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[Schraddel]

Hello,

convertibles in H0 Scale have often their own challenges:






First i thougt, oh that's easy, just drop the figurines into and fix them. A typical case of thunked wrong.
You can't cutting the figurines here, because you will see garbling immediately. With closed cars you can cut off legs or even place only the upper half of a figurine body into the vehicle, it does not matter because the roof hinders you to see it.
So here with the convertible leave the figurines mostly untouched. You can strech legs, decline heads, repositing arms, but you should not remove extremities to squeeze figurines into the car model.

Digging deeper; most miniature vehicles have a much to thick floor plate. Often tis is doubled, the actual floor plate which carries axles and wheels and acting as the chassis. And an additional floor plate which is carrier for the seats. Thus causing the seat area in general is too high according to the car body. Placing figurines, even with stretched legs, don not work. Of course you can do it, but then the heads are looking above the windshield.
Another factor is the seat cushion. When you take place into your car, you will push down the cushion of your seat and this will give you a comfortable seating. With H0 Scale vehicles this is not so. The seats are rigid and show the status as unoccupied.
What you can do, is to cut the most of the buttocks of the figurine away and some of the seat area too. This will lower the figurine into the car.
In this case as pictured above is was'nt enough, i had to remove the second upper floor plate completely. Then it was possible to place the figurines into this 1961 Chevrolet Impala Convertible as shown (Oxford model).


Lutz