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!



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

Yey!

Yer gonna need a lotta trees! 

Quote from: RailGooner on August 19, 2021, 10:28:04 PM
Yer gonna need a lotta trees! 

Ah, well, picked up 20 trees the other month, another bargain for £10!

Dunno about 'ordinary people'. Why is the one far left 'mooning'? 
Oh, and now I've got "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK...." as an earworm

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.

That's a really good price - £8.50 - 10 each at Rails, TMC etc.

Quote from: Newportnobby on August 20, 2021, 10:56:32 AM
Dunno about 'ordinary people'. Why is the one far left 'mooning'? 
Oh, and now I've got "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK...." as an earworm

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

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.

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

Quote from: RailGooner on August 19, 2021, 10:28:04 PM
Yer gonna need a lotta trees! 

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