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General => What is this??? => Topic started by: NeilMartin on November 04, 2022, 19:11:04

Title: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: NeilMartin on November 04, 2022, 19:11:04
Hello everyone,

I received today from the postman a 5538 Series 7 Blind Bag Nun (photo attached). The figure wasn't assembled and was missing one arm and the hip part. I have both missing parts in my 'spares' box, but the nun's torso doesn't fit over the hip (second photo attached) and click into place with the arms and head. So, my question is, does the nun Klicky figure have a non-standard hip part or am I doing something wrong when attempting to assemble?

Thanks & Best wishes,
Neil
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: Erik on November 05, 2022, 01:34:44
You're probably using a "male" skeleton, use a "female" one.
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: tahra on November 05, 2022, 07:51:30
You're probably using a "male" skeleton, use a "female" one.

^This...

You can see both in the first pic here: Klicky Anatomy: Brief rant/overview of body types (http://www.playkingdoms.com/library/anatomy/briefbodytypes.aspx) - link at playkingdoms
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: NeilMartin on November 05, 2022, 09:32:14
Thank you to both of you, I didn't realise that there was a difference (I had never looked closely enough, and I don't have that many female Klicky figures). Off now to source a female hip piece  :)

Best wishes,
Neil
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: NeilMartin on November 05, 2022, 09:36:58
Can anyone suggest a specific recent blind bag (series 21/22) female Klicky figure that I could purchase from eBay that would give me the female hip piece that I need?

Thanks & Best wishes,
Neil
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: Klickteryx on November 05, 2022, 12:28:24
If you go to Tara's website she also has a review of those series and you can see which ones have the female frame.

(https://www.playmobello.fun/wp-content/uploads/playmobil-series-21-girls-750x812.jpg)
Basically though it's
top row: 1st, 4th
middle row: 4th
bottom row: 1st, 2nd

(https://www.klickypedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Chicas-22.jpg)
middle row: 3rd, 4th
bottom row: 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: tahra on November 05, 2022, 16:14:37
Exept for the first few series, most figures have the "female" frame...

But I did get some surprises recently. To make sure, better go for a non-pregnant normal female, yes ;)
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: Oliver on November 05, 2022, 17:21:49
You can buy just the parts on eBay too. I have used this seller but I'm sure there are others;

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224593609921?hash=item344ad284c1:g:hOwAAOSwl25hL4xR

(I assume they're the right ones,  I am certainly not an expert)

Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: tahra on November 05, 2022, 20:02:05
You can buy just the parts on eBay too. I have used this seller but I'm sure there are others;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224593609921?hash=item344ad284c1:g:hOwAAOSwl25hL4xR
(I assume they're the right ones,  I am certainly not an expert)

Yes, they are ;)  - but not figure frames.. regular ones.

Pics of normal/figure frames (and heads) here: Figures (http://www.playkingdoms.com/library/figures/figures.aspx) - link at playkingdoms..
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: NeilMartin on November 05, 2022, 23:33:16
Thank you everyone for all your help/responses today, I've learned more about Klicky components than I ever knew there was to learn! I've ordered a suitable Klicky through eBay and when that figure arrives, I will post a photo of the assembled nun, her ecclesiastical colleagues and my Playmobil church :-)

And then I will look into taking those promised (and long overdue due to family issues) photos of my tercio :-)

Best wishes,
Neil
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: hauden_lukas on November 11, 2022, 05:01:32
I could have sent you some for freeā€¦
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: NeilMartin on December 28, 2022, 20:47:21
Hello Everyone,

These photos are six weeks or so late, apologies for that, I promised to post when the female hip spare part arrived for my nun with white winged Coif, but time has been running away from me! :-)

I'm not a very religious person although I am fond of small parish and village churches (and in particular fortified churches), also church stained glass windows (of which the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Shrewsbury has some extremely beautiful stained glass windows), and I'm particularly fond of the Vatican Guard because of their unbroken history, colourful uniform and the Morion helmets that they sometimes wear.

Anyway, this is my small collection of men and women of the Church, some may be from different eras, and the bishops are repurposed Santa Claus, but I like them all.

Missing from these photos are a recently arrived choir boy and two gravestones (on order). So maybe another photo later.

I hope that you enjoy :-)

Best wishes,
Neil
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: GrahamB on December 29, 2022, 10:06:22
Very nice!
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: Pynedor on January 28, 2023, 14:39:47
Great buildings and figures! I'm glad that you got this sorted. :)

Exept for the first few series, most figures have the "female" frame...

But I did get some surprises recently. To make sure, better go for a non-pregnant normal female, yes ;)

I imagine that you probably already know this, tahra, but, as another piece of potentially useful information, figures with legs with sandals (Romans and Gladiators mostly) always come with the wider version of the frame/skeleton (the "male" version). This is the case for normal figures and Fi?ures figures. Use of that style part is necessary for the figures to be put in a seated position, as that style of frame/skeleton has a higher arched part that allows the legs to move without interference with the frame/skeleton (one of the reasons why it needs to be wider and thus does not fit with slimmer torsos). The other version (the "female" version) works well with almost all parts, so it works for most Fi?ures figures.

Have you found any Fi?ures that came with the wider, darker grey frame/skeleton that did not also come with one of these styles of legs?
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: tahra on January 28, 2023, 18:36:10
I imagine that you probably already know this, tahra, but, as another piece of potentially useful information, figures with legs with sandals (Romans and Gladiators mostly) always come with the wider version of the frame/skeleton (the "male" version). This is the case for normal figures and Fi?ures figures.

Yes, I know - though the "female" ones will also work... thought it's a bit harder to sit them (I have plenty of women with roman legs ;) )


Have you found any Fi?ures that came with the wider, darker grey frame/skeleton that did not also come with one of these styles of legs?

In one of the latest series, several of the Boys figures came with the "male" frame - not fat guys, with non roman legs..

For me... whatever. ;)
Title: Re: 5538 Series 7 Girls - Nun - help needed
Post by: Pynedor on January 28, 2023, 21:20:14
In one of the latest series, several of the Boys figures came with the "male" frame - not fat guys, with non roman legs..

For me... whatever. ;)

That's interesting! Perhaps there was a surplus of them. :)