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Trainmen - People Figures

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Trainmen - People Figures
Posted by traindaddy1 on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 9:18 PM

Over the years, we have had a variety of trainmen and people figures ranging from plastic to cast metal on our layouts.  Do you favor any particular brand (Plasticville, Preiser,Scenic Accents, Choohooligans,Barclay, J Hill etc.) or do you just use what "looks right"? As always, many thanks.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 6:00 AM

I haven't gotten to people as of yet on the layout, but for my passenger cars with full interiors I have bought seated, painted figurines from a company in china. 

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Posted by Rene Schweitzer on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 8:07 AM

Bob Keller recently did a blog post on adding figures to your layout. Go to Community, then blog. It was just a few weeks ago.

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Posted by traindaddy1 on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 8:43 AM
Rene: Thanks.
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Posted by Penny Trains on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 6:52 PM

These days I go for best price on as many as I can get at one time.  But unlike most layout builders I have a theme park to populate!  Laugh  I'd like to add some high quality figures like those made by Artista, but my budget isn't very big.

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