At 1:160 a figure is barely a grain of rice, and that is exactly why they work: the eye reads posture and colour long before it reads faces. Half a dozen figures on a station platform, a pair of skiers on a slope, a deer at the edge of the trees — that is the difference between modelled landscape and a landscape somebody lives in.
Woodland Scenics supplies nearly the whole collection, in painted N scale sets: Pedestrians (A2121), Travelers (A2155) and Farmers Market (A2170) for towns and stations; Snow Skiers (A2222), Bicycle Buddies (A2194) and Game of Horseshoes (A2165) for recreation scenes; and Black Bears (A2186) and Deer (A2185) for the country between them. Noch's 36560 Toilet Stories set adds a bit of European humour if you want it.
N scale rewards restraint. Because so much more territory fits on the same benchwork, a handful of figures spread across several small groupings does more than a crowd packed into one spot — and clustering them where you have already put a road crossing, a platform or a loading dock gives each group a reason to be standing there.
Pair them with N scenery details and N vehicles to finish a town block, or browse all figures across scales. Ships from Oakville, Ontario. Free shipping on orders over $250.
