I received the red 400e this afternoon. Looks real nice but it did have a paint chip on the bright red right where it met the dark red. Kind of dampened my excitement...have no fear dealer/MTH are taking care of it for me. Most folks may have let it go... When I buy a new train.. I do expect it to be cosmetically flawless...especially tinplate. How many of you folks have the same expectation? I can't stress how happy I am that its being resolved. Here's a photo. Enjoy! Sunrise
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It looks as nice as I thought it would! In answer to your question I do expect it to be perfect when I get it in my hands when it's new out of the box. To date I have not had any finish problems from Lionel corp. tinplate. Enjoy it; Very nice.
Most folks may have let it go... When I buy a new train.. I do expect it to be cosmetically flawless...especially tinplate. How many of you folks have the same expectation?
I, too, share your expectations. I expect trains I buy to be cosmetically flawless. Received an O gauge model recently (a switcher) that has a paint chip on one of its steps. I'll get some paint and touch it up myself, but it's always a bit of a disappointment to find something brand new that's less than pristine. Fortunately, I've found that the vast majority of trains I have bought have had no cosmetic defects.
I can't stress enough how important it is to me that the cosmetics on any of my new tinplate engines are perfect. Luckily my red and chrome 400E's were just that.
indydanny
I can't blame you at all. I feel your pain. I finally took the plunge into Standard Gauge. I ordered the set with the 318 engine and the coal cars. It arrived with a paint chip near the front coupler. It ran flawlessly. I called the dealer, they offered no assistance, even for touch up paint. MTH was very nice and said I could ship it and they would take care of it, but it would be about two months. I decided to keep it and will begin to search for a close match. It did ruin the moment. I just ordered the army train, and I do worry about paint flaws. Glad you are getting it fixed.
Bob
indydanny,
Lets see some pictures! I would love to see what the chrome looks like.
Sunrise
Sweet looking engine.
........... Most folks may have let it go... When I buy a new train.. I do expect it to be cosmetically flawless...especially tinplate. How many of you folks have the same expectation?
I personally don't have any tinplate yet, but for any trains I purchase, yes, I expect the same as you. Unfortunately I have had to reject a few locomotives due to cosmetic defects in recent years, some of which I never was able to get a better specimen to replace the messed up one.
The most horrendous examples were when either engine wrapping paper/plastic or styrofoam was applied while the paint was still wet. That may be in the past now (I hope), but it was a bit of an epidemic (at least for my purchases) right around 2 years ago.
-Dave
(drool !!!!)
I can't wait to get started!
- walt
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