I’m in need of some low cost 20.3 seated figures to ride in my railbus/ Mack switcher bash. Really don’t have to be museum quality as they will be partially hidden…Could possibly be 22.5 or MAYBE even 24/1. Need about 10, so price is important. Thanks…Jerry
Most of the commercial 1:20 figures are about $10 or more, EACH.
It might be time to break out the Sculpey - you can get a lot of figures out of $1 worth.
Here’s a couple of seated 1:20 ones I made from Sculpey.
Nice work… I’ve made some Sculpy people but I’m really slow at it. Don’t know if I want to spend that much time. I liked the old Bachmann positionable figures that were about $5.00 each, but can’t seem to find them locally. With a little “plastic surgery” they can assume thier own looks. Still looking. Thanks
CHECK at a craft store , like Michaels , or A. C. Moore’s . Ben
This ebay seller is very cheap–I’ve bought a good many figures at 1:30 to pass for 1:29 and they are not bad at all. They may be too small though
This brings up an interesting point I’ve been knocking around. As a model railroader I look at thing in scale, 1:29 in my case. As an artist I paint things in perspective. In other words if things are closer to the viewer than my trains than they should be larger (scale) and further away smaller (scale). It would seem a vehicle in 1:24 could be in front of my train while a 1:32 vehicle could be behind it.
Then there is the different sizes of people. My grandmother was under five foot tall. My son is six-six, that’s over 18". It seems poeple of different sizes could be mixed together.
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Rob
Forced perspective works very well in situations where the scene is viewed from a single view point. That’s a very rare circumstance in the garden. It could work in very specific circumstances, but it’s hard to effectively pull off.
As for people, they do come in all shapes and sizes, but there’s still somewhat of a limit as to how much you can mix smaller figures with larger ones. While height vary greatly, physical features (head size, foot size, chest size) aren’t proportional to height. As such, a 1:24 figure may not always “work” as a short 1:20 figure.
Later,
K
That guy on ebay has figures in 1/24 scale also. Not all are sitting though, have to cut on them some to get them in a seat. I’ve used some of the figures you can get at Walmart/etc…in the toy section. You can position them. I cut the legs off a WWII driver for my Bachman Shay, fit in real nice. Did a little repaint is all. Jerry