Tiny nude figurines are crowd pleasers

Amy Crehore says:

The Crowd Pleaser and the VIP make perfect conceptual art pieces. Duchamp would be proud. I've always been a sucker for tiny things and these were nudes hanging around the house untouched, in the old packaging, so I took some photos. These are "the little people that add a lot".

Funny Little Nudes

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newhavenstumpjumper

Do they make a tiny shark in formaldehyde?
class_enemy

ouch, two and a half bucks for one blobby looking lil’ lady in what appears to be HO scale. That’s a home-3d printer opportunity if I ever saw one.
- jandrese
  
  You would still have to paint her nipples and bush, but that would only take a minute or so.
  
  You could even give her a real hairdo.
  - Donald Petersen
    
    I don’t know why, but this may be my favorite comment of the New Mayan Epoch so far.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Warris/1461175567 Tim Warris
  
  Anything produced on a home 3D printer will be far blobbier looking than that $2.50 part. And only cost 15x as much…
http://www.youbihar.com/ Shalu Sharma

Interesting stuff. Quite a piece.
- vonbobo
  
  It does make me wonder what is going on in the modeler’s head that makes them want to put something a bit titillating into their model train sets. Of course they already do a lot of easter egg stuff in their environments, and maybe there is a bit of voyeur excitement when surveying a world they have created. This also may be a playful opportunity to express emotions that are typically oppressed in every day life.
  
  I was interested to see figures like this in actual displays, but couldn’t find anything. However I did find this interesting NSFW number: http://www.reynaulds.com/products/Viessmann/5001.aspx
  - Donald Petersen
    
    Heh. ”Action scene.” If I weren’t broke in my usual post-Xmas way, I’d pony up the $43.44 right now.
    - vonbobo
      
      “All aboard!
  - http://twitter.com/msisk Mike Sisk
    
    Scenes using figures like this one are actually quite common in model railroading. You usually don’t seem them in the Model RR magazines (’cause they don’t want to offend some folks) but I’ve seen all kinds of stuff during layout visits.
    
    This figure is often used for a shower scene where you can peek inside the window of a house.
    
    European modelers are more likely to do this than US folks. If I recall correctly, Miniatur Wunderland (http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com) in Germany has some racy scenes.
Charlie B

She’s in the shower, soaping up. See the shower cap?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

Kind of pricey. They sell the Homies line of figurines from gumball machines for only 50 cents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homies
Hanglyman

They put these to good (and surprisingly frequent) use in Miniatur Wunderland.
http://www.markcrummett.com crummett

This is my favorite. I can’t imagine where she would go on a model railroad setup.

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/590-29072
- Gilbert Wham
  
  Oo! Oo! I know! A scale model Black Rock City, with appropriately demented rolling-stock. That’s where.
Henry Pootel

Great hobby shop – been around for a long time
vonbobo

I found her shower!
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/psr/psr28087.htm

Great selection there
http://twitter.com/gustmichael MikeGust

I like the sticker.
http://www.facebook.com/judturner Jud Turner

Funny to see this relic from my hometown, and a place I frequently drop lots of money on sculptural ingredients. It’s a family owned business and really good folks.
http://www.facebook.com/judturner Jud Turner

I showed this post to the owners today, who were tickled to be on BoingBoing, and said that kind or price tag would have meant it was sold many years ago.
- http://billmcgonigle.com bill_mcgonigle
  
  The price tag is only one of the available clues that this figurine is from the 70′s.
cstatman

i’ve seen N scale “working girls” to help populate the model “other side of the tracks” this is all I could find online for pix http://www.flickr.com/photos/55063726@N00/4388873687/in/photostream/
http://mattdm.org/ Matthew Miller

Boston-area artist Liz Nofziger used similar model figures in an art installation a few years ago — a little bit of it online at http://www.nofzilla.com/html/thesis.html