O scale/gauge sitting children for N gauge train

Look for Circus Craft figures on ebay. They have sitting men, women, and children in sets.

Your idea is terrific, by the way

rex desilets posted:

Look for Circus Craft figures on ebay. They have sitting men, women, and children in sets.

Your idea is terrific, by the way

Thanks.  Did find several from a Terapack but apparently not for sale, ditto for Trainz auctions.  Guess pictures are there as placeholders.

We are building a HO Layout Amusement Park at the Holyoke Senior center, Holyoke MA. We used a N Scale train and removed the roofs of 3 passenger cars, we used HO people in the open cars. We got the people on E-bay, they come from China.

Gene, that's perfect!

I have a N gauge amusement park ride made up with Arttista children sitting on benches in gondolas. Looks great, but costs some $$$. BTW, the diesel pulling it has the upper half of a Arttista engineer poking out of the top "driving" it. He is mounted on a black square "opening".

Here you go, on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CIRCUS...a:g:go8AAOSwax5YoQW3

rex desilets posted:

Here you go, on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CIRCUS...a:g:go8AAOSwax5YoQW3

Thank you Rex!!  Placed a bid and hope to get them

rrman posted:

rex desilets posted:

Here you go, on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CIRCUS...a:g:go8AAOSwax5YoQW3

Thank you Rex!!  Placed a bid and hope to get them

Well didn't get it them. Some !@#$%^&*() outbid me at last second. Lesson learned, if you really want something make an outlandish bid ie bid $10k for a 10 cent item

SURELY someone in the modeling world makes sitting children figures, tons of o gauge adult figures doing all kinds of actions but sitting children to ride in a train, nada.   We can buy the most arcane detail stuff to customize cars and locos but no manufacturer in the world seems to cater to sitting little figures or its wrong scales.

I was just on E-bay and saw ....50 Pcs HO Scale All Seated People, Sitting People Passengers (that is the caption of the listing) Buy It Now for $1.01 with free shipping.  I would buy a few packages and pick out the people that look like kids. For a $1.01 you can't go wrong....

Available on ebay now:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/16-Unp...5:g:TCwAAOSwtfhYqSn0

As for your unhappy experience with the earlier offered set, last-minute snipers are a bane. Decide on what the maximum amount you're willing to pay is and bid that.  A bid not much higher than the opening bid is almost guaranteed to be a loss.

Thanks Gene and Rex for the tip!

Well, finally got the amusement ride completed.  Used the Kato unitrak system and works great!.  We bought some N gauge coal cars with old style couplers, then added three seats per car and painted them in bright gaudy colors.  Used the seated people figures we had for passengers (still on lookout for the seated boys and girls set).  Cars tended to be top heavy and tip over on curves, so weighted cars with steel BB shot that very nicely rolled into car dump chutes and secured in place with Elmers white glue.  Had one figure with out stretched arms so he became the engine driver.  Painted a black square on cab rear, sliced guy at waist and glued in place so looks as if arms resting on cab sides.

Here are pictures:

Hi RRMan, 

I'm coming a "little late to the party" but for future reference, I can recommend the RailKing 12-piece figure set #2, 30-11029.  The figures are more like S scale and it does include a (only) couple of seated children. But there are adults, too, that are small enough to pass for children.  And they are so well behaved, too.  If you can find them, K-Line 0-scale has some small seated figures. They are smaller than the standing figures but bigger than the MTH ones, and so could possibly pass for older children/teenagers.

I was planning on doing something similar one day with my N scale train to commemorate a park train that I rode as a kid.  It's nice to see that you made such great progress with your project.

Tomlinson Run Railroad