I went through all my past catalogs, including Lionel's past two Christmas catalogs, and found nothing. I was thinking Lionel would have made them for the Polar Express; maybe I missed them from an earlier release? Do you know of a source of approximate O-scale elves?
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I've posted this one myself and for the same reason. I was told to look in the "gaming" area for "wizards" (dungeon and dragons). that didn't work for me and since i wasn't going to have a close up, i bought unpainted figures. i taped the top 1/2 of the figure (i put all the figures on masking tape and then covered with another layer of masking tape) and sprayed bottom with green spraypaint. when dry, flipped. I then did the same to the top and painted both sides read. when I was done, i dipped the head in white paint. looks "tolerable" from affar.
...Hopefully they're all in their workshop...in China...feverishly finishing the lineup of Christmas (a.k.a. 'Holiday'
) O-gauge cars as per the 2012 Christmas catalogue so that they will arrive BEFORE that season is in so many piles/containers curbside for trash pickup.
no Elves that i can see, but i have quite a few Gremlins that i'd be glad to send you free of charge.
Paul...
Sorry for the silliness in my earlier reply.
Having worked behind the counter (counter-intelligence) at the local LHS for the past 14 years, I can say I have no ready answer for your search for O-scale elves through our traditional sources. I know Bachmann had some G-scale size years ago...doubt they're yet available...but nothing in O-scale.
The only elves in this size that come to mind were attached to the Polar Express Handcar by Lionel. Four of them, jumping/flipping over each handle as it motates along...just like in the movie. But none for separate sale.
I would suggest you scour the artsy-craftsy places...Hobby Lobby, Michaels, JoAnn's, etc., that sell the seasonal thingies for decorating. You're looking for 'small'...probably about 1" tall...so it'll be tough.
Good luck.
KD
Dept 56 makes separate elve figures that go with the buildings in their North Pole and Elfland series of buildings. I have some and they are about O Gauge size.
Paul,
Last year, I asked this very question. What I found is the Dept 56 North Pole elves are a little large, but are very nice. They wouldn't have worked for my project, because I wanted elves for my custom painted(done by Jeff Sohn) Polar Express RPO. I wanted elves inside for mail sorters.
Preiser has a Santa and child figure set...the child could pass as an elf. I use one in my RPO. That set comes with two sacs that I painted red and use as letters to Santa mail bags.
Preiser child...
Mth has a Christmas figure set that has one very small elf.
The best came from TW Trainworx. Last year they offered a set of four elves. These were perfect for my RPO. You may want to contact them and see if they have any left or if they will do more.
Below are TW's elves. I added the Santa bag, gold rope, and scale mail...
Preiser child on far left with TW elves...
I don't know if there is much of anything available for figures in 1/64 or S scale?
Going on the theory that elves are smaller than people (at least in the case of Santa's elves, not Tolkien's elves), a regular run of the mill 1/64 scale figure might be about the right size for an O gauge layout? You could possibly make cheap and easy pointed caps in an assembly line fashion with a hot glue gun (haven't actually tried this yet)? Paint the figures red and green and you have elves.
when i mass produced mine, i bought cheap ho unpainted figures. no sense spending good money on something that isn't going to be detailed. little hard to paint unless you're an elf yourself, so i just sprayed mine.
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