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Offline VicKlicktor

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Pipes in sets 4105 and 7505
« on: July 26, 2015, 02:05:51 »
Hello everybody,

I just found a French site where three colors for pipes are shown. I don’t know if the far left pipes have yellowed a little bit or they are really in a variation of gray.


 
I was not sure the brown pipes really existed until I saw the photo above. I always saw in ebay sets 4105 with gray pipes (Even the "Datenbank" at Klickywelt)

I have set 4105 with light gray pipes but we know the box shows brown ones. My set was pre-owned, that means the seller put add-on 7505 in the original box?

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Re: Pipes in sets 4105 and 7505
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2015, 02:57:14 »
Hmmm..very good question. I've seen slight variances in colors such as the Western Cavalry showing the sword to be shiny on the box when the actual contents were a dull grey. I think this might have happened here.  ??? Do the inside of the pipes have a different color than the outside? If so, they are probably discolored.

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Re: Pipes in sets 4105 and 7505
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2015, 04:35:29 »
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Re: Pipes in sets 4105 and 7505
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2015, 04:44:35 »
This Youtube film explains the difference —> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbqizRk8MHI

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Re: Pipes in sets 4105 and 7505
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2015, 20:24:04 »
This was such a great addition to the train theme. It has so many great uses beyond a pipe wagon. Sure wish geobra would slowly rerelease them all as they did with the red liquid wagon.
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Re: Pipes in sets 4105 and 7505
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2015, 17:26:02 »
This Youtube film explains the difference —> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbqizRk8MHI

Thanks, but what about the two versions in gray? No doubt about pipes in brown were released in early versions from 1980 and gray ones in add-on 7505 later. The real question is whether a different gray tone was released in late versions of 4105…

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Re: Pipes in sets 4105 and 7505
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2015, 18:00:00 »
I don't think there are two different tones of gray on the picture. The first wagon catches the light, the second is a little more away from the lightsource. If the light is from a normal lamp, the light is a bit yellow, and that will give on a photographic picture the impression of another color of gray.

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Re: Pipes in sets 4105 and 7505
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2015, 18:20:49 »
I don't think there are two different tones of gray on the picture.

It is not me who says that, check the original post and other photos of the owner (page 393):

http://forum.e-train.fr/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13507&hilit=attelage&sid=6d7f18a259905ff53197f92bfe649dbd&start=5880

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Re: Pipes in sets 4105 and 7505
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2015, 04:40:43 »
Than it must be discoloration due to exposure to the sun. A problem I also have with older Playmobil wagons, specially when they did run outside the house.

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Re: Pipes in sets 4105 and 7505
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2015, 13:47:42 »
There were only 2 colors of pipes:
grey (the »weathered« version is no extra color, it's yellowed by the sun) and brown.