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Seagulls
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:27 AM

 A friend of mine is modelling a dockyard scene and would like to enhance it with the ubiquiteous seagulls - does anybody know a source for HO scale seagulls?

No, the bird droppings he doesn´t want to  have...

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Posted by WaxonWaxov on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:18 AM

Seems like any bird of appriate size could be painted.

Remember, males are mostley white, females are grey and they turn brownish when they are nesting.

 

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Posted by maxman on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:21 AM
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Posted by carknocker1 on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:51 AM

Model Tech Studios makes them I bought several sets for my Harbor

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Posted by Graffen on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:54 AM

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Posted by dknelson on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:56 AM

This is one of those instances where a continuous loop recording of seagulls would probably do as much to convey the idea than actual models would. 

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:30 PM

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Posted by Dallas Model Works on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:55 PM

dknelson's suggestion of using sound would probbaly do a better job than the the figures of the gulls themselves.

 Good idea!

 

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Posted by R. T. POTEET on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:32 PM

I have been trying to locate a source of N-Scale mosquitos for many, many, many years.

From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:06 PM

I have a set of the besttrains seagulls.  Mine came as unpainted metal castings on a sprue.  I printed out seagull pictures and used them as a guide to painting.

The mermaid is from Preiser.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by Dallas Model Works on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:58 PM

Mr. Poteet:

Have you tried N scale swamps and stagnant water? Cool

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Posted by markpierce on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:15 PM

Seagulls have favorite roosting spots and frequently those are on the roofs of shoreside buildings.  The leave heavy deposits of white "stuff" which leave streaks covering much of the roof.  I thought the picture (sorry for the blur) below would show this, but the lighting (pre-dawn) doesn't show this.  However, when I observed the roof at mid-day there were lots of seagulls, and the white stain were plain to see.  The red objects along the ridge line are boxes of new shingles.  I wonder how long before the gulls "dirty up" the new roof.

Part of the masts and rigging of the ship showing on the other side of the building is a very, very, modern square rigger.  The masts rotate and sails stow inside the mast.  You can charter the ship for something like 4 or 5 figures a day.

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:27 PM

R. T. POTEET

I have been trying to locate a source of N-Scale mosquitos for many, many, many years.

Maybe a recording of that twin Merlin snarl would be better than hanging a model on a thread over your layout - unless you're modeling the 'aerodrome.'

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Posted by dknelson on Friday, June 19, 2009 8:14 AM

tomikawaTT

R. T. POTEET

I have been trying to locate a source of N-Scale mosquitos for many, many, many years.

Maybe a recording of that twin Merlin snarl would be better than hanging a model on a thread over your layout - unless you're modeling the 'aerodrome.'

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - WITHOUT recorded KB-50 noises)

LOL.  As a matter of fact those sound chip recordings you can get of crickets convey more when placed near a rural grade crossing than would little black dots with a sign saying "these are crickets"  ..... and I imagine the same would be true if you modeled a swamp and piped in that horrible whining sound of "skeeters." 

By the way a little OT but  -- I spent money on buying sound modules with cricket and bird noises and then realized that Walgreen Drug Stores sell a sonic atmospheres device that has the same sounds, plus speakers (plus choices of other sounds such as rushing water or waves or rain) for LESS money.

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Posted by Turd_Ferguson on Friday, June 19, 2009 9:45 AM

 Maybe a recording of that twin Merlin snarl would be better than hanging a model on a thread over your layout - unless you're modeling the 'aerodrome.'

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - WITHOUT recorded KB-50 noises)

Nice mate.  My thoughts (almost) exactly.

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Posted by maxman on Friday, June 19, 2009 11:33 AM

dknelson
This is one of those instances where a continuous loop recording of seagulls would probably do as much to convey the idea than actual models would.

Club I belong to has a little harbor scene where the builder has a couple seagulls just taking off from the water.  He stuck a very fine wire into the gulls behind and stuck that into the water.  Looks very effective.

For open house, one of the other members did record a continuous tape of seagull sounds. Sounds just like at the beach.  Every once in awhile there is a terrible squawk, as if Huey and Dewey are doing something bad to Louie.  Probably inserting that wire.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 19, 2009 12:06 PM

 Gosh, I am overwhelmed by the response to that little question. Had been trying to locate seagulls here in Germany, but no luck. I know better now!

Thanks, guys!

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Friday, June 19, 2009 5:45 PM

Howdy, Ulrich,

Going all the way back to your original post, maybe what your friend needs to do is 'model' the gull droppings, a sloppy little white blob on top of anything the feathered rodents would sit on...

As a long-ago Merchant Marine cadet, I love seagulls - NOT!!!

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - well inland from the nearest seagull)

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Posted by leighant on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:54 PM

I found my seagulls the other day and decided to paint them, while I was doing figures.  I saw some seagulls yesterday a block from home while taking my morning walk.  They had grey wing tips and black heads.

 

My seagulls are actually some kind of bony structure found in the body of a Sand Dollar, an invertebrate creature distantly related to the starfish. My collection of half a dozen "seagulls" cost me about a buck.   I bought them at a seaside shell shop in Rockport, Texas.  Look for these in a shop that looks sokewhat like this model...

 

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