Railroad Yard Workers

Try Artistta and Prieser O scale figures. 

These are the figures I have populated yards and road crews with.

Ebay auction numbers:

292561487016

231588986540

Also, try Scenic Express - they have a lot of the figures you may be looking for.

Thanks for everyone's responses!!! Artistta is literally 30 minutes away.

Artistta is a little pricey,  but well worth it!!  They have the best selection!!

Fredstrains

John:

Get on the Walther's web site and search O scale figures - you will see a lot of different brands. If you search 1/43-1/50 scale you will see Preiser.

Damit Odell, are you gonna help?

railroad-guy posted:

Damit Odell, are you gonna help?

Nice scene. Who makes those figures? Thanks. 

railroad-guy posted:

Damit Odell, are you gonna help?

Absolutely some of the best figures and painting I have ever seen in model railroading. I would love to know more about the scale (G?), figures, modeler, and modeling techniques used to achieve these results.

Superb.

Andre

laming posted:

railroad-guy posted:

Damit Odell, are you gonna help?

Absolutely some of the best figures and painting I have ever seen in model railroading. I would love to know more about the scale (G?), figures, modeler, and modeling techniques used to achieve these results.

Superb.

Andre

I agree. Frankly, I think that most miniature human figures detract from the realism of the scene due to the "uncanny valley" problem (although they are still great fun!).  These are a rare exception. Incredible work!

Upon further review, it appears to me the figures are large scale of some sort (seems to be way too much detail on them for O scale figures) or that's some clever and very good photo shop work.

The above FWIW.

Andre

The two figures I posted are O scale. No Photoshop. These are from AndIan Models. They now have US type figures. Real people dressed costume and then 3D scanned. Custom painted then by Ian Fainges.

Odell taking the controls of a Weaver consolation. He hates rail fans

I gladly stand corrected. Those are fabulous figures and excellent paint effects!

As you can see, they are so convincing that I thought they were photo shopped images of 1:1 persons!

Andre

laming posted:

I gladly stand corrected. Those are fabulous figures and excellent paint effects!

As you can see, they are so convincing that I thought they were photo shopped images of 1:1 persons!

Andre

They really some of the best. 

railroad-guy posted:

Odell taking the controls of a Weaver consolation. He hates rail fans

Just ordered Odell "semaphores up" driver for our local layout. Originally thought the cost of 1 painted figure was $26 plus $25 for shipping and so I didn't put the order through until I figured out the dollars quoted are Australian not U.S. Converted cost around $35 with half of that being shipping. Probably should have ordered more figures to even out the shipping cost, but hey, "semaphore" it.

railroad-guy posted:

 Real people dressed costume and then 3D scanned. Custom painted then by Ian Fainges.

Ah, that explains it. They are essentially "3-D photographs". The painting is masterful. 

This technique may cause me to reevaluate my attitude concerning "little people".