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I'm looking for some seated figures for some RailKing passenger cars.  The typical 1:50 Chinese ones are too big, and the 1:100 figures are too small.  I figure the 1:64 figures would be about right. I'd like to find some that would cost less than the price of the cars to populate these with about 15 each, I have six cars.

 

Here's some pictures of the figures I've tried.

 

 

First the cars, they're the 15" RailKing Amtrak cars.

 

RailKing Amtrak Passengers N1

 

Here's the figures temporarily stuck to the seats.  Note I have to amputate the feet of the 1:50 figure.  The 1:100 figure doesn't see fully in the seat, looks like he's anticipating a crash or something.

 

RailKing Amtrak Passengers N2

 

 

Here's a shot of the two sized seated in the car through the windows at eye level.  The 1:50 guy loses his head, looks way oversize for the car.  The 1:100 guy is lost in the seat.

 

RailKing Amtrak Passengers N3

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There was a thread a while back about some Chinese figures that were nominally a very small size, either HO or 1:100, but were actually a bit bigger than 1:64. This was when the discussion was going on about We Honest, but it wasn't those guys, it was another Chinese firm. The seller was on eBay, and he put the actual metric size of the figures in the ad, which was way different from the claimed scale. As I recall the figures were around 25mm, something like that. You might try searching for the thread, or just check out the Chinese figures on eBay. 

 

Rail King sells a big bag of passenger figures that are about the right size for a pretty cheap price, but you have to paint them yourself. 

John,

 

I used the bag of unpainted MTH figures to populate my RK passenger cars.  As small as they are I still needed to lop off the feet.  I also used some figures from Circus Craft but they were way too big.  Used them anyways.  In the photos below, you might see some bigger and some smaller figures.  Bigger = Circus Craft.  Smaller = MTH.

 

On my Aerotrain set I used ones from RMT that I picked up at the October York meet.  I had to trim off from the waist down but since you have to strain and make a very conscious effort to see the seats I didn't really care.

 

- walt

 

Here's a few images that you requested:

passenger_car1_150_trim

 

passenger_car2_150_trim

 

passenger_car3_150_trim

 

passenger_car4_150_trim

 

passenger_car5_150_trim

 

John,

 

Here's a picture of an RMT BEEP person in my Aerotrain.  Now you can see why I had to chop them off at the waist!

Man too big

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hey john, watch out for the flying lead paint!  who knows what they paint these with!  Originally Posted by gunrunnerjohn:

I may chop my Chinese ones at the waist and see if they look OK, that's another option.  I hate the look where the guy's head is not visible, really looks stupid

We're going to get to the bottom of this if it kills us.

 

I haven't tried the 1:50 figures in the MTH Premier cars yet, I think I should open one of those and see if they fit better or are the same scale as the Amtrak Railking cars I'm currently working with.  I have 19 of the Premier cars that need passengers, so I'm going to need a lot of them!  I thought I'd attack the Railking cars first and see what issues I ran into.

The 120-piece figure set by RailKing (#30-11043) is mostly but not entirely seated figures. Also, they are considerably smaller figures than those in RMT's BEEPeople (RMT-99417) 48 seated figures set. In fact they're also slightly smaller than RailKing's own Locomotive Cab Figure set #30-11067).

BTW, the packaging on neither of these three figure sets specifically mentions them being o scale. However the packaging on the unpainted RailKing figures does have a fine print disclaimer saying:

The passengers in our 120-piece figure set are designed to fit into almost any of our passenger car interiors. There are a few exceptions, however. To insure that your passengers are able to get where they're going without broken legs, we've compiled a list (below) of the passenger car interiors they do not fit into.

RailKing: Madison Diner, Streamlined Diner, Superliner Diner, Budd Car.

Premier: Streamlined Diner

The Brill Semi-Convertible Trolley and PCC Electric Street Cars do not have interiors and therefore will not accommodate passengers.

All future M.T.H. passenger car interiors will be designed so that these passengers will fit.

Unfortunately the MTH packaging isn't dated and therefore it's a guess the exact year their fit guarantee was made.

 

Why can't these manufacturers stop playing games with our consumer spending dollars and indicate sizes of their figures on packaging so we wouldn't have to continue playing such senseless and frustrating time and money wasting games of Russian roulette - will these figures fit? Manufacturers, it's time you make your figures and labeling standardized!

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Joe, the unpainted are indeed the same size as the painted figures and yes, the painted are per figure much more expensive. The RailKing painted 12-piece Passenger Figure Set #3 (#30-11067) features 7 seated adults, 2 seated children, 2 standing adults and 1 standing child.

Thanks, gunrunnerjohn, for correcting my error on the unpainted figures order number, I've revised my post with the correct number.

Thanks John H.
 
About the same price per unit as the ones on eBay, but the color mixture looks like it might be a little better. The size at 24mm is smaller than the GGD people, who are closer to 33mm, and lot larger than the Chinese 1:100 people at 13 to 15mm, who are too small.
 
Have you ordered from them before, tried them in a RailKing car?
 
Thanks,
Jason
 
 
 
Originally Posted by John H:

John,

    Have you tried http://www.modelleisenbahn-figuren.com/

I use K-Line figures which are the same as RMT figures. I perform a "butt-decttomey", my term, with sprue cutters in order to allow them to sit lower in the seats and shorten the feet and legs as necessary, I use a hot-glue gun to attach the figures and I find that they stay in place, but are easily removed if you don't like the results.

 

Eric Hofberg

TCA, LCCA

I was "sanding" their butts off on the bench top belt/disc sander, but when you have 100+ butts to sand off....it would just be easier to buy smaller people. I don't mind cutting legs off and sanding butts, but when they are up in the dome, most of those mods are visible.

 

John did you buy the "mixed" people or did you find 100 seated people?  

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