painting some of them. Another reason to paint your own is to make each one individualized. When they all look a like it is just not real. To make things and people move it just makes the scene become alive. So glue your little folks to the eraisers of your old pencils and line them up and take in a ball game on TV.