I went to a Catholic high school. All girls. I want to model a scene with a Catholic high school. I have the building done and I have nun figures but I can't find schoolgirl figures. There must be a thousand figures out there but no schoolgirls in uniforms. Has anyone seen any, or is it just impossible. I thought it would be easy until I started looking. OH!...also, is there a school bus out there that would be right for my era. I'm modeling 1965 in HO.
I can't think of ever seeing such figures, in any scale. Could be an instance where you will be sitting down with a paint brush, patiently working away...
Candy - this is not any help but to tag along with your thread if I may, I'm looking at a similar project that will include a Catholic Church. Have you seen any figures of priests wearing robes in your searches?
Candy- I really like your work. This is not going to be much help, but maybe it will be suggestive. (Oops, nuns won't want anything suggestive.) I ordered a set of 100 inexpensive N scale beach figures from China on "THAT" auction site. I suspect the figures may have been scaled for Japanese N scale which is 1/150 rather than our 1/160. But many Asian people are smaller of stature than American and European people-- so it works out about right. My set came with 5 or 6 variations of women figures, I guess each variation came all from the same mold. Ten of them were smaller than all the other figures, all the same pose, all painted to look like 2 piece bikini bathing suits. I thought, they are just too distinctive to look like random casual people on a beach. Too much the same pose. By the way, I have repainted nearly all my female bsathers with 1 piece suits which were more common in the mid-1950s period I am modeling. I decided my petite female figures could be middle-school-age dance students in leotards waiting outside the dance school for moms to pick them up. I figured tween-age dance students would be more likely to all have the same pose than random people on a beach. I did a lousy job of painting them. Need to re-do, but I still think the idea might work. I know it doesn't directly help you, but maybe it will give you an idea. The Catholic school girls in South Texas all seem to be in a kind of plaid, and I don't know HOW you could paint that, even in HO. The Episcopal girls wear a light-blue solid color dress. Anyway, good luck. I enjoy following your progress.
I don't need a lot of girls, just a few talking together. Here is a picture of what I wore to school. It's a resent picture but the uniform has not changed
Candy - I looked through the "figures" section of the printed 2012 Walthers catalog and found the following sets that may include figures you can use for the school children, though you'll definitely have to paint them: Faller 272-151022/151023/151031 Preiser 590-10181/10401/14126/14139/14074 JNXT 7707 - I also found some priests, alone or in some grouping, that may be what you're looking for: Preiser 590-28015/28057/28060/28076/28105/10520/10198/10058 Hope that both of you can find something useful in the lists. In any event, figures are now quite expensive!
Having gone to a catholic school where they would pic up my best friend, who I now realize probably had adhd, by the color and beat like a piniata till he threw up... Why re-enect catholic school? then again maybe you had the nice nuns, we had the SS nuns at my school. Actually most of them were very nice, but there were a few who had slipped into bad habits. Having said all that... oops wrong denomination: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PREISER-1...l_Railways&hash=item4844e3cdad#ht_3164wt_1003 I'll keep looking. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Noch-1581...lway_Models&hash=item19d03fb154#ht_500wt_1018 Looks like you may have to repaint some figures but there is stuff out there.
Candy, Can't help on the priest or schoolgirls, but as far as the school bus is concerned, a kitbash might be possible using the old Con-Cor school bus (shows up on ebay now and again) and a different front clip, like CMW's International R model, Athearn's '68 Ford, (actually a '66), or some other mid 1960's truck.
Candy, You may or may not have seen this already http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Yellow-S...090147?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item5893b2cae3 Not precise but a pretty 'good enough' model. I have a figure of a hobo with a red plaid shirt (actually thin black stripes painted over the red). I didn't paint it, but it looks pretty good to me. I'll see if my camera will get a pic of him. 2slim
Preiser has a set of 120 unpainted figures that contain many young women in skirts. Walthers wants $33 for it but it's not in stock. Expected May 11. I think I can paint them and modify them to be my schoolgirls. I will try anyway. The other figures I can use in other places.
