Putting Drivers in Cars/Trucks

use smaller scale figures, even HO. the BEEP people for passenger cars fit nicely into most 1/43 cars and trucks. good luck! also you may use o scale kids.

I have had to perform surgery on most of my figures to fit in the 1/43 scale cars. Not an issue for me.

I have resorted to plastic surgery at times, but also found some circus figures that would fit some cars without surgery.

The pickup and UP SUV drivers both were amputated at the waist.  The BNSF SUV driver was much luckier and is required no surgery.

Terry,

   Got to admit some of the nice right size people for cars, trucks and especially for the tractors are getting harder and harder to find.

PCRR/Dave

I have found that all my drivers need surgery of some type to get them in cars and looking right.....but no one can see so it don't matter. I use cheaper seated figures for inside cars as it's just not seen very well.

I've fitted people into my Milwaukee Road bus. I had to perform a lot of below-the-knee amputations though. 

I cut the feet off of people that are in odd poses to fit into vehicles. 

Thanks for all the comments everyone. I'm headed off to do some surgery! I really appreciate all the inputs and pictures!   Terry

These blondes all had to have plastic surgery in order to fit into the Buick seats.

Try "ARTISTA"!  They make them!!!

FREDSTRAINS

Funny you should mention this.  I was literally in the process of putting a driver in a WBB chassis (first photo below), which is cut maybe a scale 4 inches above the waist.  You do what you have to do to get the figures to fit.

 I don't think I have put any figure in any car without cutting or filing away something.  The most drastic is the figure in the second photo, cut just below the neck, with just a trace of shoulder.

EDIT 2 hours later: I finished the project and I thought one other figure I was working on might interest you.  The photo below shows a Bachmann taxi lightly modified.  Goo gone removed the checker stripes along the sides and taxi logos, and a razor saw the roof.  I had to make a cover over the motor - it's just a piece of thing styrene carefully cut to just sit on top of the motor and then covered with plastic electrical tape (matches the Bachman interior perfectly).  Also I put electrical tape on the inside of the car to simulate upholstered doors inside.  Styrene cut to shape for folded down top glued behind that piece and painted.  Not much too it.  

Notice the female figure I put in the front seat.  I cut her to fit with a notch in her rear and trimmed her feet off 'cause they would not fit.  The driver can be just a bust because he has the wheel hiding the fact he has no legs, etc.  But be  leaving so much of her she looks much better in the car.