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General Category => N Gauge Discussion => Topic started by: emjaybee on August 19, 2021, 10:26:18 PM

Title: Ebay bargains DO exist.
Post by: emjaybee on August 19, 2021, 10:26:18 PM
Well, I had a bit of a result on EBay from one seller. I managed to populate a small town for the princely sum of £27 including postage!

(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/112/5604-190821221918.jpeg) (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=112882)

I managed to procure, left to right, top to bottom, 'People with pets', 'Ordinary people', 'Factory workers', 'Bystanders', 'Lumberjacks', 'Trackworkers'.

Yey!
Title: Re: Ebay bargains DO exist.
Post by: RailGooner on August 19, 2021, 10:28:04 PM
Yer gonna need a lotta trees!  :D
Title: Re: Ebay bargains DO exist.
Post by: emjaybee on August 19, 2021, 10:32:19 PM
Quote from: RailGooner on August 19, 2021, 10:28:04 PM
Yer gonna need a lotta trees!  :D

Ah, well, picked up 20 trees the other month, another bargain for £10!
Title: Re: Ebay bargains DO exist.
Post by: Newportnobby on August 20, 2021, 10:56:32 AM
Dunno about 'ordinary people'. Why is the one far left 'mooning'?  :moony:
Oh, and now I've got "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK...." as an earworm :doh:
Title: Re: Ebay bargains DO exist.
Post by: ntpntpntp on August 20, 2021, 11:08:30 AM
Good price for that bunch  :) 

They can get expensive at retail prices but they are well produced figures.  It's worth using a few of those packs for key scenes on the layout,  and then just get a box of the cheaper  Preiser unpainted figures and do those up yourself for the crowd scenes and background. 

I use the really cheap ebay figures from China sometimes, they're not as detailed and they need a repaint in more realistic clothing but they add to the variations on the layout.
Title: Re: Ebay bargains DO exist.
Post by: Mark on August 20, 2021, 11:16:59 AM
That's a really good price - £8.50 - 10 each at Rails, TMC etc.
Title: Re: Ebay bargains DO exist.
Post by: emjaybee on August 20, 2021, 12:23:20 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on August 20, 2021, 10:56:32 AM
Dunno about 'ordinary people'. Why is the one far left 'mooning'?  :moony:
Oh, and now I've got "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK...." as an earworm :doh:

Ha ha! Hadn't thought about that. I feel a tinlet of Humbrol 'Flesh' coming on. :D

I'm constantly on the lookout for cheap people, trees, animals and vehicles. I haven't got a use for a lot of them, but I'm in the 'get 'em when you can' camp.
Title: Re: Ebay bargains DO exist.
Post by: Newportnobby on August 20, 2021, 12:51:37 PM
Quote from: emjaybee on August 20, 2021, 12:23:20 PM
I'm in the 'get 'em when you can' camp.

And that, My Lord and members of the Jury, is precisely why I have so much stock. I rest my case :)
Title: Re: Ebay bargains DO exist.
Post by: acook on August 21, 2021, 01:22:17 PM
Quote from: RailGooner on August 19, 2021, 10:28:04 PM
Yer gonna need a lotta trees!  :D

Nah! Thats why the lumberjacks are there, they cut them all down!