Model Railroad Figures - Part one searching for and modifying figures

[@timothyboles6457]

The outhouse should be next to the engine house! Those guys need a meditate too. That green stuff is interesting to see you work with and shape

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks. More Sunday

[@kenshores9900]

Loved Karyn's comment about leg edema and having to take diuretics. Good video.

[@daviddaniels2499]

I too have " dabbled " in making figures, using "DAS" air drying clay. Started with a Gumby type form and added and took away clay till I was happy with the figure. Then primed and painted it. Having changed scales I now use military figures which I strip then again add clay for the clothing, and scratch built tools for the workers. They do look very life like. Oh yes...your outhouse should go...where people have to " go ". Nice job guys.

[@ToyManTelevision]

That’s sort of like how Al made that figure that we show briefly. Mostly make 1:48 scale figures for the o scale railroad. And he would find 1:48 scale military figures and start with those. This one is a car figure but in 1/18 scale as I recall. Reworking it a bit smaller. I think he used squadron puddy.

[@royreynolds108]

For sanitary and health reasons, the outhouse should be at least 50 feet from and lower in elevation(down-grade) from the house and well(water supply). You MUST put the correct door window into the outhouse door.

[@williambryant5946]

Awesome work with the figures. Can't wait to see you show the process next week. Stay well. -Wil 👍

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi. Thanks. Slow going on the carpet! But getting a bit done on the railroad as well.

[@gromit8023]

As a floor layer by trade. Your attempt looks good :)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks! Carpet tile from biscuit the dog. From Georgia. They sell odd lots for less that a buck a foot.

[@ronalddwyer6592]

Figures add that extra touch to a layout to bring realistic life to it. Both of you are great doing that fine detail needed to make your figures look realistic and fit the scene they are placed in. Look forward to see part 2 video on figures. Be safe and see you on Tuesday.👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi and thanks!!!

[@kenshores9900]

Even had to have bathroom humor... Definitely unique and never boring.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi Ken. Yea, bathroom humor. NOW if you want to see real bathroom humor look for “Waffle Street” on streaming services. Look for the bathroom scene. That’s us making sounds.. discussing. Really. Oh but the movie is amazing! True story.

[@kenshores9900]

@@ToyManTelevision Always enjoy and llook forward to your responses!

[@valeriebassett3107]

I think that Karyn should make clothes out of fabric. LOL !!! Lots of good ideas. Your videos are fantastic. ❤️

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi!! Thanks!!

[@tgmccoy1556]

Morning from smokey NE Oregon. "My powers are weakened under a red Sun". Re the logger needs the axe head held on with duct tape.😎

[@krissfemmpaws1029]

That was very informative on figure making, I really enjoyed watching. When you spoke of belt and suspenders I thought of my Dad, when he was working he had no wast to speak of. It wasn't till he slowed down in later years did a belt work to hold up his pants. In his prime he was one of two men I knew that could load a 55 gallon drum of fuel into an airplane by himself. He commonly loaded the 30 gallon drum in and out of the Super Cup at remote mining sites.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Cool!!! Which we condo such feats!

[@Brian_rock_railfan]

Great video 👍

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks again

[@154Colin]

It’s figures that you’re gonna work and figures eventually.

[@hondachopper6978]

A good look for your outdoor rail is building trestles like that is used for the rail line at Harpers Ferry, WVa. Tyco uses them in brown plastic with their trestle / bridge sets.

[@drgwnut]

Wow. Glad I watched this in the daytime and not late at night. Could be an episode of "Tales from the Crypt"...maybe the one called, "When the little people got their revenge"...better sleep with one eye open.

[@ToyManTelevision]

A cut above… well a cut blow too. And in the middle

[@justindeclemente1130]

I wish we could get Alan at ModelU or the folks at miniprints would make some 1920’s through 1950’s loggers in 1:20.3, 1:22.5, 1:24 and 1:48. There is a big untapped market for them.

[@LearnwithJanice]

Hello from Kansas 🇺🇸

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi

[@caseyvillemodelrailroad3877]

Great work, In 0 scale I've been useing , railroad work crews from China, bendable plastic with abit of heat and basic paint,. Repaint and mark hair and eyes with fine sharpy and you get a reasonable people. Thanks for some hints I can use...

[@ToyManTelevision]

Those sitting figures turned out to be Chinese knockoffs. Of Prisler figures. Prisler-$45 for 6. China-$12 for 12.

[@theragingdolphinsmaniac4696]

Pseudo Sunshine Superman was a nice musical touch. There are lots of 3D printed figures available on eBay, including a few naughty ones to go with that Preiser figure you castrated...

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yes Donavan! Nice call! I have the rif in my sound library. Some unknown band.. but I have the RIGHTS! So I can use it.

[@tomklock568]

Hilarious video.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@detroitredneckdetroitredne6674]

Hello from Detroit Michigan 👋

[@Conn653]

Put a VERY SMALL light in the Outhouse for reading

[@ToyManTelevision]

A lantern!!

[@johnrettig1880]

I'd like to get my hands on several figurine parts so I can make my own passengers for some scratch built passenger cars in 1:20.3 . But I am trying to get things set up so I can actually get started including making molds of the figurines in metal to add weight to said P C 's . But ALL things are on the sidetrack because of the 100 + temps and the Really Thick Smoke . At the time that I'm writing this the moon is Nearly Blocked Out and what can be seen is Dark Red and that's not much .

[@robertalford69]

Once again, Great video!! Can you expand on where you got the guys from on ebay? and what scale are those? (The ones lined up on the stick) for like 2.50 lol. Love your channel guys!

