Saturday 15 September 2012

Excuse me Madam, an Ebay Bargain and some scenery

Excuse me Madam, but that's a pretty good teletubby impersonation...

One of the relatively more expensive aspects of G scale railways seems to be figures.   I suspect its a limited market , and the stuff has to be tough enough to survive outside.  Following a post on G scale Central then I was alerted to the the Star Wars keyring figures.  OK, so a few Start Wars figures (the original post has an R2D2 unit rather than Padme, and they are hiding at a building alley corner) on a layout aren't going to be to everyone's cup of tea, but at around £3 each off ebay then 'm happy with them for a bit of fun.  OK, so the holes from the key rings will need to be filled in and there's the "official" product on the back of the coat, but a bit of paint will solve that.  

The keyring bits just screw out.  Here's some shots with another Ebay bargain and a Preiser Train Driver and LGB station staff for comparison.  


The Caboose was one of those Ebay bargains that once I'd won it, I began to wonder what had I missed in the pictures ?  Prices for LGB (as opposed to other G scale stuff) has crept upwards over the 12-18 months I've been following stuff providing its unmodified and complete.  I could see that this was missing the chimney but all the handrails appeared to be there.   The original plan was to re-spray it for use as a logging caboose but when it arrived it was in such good condition that I shall leave it for now.  

Trawling the fancy goods shops came up with some more scenery for the layout.  AT £3 each then I consider them to be a bargain.  The VW bus is a German classic icon and much sought after today - I overhead a couple of work colleagues talking about split windscreen (older and more desirable I think) vs single windscreen types.  I ended up with a couple and look set to ultimately respray one for a post service vehicle.  A look for German postal musuem brought up a picture of one (the original is in the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt).





Chris



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