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General => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: Corkskrew on July 06, 2007, 17:32:58
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Hi everyone! :)
Finally managed to finish the final touches to my Maltese display! The scene would be a typical 16th Century Port in Malta.
I'm not a very keen user of paint, and non-playmo parts, but unfortunately i had to do so in this display due to the lack of existing parts, height of buildings etc. I have however done my best to use as much playmobil parts as possible and the good eye will spot anything from horse heads to baby cots, from lions to euro notes, so keep looking. All you need is imagination.
You can see it with comments here:
http://www.klickywelt.de/the-knights-of-malta-t19720.html
or if not a member try here:
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/briancremona/album?.dir=e618re2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos
Hope you like it! :)
Brian
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:love:
loved it.
:wow:
the pope's portrait was an incredible touch.
amazing.
thank you for sharing.
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Absolutely great!!! :o
My favourites are the Chapel, Sacristy, Madonna -- such lovely detailed well worked out (and for sure the Portrait of a Pope :lol: fantastic)
Also the pic "Pilgrim's Ship" which has a very nice view with the water/waves and the dolphins.
(Just would be curious how a wide angle view of the setup would be)
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Hello, Sir Brian ...
IMO ... this is the best that you have ever done!
My favourite is your photo of the dungeon ... (Great picture, Brian!)
My second favourite is your photo through the ship's window ... Excellent!
Now for the questions ... How did you make the "watchtower" and where did all the buildings come from?
And, one request ... Would you please share a larger photo with us of your army?
Thanks for a splendid presentation, Brian!
All the best,
Richard
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WOW Brian!!!!! Simply amazing. Excellent work. Love it!
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Amazing stuff Brian. Love the lions with shields :)
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Great work, Brian. It really is beyond description how you've captured the feel and atmosphere of Malta. Knowing Malta, it's like being there.
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Totally bowled over by the amount of detail and the creativity you have shown in your dioramas. :wow:
It's not only a feast for the eyes, it's also fun to study the pictures more closely and to try to work out what is made out of what. :love:
Thank you for taking us on a tour of 16th century Malta. :)9
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Hi Brian,
Catherine & myself were really impressed by the result of your creativity. Last year you were still at the beginning of this initiative and look now :wow:
I even took a tour through the pictures we made of Mdina, in order to see if we recognised some of your buildings.
My favorites are the fountain and the fishing boat :love:
Hope to come back to Malta next year ???
Cheers,
DD & Miss DD ;)
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That is a truly magnificent effort! The German medieval town posted a while back is the only thing that comes anywhere close to this in my view.
The best bit is the portrait of the Klicky Pope! Lovely little detail!
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Hi!
Thanks for all the compliments.... ;D and sorry for the late reply. Just being too busy! :(
Now for the questions ... How did you make the "watchtower" and where did all the buildings come from?
And, one request ... Would you please share a larger photo with us of your army?
The 'watchtower' sides are basically made of cardboard. The top and bottom, are top parts from two mineral water 2ltr bottles. The round thing on the top is simply a marble. It was pretty impossible to use playmobil parts here. The only pieces are the sentry helmet (at the bottom of the tower), and Playmobil crosses from the sceptre used to give some design (but not sure these are visible in the pics).
We call this kind of watchtower a 'Gardjola', coming from 'Guardare' - to look.
The buildings are also made from cardboard. The brick size in the medieval wall parts is too small compared to those used it Malta, so couldn't use those. The Victorian house facade would've looked okay, but would have been expensive, and limit the variation. The buildings are typical of the time, and baroque was really in fashion.
The doors/windows are from the victorian house. They are identical to exisitng ones. The balconies and designs are also playmo parts, except the closed Maltese balcony.
The colour is like that of Maltese limestone.
Most of the buildings can still be found at the Vittoriosa waterfront. The arched builing was actually the Treasury of the Knight. It is now a restaurant...
http://www.twoandahalflemon.com/index2.html
You can see the clock tower there too ;D
This part of the harbour is now a yacht marina.
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Catherine & myself were really impressed by the result of your creativity. Last year you were still at the beginning of this initiative and look now :wow:
I even took a tour through the pictures we made of Mdina, in order to see if we recognised some of your buildings.
My favorites are the fountain and the fishing boat :love:
Hope to come back to Malta next year ???
Always welcome... will make sure to take you in the area if you do decide to come :)
And a closeup of the knights for Richard....
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Brian,
I have been searching for pictures of your Maltese diorama, but couldn't find them anymore. Are they still online somewhere?
Cheers,
DD.
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Hi,
I'm not a member of that forum so I tried the other link and all I get is a message that it can't be found. Help!! I would love to see what you have done.
