Just read the MR newsletter. "“Mooning” figures. Four plastic figures of people showing their buttocks. $14.45. Summer 2008. BLMA Models. What’s the name of that California thing where people “moon” Amcrash? Now you can model it!![}:)][:D]
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That was what immediately came to mind! That reminds me of the “sexy scenes” I have seen on ebay…not for my layout… kids and all. [;)]
I went to the BLMA site to get stock numbers for various items (I wanted to get some grade crossings, jersey barriers, and parking lot bumpers, among other things), and while there I checked out the figures (the latest MR has a teaser ad stating ‘You got to see them to believe them’ - Okaayy…)
Well, the 2 figures (male) shown are indeed mooning, and BLMA does indeed stress the Amtrak Mooning event (they provide a link to the event’s official website too) - they add this:
- Clearly BLMA was never a proud sponsor of Opie & Anthony’s Whip 'em Out Wednesdays.
While I’ll probably order the BLMA Portapotties also (set of 2, molded in blue), I’ll leave it to the expert jokester-modelers to modify a Portapotty & a mooning figure for maximum laugh effect.
BLMA had an ad in Model Railroad News as well. I contacted BLMA and asked about the figures. Just gotta have the “mooners” in the bed of a pick-up going down the road on the layout. Good for a laugh anyway.
Do a Mooning Amtrak search and there will be several sites that come up. Only in California could this happen. I just chanced on one of the sites while looking up Amtrak in a search.
While I am not a old fuddy duddy I don’t like having such figures on my layout because these “cutesy pie” figures get old after awhile.
On the other hand I might use them on special occasions and then remove them for later use.
IMHO, these things, if used as ‘mooners,’ are a, “Funny once,” item that would be ancient history after the first glance - rather like the, “Lady in the lake,” figure that was popular a half century or so ago.
OTOH, as figures in the process of disrobing in the local bathhouse, they might have a place, but only if I either acquire or fabricate the rest of the figures, male and female, that would be found there on a weekday afternoon. That, of course, assumes that I will model such a bathhouse. They were ubiquitous in rural villages - one per.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I don’t think I’m familiar with “The Lady in the Lake”. Can someone enlighten me?
Rotor
The, “Lady in the Lake,” 1950s era, was an HO figure modeled on a painting with the same title - a young lady, dressed in skin, one arm across chest, the other hand somewhat south of the navel. Exceedingly risque for the time. I forget which manufacturer made it, but it was advertised in the model press.
She wasn’t actively ‘mooning,’ but the moon was full, from hairline to toenails.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ho+scale+figures+mooning&btnG=Search
Might be helpful.
http://www.trains.com/trn/default.aspx?c=a&id=2170
Rich
The lady was a Weston figure, part no. 1210.
Ed
In this hobby the quest for realism is never ending. [:-^]
However the new BLMA air conditioners look like the most accurate ones available in HO:
Dave Nelson
The AC is nice, but I didn’t see the guy mooning in the window![:D]
LOL He must be a shy mooner. I can think of a few choice places to put those figures. Do you think MR or RMC would allow it in a track side photo? But IMO I just wouldn’t want to see a “Flashing Fred” on a caboose.
In addition to the “Lady in the Lake” Weston also made her clothes as an add on to place on the river bank or lake shore. I’m not sure Weston figures are still available. They were an offshoot of Campbell at one time if memory serves me correctly.
I found both on ePay.
Rotor
I believe Weston “people” pre-date Campbell. I imagine Campbell bought/took over Weston.
Ed
I believe the lady & her clothes sold for less than the shipping!!![:O]
I first saw the lady in the window of the Hobby Horse hobby shop in Waukesha, WI, in my first year as an active model railroader. Bill Deffner, who owned the little shop (he later moved to a store about four times the size in the new River Park Shopping Center–where the 4x4’ model RR was no longer in the window, but the Lady still stood there in all her glory, with the little pile of clothes at her feet (you could even make out her shoes in the pile!) had built a very realistic layout. I was 14 at the time, and so were my cousin and our friend Donny, who were both HO-scalers. We didn’t think she was risque at all; we were more impressed with Bill’s pond and the reeds sticking out of the “water” near the banks, and the wonderfully made tree behind her. Oh, and were were impressed that someone had manufactured not only a naked lady but her clothes (and yes, they sold as a set)! I think that lady and that tiny display RR probably made converts to Ho model railroading out of young and
The Trains.com link works only for Trains magazine subscribers
My old Walthers Piker car has a female figure in the shower. It is only a drawing that is glued to the wall of the bathroom in the car, but is the same idea as Lady in the Lake.
Preiser has a number of nude figures from beach scenes to artist models.