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...
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.
http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?quick=seagulls
Model Tech Studios makes them I bought several sets for my Harbor
Langley has them:
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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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Alex
dknelson's suggestion of using sound would probbaly do a better job than the the figures of the gulls themselves.
Good idea!
Craig
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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
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.
Mr. Poteet:
Have you tried N scale swamps and stagnant water?
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.
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)
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.
Nice mate. My thoughts (almost) exactly.
G.
dknelsonThis 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.
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!
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)
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...