1:75 scale scenic items, including figures

[Stubby47]

Just found this supplier : https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20170801073609&SearchText=Teraysun+1%3A75

[LooseHead]

Just slightly concerned to see some of the items labelled "HO/1:75" - hope they're not getting their 7s and 8s confused because 1:85, while only slightly over size for HO, is seriously underscale for the 4mm gauges (I could probably forgive the missing 1.2 if they're really 1:75)

[kandc_au]

Stubby,

If these are to be seen on the layout anywhere but in a coach....BEWARE!!!!
I have bought some "supposedly" OO and they were anything but....even be hard pushed for HO.

What is written and what is received are two different animals.

 

Khris

[bigherb]

1:75 is one of the standard metric scales more in use in architectural models, usually run in 25's, 1:50, 1:100 etc

[PhilJ W]

These are sold on E-bay, the figures and cars in particular. I have seen the cars 'in the flesh' and they appear to be generic rather than specific prototypes so its difficult to tell the scale but they look a little underscale but not by that much (1/78-1/80) so placing them at the back of a layout to force perspective might be the way to go. The items of furniture however I haven't seen on E-bay but they look interesting.

[wamwig]

These are sold on E-bay, the figures and cars in particular. I have seen the cars 'in the flesh' and they appear to be generic rather than specific prototypes so its difficult to tell the scale but they look a little underscale but not by that much (1/78-1/80) so placing them at the back of a layout to force perspective might be the way to go. The items of furniture however I haven't seen on E-bay but they look interesting.

They look interesting but who needs 100 beds!

[DavidR]

Stubby: the figures from the US website are the same as obtainable from a Chinese outfit called 'We Happy' on an e-bay website, they were cheaper, too.

They are a bit tall and thin for 00, but a little 'leg cropping' and a repaint into more conventional colours, will fill coach after coach and provide some emaciated railway staff.

I bought some of these two years ago and am still working my way through them - with more than enough for my needs. 

[rue_d_etropal]

Lots of these types of items online, ebay. Also see some at exhibitions(at least you can see what you are buying). When they are cheap, a slight misunderstanding(?) on what scale they are can be forgiven. Ii is not just a generic architectual naming standard, but I found OO/HO/TT(2.5 or 3mm?) all confused in one listing. I wanted some stuff in 1/100 scale(TT3), but the cars turned out to be HO scale, still usable for another project, and were not very expensive, in fact a lot cheaper than the same ones advertised by traders nearer to home.

It is nothing new. Airfix military(and I think railway) kits used to say OO/HO on the box. onsidering they were officially 1/72 scale, and many are now rebranded as 1/76 now, adds more confusion.

 

When there has been a cross over to architectural modelling, there is even more flexibilitywith scales. Look in the Plastruct/EMA catalogue. Then there are the Slaters O scale plastic figures. Never been certain whether they were British O scale or 1/50th, possibly actually USA 1/48 scale.

That all dulls to the extremities of G scale......

Edited August 2, 2017 by rue_d_etropal

[Classsix T]

They look interesting but who needs 100 beds!

Hmm...Momentary Lapse of Reason album cover in miniature..?

 

C6T.

[wamwig]

Hmm...Momentary Lapse of Reason album cover in miniature..?

 

C6T.

Of course how could I not think of that! That's One Slip I wont make again!

[Clive Mortimore]

Lots of these types of items online, ebay. Also see some at exhibitions(at least you can see what you are buying). When they are cheap, a slight misunderstanding(?) on what scale they are can be forgiven. Ii is not just a generic architectual naming standard, but I found OO/HO/TT(2.5 or 3mm?) all confused in one listing. I wanted some stuff in 1/100 scale(TT3), but the cars turned out to be HO scale, still usable for another project, and were not very expensive, in fact a lot cheaper than the same ones advertised by traders nearer to home.

It is nothing new. Airfix military(and I think railway) kits used to say OO/HO on the box. onsidering they were officially 1/72 scale, and many are now rebranded as 1/76 now, adds more confusion.

 

When there has been a cross over to architectural modelling, there is even more flexibilitywith scales. Look in the Plastruct/EMA catalogue. Then there are the Slaters O scale plastic figures. Never been certain whether they were British O scale or 1/50th, possibly actually USA 1/48 scale.

That all dulls to the extremities of G scale......

Airfix military range was always 1/76th.

 

I use to build tanks for wargaming and when some of the continental ranges started to be imported they were 1/72nd and they were much bigger.