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I had earrings with train people about 20 years ago when I was in college; and last year I remade some little train people to look like a relative's grandchildren for Christmas.

So I'm qualified to have a one word to answer your question:

Brittle.

The plastic is so brittle that it breaks very easily, making any hard-wearing of earrings and other jewlery extremely short-lived. And so very tiny that repairing is absurdly time consuming. I'd love if someone came out with more flexible/sturdier figures--I'm sure it can be done.

Also, the little things are painfully expensive!

When I used to build 1/35 scale military models, I always drooled over these:

http://www.verlinden-productions.com/products.html

Amazing detail for small figures.

Posted by: Gareth Branwyn on May 9, 2008 at 10:16 PM

@TN - I wasn't aware of the brittle issue. My wife had a couple of pairs of earrings made from train miniatures and they survived fine (but then she rarely wore them).

Re: Verlinden
Oh yeah, their stuff is amazing. I have a couple of books of military diorama contest winners using Verlinden models and some of them are mind-blowing in their detail and realism.

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