O Scale Musician Figures?

I BELIEVE SCENIC ACCENTS HAS A JUG BAND EMSEMBLE

Thank you for your reply. I have that set and they look great. My client is looking for a diorama of a concert setting and I haven't seen such figures on the market.

 

Sincerely,

Randy Harrison

Proprietor

Harrison Trains

White Marsh, MarylandUSA

Phone: 410-391-3433

Web Site: http://www.harrisontrains.com

You might try a specialty bakery store.  Sometimes they have cake or cupcake toppers like that...

Thank you. That is a GREAT idea.

Sincerely,

Randy Harrison

Proprietor

Harrison Trains

White Marsh, MarylandUSA

Phone: 410-391-3433

Web Site: http://www.harrisontrains.com

Another option is to get "grooms" in seated positions and fab up the horns, but I see the horns by themselves quite a bit in the Michaels and Hobby Lobby stores too.  Can you tell my wife is a Band Director?  

You may want to try metal-figures.net. I found some unique figures there including band figures

Kramer Products has a 4 piecer.  Russ

 

http://www.kramerproducts.com/band.htm

Thanks to all of you who replied with ideas. You guys a great and helpful resource!

 

Sincerely,

Randy Harrison

Proprietor

Harrison Trains

White Marsh, MarylandUSA

Phone: 410-391-3433

Web Site: http://www.harrisontrains.com

I think those figures were produced for that very old accessory only by a "Mr. Christmas" parts manufacturer. So I doubt they are available commercially.

If you won that auction for a low enough price the cost per figure might be O.K. for your needs.

Mark

Look under O scale circus on ebay. Circus band musicians offered from time to time

Someone must make them.  I saw this in the 'other O magazine' a couple years back.

 

- walt

 

Walt:

Thank you for the photo. Does anyone know where I can get these figures?

I believe the above set British band are cake toppers. I have a set [not for sale-SORRY] put away for use on my future layout bought a number of years ago [maybe 20/20+]. They are plastic but I think Brits makes some metal ones. Also I think there would be a Circus modelers web site where you could find band figures. Lionel also made a band shell that played casset tapes [so you know how long ago that was] I think had some kind of band figures.

Randy,

      There are a number of manufacturers of 54mm metal band figures. W. Britains is a big one and there are many others. Do a Google search for "54mm Band figures" and weed through all the marching bands. There are two sets on ebay right now similar to this photo. Good luck.

Emile

 

 

 

Here's a couple on ebay now:

1.Pretty pricey

 

2.a little less

 

I'm guessing these prices would make the diorama too expensive but hey...maybe not!

Mark

This is a great topic for me.  I want to find a high school marching band for a scene on my layout.  The 54mm size?  How does that compare to our O gauge figures?

 

Art

Thanks to all for the leads on the 54 mm figures. I will check with my client to see if he is willing to pay the price for them.

 

Chugman: the 54 mm figures are a bit larger than O gauge, but, they will work.

Thanks, I will definitely check this out.

 

Art

The 54mm converts to about 1:32 according to most modeling sites. I have found that the cast metal figures from W. Britains and CBG Mignot are closer to 1:35. Either way, they work just fine in an O gauge layout. In the photo below, only the cigarette machine is 1:48. The dog is 54mm. The other photo is the front end of a long parade that was part of my 2014 Christmas layout. There are limitless marching band figures produced in 54mm and the detail surpasses anything I've seen available in 1:48.

 

Emile

 

 

Hey ToddMc, you are correct. But to elaborate, each figure had a long pin sticking out their feet that stuck down through a hole on the plastic belt.  Inside this crank unit were wires that stick up and the plastic pieces hit the wires and played a tune, much like a music box.  You could "program" a song by proper placement of the band members.  MY dad bought one a million years ago and I still have some of them in a  box someplace in my workshot.  The arms and instruments came off the bodies.  I glued the arms and instruments onto the torso of plastic figures of a circus wagon driver that Circus Crafts made 35-40 years ago and made a band for my Big Top.  They can be seen at the back of the main circus tent at the Choo Choo Barn.

Tom, Very Cool!  I wondered what the toy did, as the auction description was pretty vague.  These older toys were ingenious in how they used basic mechanical principles to create the "play" value in the toy.  They just don't make them like they used to. 

don't know about thses but check out our sale on figures.