WOW, that sounds an interesting little project you have there.

The only advice I can really offer is take a look at the E-Motion figures from Viessmann..

http://blog.eurorailhobbies.com/2012/09/product-feature-viessmann-e-motion.html

they are the closest thing I have ever seen to moving people in 4mm scale, hopefully that will give you some idea of what has been achieved so far.

I wish you the best of luck though...

Missy

Thanks very much any other ideas by yourself and others would be very helpful thanks again

I would take any advice from Missy as very useful, she as made some amazing gear assemblies and signals in 2mm!

The other alternative, which I feel has great potential for models is this optical system, a variation of the illusion "Pepper's Ghost"

http://www.eyeliner3d.com/peppers_ghost_history.html

A brilliant idea but i have an annoying nagging feeling that the technology is not only expensive but highly reliant on it being dark and having the reflective panel on the floor and this would mean that the scene you were trying to make move would have to be at the front of the board our to the back and would not work in the middle but if this innovation was to improve in the ways it would have to combat the above it would be a great step in improving any model scene sorry mate but i don't believe this to really cut it for models and think Missy had the write way foreword thanks the same though and if any way of fixing this idea to remove the impracticality's our others please do post. .

Mikkel i find the holographs very appealing but do they really fit in as the tec is at the moment only used as a full scale people a good example is children in need this year Chris and morcambe and wise

but e figures are still static as the move but stay in the same place and there is a growing but still limited range of figures but even these are repetitive and don't move anywhere so both technology dont go any where in fairness.

...I wonder about those "E-motion figures", do they add to realism or detract from it? I liked the builders who look more like they're playing golf :-) ...

I watched the whole video (must have been avoiding doing something) and none of them did anything for me, except the chickens. Simple repetitive motion just doesn't work for most human or animal activities, but the chickens were great.

Nick

Yes I agree buffalo, the chickens were really good. I think the pick axe wielders were the only other human figures that worked. How about a projected back scene, if it was not too bright I think the movement would complement train movements in the foreground.

If you are still looking at an electro mechanical solution then I would look at these too: http://www.microflight.com/Online-Catalog/Actuators-and-Servos

Nigel Cliffe has used their components to great effect in his 2mm scale dcc controlled couplings.

thanks that looks quite good ill do my homework and see if i can use it effectivly.