Edwardian railway figures in 4mm

[GC Jack]

Hi All,

 

I am building some pre-grouping stock and locos.

 

Does anyone make figures for the the Edwardian period in 4mm?

 

Many thanks.

 

Jack

[relaxinghobby]

Try the following manufacturers;

 

Preiser historic set and farm set.

 

Dapol plastic figures can be easily cut, glued and carved to different fashions, ladies skirts can be lengthen with War hammer Green Stuff plastic putty.

 

Airfix's Wagon Train set.

 

There are probably some specialist small scale suppliers of white metal figures but these can be expensive.

[buffalo]

Take a look at Mikkel's blog, in particular this entry and this one.

 

Nick

[Mikkel]

In the comments at the bottom of this page, there's a quick summary of the suppliers of Edwardian figures of which I'm aware, along with some web-links:

http://www.rmweb.co....footplate-crew/

 

Or as relaxinghobby says, you might consider modifying figures from other periods, eg:

http://www.rmweb.co....montys-figures/

 

Or consider HO ones, eg:

http://www.rmweb.co....r-an-oo-layout/

 

EDIT: Nick beat me to it :-)

[mike morley]

MRD's range is moderate in size but very good in quality.

 

www.emardee.org.uk

[Mike Bellamy]

Have a look at the range produced by Aidan Campbell - some there are specific to the period you need

 

http://www.aidan-campbell.co.uk/76catalogue.htm

 

Mike

[BernardTPM]

I had a go using a mixture of Preiser, one Roco and couple of Slaters figures to make a set of Edwardian passengers, mostly from the 'lower/lower middle' orders. After studying various period pictures from around 1910 it became clear that flat caps and waistcoats and, to a lesser extent, moustaches were very common on men, along with biggish hats and long, but straight, skirts on women. A little Milliput and some paper and thin plasticard for hat brims did the trick. Colour is a more difficult issue; this period was already in the age of synthetic dyes but not the era of widespread colour photography. I plumped for keeping most of the tones 'natural' with odd splashes of colour with the exception of the pink top and shoes which followed a colour fashion plate of the period. The picture was taken before they were matt varnished.

[wagonman]

I had a go using a mixture of Preiser, one Roco and couple of Slaters figures to make a set of Edwardian passengers, mostly from the 'lower/lower middle' orders. After studying various period pictures from around 1910 it became clear that flat caps and waistcoats and, to a lesser extent, moustaches were very common on men, along with biggish hats and long, but straight, skirts on women. A little Milliput and some paper and thin plasticard for hat brims did the trick. Colour is a more difficult issue; this period was already in the age of synthetic dyes but not the era of widespread colour photography. I plumped for keeping most of the tones 'natural' with odd splashes of colour with the exception of the pink top and shoes which followed a colour fashion plate of the period. The picture was taken before they were matt varnished.

 

 

Very effective. And as you say, almost nobody went bare-headed in those days.

[GC Jack]

Brilliant,

 

Thanks to everyone!

 

 

Jack

[Brinkly]

They are beautiful figures! Look like they are off to the seaside for the week!

 

Regards,

 

Nick.