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good evening...

here is a project i started for another forum...but it seems to fit in here as well...

first...let me say that i did not discover the process of turning a cheap, imported plastic figurine into toy train piece...

the method is not new or innovative...but it is fun...and the cost of the figurine will be only a quarter or so...

i started with a figurine from an imported "construction set"...it included about a dozen figures and a few vehicles...

the "before" and "during" picture is shown below...the axe head is folded cardstock...the hat is a cardboard doughnut...

there are two wires inserted into holes i drilled in the legs...epoxy was used to assemble and hold the pieces...

i'll post a pix of the "finished" piece later...

my very best regards...howard...

Pretty cool, Howard. Thanks for sharing.

This IS cool!

how clever!

good morning...

finished painting the man with the axe figurine yesterday...then gave him a coat of of clear which will slowly yellow and age a bit and add a vintage look...

my very best regards...howard...

Very nice, Howard, thanks for sharing.

greetings to all...

while we're on the subject of figurines...here's another one i did a year or so ago for a fellow toy train friend...i needed a snow blower operator for a small structure i built...but couldn't find the right one...

so i added wheels, a discharge stack, impeller and sort of a motor block to a wheelbarrow man from the same construction set...the gray dot on the wheel is the head of a large straight pin...there's another wheel on the other side as well...

my very best regards...howard...

Well, the snowblower is a lot more believable than the wheelbarrow was.