Has anyone used the schleich figures for their garden RR? Ridge Road sells them here http://www.ridgeroadstation.com/toyss.shtml My local tractor supply sells them for a decent price and looking at the sizes some of their figures seem to fit G scale like some of their animals and people. Im not sure what scale they are. Does anyone know what scale they represent and will they work with a garden RR like the Bachmann Big Haulers? They seem to be detailed and good quality Here is the company site http://www.schleich-s.de/english/unternehmen/chronik.php?lang=2
They’re terrific! …even if a bit on the expensive side.
I have a miner and mule that will be placed prominently on my layout and I’m kicking myself for not picking up the stagecoach they had been selling last year, but I just didnt have the room for it.
They are very detailed and look terrific, close enough for 1/20 scale although I’m using them for 1/22.5. I hope to pick up more this year.
Depending on your scale, any figure between 2.5 and 3 inches will work for 1:24 scale (scale 5 to 6 feet). Go a bit bigger for 1:20 and a bit smaller for 1:29/32. When I run across figures out shopping, you can find me using a folded in half a dollar bill (exactly 3 inches) measuring their heights.
-Brian
That was the answere I was looking for thanks. My tractor supply sells them much cheaper than ridge road. When I compare them to the others like LGB etc… Schleighs are a lot cheaper plus Im looking more towards the wildlife since my layout will be in a more wilderness type setting with maybe an old homestead here and there.
You can even go with the smurfs[:P]
Just stay away from those evil Playmobile robots[;)]
any figure “can” work depending on how you use them. expecially if your layout has depth, use the larger figures in the foreground and smaller ones in the background, gives a better illusion of depth
Vic,
They have your Fav!
[(-D] Ole Toad
“Eeew, look what I step on, well, like my Blue Smurfed Shoes…?”
Here is your wagon Vic.
Toad XXX
When my wife and I first started dating, I was–obviously–a bit nervous about showing her the railroad in the back yard for fear she’d run away and never look back. After all, I had spent a fair amount of time working to create a prototypical environment with scale trees, etc., and that kind of fanaticism–like genius–is often misunderstood.
Well, I take her into the back yard to show her the garden. Her words: “COOL!!! I can put my Smurfs in here!” My initial reaction was one of utter horror, after all, I had spent all this time creating a historically accurate setting for the trains. Then–after realizing she was still standing next to me with a great deal of enthusiasm and not running towards her car, I uttered the seemingly innocuous letters O and K.
What hath those two letters wrought…
Later,
K
Your a Good Man, Charlie Brown [;)][(-D]
QUESTION: When you strangle a Smerf, what color does he turn?
Is that what there calling it now!