N Scale Wait Staff

[bbussey]

Does anyone know if there are N scale waiters/waitresses available, or suitable stand-ins?

[peteski]

What era? What type of restaurant?  Or is this for a dining car?  Any photos of what you are looking for?

DKS just recently created a very comprehensive catalog of N scale figures: http://davidksmith.com/n-scale-figures/index.htm It will take some time to browse through it, but you'll probably find something usable.

[Rasputen]

Noch makes a set of food service workers, it looks like it includes a waitress and a waiter.

[OldEastRR]

There you go! They make sets of engineers/firemen, and station personnel, and RR work gangs, but nobody makes sets of figures for dining car personel: waiters, cooks, etc.! Go figure.

[peteski]

There you go! They make sets of engineers/firemen, and station personnel, and RR work gangs, but nobody makes sets of figures for dining car personel: waiters, cooks, etc.! Go figure.

Um, Rasputen (in the post above yours) seems to think otherwise. 

[central.vermont]

Heres a link.
http://www.hobbylinc.com/noch-waiters:vendors-n-scale-model-railroad-figure-36070/
Jon

[Lemosteam]

I used readily available WS train personnel, repainted in black and white for my Polar Express Hot Chocolate car in this thread:

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=34628.msg410427#msg410427

[seusscaboose]

there is an n scale porter/server made by Crowd Pleasers

here's an ebay search for it (it is for a fireman)


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Crowd-Pleasers-Fireman-N-Scale-6202-/112287034933?hash=item1a24d42e35:g:NNQAAOSwUKxYj~tJ

you can find a Porter by watching ebay

[bbussey]

What era? What type of restaurant?  Or is this for a dining car?  Any photos of what you are looking for?

DKS just recently created a very comprehensive catalog of N scale figures: http://davidksmith.com/n-scale-figures/index.htm It will take some time to browse through it, but you'll probably find something usable.

Dining cars and grill cars, mid 1950s.  I will post photos later.

I'll take a look at the DKS listing, see if anything is there.

[peteski]

Maybe some of thees would be usable (from DKS's site)?

[thomasjmdavis]

Kato makes several sets 24-161, 281, 282, 283 (maybe others) for dining cars, but apparently, while the cooks in the set would probably be usable (dressed in white with white chef's hat), waiters on Japanese trains apparently wear black jackets but maybe if you repaint the jackets? (For that matter, I am hardly an expert on dining car uniforms- maybe the black jacket is correct for some roads)  Detail is also not great.  Other option would be to buy a set of unpainted Preiser figures and paint your own as there are usually several men it suit type figures in those sets.

[seusscaboose]

that DKS Site needs it's own thread and made into a Best Of / Sticky Note

[peteski]

that DKS Site needs it's own thread and made into a Best Of / Sticky Note

You are SO funny! 

[bbussey]

Kato makes several sets 24-161, 281, 282, 283 (maybe others) for dining cars, but apparently, while the cooks in the set would probably be usable (dressed in white with white chef's hat), waiters on Japanese trains apparently wear black jackets but maybe if you repaint the jackets? (For that matter, I am hardly an expert on dining car uniforms- maybe the black jacket is correct for some roads)  Detail is also not great.  Other option would be to buy a set of unpainted Preiser figures and paint your own as there are usually several men it suit type figures in those sets.

The 24-281 through 283 Kato sets look promising, as do the 24-277 through 280 sets.  I figured some repainting would be needed so that isn't a factor.  Kato is true 1:160 on their Japanese prototype line?

The New Haven was progressive during the 1950s in providing well-paying jobs to black folks in their food service department, and I want to represent that on my layout.

[thomasjmdavis]

The Hobby Search site lists these sets as 1/150.  But no idea what their actual height is, or what they look like next to a Preiser figure.  While not as true as it once was, during most of the 20th Century, the average Asian was several inches shorter than the average American (which has a lot more to do with diet than where one comes from), so if they stuck strictly to scale, a 1/150 Japanese waiter might work out to approximately the same size as a 1/160 American waiter. Not sure how that works out in terms of height of a European waiter.