{"id":22,"date":"2006-03-03T19:48:46","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T18:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=22"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:59:56","slug":"figure-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/figure-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Figure Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060715DSC_0030-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060715DSC_0030-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060715DSC_0030-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060715DSC_0030-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060715DSC_0030-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/20060715DSC_0030.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was really intrigued when I read <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/1stclass.mylargescale.com\/RickRaively\/FigClass\/MLSFig.htm\">Chris Walas&#8217; articles on figure building<\/span> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mylargescale.com\/\">MyLargeScale.com<\/a>. Armed with all this good information, I started sculpting a figure: Engineer Bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stationstudios\/97725452\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/31\/97725452_b7d9c8f89a_m.jpg\" alt=\"Scratchbuilt Figure: Engineer &quot;Bill&quot;\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He&#8217;s based on a photograph from the book &#8220;The Fossmill Story&#8221; and is designed to stand in the cab of my live steam Konrad engine. I found it much easier to get the proportions right working from a photograph. Here he is after painting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stationstudios\/112239188\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/41\/112239188_c613d44830_m.jpg\" alt=\"Engineer Bill Painted\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was really intrigued when I read Chris Walas&#8217; articles on figure building on MyLargeScale.com. Armed with all this good information, I started sculpting a figure: Engineer Bill. He&#8217;s based on a photograph from the<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/figure-building\/\">&hellip;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-losthollow","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}