HO seagulls - anyone make them other than Preiser?

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Hi

I’m building a harbor and I need seagulls in HO. Preiser make seagulls, pigeons, birds of prey in one pack and one MRR article mentioned Sheepscot Scale but they don’t make them anymore. Anyone know of anyone who manufactures segulls?

Thanks!

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Musket Miniatures offers HO scale seagulls among other wild animals.

No image included, I’m afraid.

ETA. Well poo, no direct link to the items in question.
OK - Click on ‘Catalog’
then Click on ‘Rustic rails’
then Click on ‘Wild Animals’ - search for HOC3870 (at rest) and HOC3871 (in Flight)

This thread on a different forum goes into detail onto how to, well, detail the seagulls.

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I think these are Musket Miniatures seagulls:

They are metal castings on a sprue, and come unpainted. The Preiser ones are more detailed and come painted. The set of water fowl from Preiser does have a lot of nice models in it, particularly the swans and hawks.

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How much detail do you need in a seagul. If it is in the foreground, yeas, but if in the background, just throwing some winged spitballs at your back deop should do the trrick.

ROAR

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[(-D] Good one. Lion. However, I think there may be a slight spelling error here:

“some winged spitballs” [swg]

Wayne

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Modeltechstudios have them too.

regards, Peter

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I think Gerry Leone did an article in a recent MR mag on making birds from solder; slightly pinched and shaped. Should work for seagulls as long as they aren’t up front and personal!

-Bob

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How 'bout makin yer own from polymer clay??? Bill

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Model Tech Studios.

MB Klein has some of their seagulls in HO scale.

http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Model-Tech-Studios-HO-Seagulls-p/mdts-d000c.htm

Rich

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Check out Model Tech Studio’s web site.

http://modeltechstudios.com/hoscalewaterfrontdetailsseagullsflyingandsitting.aspx

Bulk packs are available.

Rich

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Here’s a link to a Canadian company called Little Critters which produces only model birds.

http://mldesigns.ca/ml%20designs/critters.html

Seagulls are one of the many birds listed.

Steve

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I have many types but finally got some Preiser for cheap so had nothing to lose. They are far superior to the others but beware, the one trouble with most of the fiquere companys is they are all over in paint quality. I have some very nice WS fiqures and some I e-bayed that were garbage. Seen some garbage Preiser fiqures too and not from their cheap line.