Baseball & Trains

Love it. I'm planning a small baseball/softball field. Hard finding women softball players that would represent my daughter's college team. Love your Stadium, especially the monuments. Thanks for the photos.

Arnold,

   Now that is way cool, where did you get all those cool Base Ball figures, did you make the stadium field?  Love to have the Yankees and Pirates game 7 at Forbes Field recreated in my Train Room.   

What a great idea!

PCRR/Dave 

Mine is almost complete.  I need some bleachers and grass around the outside.  And maybe a scoreboard. 

Alentown posted:

Love it. I'm planning a small baseball/softball field. Hard finding women softball players that would represent my daughter's college team. Love your Stadium, especially the monuments. Thanks for the photos.

Monuments were made from Popsicle Sticks and got the faces of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Miller Huggins (manager) off the Internet.

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Arnold,

   Now that is way cool, where did you get all those cool Base Ball figures, did you make the stadium field?  Love to have the Yankees and Pirates game 7 at Forbes Field recreated in my Train Room.   

What a great idea!

PCRR/Dave 

Dave, I bought the metal baseball figures from the Choo Choo Barn (in York or Strasburg, PA) around 1995 for $150. They came in a pretty box with a red ribbon on it.

The baseball field is made with scenery materials (Woodland Scenics fine green and spray glue), scoreboard is made from cardboard painted with acrylic paint, and bleachers are obviously made from Popsicle sticks glued together and painted blue (great project to do with a child or children because it is so simple and relatively easy). I made the bleachers with my son and daughter when they were little. Also, we glued together and painted many of the little people sitting in the stands. It was cheaper to buy the plastic bodies and arms and heads of these little figures and unpainted, and my kids and I had fun gluing them together and painting them.

I'm sure that you, as a Pirates fan, can have a great time creating a ballpark reminiscent of Forbes Field in game 7 of the 1960 World Series. Make sure you include Yogi Berra in left field watching the Mazeroski home run go over the tall, ivy covered left field wall!

Panther97 posted:

Mine is almost complete.  I need some bleachers and grass around the outside.  And maybe a scoreboard. 

 

Looks great. Very realistic. Thanks for the pictures.

Where did you get your baseball figures? I am particularly interested in your right hand pitcher.

Alrhough I chose the 1956 World Series perfect game in Yankee Stadium, I came close to doing a Field of Dreams scene. That could be a great scene to model with the corn field past the outfield fence, the farmhouse where Ray Kinsella and his wife and daughter live, the light towers, etc.

Another idea would be to model other ballparks, especially the historic ones like Fenway Park and Wrigley Field.

I too would love to find 0 scale baseball figures.

I just Googled O Scale Baseball Figures, and found some that might be good. 

Some are plastic and inexpensive. The metal or pewter figures are more expensive. The ones that looked the best were metal and offered by TrainZ, but unfortunately they were out of stock. I think they were made by Kramer.

Artista has a lot of cool figures, but I could not find baseball players among the little people they were offering for sale on the Internet.

Forbes Field at the Carnegie is something else. She modeled a specific game, but not the Series.

Now I'm thinking an all-time Pirate all-stars lineup...but which uniforms, which park and who goes where? Second base, shortstop, left and right field aren't as hard, but...

Try www.kramerproducts.com

I think that they are still in business here in the Pittsburgh area.

Norm

Scenery Express has O Scale baseball figures.

On a related noted, I've been looking for a figure of someone in the act of throwing a ball or a rock *without* a baseball glove on his non-throwing hand.  Has anyone seen anything like this?

Steven J. Serenska

You might also want to look into sportsclix on ebay. Similar to the heroclix super hero figures, they are perfect for O Scale and come in a variety of poses. They didn't find the success that heroclix did, but they did make major league players several years back and they are relatively affordable for a fairly well detailed plastic figure. To field an entire team in the same uniform you might need to do a little repainting, but that might not be too challenging, since a uniform is predominantly just one color. 

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Looks great. Very realistic. Thanks for the pictures.Where did you get your baseball figures? I am particularly interested in your right hand pitcher.

Thanks, Arnold.  The baseball figures are from a game called SportsClix.   There was a thread on baseball fields last year and a forum member pointed them out.  I really wanted a scene with the pitcher stare.   They are not exactly O-scale to be honest.  They are slightly smaller. 

DohertyNJ posted:

Fabulous pictures. I particularly like the top one. Very nice field, fence, buildings in background and ball players.

nkp4me posted:

You might also want to look into sportsclix on ebay. Similar to the heroclix super hero figures, they are perfect for O Scale and come in a variety of poses. They didn't find the success that heroclix did, but they did make major league players several years back and they are relatively affordable for a fairly well detailed plastic figure. To field an entire team in the same uniform you might need to do a little repainting, but that might not be too challenging, since a uniform is predominantly just one color. 

You must have posted this as I was typing my response!  LOL.   I purchased a huge lot on ebay of 100+ figures for about $20 at the time I built this field.  I'm not very good at hand painting figures!

Arnold, did you build your bleachers?

Here is my Field of Dreams diamond. That is suppose to be Shoeless Joe Jackson emerging from the cornfield. And thanks for the heads-up on the Sportsclix. I just ordered some to round out the team. I think they will work. I also added a few shots of how Shady Hollow decorates for the season.

Rick

I'd love to build Yankee Stadium, but I don't even have room for a backyard ballfield, haha.  This is great stuff, guys.

My son bought me this.  It's on my Yankee wall in the pool room.  Sorry for the flash.  We have looked at this for 5 years.  Clearly the first pitch to Gilliam, but, no Mantle, no McDougald (Rizzuto was released), no Cary.  This summer, another sharp-eyed guest noticed McDougald's dark right baseball sleeve over Yogi's left shoulder.  We always thought it was Yogi's glove.  Mantle must be blocked by Berra and Pinelli.

Arnold, I love that Yankee field with the scoreboard, monuments, fascade, and depth signs.  I got these Yankee fascade pieces from a guy in Florida.  He can make you any size you need.  I can't remember the toy and puzzle company name, but his email is DJ51@aol.com, for anyone who is interested.

If you haven't already, it's the "chooholigans" page in "figures" at Scenic Express.  Not cheap, but lots of ballplayers that look like they can be easily painted to resemble the team you want.

Jerry