OOPS ...Just noticed the dates, guess I just wait for a response to DD! :lol:
Janice
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Hi,
I'm not a member of that forum so I tried the other link and all I get is a message that it can't be found. Help!! I would love to see what you have done.
OOPS ...Just noticed the dates, guess I just wait for a response to DD! :lol:
Janice
Hello, Janice and DD ...
Brian posted more than 70 photos at Klickywelt. I have them all and would be happy to post them here if there are enough people who want to see them. Let's say 10 or more Playmofriends.
I can post them in the same order that Brian posted them at Klickywelt. But, you'll have to read Brian's narrative over at Klickywelt.
All the best,
Richard
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More ..
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And, a few more for now ...
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Great work, Corkskrew :wow:
I like your custom buildings :yup: Well done!
Thanks for posting the pictures, Richard! I would like to see more...please, please :)
Best regards,
Jimbo
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Great work, Corkskrew :wow:
I like your custom buildings :yup: Well done!
Thanks for posting the pictures, Richard! I would like to see more...please, please :)
Best regards,
Jimbo
OK, Jimbo ...
I'll post 4 more of Brian's wonderful photos for you!
And, every time another Playmofriend asks, I'll post 4 more ... ;)
Click HERE (http://www.klickywelt.de/the-knights-of-malta-t19720.html) to read Brian's narrative in English at Klickywelt!
All the best,
Richard
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Hello Richard,
I would love to see the whole series of pictures also, even if they are in dribbles of 4.
Gepetto
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Thank you very much Richard!
I enjoy looking at what other people have created with this wonderful toy/hobby. I have a couple of the Malta Knights with my religious order and this certainly gives ideas what to do with them.
Again thanks,
Janice
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Hello Richard,
I would love to see the whole series of pictures also, even if they are in dribbles of 4.
Gepetto
Dribbles of 4, Gepetto ... ??? Dribbles of 4 ? ... ;D ... Aaargh, it be dribbles of 4, matey ... :arrr:
Since Janice has also replied, this time it will be a "dibble of 8," (or. more accurately, 2 dribbles of 4) ... :lol:
Here's the first of 2 dribbles showing Brian's splendid "Knight's of Malta."
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Here's the second of 2 dribbles showing Brian's brilliant "Knight's of Malta."
Don't forget to go to Klickwelt and read Brian's excellent narrative. Click HERE (http://www.klickywelt.de/the-knights-of-malta-t19720.html).
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Hi Richard,
Thank you very much for 'dribbling' :love:
I opened the klickywelt link but couldn't find any picture over there.
Maybe because I wasn't logged on?
I used to have an account, but needed to reapply for one.
Cheers,
DD.
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Hi Richard,
Thank you very much for 'dribbling' :love:
I opened the klickywelt link but couldn't find any picture over there.
Maybe because I wasn't logged on?
I used to have an account, but needed to reapply for one.
Cheers,
DD.
Hello, DD ...
Here's a "dribble of 4" of Brian's great photos for you ... ;)
(Even though you couldn't see Brian's photos, you could see Brian's "text" couldn't you?)
All the best,
Richard
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Those are wonderfull pics
Thanks for brining them up again
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Those are wonderful pics
Thanks for bringing them up again
You're welcome, Michael ... ;D
Even though I know that you're a member at Klickywelt, in your honor, I'll post 4 more of Brian's photos for the Playmofriends who are not members at Klickywelt ... :yup:
All the best,
Richard
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I'm glad I brought this up again (and thx to Richard for sharing pics) because a lot of people missed this amazing creation of Brian. ;D
Richard, by accident, do you have a good picture of the first Maltese knight (red body, white cross, grey hair & beard, ...) Since they're not available anymore I'm trying to build my own custom knight >:D
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I'm glad I brought this up again (and thx to Richard for sharing pics) because a lot of people missed this amazing creation of Brian. ;D
Richard, by accident, do you have a good picture of the first Maltese knight (red body, white cross, grey hair & beard, ...) Since they're not available anymore I'm trying to build my own custom knight >:D
Hello, DD ...
Here's a photo of some of my Maltese and Templar Knights.
The Black Maltese Knight (Giovanni) was the first produced by Playmobil Malta and was followed by the red Maltese Knights a few years later. I was able to get my red Maltese knights quite awhile ago, in a very generous trade with Sylvia ... :)
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hehehe already had this picture on my hard disk :wow:
Now, actually I have been looking for a picture with some more detail on the body.
Any chance that you can take some additional pics, if it's not too much of a hastle?
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hehehe already had this picture on my hard disk :wow:
Now, actually I have been looking for a picture with some more detail on the body.
Any chance that you can take some additional pics, if it's not too much of a hastle?
