Well, of course he’s whoever your favorite TV beat-cop is, but who made him?
The officer holding his billy club in a rather menacing manner, shown standing on the corner in this image 
He’s been in many Walthers (and others) product shots over the years, so I figured he was a Scenemaster or a Bachmann, but the 2015 Catalog didn’t list him under those mfrs. Then I waded thru the German mfrs, until my eyes glazed over, so he may very well reside somewhere between Preiser’s Woman with uncomfortable shoes and their German punk rockers (not sure why, between Faller, Merten, and Preiser, Germans think only women mow the lawn).
Don’t really need any more police, just something bugging me…
Took me a few minutes to dig it up… I actually have two!
It is from Preiser set 10018 US Railway personnel, policeman.
http://www.euromodeltrains.com/cgi-bin/search_item.pl?ss=UHJlaXNlcnwxMDAxOCAg
(In the photo linked above, it looks like the engineer on the left is playing “air guitar” [:D] )
Hope this helps you out, Ed
This sounds like a great topic for a thread. Post a picture of something you’ve seen and want but don’t know who made it and let the wealth of RRing knowledge the forum members have help you out.
I’m more aghast at the crappy looking '59/60, Chrysler C300 - yuk!
Dusty
Me thinks he would be better placed in the Dirty Thirties chasing Hobos out of the freight cars.
Then again, if he is a modern cop he is probably just waiting for his ex US Army Armoured Car to arrive.
OOPs, far too political! I can just hear Steven Otte’s billie club coming down on me![#oops][C):-)][swg][(-D][(-D]
Sorry, no offense intended to the police officers who keep us safe every day.
Dave
“Night Stick” Nick has been standing guard at the entrance to Union Station on my layout for years. Never complains about overtime…
Ed
(In the photo linked above, it looks like the engineer on the left is playing “air guitar” )
Either that or He’s practicing dancing with someone sitting down. LOL. [(-D]
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
They don’t look “that” bad.
The set the cop comes from does look like figures from the 40’s or 50’s, so most appropriate for transition era modelers.
Aha, the mystery is solved - several mysteries in fact, the first being as to why he’s not listed in the latest catalog - from gmpullman’s link “This item is no longer available”. So no more Officer Murray for us, but I guess the Walthers commercial photography department has a few stashed away (we do have now, instead, “Woman applying deorderant” from Preiser, so I guess it balances out). What I find amusing is that he seems to be in a modern-era uniform (short sleeves, no tie, which I thought started showing up in the 1970s), but holds a billy club in a rather menacing fashion, as opposed to having it hang from his belt like most modern North American police (Note, I am not including SWAT teams in this, just beat cops). Oh well, at least he’ll live on as long as Walthers needs images of it’s products to sell.
As noted, the red Chrysler C300 is also rather quirky.
I have been reading some of my Dad’s old Science & Mechanics from the late 1960s/early 1970s (the magazine itself more or less ended publication by the mid-1970s), and their automotive editor Joe Gutts had a column which served as the magazines “letters to the editor”. Each column he would batch up a bunch of questions from readers, and ask other column readers for help (calling anyone who wrote in with an answer - and many people did - a member of the Good Guys Guild. I guess we do that in a way on this forum, but still a sticky thread “Help ID this” would be cool.
Chutton01,
I may be older than Your Dad, ( born 42) I too have many of those old mags and then some. Another good one was Popular Mechanic’s, great for the back alley Mechanic. Those were the day’s.
Have A Good One ! [:D]
Frank
Nope Frank, you can still feel young - Dad was born in 1928, served in Korea in the Navy as a mechanic (I don’t know his exact final rank & grade right now, it’s on his discharge), and passed away some years ago. I learned to read with those Mechanics style magazines in the late 60s/early 70s - there were four we subscribed to and I remember fondly: two still around IIRC - Popular Mechanics, Popular Science; Mechanics Illustrated (which eventually became Today’s Homeower, and was then folded into This Old House around the turn of the century), and Science & Mechanix (which, being the quirkiest, I liked enough to save over the decades). From time to time (at least back then), Model Railroading would intersect with the Home Mechanix press, such that in Jan/Feb 1970 Popular Mechanics ran a series on building a N-Scale swing-away layout. Zounds!
Not to be out done, Science and Mechanics mentioned in 1972 a short blurb comparing a big hobby (a 1:6 Bugatti model) and a little hobby (a loop of track w/ train circling a tea-pot - in some newfangled mini scale called “z-scale” [:P]
Chutton01,
Actually, I still feel young…the vehicle, is just showing a lot of wear and tear. LOL. I had every mag You described…really never found one that was not useful in some way. Always, loved to read about things and how to’s.
My Dad, God rest His soul was born 1918, two year’s after His parents migrated from Russia. I was born when my Dad was in the Army in Burma, Indo China. Ironically I was in the same neighborhood in my life called Vietnam in 66-67, where I got a lifetime gift…DAV Vietnam Vet. Nuff’ ramblin’.
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Isn’t he included in the new “village people” set? He’s now living at the Y…M…C…A[swg]