Modified LPBs

[nachoman]

My layout needs more LPBs. My issue is era - there isn't much available for my time period, and they are more than I want to spend. Years ago I bought a box of cheap Atlas unpainted figures, and have a few left over. The problem is, they are in ridiculous poses, look like many are either doctors or military personnel, or are wearing way to modern clothing. But, being impatient, I thought I could cut some up and see what I could do.

   

The woman on the left began as a seated woman with her left arm kinda sticking out for no reason. She was wearing some kind of shorts and a short sleeve blouse. Way too modern for my 1920 timeframe. So, I cut her arm at the elbow, filed the cut edges at an appropriate angle, and re-glued her arm so it was directed at her lap. I then made a longer dress for her by plopping a blob of epoxy on her legs and then filing/sanding to shape. Her hat is a disk of styrene glued down over the top of her head (with the crown of her head sticking through the disc). I then put a blob of putty on the center of the hat and sanded that round. The rest is just paint.

The man/boy on the right started off as a man seated on some kind of chair that looked like a toilet. My first step was to remove the chair with a hobby knife and files. I then had to fix a deformed foot from where he was attached to the base. I used a tiny scrap of styrene for this. His hat is made the same way as the woman's - a disc of styrene glued around his head with the sides bent up. After I seated him on the bench, I noticed his feet didn't hit the floor Either he was meant to be a child or was modeled to a different scale. Either way, he can be the woman's 10 year old son.

[Tyson Rayles]

Very nice but you need to give them some eyes so they can see where they are going!

[nachoman]

Tyson - haha, true. But you don't notice that when not in a zoomed in photo. I've tried painting eyes before and all I get are zombies.

[Tyson Rayles]

Ah yes, the hazards of close-up photos!

[Sumpter250]

Ah yes, the hazards of close-up photos!

Yes, they do look better from a distance!
The "Tour Ship" pulling into Cindys Harbor Seaport Village, with a "quantity" of "modified LPBs, aboard the ship, and ashore :
   

:oops: One of these days I will get that tour ship finished. ( famous last words ? :o )

[Ralph]

I admire your work on those little folks! I've long thought about creating some ball players for my baseball field out of unpainted figures I have. Nice work!

[nachoman]

One thing I have never understood - I need some basic figures doing normal things. Like just sitting there or walking. Yet, when I go online and look, I can find heaps of LPBs going things like flying a kite, pooping in the woods, vampires, and santa claus, but finding just normal guys doing nothing in particular is much less common. Heck, just causally browsing MBklein now, I see package after package of naked people, but not a single package of pack mules. Who has a need for that many naked people on their layout?

[Tyson Rayles]

"Who has a need for that many naked people on their layout?"

A club layout at a nudist colony?

[sailormatlac]

Kevin, even train crews are extremely limited and we are talking about model railroading. Always the same characters since 5 decades!!! And they don't cover all the eras modeled... Plain ridiculous. Realistic brakemen are scarce and work train people always looks seriously ill or wrongly shaped. You are modelling a ingrate era too! A little bit earlier and you would be well-served. Good luck bashing characters!

Matt

[Brakie]

Sumpter,That's a mighty fine looking "Tour Ship" but, it looks top heavy..Don't think I would care to be aboard in high seas and rough weather..

Remember the Eastland.

[Sumpter250]

Sumpter,That's a mighty fine looking "Tour Ship" but, it looks top heavy..Don't think I would care to be aboard in high seas and rough weather.. Remember the Eastland.

The "Tour Ship",
   
is modeled after M.S.Diana.
   
She's a tour ship designed to operate in a canal, and fit in the locks on that canal in Sweden.
http://bigbluetrains.com/forum/viewtopic...Gota+Canal Page 2, last post
She will serve a similar function on the Kennequogue River, and out on Great Island Sound.

Yes, I did take the liberties of a few "changes", but her length, breadth, and height above the waterline are to scale.
The model was ( actually is still being.. I have a "ton" of brass rod to cut and solder into handrails ) built on a Revell "The Firefighter" kit hull, shortened, and cut off at the waterline.

[Brakie]

Sumpter, While the M.S.Diana is a nice looking ship I fear if the passengers would rush to one side she would emulate the Eastern and roll over.

[Schraddel]

Never mind Brakie!

She can't turn over:

The locks are simply too narrow

You don't believe it?
Be aware passengers who will not believe it will be set out:

Island jokes became true...
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Lutz

[Sumpter250]

Sumpter, While the M.S.Diana is a nice looking ship I fear if the passengers would rush to one side she would emulate the Eastern and roll over.

Or, perhaps the M V Sewol, the recent South Korean disaster. :o

I built this one, and the "Water" is too "hard" hock: for any "rollovers"

I still haven quite settled on what to use for the safety netting on the main deck handrails.....it will most probably be tulle, as the netting is close, in size of openings, to what Tulle represents in HO scale.

[Brakie]

Lutz,The Eastland was in port at Chicago where the passenger troop over to port side to wave at friends and follow employees and thus she rolled over with a great lost of life..
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Sumpter,The Tulle should work quite well for the netting..My youngest brother in law builds models of lake ships and he uses that stuff.

How embarrassing. I wrote Eastern instead of Eastland in the reply your quoted..The Eastern was another ship that plied the Great Lakes.