Fire station 3175

[flatcat]

Hi Damo, I plan to take some pics this afternoon and post them later this weekend.

I look forward to seeing them, although I cannot afford a fire station now as I have just blown 60 odd quid on steck in the past day or so but I look forward to seeing it and whether it is worth saving up for although I have also run out of room at the same time

[playmofire]

I look forward to seeing them, although I cannot afford a fire station now as I have just blown 60 odd quid on steck in the past day or so but I look forward to seeing it and whether it is worth saving up for although I have also run out of room at the same time

This weekend th epics will be about the extra doors and why they have to be staggered if you use the official Playmobil approach.  I may have a chance to take some photos of the 4819 fire station built up next week.

[playmofire]

Here we go, Damo.

The first pic shows the problem piece (the "roof structure") which prevents the extra door unit being attached in line with the original door unit.

The second picture shows that at the right hand end the roof structure is flush with the end of the door unit and so will fit up tight against the wall unit to the right of it.

The third picture shows the left hand end and, as you can see, the roof structure overlaps the end of the door unit.

The fourth picture shows how this overlap prevents joining two door units together.  (The grey cube on the left hand door unit represents the right hand end of the roof structure.)

[playmofire]

To get round this, extra sets of doors on the 4819 fire station have to be set back (staggered), as can be seen in the first pic showing the fire station fitted with the 7465 add-on set.  The second set of doors is about 10.5 cms behind the first set.  If you're building a three bay station, the third set of doors is 31.5 cms behind the first set!  For that reason, I prefer just to buy the parts needed to fit an extra set of doors flush with the original set - see second pic.  It is realistic, works well and is cheaper.  It looks a bit bare on top, but I'm sure there is a System-X piece or pieces which could be fitted to form a parapet or suggestion of a roof line.

The last pic is a scan of part of the fire and rescue page from the 2010 catalogue.  As you can see, all the sets of doors are flush with each other and if you look closely you will see that they are not connected to each other because the roof structure doesn't allow this.

[Bill Blackhurst]

Hi Gordon,
You may want to look at part number 30271040 blue roof beam with 2 shallow arches, & research if it is the correct color of blue. It shows up well in the 7835 soccer grand stand pictures. It even has 4 holes to attach a system X sign plate 30271090 or similar, for apparatus bay numbers, or unit number assignments on them.

[playmofire]

Thanks Bill, that looks interesting.  I'll investigate further.

[flatcat]

This all seems very confusing
but I can see how much space 3 staggered doors will take up, and that your method seems much better