Need sources for figures for specialized scenes

Sometimes in this hobby you have to get creative and make your own items when things are not available. Why not take the regular farm workers and paint them the way you want. Try making hats out of paper and paint them too. Sorry I don't have any other ideas, but making your own items is what I would do.

For Funeral details scenic express, woodlandscenics, diecast direct, brooklin models.Also AC Moore craft Store in children's section has farm sets that have figures O scale in Size that are perfect for Amish women, men in long dresses,bonnets, straw hats and rakes in hand etc.

Hi OgaugeGuy, boy I don't think there is anyone in our hobby who dose not feel your pain.

 N5Cjonny is right but though I never did this I was wondering if it could work.

Take a small flat washer with the right size hole in it. Now take a hole punch that will produce the proper size circle to cover the washer hole but still allow a brim to show.

Cut  three or for punch outs from a shirt wraper cardboard and glue them together until you get the proper rise in the hat.

You will have to Super glue the punch outs to the metal washer. After it sets smooth out the hat with white Liquid Nails, let dry, paint black and then glue to a male figures head.

You can even try to cut a thin strip of black electrical tape and use it as a hat band.

If you take a figure and paint the paints black and shirt blue you can add  suspenders with the same black electrical tape I spoke of above.

Like I always say; where there is a will there is a way.

Somebody help me out.  There was a person in Pittsburgh who used to make custom sets of people.  I can remember the name of her company.

George

Way to go George, we can all use that information at one time or another.

 Figure modification is easy -particularly if you have plastic figures. What you need is styrene sheet in .005, .010, and .020 thickness, styrene solvent, Squadron Green Putty, some minature files, an Exacto knife with a pointed blade, and a little bit of patience.

Hats - for the brim - a simple hole punch will make the brim, Grind the top part of the figures head flat fuse the "brim onto the head and then cut several small pieces of .020 styrene and fuse on top of that, let everything dry and then file the hat to shape

Jackets - cut an actual jacket (the vest part) out of .005 styrene, slit the arm holes, slip the stiff plastic over the figure and put one or two drops of styrene solvent on the .005 sheet - it will collapse and "drape" on the figure just like a real jacket.  Fill in the seams between the figure and the jacket where they meet at the arm holes with Squadron Green Putty, let dry and then file to shape.

Long Dresses - draw irregular circular shapes on the .010 styrene, use the Exacto knife to score the plastic and then break the scored pieces out of the sheet - don't worry if some of them break.  Fit the pieces from the waist to the feet around a female figure - do not fit next to one another, leave gaps. Use a drop or two of styrene solvent to fuse into place, let dry.  Fill in the gaps with Squadron Green Putty. Let dry. File and sand to shape and then paint.

You're welcome, chucklehead. 

Thanks Carl.  That's who I was trying to remember. (Pretty funny Mario).

George

did a google search and found some examples.  very nice work, they should have a web sita and sell to us.

http://homepage.mac.com/fjerom...more%20progress.html

It's my understanding that trainsformations quit doing custom work years ago.

I have used her services multiple times to have her make something like 35 family member figures, Easter scene figures, and a few others.  The last that I checked she was out of that business.

That said, if someone KNOWS that she's back, please let me know!!  I need all of my family figures updated.

- walt