I just picked up some Bachman Spectrum passenger cars and they are nice. I plan on finishing the interior, but in the era I am modeling, the transition period, these trains would probably be pretty full.
Do the sell seated figures in bulk–you know a hundred at a pop, or would I have to buy a zillion 6-packs?
Preiser has a 98 page catalog of figure people. The Walthers listings only carry a fraction of what is available. Go to , http://www.rocousa.com/preiser.asp and scroll down to Preiser Data Base. The prices are approx. 1/3 cheaper than Walthers reference catalog.
Preiser used to sell packs with about 100 undecorated people many years ago. Painting them is why I wear glassses today!. They were all lined up stuck to strips of masking tape for about a week.
Sorry Spacemouse, I have never seen people in that size/bulk quantity. I hope for your sake that somebody does ship them in bulk.
Trevor
Preiser sells boxes of 60 seated figures in N-scale. I’m sure they have something similar in HO. I think some of the figures are legless, so you don’t have to fight to get them in the seats or cut off the legs yourself. Whether they are painted or unpainted, I don’t really know.
Walthers carries Preiser set 590-14400. It includes 48 pre-painted seated figures for railway cars and sells for $46.99. Discount Trains online carries the set for $39.35.
Hey spacemouse, I realize this may be [#offtopic], but Lil’Guy is lookin’ good in the new livery!
Chip,
Along with everyone else, I’ve seen a package of 100 “pink-bodied passangers in a bag” listed in the Walthers catalog.
Tom
Thanks.
After all the detail stuff I did this weekend, I think I’m going to get one of those assembly line robots and program them to paint people. [:D]
Chip,
Wasn’t that what you were going to have your daughter do for you?
Tom
Thursday is Saint Patrick’s Day! Sure’n I thought you were askin’ about Leprechauns!
And yes, that switcher in Hogwarts colors is a pretty sight.
OT, but once, at a surplus store, I saw a box of HO people - factory “seconds” probably. They had extra or missing limbs, heads, etc. I wish I had the money at the time, I would have bought the whole darn box and cut them up to make all the custom figures I’d ever need!
Rob
Or you could just paint them and model an atomic power plant next door–bring in shipments of uranium, and watch the three-armed neighborhood kids waving at the engineer with both right arms!
If you have ever found some figures that have been horribly mutilated, i think it is a good idea to model a nuclear power plant next door. Then you could have two-headed one-armed kids walking everywhere. Sick, i know, but so strange.