Comparing RailKing "people" and true O scale figures

Pre McDonalds Big Mac. Post McDonalds Big Mac.

close enough....

  In my world most of you people are Railking size !

Haha, I guess like in real life, people come in all kinds of shapes and sizes....

They're both too short for me @ 6'-4".

Where do the Lionel Polar Express people fit in?

Of course you wouldn't try fitting the guy with a hammer in your O Scale SP Daylight passenger car - maybe on the station platform (if you're lucky enough to have one).

I support short people although I don't count myself as one of them; the Railking figures are the best for passenger car interiors.

Although the RailKing people may be a bit small, the sitting figures work the best of all brands in passenger cars. A study a forum member did a few years ago showed every makers 6' man was a different size.

Railking people are a bit small yes, but I usethem for children, and a lot of them for folks who fit in passenger cars, 1:43 buses and buses easily: not easy to get the full size figures in.   

Its funny but when I purchase O gauge people, sometimes the ones on the smaller end look good and at other times the larger figures look better. I believe that it depends on the setting and how the perspective looks to the eyes.

My experience with passenger cars is the smaller ones pretty universally look better in the cars.  All of the true 1:48 scale people sit so tall in the seats that you see their chest through the windows.

I must admit that my first reaction was, so what! From more than 3 feet away, who cal tell the difference, when your layout has various people standing, and/or working all over the place?

I can tell the difference between seeing the passenger's heads or their chest through the windows.  I guess I just have sharp eyes.

I believe that MTH's people and Artista's figures are both way undersized.  As well done as they are, they only look good, in my eyes at least, if they are grouped together by themselves with no true-sized figures around them.

I don't buy either for just that reason.

- walt

Looks like the RailKing figures might work well for S scale....

Mark in Oregon

He could also work with AF and Marx 3/16" on O-Gauge trains! That makes him an O-Gauge figure. Maybe not an O-Scale one, but he could be an O-Gauge guy!  LOL

John, where do you get your passengers?  I have 6 MTH streamlined cars to fill.  oO

I've used some of the Chinese 1:75 figures and just touched them up to give some facial features for many of them.  I also had some S-scale ones that fit perfectly, but I haven't found any more of those recently.  I think the MTH Railking figures are about the right size, but I don't want to have to paint them totally.

I find that ALL 'O' scale people are different sizes.....from really small to really big. I just do as lee does......either place like size together or use as appropriate.  Just like in real life.....many different size people and ages. Yet to be REALLY disappointed with any I've bought.