Seated passengers purchased online EBay
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Hi All. In the recent past I have purchased all sorts of stuff online, even been known to get carried away???But I have have recently managed to get it working, Until Today, I went along with their “Strong Password “.idea, which seemed a good idea at the time, can anyone else tell me where I can purchase some reasonably priced seated passengers without all the Faffing around, online if possible. Best wishes Kevin
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For HO/OO? I found it easy to locate a cheap job lot of "1:76 Scale" seated passengers from a Chinese source. They arrived - looking very Chinese - and were definitely on the tiny side. I reckon they are about 1:100 scale.
It isn't always easy to see inside our little trains. One doesn't necessarily need true-scale seated passengers. In fact I found some of the 1:87 Noch ones to be slightly too big or perhaps the moulded interiors were a little too small.
Of the Chinese ones I found that with a little adaptation of a few and the repainting of others so that the ladies didn't all wear pink overcoats (!!) that I could use the great majority as passengers without anyone being any the wiser.
I even found a few in the pack which are child-sized and fitted two inside the corridor of a sleeping car. There they represent the wide-eyed youngsters gazing from the windows out to an unfamiliar landscape having just spent the night asleep (one hopes) on the train.
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1:76 figures are generally too big to fit in OO Gauge stock - particularly seated passengers. Most need their lower body removing completely to come even close to fitting into the seats.
Sorry Kevin but China is the place. They don't need to be very accurate models - as Rick said, you can't actually see much inside from normal viewing distance.
Loco crews are, of course, a totally different matter and, whilst I haven't got around to crewing any of mine yet, I think I'd probably go for the ModelU range.
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Post war, when new build houses were too small to accept big "O Gauge" stuff, they had to come up with something smaller. It was difficult to fit the motors of the time inside British outline steam locomotives at 3.5mm:1ft so they (Hornby) stretched things slightly and settled on 4mm:1ft
In scale terms, HO is 1:87 whilst OO is 1:76. Not a huge difference but certainly noticeable.
If it was made in the States or on mainland Europe, it's going to be HO. I don't think anyone on the planet other than UK outline uses "OO" HO is often fine at the back to create forced perspective.
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I have a few people bought from a well known auction site from a Chinese source - the people are all sorts of sizes notwithstanding the "OO" description.
I tend to put the tiny ones on the inside of compartments where they are noticeable as passengers but not noticeable as dwarfs!
There is also a schools special where all the really small ones end up - painted in their green blazers as a school uniform - see below - the Highmarsh "Boys" train which runs at the start and end of each term.
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The Japanese have been known to use OO, and also a hybrid 1/80 scale."HO" stands for "half O" Kevin. "O" being 7mm:1ft means that "HO" is 3.5mm:1ft.
Post war, when new build houses were too small to accept big "O Gauge" stuff, they had to come up with something smaller. It was difficult to fit the motors of the time inside British outline steam locomotives at 3.5mm:1ft so they (Hornby) stretched things slightly and settled on 4mm:1ft
In scale terms, HO is 1:87 whilst OO is 1:76. Not a huge difference but certainly noticeable.
If it was made in the States or on mainland Europe, it's going to be HO. I don't think anyone on the planet other than UK outline uses "OO" HO is often fine at the back to create forced perspective.
Conversely, attempts to get HO scale British models onto the market have generally failed.
I use a mix of OO and HO people. Some OO figures simply don't fit into OO scale model seats in trains and buses, and especially cars, as I found out when tryingto fit a driver into an Oxford Diecast Messerschmidt (sp.?) 3-wheeler. Let's face it, real human beings do vary in size considerably! I am more of an S scale (1/64), personally.
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When it came to the driver (standing) he did seem very tall to fit in my Hall cab so was duly measured. He came in at 23mm from soles of boots to top of cap which at 1:76 is 1.748m or 5' 9". I'd reckon that is pretty well spot on for 5' 7' or so in stocking feet.
Then the seating passengers have needed serious shortening whatever the UK source I've tried so I don't get the mismatch.
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