Comments on: Tiny nude figurines are crowd pleasers

By: Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:41:00 +0000

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

By: bill_mcgonigle

bill_mcgonigle — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:32:00 +0000

The price tag is only one of the available clues that this figurine is from the 70′s.

By: cstatman

cstatman — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:33:00 +0000

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/

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 03:26:00 +0000

Oo! Oo! I know! A scale model Black Rock City, with appropriately demented rolling-stock. That’s where.

By: Jud Turner

Jud Turner — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:34:00 +0000

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.

By: MikeGust

MikeGust — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:32:00 +0000

I like the sticker.

By: Jud Turner

Jud Turner — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:32:00 +0000

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.

By: Mike Sisk

Mike Sisk — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:48:00 +0000

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.

By: vonbobo

vonbobo — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 23:25:00 +0000

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

Great selection there

By: Henry Pootel

Henry Pootel — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:50:00 +0000

Great hobby shop – been around for a long time

By: crummett

crummett — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:45:00 +0000

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

By: Hanglyman

Hanglyman — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:14:00 +0000

They put these to good (and surprisingly frequent) use in Miniatur Wunderland.

By: vonbobo

vonbobo — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:00:00 +0000

“All aboard!

By: Tim Warris

Tim Warris — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:52:00 +0000

Anything produced on a home 3D printer will be far blobbier looking than that $2.50 part. And only cost 15x as much…

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:11:00 +0000

Heh. ”Action scene.” If I weren’t broke in my usual post-Xmas way, I’d pony up the $43.44 right now.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:08:00 +0000

I don’t know why, but this may be my favorite comment of the New Mayan Epoch so far.

By: Incipient Madness

Incipient Madness — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:59:00 +0000

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

By: Charlie B

Charlie B — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:56:00 +0000

She’s in the shower, soaping up. See the shower cap?

By: vonbobo

vonbobo — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:42:00 +0000

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

By: Shalu Sharma

Shalu Sharma — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:04:00 +0000

Interesting stuff. Quite a piece.

By: jandrese

jandrese — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:20:00 +0000

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.

By: class_enemy

class_enemy — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:11:00 +0000

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.

By: newhavenstumpjumper

newhavenstumpjumper — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:55:00 +0000

Do they make a tiny shark in formaldehyde?