O Scale People from China

Great idea. I have a bunch of those standing people. Heat gun...here I come.

Thanks Ron.

George (G3)

These are perfect for your use.  Easy and cheap way to add a lot of passengers.

Plus, the UP makes them look better 

Not a bad idea. I bought a huge bag of these, mixed between standing and sitting, off ePay from China over a year ago. The standing ones, I was always going to use inside structures where you could see in windows, when the outside figures would be woodland scenics, arttista, and stuff like that.

But it never occured to me to bend the legs into sitting poses, I like that!

Thanks for sharing the idea and photos, Ron.  It's nice to see people in passenger cars.  Otherwise they look so, well, empty. :-). What did you use to hold the figures in place?

Tomlinson Run RR

I, for one, take the seated ones, and file a notch where the seats meet the backs of the figures. Then I use slow-set ACC to glue them into place:

I also purchased those people from China.

The vendor was "wehonest" and I am very happy with both the seated version and the standing versions.

I purchased 100 ALL seated for 21.99 and there are six different poses and 6 different color schemes.

I just started to use them and I am adding some of my own colors to mix it up a bit.

I figured I did all the fruit in my fruit stand I can paint some people also.

Excellant Ron.  Good use of some otherwise mundane folk.  Perhaps they are all the same because we all look the same to them.  

In all seriousness, we are viewed as being "Tall",".........." & "............".

Ain't that a crock? But so true. 

Oh no, Mr Bill! Not the hot iron!

I use rubber cement.  Dab a little on their back and rump.  It holds them in their seat well and if you change your mind, you can remove it by rubbing with your finger.

I use a hot glue gun and it works well for me. I think I have done almost 20 passenger cars now. Easy and fun to do.

I bought some n all of them look Chinese, yellow skin with black hair. good filler people for crowds but need work

Clever idea to make the standing people sit. I bought the set of 100 all sitting people from China. I agree they are more than sufficient quality for the inside of train cars.

I thought about just lopping them off at the hips... Then what do you do with all the legs? lol

Save all the legs, and one body/head, and make a centipede, then make a horror video, and post it here.  ATTACK OF CHINESE CENTIPEDE ON MODEL RAILROAD  

The people from China are a fantastic bargain, and I have hundreds of them on my layout. The costs of other brands of people figures are prohibitive. I can't imagine paying $5 or more per figure. By the way, China also has inexpensive sitting figures.

Wow, talk about being a faceless, nameless, and just another in the throngs of the faceless nameless multitudes.  

Bob,

I agree with you. In the real world, people in a crowd become faceless, so an O-gauge crowd should be a faceless, nameless magnitude. On a layout, viewing people from a few feet away makes facial detail irrelevant.

It is the overall impression that counts. Not once has anyone viewing my layout made note of all of the people having black hair, and having indistinguishable facial features. Typically I hear, "Wow! Look at all of those people waiting for the train." When a train goes by I hear, "Wow! The trains have people inside."

A scale eyeball is a tiny dot. A scale mouth is about 0.04 of an inch in length, and a scale nose is less than 0.04.

Did you notice that the people in the dome car are 1/100 scale?

I've bought from wehonest for several years now.  Great service and really good prices.

They list several O scale items, such as street lights, signals, fencing, in addition to people.  And as noted, their prices were really good.  But recently, looking for their sitting people, I noticed that the prices have jumped significantly.  People that used to be about a quarter each not are running close to a dollar each, street lights I've bought for 50 cents to a dollar each are now running about three dollars each.  Now I am holding off to see if this is a permanent increase in pricing.

Amazon has similar ones and you can buy ones that are in the sitting position already. They go for about the same price too.

I used the 1/75 people from WeHonest to fill the Atlas CZ dome. Better fit than the 1/48 or 1/50 figures as those just would NOT fit up in the dome.

Bobby, what size people did you use for the full length vista dome?  I ask because I need to buy some to populate a similar LIONEL car.

Also, assuming you used LEDs to light the dome, how many LEDs did you use?

Thanks.

This 18" MTH car got a variety of people... Beep, K-Line, GGD, and some from China... 50 in total.. filled it up.

The people in the dome looked oversized. 1/48 people are just too tall for up there. I shoulda used the 1/64 or 1/75 people like I did in the Atlas CZ dome.

I used hot glue the first time with the Beep People.  Over time, some of the people jumped out of there seats and became unruly in how they occupied a train car.

This last go around I used a glue called FoamTac.  It's like a type of clear rubber cement.  We'll have to see how that works.  I like it for my model planes.

Ron

I used the 1:50 sitting figure packs, I had to trim off the legs at the knees to have them fit inside my Corgi Birneys.  They look well inside their but if you place them beside model power etc they are too small

Love the idea for the standing people, I think I'll try that with some of mine. 

That is an extremely clever idea that could also be used in other ways. I'm thinking of modifying a sitting or standing figure by moving the arms so it could be the driver of a 1:43 car. There are not many of those available (Arista has a few, but they are pricey). 

I generally use silicone adhesive to attach passengers to seats. It sticks to almost anything, has great gap-filling properties and is easy to work with. For situations where I may want to move or remove the passengers later (mainly Standard Gauge) I use museum putty or sticky dots. 

Pingman,

I use 1/75 size people in the domes only. Everywhere else I use 1/50 people. You will need standing and sitting figures. It will also be necessary to chop down the legs of standing people a bit so you can see their heads when looking through the car windows. Be sure to put people walking in the aisles, and some standing people chatting with seated people. Like a guy trying to pickup a gal.

I use hot glue to secure the figures.

Bobby, I think you have severely cramped the roll on the guy trying to pick up the gal, by hot gluing him to the floor.  What if she agrees, and the both of them are just left to wonder about what could have been, whilst being hot-glued in place.  Oh, the inhumanity!    

RailKing passengers are 1/64 scale. Look great when painted using flat color paint.

See samples of seated and standing versions.

Here are some that come in the sitting position but you only get 50 for 9.00 instead of 100 http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...p;smid=A2LBFUKITQIB7

I thought these cars were supposed to be scale.   

The cars are scale, the seats are not.