They're terrific! ...even if a bit on the expensive side.
I have a miner and mule that will be placed prominently on my layout and I'm kicking myself for not picking up the stagecoach they had been selling last year, but I just didnt have the room for it.
They are very detailed and look terrific, close enough for 1/20 scale although I'm using them for 1/22.5. I hope to pick up more this year.
Have fun with your trains
Depending on your scale, any figure between 2.5 and 3 inches will work for 1:24 scale (scale 5 to 6 feet). Go a bit bigger for 1:20 and a bit smaller for 1:29/32. When I run across figures out shopping, you can find me using a folded in half a dollar bill (exactly 3 inches) measuring their heights.
-Brian
That was the answere I was looking for thanks. My tractor supply sells them much cheaper than ridge road. When I compare them to the others like LGB etc.... Schleighs are a lot cheaper plus Im looking more towards the wildlife since my layout will be in a more wilderness type setting with maybe an old homestead here and there.
You can even go with the smurfs
any figure "can" work depending on how you use them. expecially if your layout has depth, use the larger figures in the foreground and smaller ones in the background, gives a better illusion of depth
Vic,
They have your Fav!
Ole Toad
poted by "ToadFrog&WhiteLightn" Vic,They have your Fav! Ole Toad
"Eeew, look what I step on, well, like my Blue Smurfed Shoes......?"
Here is your wagon Vic.
Toad XXX
When my wife and I first started dating, I was--obviously--a bit nervous about showing her the railroad in the back yard for fear she'd run away and never look back. After all, I had spent a fair amount of time working to create a prototypical environment with scale trees, etc., and that kind of fanaticism--like genius--is often misunderstood.
Well, I take her into the back yard to show her the garden. Her words: "COOL!!! I can put my Smurfs in here!" My initial reaction was one of utter horror, after all, I had spent all this time creating a historically accurate setting for the trains. Then--after realizing she was still standing next to me with a great deal of enthusiasm and not running towards her car, I uttered the seemingly innocuous letters O and K.
What hath those two letters wrought...
Later,
K
kstrong wrote: When my wife and I first started dating, I was--obviously--a bit nervous about showing her the railroad in the back yard for fear she'd run away and never look back. After all, I had spent a fair amount of time working to create a prototypical environment with scale trees, etc., and that kind of fanaticism--like genius--is often misunderstood. Well, I take her into the back yard to show her the garden. Her words: "COOL!!! I can put my Smurfs in here!" My initial reaction was one of utter horror, after all, I had spent all this time creating a historically accurate setting for the trains. Then--after realizing she was still standing next to me with a great deal of enthusiasm and not running towards her car, I uttered the seemingly innocuous letters O and K. What hath those two letters wrought...Later,K
Your a Good Man, Charlie Brown
ToadFrogWhiteLightn wrote: Vic,They have your Fav! Ole Toad
QUESTION: When you strangle a Smerf, what color does he turn?
Tom Trigg
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