Requirements for representations of an earlier era

Dear artisans and manufacturers,

Do you need new, fresh ideas? Two-inch-to-the-foot (one-sixth) scale could really use :

Realistic male 12-inch figures (male action figures) --- We’d like to see real men in work clothes and every-day street clothes.

Realistic female 11½-inch figures --- They're often called fashion dolls, but we'd rather see the everyday housewife. Can anyone get this right?

Vehicles: die-cast cars, not 1:18 size, but 1:6 size. Perhaps it’s possible to position the smaller autos as background in a forced-perspective diorama. More on forced perspective in a later post on this blog.

Buildings: An excellent opportunity for some artisan or manufacturer to make and sell stores, offices, apartment buildings, and all the other structures found in the average hometown. We could even live with false front background flats like those are available in O Gauge and smaller for model railroads, often very nicely done. That would be another reason for forced perspective, as in a stage setting.

Houses: Finally, some excellent doll houses are being sold in 1:6 (2 inches to the foot) size.

Clothing appropriate to the era --- what your parents and grandparents wore every day to go out into the street, made in fabrics that are also to scale and don't look like wool rugs grabbed off the floor and hastily wrapped around the figure.

Furniture: Shrunken Treasures seems to be featuring some good looking wooden and upholstered furniture that look like they belong in those great houses. See Bespaq's line of outstanding furniture in one-inch-to-the-foot scale.

Basically, we need all the many different accessories for daily living that are available in other scales --- a real opportunity for artisans in this new and burgeoning one-sixth size.