Welcome Gaylord,
S scenery has at various times had a few people for sale--mostly crew
members that were excellently painted. They also sold a small package
of street people--they all looked underfed. I used one in a storefront
window--made an excellent store dummy.
Both the Artista and Railmaster figures have been available painted and
unpainted.
I'll also second the vote for the MTH 'simple' figures. If you have the
patience to paint 25 of the same pose with different colors, you can
populate several revenue producing passenger cars. I made the mistake
of selling off my standing people. Just paint them too, and use a heavy
duty wire cutter and chop off anything below the waste and then put one
or two in the isle. The view from the outside is fine.
But we probably have forgotten the best figures that could only be
obtained only if you attended Jamie's auctions--Zombies! I have one
unfortunate sole who lost his life in my freight yard. He wasn't hit by
a train, but by a bolt of electricity from my DCC system so he will
forever be standing there near the call box in the yard.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
Ed, I agree that Arttista should be the first stop for accurately
scaled figures. A nice selection of railroad and non-railroad types,
at $5-6 for painted, $3-4 for unpainted: http://arttista.com/
Here are a few other sources I've used (alphabetic order):
- American Models -- they look like remakes of the old LLedo line,
painted for $5 each. Find them under their Accessories link
- Aspen Modeling Company -- excellent detail, but only unpainted
figures at $5 each: http://theaspenmodelingcompany.com/SScaleFigures.html
- MTH Rail King -- I don't see these on their web site currently, but
in the past I've found their "12 Piece Figure Set" #1 & #2. No scale
designation on the package, but they're very close to S, more seated
figures than standing. I paid $30 for the set of 12, painted.
- SHS -- sells railroad types in sets of two (eg, engineer & fireman),
$6 a set, painted. Under their Parts - Miscellaneous link
Gaylord Gill
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
Edward Sauers <ehsauers1@...> wrote:
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> Group,
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> Does anyone have a source for quality s-dcale figures, I need RR
related as well as farm, industrial, civilians etc, some setting,
walking and just waiting at a station. I want figure that look good
not like some of the ones I see on ebay that look like they came out
of a comic book.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ed Sauers
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