Pete, that's a GREAT tip about how we assume what we see. You are so right and I never gave it a thought as related to my layout. Thanks!!!! :thumbs_up:
Thanks all for the replies... I haven't generated this much traffic in a while with a question... seems to be a worthwhile investment to pick up these figures. I'm not near the point at which I need 100+ figures, but one must often seize the (low-price) opportunity when it is available. The dollar ain't getting any better anytime soon... KB, I PM'd you over on N Scale Talk.
This is one of their pine trees. 2nd tree from the right next to a cedar. It's a plastic form with static flock for needles. This is straight out of the box. KB
I tried a thread about this some time ago. Maybe it is time for another when I get home. While we appreciate the detail and beauty of a given model, backdrop or scene when we look at it: The eye tells us: - Yep - that is not perfect but I'm going to "fix' it. It will "aggregate / interpolate" the image for us. The brain tells us: - Yep, that is a model and I will deal with it in the context it is presented The above is an over simplification based on my loose studies and observations and do not constitute scientific information upon which to base a thesis. Back on topic: Hmmm, looks good to me. I will need some figures for my buildings. I am really looking for engineers to put in my cabs.
This reminds me of a tip I read in the Bob Hayden / Dave Frary book "303 Tips for Detailing Model Railroad Scenery & Structures". If you greatly detail the roofs of your structures, viewers will assume that the rest of the building is detailed as well. I plan to follow this advice.
I've been in the arts from a very early age, but it wasn't until I was in my early 20s that I "loosened up." I learned to paint the forest, not the individual trees, and the sky, not the individual clouds. The same goes for ground scenery. I just throw the ground foam around. It lands where it lands. The exceptions are track ballasting and roads. These are human-made structures of, on a macro scale, great precision, so they have to be modeled with precision. The same, obviously, goes from man-made structures, from buildings to ships to bridges. But actual building poses some challenges, recognized by the Greeks long ago. Why were Corinthian columns tapered? So they would look rectilinear from a distance! Why would anyone bother? Because they cared! My posts here and elsewhere are my way of caring and sharing, and giving back to the community. There are many others. As long as we continue, there's no problem with the continuance of this hobby.
The 1:150 people will blend in with any slightly off-scale items, such as, the 1:144 vehicles, planes etc and the true 1:160 N scale trains, vehicles and structures. A 6'-0" N Scale figure is 0.45" tall; while the same figue in 1:150 is 0.48" tall. I not so sure many of us will be able to discern that 3/100" difference. The 1:150 figure will be taller by 3 scale inches (it will be 6'-3" tall). So if, based on an estimated 5'-6" typical N scale figure, the same figure in 1:150 will be a scale 5'-9" tall. Not a bad differential since people come in all shapes and sizes in the 1:1 world.
They don't come on sprues. Aauurghh! Oh well, we'll get around that. Toss 'em in a box, spray paint them, toss the box around, spray paint them again, toss . . .
You might be able to temporarily 'glue' them to a dowell using WS scenic cement or something non permament like that. Just to hold them on the dowell while you painted them.
I bought some and used them for passngers in passenger cars. On some I would cut the legs off to make them fit in the seats. You cant realy tell from the sides of the passenger cars and you dont need that much detail looking in through the passenger car window.
PAINTED FIGURES! Hold on a sec! Mine came painted! Wow, that makes life much easier. 1300 painted figures for about $60. That's less than $.05 apiece--or about 1/20th of what I've been paying. And all they fit in a very small container about the size of a cigarette pack. They do not look out of scale at all. Quite a nice variety, and some are seated. This is one of the best N scale deals I've ever seen. Prompt response from the vendor, and prompt shipping too.
I have bought thousands of the We-Honest, and Everydaygoodz people and cars. They are quick dip painted, and quickly molded, but have a use. Try to fill a passenger car with preiser people at 6 for $14.99, and you will be broke, however you can fill a ballpark with We-Honest people (We call them Triads in Z Scale) for under $100. One of my favorite things to do with them is to place 3 ominously stanced Triads overlooking the operation, for each model I build. I put 60 of them in a small Z Scale Miller Engineering church! What is happening lately, is people come up to me at the train shows and say they took pictures at the last show, then on their computer discovered there were interiors with people, while looking over their show pictures. Yes, they are best suited for illuminated building interiors, and save yout Woodland Scenics, Labelle, and Preiser figures for foreground models.
I bought the 300 painted N scale people ans a couple sets of "pine" trees. As previously said, the painting is a little bright. Not to big a problem considering the value of the figs. The trees looked a little twinky but after a coat of Elmers spray on glue and a roll in some Woodland Scenics fine turf, viola!!! Excellent trees for tree lines and landscaping around houses.
I tone down my people by dumping them on a beer flat and lightly misting them with flat black paint. Then I shake the box, and do the other side. Very lightly misting them--too much, and I end up with coal miners. Perhaps I should mist the workers around the plutonium research reactor with glow-in-the-dark paint? I need a lot of sailors, so misting the males with blue paint should work. Remember, my era is the 50s . . .
Pete, My 500 unpainted came as painted as well. A pack of 100 cars is working well for filling in parking lots once you get rid of the ridiculous vans with moonroofs (business must be great since everyones driving a Benz though) and some of the fences look great for formal fences around parks or cemetaries. The busses are also nice with half being older and half newer be better if they repackaged these by colour/style though.
Waiting to see myself to the tune of about $200 in goodies. I just ordered a pack of almost every different larger tree as well as some some people for myself and some HO people for him. We mainly need the HO people to fill buidings so it sounds like they are going to work perfectly. I wish there were more seted people in the assortments. We may have to go back and buy in bulk like some of you have.
It looks to me that all of the cars and busses are of modern vintage--not exactly 1950s styles. Am I correct?
