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There are a number of sets advertised as O scale from Scenic Express, but I have not researched whether they are true to scale.

Shapeways?

JohnA

Arttista makes some pewter O scale baseball players. Pitcher, batter, a catcher and a fielder. Nicholas Smith carries them.

Try googling 'Topps MLB SportsClix'. They were issued in 2004; I would consider them O scale figures. Starter packs of 9 players can be had for as little as $6.00.

@Jwyd posted:

Arttista makes some pewter O scale baseball players. Pitcher, batter, a catcher and a fielder. Nicholas Smith carries them.

Arttista? Since when?

Thanks to all that replied. Looked into all suggestions and found some HO size. This is for a 7 year old grandson. Scale wouldn’t matter to him. He saw one of Arnold’s videos wants the same. What are your thoughts on using the smaller figures. Maybe too small?

thanks, Tstark

Barclaycompany.com makes O scale baseball players. Also all kinds of people .

I would recommend the Scenic Express players. They have four different sets which allows you to mix and match.

Thanks, Bruce that is what I am looking for. Just a tough web site to navigate.

Tom

Arttista does make baseball players although they are children not adults.  Item #'s 1563 (pitcher and batter) and 1564 (catcher and fielder)

@tstark posted:

Thanks, Bruce that is what I am looking for. Just a tough web site to navigate.

Tom

That's why I recommended them.

@bw14 posted:

Arttista does make baseball players although they are children not adults.  Item #'s 1563 (pitcher and batter) and 1564 (catcher and fielder)

Now it’s clicking. I forgot about those. Sandlot players make a lot of sense for an O gauge layout, given the limited space for a field on almost all of our layouts.

I have the Kramer Products fielding team, but foolishly never bought the rest of the baseball line. I wish Arttista did field another white metal or pewter team to fill out the action I missed.

But the Scenic Express adult fielding team is even better. (Only one player, the pitcher, is in the process of throwing the ball, which makes more sense than an outfielder poising to catch a flyball or an infielder scooping a ground ball at the same time a pitcher is releasing it.)

Like Jim, I have the Kramer Products O Scale baseball figures.

I was lucky enough to discover them for sale at the Choo Choo Barn in the early 1990s for $150, and when I asked my wife, what do you think (expecting her to tell me that I am out of my mind), and she replied: I know how much you love baseball and your trains, so buy them. I did. I have treasured them ever since, including putting them in my Popsicle Stick Yankee Stadium:

Then, about 1 year ago, I decided to make my model railroad reminiscent of the Putnam Division of the NY Central (The Put).

Yankee Stadium is on the Bronx side of the East River at the end of the line going South on The Put.

What is across from Yankee Stadiun on the Manhattan side of the East River:

The Polo Grounds:

Again, the figures are O Scale baseball players by Kramer Products. This time, I got them by sending an email to TrainZ, one of our Forum Sponsors, asking if they had them. They didn't, but 6 months later, I got an email from TrainZ that they had the Kramer players for me to purchase.

To say I was thrilled is an understatement. I bought them immediately, for much less than the $150 I paid 25 years ago for them, and found them in my mailbox a few days later. Arnold

I once had visions of an N scale full-sized stadium, recognizing that the home plate-to-centerfield fence space would encompass about 2 1/2 feet. The full stadium would consume at least 25 square feet, not counting the parking lot. That’s the size of entire N scale layouts.

Now, in O scale, imagine an 8 1/2-foot span from home plate to the centerfield fence in a stadium at least 17 feet long by 17 feet wide. It’d barely fit in my backyard.

So a sandlot ball field using Scenic Express figures is a great idea for your grandson. And Arnold’s field is among my favorites on this forum.

Someone above suggested    Barclaycompany.com    and that's who I bought from last summer.  Fast and really on top of their product.  I had players specially painted and custom numbers and names added on the backs of figures.  Cost was very reasonable.

The ballpark was one of my "COVID projects" - which I completed and installed on the layout back in late summer of 2020.  I've been meaning to get few pix up on the Forum.  So here they are.  More to follow at some point.

It's "Pioneer Stadium" - but the field is named after my uncle, Tex Carrigan (dec.) who played professional baseball in the StL. Browns organization and started me on a life-long journey of TRAINS and BASEBALL.

@rthomps posted:

Someone above suggested    Barclaycompany.com    and that's who I bought from last summer.  Fast and really on top of their product.  I had players specially painted and custom numbers and names added on the backs of figures.  Cost was very reasonable.

The ballpark was one of my "COVID projects" - which I completed and installed on the layout back in late summer of 2020.  I've been meaning to get few pix up on the Forum.  So here they are.  More to follow at some point.

It's "Pioneer Stadium" - but the field is named after my uncle, Tex Carrigan (dec.) who played professional baseball in the StL. Browns organization and started me on a life-long journey of TRAINS and BASEBALL.

RT, I would love to see your photos but cannot access them on my smartphone. Maybe you can try again to attach them onto your post so we can all see them.

@Jim R. posted:

Now, in O scale, imagine an 8 1/2-foot span from home plate to the centerfield fence in a stadium at least 17 feet long by 17 feet wide. It’d barely fit in my backyard.

So a sandlot ball field using Scenic Express figures is a great idea for your grandson. And Arnold’s field is among my favorites on this forum.

In reply to Jom's above comments, I agree that an O Scale baseball field that is in scale would be enormous. My baseball fields are not scale models. Instead, they are caricatures, like many of the Postwar accessories on my layout, and give the viewer the idea, and not a scale model, of what is depicted. Arnold

For inspiration: Dream big but do it in a small space.

Remember this, thanks to our friend Simon (N-gauge or Z)?:

  https://ogrforum.com/...44#81537088262976544

Mike

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

RT, I would love to see your photos but cannot access them on my smartphone. Maybe you can try again to attach them onto your post so we can all see them.

Are you able to see the pix on a laptop or desktop ?

The Cornerfield museum in Ohio has the beginnings of the Cleveland Indians stadium.   It’s huge.  The custom builder of it abondined it after all the stands were built

Here is a pic

They also have a smaller field with the Scenic express figures

Annnnd if you look across the street from the Museum there is a baseball field with 1:1 players

In the movie Brewster's Millions, the ball park had active railroad tracks running through the outfield.  Interesting concept for a layout!