[@ToyManTelevision]

A bit of an exaggeration. They are, as it turns out, China knockoffs of Prisler figures. $45 for 4 or 6, don’t recall from Prisler. $12.50 from eBay (China) for 12. Great figures! Which figures! They also have 2 sets of standing knockoffs as well. Also 12.50 for 12. www.ebay.com/itm/P2516-12pcs-G-Scale-Figures-1-25-All-Seated-Unpainted-People-Model-Train-Railway-/223643756501?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0

[@daviemaclean61]

There are some amazing figures available now in most scales - as well as some pretty awful ones! There's one 3D company in the UK doing OO scale figures and their range of "worker" figures amuses me greatly - not one of them is doing any work! They're reading newspapers, drinking tea, having a smoke - anything but work! ;-)

[@ToyManTelevision]

That’s railroad work in the UK.

[@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226]

Well 😏 I see that you are expending with the family 😁

[@jnnmlchr91]

Thanks for the information I’m gonna try to work with this as well for my own models

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thank you 😊!!

[@AndrewJohnson-ur3lw]

Looking good as ever, perhaps the out house door need a mechanism on it to trigger a sound project where the guy on the throne makes a few comments because he has been disturbed. Old out houses in the UK instead of loo rolls had cut up newspaper squares on a rope.

[@johnnyjames7139]

It used to be that the Sears Roebuck catalog was hung in the outhouse. Alas, no more Sears.

[@ToyManTelevision]

@@johnnyjames7139 karyn made that. I need to hang it up in there. Except then it’s hard to see… need to figure that out. At least it’s not a bucket of corn cobs.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I have about 40 farts in my sound library. Could work.

[@weeniedogwrangler7096]

@@ToyManTelevision Yeah, you and the guys doing South Park. Athough I wouldn't be surprised if their library is even more extensive.

[@pbyfr]

Interesting to see all the different figures. You should also look at the website of Modelu in UK, they scan real people and then print them in many scales. I finished sculpting my fourth figure in O scale last week, but I mainly use Fimo. I followed the tutorials of Tom Mason (look for his channel on YT). GreenStuff is great for details, but for doing the whole figure, the fact that the Fimo don't harden before baking make it easy to rework it over several days. By the way, GreenStuffWorld is selling the band with gap too, which don't have the issue of hardening in the middle (but it cost a bit more). As I don't use a lot of it, I still have half of the small band I bought last year, so for me it is ideal.

[@ToyManTelevision]

That’s what Karyn uses. Or sculpy, mostly the same. I’ve been using green stuff for soooo long. But I really like building the basic figures in something else.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Those Modelu are great. A few available in 1:22.5.

[@pbyfr]

@@ToyManTelevision As Modelu is 3D printing all the figures, I think that they will accept another scale if you ask, especially bigger (going smaller may result in print issues)

[@chrisstannard2092]

Just stopped in Evanston but 4422 switcher was inside. Any updates? Another great show!!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

We were up there looking. The train show is back on this year. So wow!!

[@Mike-tg7dj]

I got "the Red Green Show"

[@rangerstl07]

OmG ThOsE eYeS!

[@bernardc2553]

Dale ,Karen & the "Little-People " GROVEY

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ha GROVEY! In search of the lost word…. Then came “bitchen”. Didn’t last long.. here comes da judge…

[@bernardc2553]

@@ToyManTelevision Totally Tubular anymore Carlin's 7 words ya can't say on TV went out the window back B4 I stated using Clairol Salt & Pepper, hair dye Dale now Im...ROFLMFAO :-)

[@weeniedogwrangler7096]

Bet nobody expected this episode would double as a PSA for getting a colonoscopy..

[@ToyManTelevision]

Health tests up the asking.

[@iannarita9816]

I hope I don't cause any trouble with this comment, At first glance of the man in the outhouse, the bottom of the magazine is a lite tan color. Further the mind can play a trick so that one might think the figure has a ... °°° Towards the end a different angle shows its the bottom of the magazine with a strip of color. Anyway Thx again

[@ToyManTelevision]

Perhaps the magazine is the most resent copy of “junk collectors gazette”.

[@craft-o-matic2377]

What is this world coming to Dale? Castrating scale figures?! My, my! Lol! Lisa

[@ToyManTelevision]

Well… now some guys you can’t do that to because there is no end to those pric….

[@craft-o-matic2377]

@@ToyManTelevision Lol!

[@irish00011]

Dale: I'm thanking Actor Steve Smith.

[@ToyManTelevision]

And Grahm Greene. The other green.

[@irish00011]

@@ToyManTelevisionYes, a bonafide indigenous citizen. Also starred in 'Dances with Wolves' with Kevin Kostner

[@ToyManTelevision]

@@irish00011 one of America’s best actors

[@shedbythetracks]

"Can't trust a man who don't even trust his own pants"

[@ToyManTelevision]

I used to wear suspenders because Robin Williams did. And I thought the look was cool.

[@retracyrb]

That's a great movie

[@weeniedogwrangler7096]

At one point the woodsman looked like an executioner about to decapitate everyone in that row of figures. Then the fishing kid's head goes missing. Better keep an eye on that axe wielding homicidal maniac. He's everywhere!

[@ToyManTelevision]

He needs a name…

[@weeniedogwrangler7096]

@@ToyManTelevision Larry Borden, Lizzie's little known backwoods brother.

[@johnarcher8090]

So you cringed at a decapitation, but did not hesitate at the castrations???!!!?? 🙄

[@shanestrains7179]

Lmao the whole video. #the_taboo_model_railroad #bow_chica_bow_wow

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@sammisworkshops3762]

Your the Jeffrey Dahlmer of large scale figures LOL

[@johnandruch5585]

quando omni flunkus moritati

[@ToyManTelevision]

Scarred stiff.