I haven't tried it, but somewhere long ago I read about taking pictures of family members with rr caps on and rr shirts. Then you cut them out and install them in your engines! You have to experiment with the size. It might be easier now with all the new digital cameras!
I wonder if anyone has tried that lately.
MisterBeasley wrote:I think it's just the "romance" or nostalgia for the good old days. I model the 1960's, but I like my engineers to wear more "traditional" outfits, so that everyone can see that they are engineers, not store clerks or stockbrokers. I've got lots of "generic" people on my layout, but when I look to buy figures, I want ones that are unique and eye-catching. I've got painters and "rebels" from Woodland Scenics, and also "full-figured folk" from one manufacturer or another. When I look at the highly-detailed layout pictures on the forum, one thing that I always notice is how well the figures fit in with the scenery. Layouts set in the less-recent past seem to do better, maybe because people's clothing tended to reflect their occupation and social status more back then.
I agree I have thw Walthers Roundhouse figures and Woodland Scenics Engineers.. I model today but have older locomotive still roaming the lines (Updated for todays standards). I still believe the engineers, and the roundhouse crew still should look different than other people... Of course I am personally looking for a crew for inside the backshop and car shop in the Facility.
Guys,
I found some more casually dressed WS figures that will do the job. I'm going to put figures in just a few locomotives.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by AntonioFP45 Here's a poser for some of you modern "AC6000 and SD75M" modelers: How about putting a "Woman"or two in your cabs?[:I][:X] There's quite a number of them working on Amtrak and railroad hotshot intermodals today! Interesting facet here is that there are plenty of female figures from Preiser in casual dress and work clothes that would fit in.
QUOTE: Originally posted by AntonioFP45 QUOTE: I think one thing that set me off was a just released Woodland scenics figure set (Auto Mechanics) where one figure wore a modern coveralls(jumpsuit), and the other figures wore old-school overalls - while Jesse James of Monster Garage may wear overalls on his show, every mechanic I see in real life seems to chose coveralls... - Just my observation but here in the Florida and Georgia region most mechanics and body shop pros wear the typical mechanic's "uniform" that one usually sees at Goodyear Tire stores or automobile dealerships. Shirt with the company name patch and technician's name patch and a matching pair of pants. A few do wear the one piece jump suit / coveralls ( I did sometimes back when I repaired buses) however from June through September they get "awfully hot" down here!
QUOTE: I think one thing that set me off was a just released Woodland scenics figure set (Auto Mechanics) where one figure wore a modern coveralls(jumpsuit), and the other figures wore old-school overalls - while Jesse James of Monster Garage may wear overalls on his show, every mechanic I see in real life seems to chose coveralls...
QUOTE: Originally posted by BXCARMIKE Antonio, can't you just cut up some people and use upper torso in cabs, that gives you some latitude in people more sufficiently attired? I agree figure makers seem to think railroaders all wear bibs and engineers hats, back in sixties on all my cab rides I never saw one.
QUOTE: I agree figure makers seem to think railroaders all wear bibs and engineer's hats
QUOTE: Originally posted by chutton01 Heh, I asked a similar question about this a while ago - since then I gotten somewhat better at carving engineer caps into baseball caps, and scraping the top part of coverall details to more or less represent a flannel shirt and blue jeans (it takes a while).
QUOTE: Presier seems a bit stuck in the 70s-80s (at least their unpainted sets),
QUOTE: but with the various new woodland scenics and lifelike sets there may be somebody wearing slacks and a button down long sleeve shirt (no tie) so I can represent SEPTA Regional Rail conductors (actually sounds a bit like that SCL engineer Randel that Antonio mentioned).
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