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Title: Help with diligence
Post by: tonguello on June 24, 2011, 17:31:46
http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=3245

I just bought set 3245. And I believe there's something wrong with it. I doubt this is just how it comes out of the factory.
The thing is that there's a big gap between the removable roof and that back (the part that lifts up). It looks like there's a part missing. But the part doesn't show in the instruction either. So Im puzzled. Is it like that or is it a quality mishap?

Can someone provide a pic of theirs to see how it really is?? Thanks guys!  :wave:
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: Wolf Knight on June 24, 2011, 17:36:34
I am not really sure where the gap is exactly Gaston... Can you post a pic of your first?
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: tonguello on June 24, 2011, 17:40:30
I am not really sure where the gap is exactly Gaston... Can you post a pic of your first?

Im at the office playing with it  :shhhh: :shhhh: I don't have my cam here

 :lol: :lol:

I can post one tonight. But if yours has a good union between the back and the roof, then something is wrong with mine. I mean I can see the interior from out there. There's like a 6 milimiters separation.
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: Hadoque on June 24, 2011, 18:54:20
I mean I can see the interior from out there. There's like a 6 milimiters separation.

Not normal, there must be something wrong... :eh?:
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: Hadoque on June 24, 2011, 18:55:13
Im at the office playing

That's normal  :P
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: tonguello on June 24, 2011, 18:59:09
 :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: Wolf Knight on June 24, 2011, 19:24:23
That's normal  :P

always  :lol:
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: bonniebeth on June 24, 2011, 19:50:17
When the boss is away, the playmofreaks will play.... :lol:
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: tonguello on June 24, 2011, 23:18:27
this is it
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: Tiermann on June 24, 2011, 23:49:16
Have you tried it flipped around the other direction? Those clips on the corners are for the lamps I think, so should be toward the front.

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Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: bonniebeth on June 24, 2011, 23:59:31
Yep, I think im's right. It's just backwards.
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: tonguello on June 25, 2011, 00:11:17
either way it leaves the same gap :(
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: bonniebeth on June 25, 2011, 00:26:21
Hmmm.... can you take a picture that shows the whole coach? I'm wondering if it's the wrong roof piece or something, but can't tell without seeing more of it.
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: zugpferdchen on June 25, 2011, 00:26:28
If you look at this picture [KLICK!] (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-02-5950), you all can see, that his roof is not backwards.
That's not the problem. In front are 2 lower holders for the lamps and in the back the are 2 clips (too).
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: tonguello on June 25, 2011, 00:32:01
exactly.... the position is ok and the roof is the right one. I think there must me something wrong with tha back of the car. I'll take a couple pics more.

EDIT----

here...

(http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb432/tonguello/DSCF2646.jpg)

(http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb432/tonguello/DSCF2647.jpg)
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: zugpferdchen on June 25, 2011, 00:33:57
I think, the roof should be pushed some millimeters to the back.

Look here [KLICK!]!!! (http://www.hood.de/img1/full/1776/17763230.jpg)
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: bonniebeth on June 25, 2011, 01:18:35
I think, the roof should be pushed some millimeters to the back.

Look here [KLICK!]!!! (http://www.hood.de/img1/full/1776/17763230.jpg)

In that second pic on that link, it looks like there is a space. So maybe that's how that stage is supposed to be? I have the 3803, and it fits snugly, but that coach is a completely different mold for sure, not sure about the roof, I'll have to look again.

EDIT:

yeah, the roof looks like a different mold, too.
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: Wolf Knight on June 25, 2011, 05:27:28
Ha! I never noticed that before...  :lens: I have six such stage coaches Gaston and they all have this same gap... so it can't be a mistake, at least for this mould. This gap is not present in 3803, as Bonnie very correctly has observed, nor in the latest edition of the stage coach! So it perfectly correct Gaston. Looks a little annoying, but it is correct.
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: playmo1989 on June 25, 2011, 06:59:58
Im at the office playing with it  :shhhh: :shhhh:

That's normal  :P
always  :lol:
When the boss is away, the playmofreaks will play.... :lol:


 
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Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: playmo1989 on June 25, 2011, 07:07:01
http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=3245

I just bought set 3245. And I believe there's something wrong with it. I doubt this is just how it comes out of the factory.
The thing is that there's a big gap between the removable roof and that back (the part that lifts up). It looks like there's a part missing. But the part doesn't show in the instruction either. So Im puzzled. Is it like that or is it a quality mishap?

Can someone provide a pic of theirs to see how it really is?? Thanks guys!  :wave:

yes mine is also the same i had a problem putting it together too ,and also thought it had a problem  8-) 8-) 8-)
 


but that coach is a completely different mold for sure, not sure about the roof, I'll have to look again.

EDIT:

yeah, the roof looks like a different mold, too.



see the front weel is different ....   so i guess the whole mould is different for that first weel to match...



 
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Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: tonguello on June 25, 2011, 11:44:55
OK guys, thank you everyone!!!

I can't move the roof back because it fits perfectly in the front.  :-\
So apart from the "normal"gap this roof must be a little shorter somehow. And that makes a huge problem (for me. I can't stand to look at it  :lol:)

I have corrected the mistake and will post pics soon... when it is done.

Thanks a lot!!!

Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: tonguello on June 25, 2011, 14:10:02
Thank you ZUG for the pics!  :)9 :)9

EDIT----

Well after a long afternoon of work I think I have solved the problem pretty well  ;D ;D ;D

(http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb432/tonguello/DSCF2655.jpg)

I'll post details tomorrow. I need to take pics with better light. Thanx everyone for the help.  :love:
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: playmo1989 on June 25, 2011, 23:29:34
Thank you ZUG for the pics!  :)9 :)9

EDIT----

Well after a long afternoon of work I think I have solved the problem pretty well  ;D ;D ;D



hmmm... goody !!!!!  :yup: :yup: :yup: :yup:  you customized it gaston?
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: bonniebeth on June 25, 2011, 23:32:26
It looks great, Gaston!  :love:
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: tonguello on June 25, 2011, 23:40:36
Thank you Alex and bb.
Yep I changed a couple of things and painted it.

btw I think I didn't say this is Antex, so no regrets customizing it  :P :P :P :P
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: playmo1989 on June 25, 2011, 23:52:58

btw I think I didn't say this is Antex, so no regrets customizing it  :P :P :P :P



oh it was antex?? that's the way things don't fit properly perhaps... ::) was it mib? the 3rd version?
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: Wolf Knight on June 26, 2011, 08:19:56

btw I think I didn't say this is Antex, so no regrets customizing it  :P :P :P :P


That's why it had a bigger gap  :lol: !! Excellent job and custom Gaston!! Now you'll have to tell us what you did  ;D
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: tonguello on June 26, 2011, 11:20:04
yeah I guess I kept a very important piece of information  :lol: photos later...still a little dark here in the south.  :wave:
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: bonniebeth on June 26, 2011, 11:40:09
yeah, it being antex explains everything! :lol:
Title: Re: Help with diligence
Post by: skypurr on June 26, 2011, 12:11:12
That looks great Gaston - looking forward to seeing more photos. 
Problem is that you've given me another idea for Kirkbean - yet more work!  :lol:

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