OK, DD ...
Here are two that you can thank Sylvia for providing for us ... :*)
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Whoa! Wow!! Amazing pictures, in this thread!! :yup:
Gus
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Whoa! Wow!! Amazing pictures, in this thread!! :yup:
Gus
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Thanks for "stopping by," Gus ... :)
Here are four more of Brian's photos of his Knights of Malta diorama:
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OK, DD ...
Here are two that you can thank Sylvia for providing for us ... :*)
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:yup: Thx Richard & Sylvia :wow:
So, the red cloaks they were wearing on your first picture are actual not part of the original figure?
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:yup: Thx Richard & Sylvia :wow:
So, the red cloaks they were wearing on your first picture are actual not part of the original figure?
That's correct, DD ...
The red cloaks/capes were "borrowed" from set 4539 ... see attachment
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Actually, I was planning to use the red Roman cloaks so that the neck is covered.
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Actually, I was planning to use the red Roman cloaks so that the neck is covered.
Please post a photo, so that we can see what they look like ... :yup:
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Time to post another "dribble of four" of Brian's Knights of Malta photos.
Also, don't forget to click HERE (http://www.klickywelt.de/the-knights-of-malta-t19720.html) to read Brian's narrative in English at Klickywelt!
BTW, don't miss Brian's Playmobil "Virgin Mary" photo (picture 33) ... :wow:
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Artistic, no doubt! :love: Wow!
Realistic!
Super-realistic!
(Which is a very interesting thing to do, with playmobil ... Different ar work than "common klicky way of life" ::), which is what I do, inspired in Night of the Reaper ... (Which is toward realistic art, but doesn't go beyond klicky, and it's very beautiful, nevertheless, in its style .. I'm far from Night of the Reaper yet ... :love: )
Someone who does excellent "common klicky art" too, is that fellow at Garden Wargaming, whose name escapes me now, but that made pictures of Napoleonic soldiers in Egypt, and if the 100 years war, in the XVIth century ... And Scotsmen all with blue police bonnets ... That guy's a top of line artist, to me, and he isn't a customizer in terms of painting, cutting, et cetera, which are other ways of life (I mean, other ways of art ;D ).)
Gus
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Absolutely amazing, Brian. Your custom buildings are awesome. :wow:
- Ben
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Someone who does excellent "common klicky art" too, is that fellow at Garden Wargaming, whose name escapes me now, but that made pictures of Napoleonic soldiers in Egypt, and if the 100 years war, in the XVIth century ... And Scotsmen all with blue police bonnets ... That guy's a top of line artist, to me, and he isn't a customizer in terms of painting, cutting, et cetera, which are other ways of life (I mean, other ways of art ;D ).)
Gus
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Hello, Gus ...
That "someone" over at Garden Wargaming is Ralf Gemein ... ;)
And, yes, Ralf does indeed do beautiful customizing !!!
Absolutely amazing, Brian. Your custom buildings are awesome. :wow:
- Ben
Thanks for visiting this thread, Ben ... :)
For you and Gus, here are another 2 "dribbles of 4"
All the best,
Richard
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And, another dribble of 4 ...
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That "someone" over at Garden Wargaming is Ralf Gemein ... ;)
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For you and Gus, here are another 2 "dribbles of 4"
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(That's it: Ralf Gemein! ... It had been a while, but this is a name to be kept in mind :-[ )
As for the pictures, .. er, despite the metalinguistics of this speech, I'm speechless!! :P
Wonderful!
Beautiful!
Work of art!
And very personal work of customization.
Not everyone can do it.
Skill is abundant, here! :yup: 8} :love:
Thx, Richard! :)
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Gus
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(Very rich in details. From floor to walls and ceiling ...
Paintings,
buildings,
ships,
characters ...
I can see nothing out of place!
Impressive! :) )
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OK, DD ...
Here are two that you can thank Sylvia for providing for us ... :*)
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This is my custom Red Knight... It's not exactly the same when you look at the details, but still I don't thing it's a bad copy ;D Wish I had the original too :hmm:
I used custom made decals to get this result.
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Some more customs...
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Amazing work, Brian!!! :wow:
And thanks a lot for your work too, Richard! :D
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Excellent job DD! I especially like the treatment of the shields, did you do the decals yourself or have them done? Thank you for the pictures (thanks to Richard also for the dribbles).
Gepetto
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Excellent job DD! I especially like the treatment of the shields, did you do the decals yourself or have them done? Thank you for the pictures (thanks to Richard also for the dribbles).
Gepetto
Thx Gepetto :klickygrin: Made them myself (http://gardenwargaming.playclicks.com/forum/index.php?topic=1281.0). And I got some advise from the GWP members :)9