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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: doug on April 03, 2012, 18:33:10
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This will be an ongoing thread as I Take more pix and build more klickies:
Since Playmobil isn't stepping up to create peasants and craftsmen, here are some of my own versions.
They are made from leftover parts from many sets, but mostly pirates, nativity, and fairy/fairytale.
As always, suggestions for improvements are very welcome.
I've always liked Playmobil's blacksmith, but thought he needed help. My blacksmith's apprentice:
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedBlkAppr.JPG)
fills the role, but may be a bit over-the-top in weathering.
What do you think?
I wanted to get across the idea of a lot of soot, but may have overdone it, by Playmobil standards.
I debated the wisdom of letting the lad work barefoot around hot coal, but think he best represents a poor boy just happy to learn a trade.
My fisherman:
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedFisher.JPG) was going to be a hunter, but nowadays the vintage legs look like stockings to me. So when I read about fishermen of castle moats, this guy got new accessories and a new job.
I loved the look the Egyptian robbers, but needed to keep to my themes (Discipline, doug!) So my cheat was to have this guy
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedSpiceMer.JPG) be a traveling merchant. Little trusted but much visited, he brings exotic spices from land afar. He seems to fit in the market stalls.
The herbalist or apothecarist:
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedHerbist.JPG)
was built from a pirate, of course. His job would be to rummage through foliage to find curative plants. So I wanted him to look like he could take care of himself outside the walls.
Too piratey?
This butcher:
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedButcher.JPG)
Was maybe a cowboy. Or a pirate. His clothing was neutral enough (to me) that a hat and apron made him look ready to slaughter.
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedCarpenter.JPG)
Hat + apron + tools = carpenter.
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Well done! They are all nice. ;) The traveling merchant is my favourite.
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They look all great! 8-) Maybe the herbalist could better carry a knife, to cut the herbs. Sword somewhat overdone? The barefooted help of the black smith is great, guess he's not making tools, but just carrying wood and heatong up the fires.
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They look all great! 8-) Maybe the herbalist could better carry a knife, to cut the herbs. Sword somewhat overdone?
How about this:
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedHerbalist2.JPG)
I'd really like him to have a machete, but I can't find mine.
Here's a milkmaid:
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedMilkmaid.JPG)
She is just an extra Cinderella.
My gardener:
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedGardener.JPG)
is made from a gordo soldier legs and Santa Claus' torso.
Should the white pompoms be colored or sanded away?
I like them, but they might be much.
The serfs:
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedSerfs.JPG)
are pirate parts. I was just going for the ragged look.
Is the straw hat medieval?
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Those four look great too! ;) And the knife suits the apothecary better, I think.
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These look awesome! Particularly loved the herbalist. Keep them coming.
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I really like them (though I THINK the hand saw of the carpenter might be too modern)
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Great ones again, 8-) and yes the herbalist looks better imo.
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There's something rather sadistic about a clicky grabbing a cow by the horn and holding a sword in the other hand. ;)
Great customs.
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Some interesting customs you have there!!!
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There's something rather sadistic about a clicky grabbing a cow by the horn and holding a sword in the other hand. ;)
Honestly, I thought he had severed the cow's head and was holding it by the horn when I first saw the picture. Then I looked closer... :lol:
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What great customs. I like the herbalist the best.
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They are all very well done, Doug. My favorite is the blacksmith's apprentice. :)9
Joe
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Nice looking customs, Doug. :) I like the knife better than the sabre for the herbalist.
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Thanks for feedback, everyone.
I really like them (though I THINK the hand saw of the carpenter might be too modern)
I don't the history of saws that well. Does Playmobil make a more appropriate design? The only thing I can think of is the 2-person saw, and Lisa would kill me if I stole it from her farm.
A few more commoners:
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedMucker.JPG)
I once read that some poor souls in medieval times had to climb down into the latrines and empty them...
This guy doesn't seem pleased with the duty.
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedHerder.JPG)
This barely-a-custom just fills the need for someone to guide cattle or sheep inside the town walls.
Finally, this guy
(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/11629/normal_MedCobbler.JPG)
will probably be a shoemaker or a cobbler, if I can ...
(wait for it....)
cobble together some tools for him.
IMO he doesn't look noble, but also doesn't look like he's a hard laborer, so I think a job of shoemaker would fill a medieval niche and suit him.
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There's something rather sadistic about a clicky grabbing a cow by the horn and holding a sword in the other hand. ;)
Yeah Rhalius, that steer is not long for this world. :-\
I once had the "pleasure" of seeing an open-air meat market in downtown Cancun. The smell actually kept me from seeing it too closely... (92*F + raw meat, YUM!)
It left an impression, and made me realize how pampered modern western civilization is, in that regard.
When I started building a medieval population, I thought about what real castle denizens needed to in their marketplace, and figured that they would have bought meat in much the same way as I had seen in Cancun. (Maybe that is incorrect?)
The butcher holding the horn was my Playmo-friendly way of suggesting that idea, without being graphic or gory. My 3-year-old niece can think the nice man is taking the cow for a walk. The rest of us can know that Playmo-beef must come from a Playmo-steer. ;)
doug
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Things used to be a lot rougher yes, trash was often thrown in the streets.
Nice new clickies by the way, you truly seem to have a clicky for each medieval duty, no matter how crap (literaly!) that duty seems to be. ;)