- Harry
HarryHotspur wrote:What kind of plastic are they usually made of? Are any of them bendable?
That's a loaded question, since there are so many manufacturers who use so many different types of material, including metal castings, that the probability is that if I say "no" some one will come along and prove me wrong. In general however most of the various brands of figures that I have come across cannot be posed at will.
I know that there has been at least one article published in Model Railroader as to how you can adapt figures to different poses, but I can't quote you the exact volume. You will also find such articles more frequently in magazines that cater to modeling military and historical figures. Basically you are talking about delicate surgery with hobby knife and plastic putty. Or if you will, "plastic surgery".
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I use the cut and paste method as well. Sometimes it's just a matter of cuting an arm at the elbow and re attaching it, other times you paste from one to the other.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
SpaceMouse wrote: I use the cut and paste method as well. Sometimes it's just a matter of cuting an arm at the elbow and re attaching it, other times you paste from one to the other.
This is barbaric! (And how did I ever make it through high-school biology where dissecting frogs was a requirement?)
Mark
There was an article in the South Jackson Gazette about this sort of thing about 9 months ago.
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Charlie Comstock
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loathar wrote:I got some that are a soft plastic/rubber. They are total garbage! DON'T buy them. They bend, but are not pose-able. I don't know who makes them. If you repaint them, the paint won't dry and looks glossy even if you use flat paint. They have a little clear piece of plastic glued to the feet for a base. Avoid them.
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BCSJ wrote: There was an article in the South Jackson Gazette about this sort of thing about 9 months ago. Regards,Charlie Comstock
There was an article in the South Jackson Gazette about this sort of thing about 9 months ago. Regards,
Pretty good.
By coincidence, I have a series of Press Releases from the Train City Herald by the Rock ridge Railroad (4Rs)
loathar wrote:Jeff-I don't know who made the ones I bought. I got them in a grab bag of detail parts at the LHS. They felt like little Stretch Armstrong's!
SpaceMouse wrote: BCSJ wrote: There was an article in the South Jackson Gazette about this sort of thing about 9 months ago. Regards,Charlie Comstock Pretty good. By coincidence, I have a series of Press Releases from the Train City Herald by the Rock ridge Railroad (4Rs)
That's odd. No mention of Mongo.
Now there's an area of model railroading I've never thought of getting into; newspaper publishing.
And just to proove that there is a rivet counter for any aspect of the hobby; I'm pretty sure that the phrase "win-win situation" would not have appeared in a newspaper article circa 1885. As the phrase derives directly from the mathematical discipline of game theory, which was not developed until the latter half of the 20th century.