Keep picking up items for the Tinplate layout. Have many buildings etc.

I needed people. So I have been picking up figures that need a repaint and I and repainting them. All my Tinplate buildings and trains are New repeos the figured have to look that way also. I also got some plastic figure that a friend was throwing away. They are the same size so I am repainting them also.
Each York I get a few Barclay repros.
I will post some pictures soon.

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One word:

BARCLAY'S

(originals or repros)

NOTE: The originals are HOLLOW castings, while the repros are SOLID. The handpainting on the repros is EXCELLENT!

Art- The ones I picked up are Originals. I clear coated severl I have finished today.I have about 25 to repaint yet. I want them to look new and shinney. I am going to keep looking for figures I can repaint.Most of the ones I have I got for about $2 each.

Sounds like a plan!

I also like "shiny" (tinplate trains and Barclay figures). I have purchased several originals in excellent to like-new condition. I have acquired about a dozen repro Barclays, and they are beautifully hand painted at the Manorville, New York factory. The new figures are solid cast with different paint schemes than the originals, and have a noticeable heft about them. I like both kinds, but being essentially lazy and untalented, I do not touch-up or repaint the originals.

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Are the repos better ?

Not really...just different.

Barclay Figures

Metal figures? Here are some things I like to cast and paint:

Toy Soldier Art

I also have some skiers, skater, sledders and other holiday figures which I am currently finishing.

Thor

Thor! You're alive! And a Baltimore handshake how-do-you-do!

Never shake hands in Baltimore!

Now isn't that a fine how do you do?

Welcome back Thor!

Hope you are doing well!

Hi Art!

All's well. Just been busy with other things the past couple years. Haven't had much time for the forums.

I hope all's well with everyone.

If you go to the Allentown show this weekend there's a couple that sells cast figures at a really good price, very nicely detailed. I'm planning on buying several figures this weekend, you can never have enough people on the layout

Good to see you back Thor.

Hiya Thor! Good to see ya!

Here’s a question for the gang. A childhood buddy of mine used to mold and paint Napoleonic War soldiers out of lead. Does anyone sell similar molds for railroad figures? I already mold fishing sinkers and duck decoy weights so I have everything I need but the molds if I were to give this as try.

Here is one I bet you do not have on your layout!

Herr Schicklgruber, shouldn't it be "Der Zug?"

As for historical figures for a layout, I had gotten a mold that casts three. These are Abe Lincoln in stovepipe hat, General Grant and General Lee. There was also a mold that came with a lot of ACW figures that I had gotten from Ebay: Napoleon. The plan is that when I do the Ocean Grove show in December, I will have all four of them on the platform of the tinplate Glendale Station. My wife and I are wondering how many people will recognize them.

Thor

German,

The only RR molds I know of were for a few HO figures. They were discontinued by the maker a few years ago.

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Originally posted by GarySeven:
Herr Schicklgruber, shouldn't it be "Der Zug?"

Ja! Richtig! aber Ich voll der Zug 'neuter' sine! It is a long time since high school German

quote:

Originally posted by Thor CNJ:
The plan is that when I do the Ocean Grove show in December, I will have all four of them on the platform of the tinplate Glendale Station. My wife and I are wondering how many people will recognize them.

Thor

They may recognize them but if they went to school during the last 10 years, they will not know their names.
History is being rewritten as we speak!

King and Country figure?