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| Test of the modelling kit 'Cart with flowers' (art.no. H0 1228) by BUSCH | |
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| It has always been a nice custom to welcome visitors to a town or village with colourful flowers. Therefore, as part of their ‘Natur Pur’ (pure nature) series, German manufacturer BUSCH offers a H0 scale flower cart. Our following test will reveal the pros and cons of the kit that consists of many very tiny parts. Furthermore, we will show a simple way to enhance the look of the cart. | |
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First of all we would like to recommend that you have a close look at the packaging when you intend to buy this kit: There is two different kinds of carts available, one with high sided plates,
and another with low sides. The nice picture on the front of the box shows the first type but if you want to know what you are just going to buy you have to check the back. There a red dot clearly indicates which of the kits is included. Additionally, you will find some helpful information in different languages including the warning that you will own a ‘model building item, not a toy’ which is not suitable for children under 14 years, they probably would not have the patience nor the skills anyway to create a realistic ’sea of flowers’ from all these extremely tiny parts… Overall the packaging meets our expectations of a quality product: Thanks to the colour photos and the (multilingual) description of the model it provides you with the necessary information, and the cardboard box is just big enough to accommodate all the parts which at the same time is still able to protect them. |
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The parts for building the wooden cart and the flower parts are packed in separate see-through bags, so not a single petal will get lost and the modeller will stay on
top of things after taking everything out of the box. The ‘wooden’ parts for building the cart are of a much paler colour than shown on the packaging, so if you prefer realistic looking models, painting, or at least weathering might be absolutely inevitable for you. As we had expected all contents of the BUSCH kit were clean, but the small bit of grass mat that comes with the kit had lost some fibres that stuck to the plastic parts (due to the electrostatic charge). |
| Furthermore, none of the parts had been damaged - apart from the drawbar that was a bit bent. Another part obviously had not left the mould in perfect condition and showed some ‘webbing’ - we would not have expected that in times of high-tech mould construction. | |
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The instructions leaflet does not need much text to be understandable (English language is available though) and thanks to the coloured pictures
almost every step can be easily reproduced by the modeller. Only mounting the drawbar parts seemed to be a bit difficult to us, we misunderstood the picture and did not assemble these bits properly (so our photo on the left does not show the correct state). Annoying, of course, but thanks to the very careful use of plastic glue we could fortunately correct this little mishap. |
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