those smaller figures would make for good children sized persons....maybe make one with their leg out kicking the seat in front of them
Gunrunnerjohn posted pictures of the 1/75 scale seated in his MTH RailKing Amtrak cars in the thread below. As a result of his picture I placed an order myself and obtained similar results. They fit without having to modify the figures and more proportional to the seats than the 1/100th that I previously ordered.
I found em on Ebay, pack of 100, 1:75, all seated people. Gonna have to get those for the dome!
I bought the "all seated" people.
I had bought a large bunch of the Golden Gate people and put them in various cars.
I was using Hot Glue to put them in but really hard not to get the little tails off the hot glue? how do you do that?
Thinking I might need some brighter people and painting the MTH people might be the best answer!
When I am working fast to complete a project like this, I don't saw or sand the butts of these folks just use diagonal cuts to snip off what I don't want and then glue them into the seats. This is much faster.
I looked for a photo but do not have one so I will have describe my method when I put interiors in several silhouette cars and had to make the seats as well as put people in them. Using 36" wood stock from my LHS, I made several 36" long benchs, painted them, then glued people down (five minute epoxy) the figures and then when all was hardened, cut roughly 1" lengths of the bench off as I needed to fill the interior. It was fast and effective - looks good through the windows.
On a few of the seated people I have had to alter where the legs were to long, I have first cut off the shoe or boot, then taken out a portion of the leg and replaced the shoe or boot with a touch of epoxy.
This is very easy and simple and it is very hard to notice the difference in the leg length. I only do this when the legs are visable such as the legs on my fork lift operators, etc.
Good idea shortening the legs, never actually thought of that.
As far as the hot glue tails, that's the downside of using hot glue, I've never seen any way to deal with that other than just gather them up after the fact.
I used epoxy this time around to glue them in. I have used CA and hot glue in the past, and the hot glue seemed to come loose after a period of time.
I had to cut off many of their legs/shoes to get them to sit down after I sanded their butts off. I had to sand some of their backs as well as their butts, just to get the right angle so they actually sit back in their seats like they should. otherwise they looked like they were are reclined in the seat with a large gap between the back of the seat and their back.
John, I would be pleased to send you one seated man and one seated woman for you to try. You seem to be the one who has tried most of them. Email me your address And I'll get them out within a day.
By the way, MTH's 70' Scale Streamlined Passenger Car Set has chopped off everything below the waist.
Bill Berresford
Which John are you addressing?