HeroScape Quality Control of components

[Bixby]

Hello all:

If there is a thread on this, I apologize, my searches did not yield any fruitful results. On the HQ site I posted issues with buckling of the lava tiles when a large body of lava was made. Seems the size tolerance of those tiles is not quite what it should be.


My latest beef is with some of the castle walls. A couple of wall pieces slid together and are wedged tight. To be honest they are stuck and are inseperable now. Anyone else have this problem? Did you coat your errant wall pieces with lube or soap to get them to fit better?

Let me know...

[ugly1hornedmule]

I have not with the walls, but the lava is another issue

[loseaturn]

when i first started using my castle walls some were very tight. And I had to struggle and bang and beat them to come undone. But when I finally got them seperated they went with other pieces just fine. Now after a little more wear they are holding better and it isn't such a struggle

[Mr. Underhill]

Originally Posted by Bixby

My latest beef is with some of the castle walls. A couple of wall pieces slid together and are wedged tight. To be honest they are stuck and are inseperable now. Anyone else have this problem? Did you coat your errant wall pieces with lube or soap to get them to fit better?

The Anyone Else Worried? thread talks about the problems with the castle walls as well.


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[jcb231]

Just push gently but firmly. Sometimes it takes a LOT of pressure to separate them, but if you don't bang or strike them and just keep up a STRONG steady pressure, they should come apart without breaking. I would not recommend banging them....sharp hits could lead to breakage.

As for the lava buckling, whenever I build a large body of solid water or molten lava, I always build it and then let it sit for a while to see where the buckles appear. If any show up, I carefully rotate and reposition tiles until it stops, then let it sit again. Usually they go away after one such rotation, but sometimes I need to repeat the process once or twice.

[Grungebob]

I have never had any of the above mentioned problems.

[jcb231]

I've had the castle one only a couple times, and while I've had the lava problem, as I say, it goes away with careful tile placement. I get buckling when I rush and don't line everything up precisely.

[Bixby]

The lava buckling does not go away for me. I am very precise about the placement. There is an obvious difference between the fit of the sparkly water tiles and the lava. The sparkly water tiles fit perfectly, even with large bodies of water, the lava tiles buckle quite badly in places. Given that this is a recurring problem and only with lava, I have to conclude there are different materials or fit tolerance in the lava pieces.

[jcb231]

Many folks have complained of this. I still think it's placement in most cases and will go away if you adjust everything carefully. If yours are still buckling than you might have an actual defective product and should let Hasbro now.

[Bixby]

I have 12 sets of defective product then...

I am sure it is not placement. I have 16 master sets with sparkly water that I have been building maps with for almost 2 years... never a problem. I have many hours of map making experience. That and I am anal-retentive and have OCD tendancies , I have brought great care to the placement of the tiles... Lave buckles - Water does not.

[Hex_Enduction_Hour]

The wall sections are tight and sometimes hard to slide apart. It's better than being too loose, though.

[Dragonslayer]

Originally Posted by Bixby

The lava buckling does not go away for me. I am very precise about the placement. There is an obvious difference between the fit of the sparkly water tiles and the lava. The sparkly water tiles fit perfectly, even with large bodies of water, the lava tiles buckle quite badly in places. Given that this is a recurring problem and only with lava, I have to conclude there are different materials or fit tolerance in the lava pieces.

I have the very same problem with lava (3 sets) and the new solid watertiles as well. They seem to be a tiny bit larger than the sparklys. If a bigger space is layed and surrounded by landtiles, the water buckles. No such thing with sparklys (of which I have, fortunately, enough so I don't have to use the solid ones).

Originally Posted by Bixby

I am sure it is not placement

It is not. It's the tiles and the type of surrounding tiles.