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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: Pyrrhus on February 04, 2008, 19:25:18
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Hi, they are mostly retaled to weaponry. They are not quite prolix, as you can see, I had not much care when using the cyanoacrilate.
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some clubs
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Romans (customized ages ago from old Renacentist mercenaries) and torsion catapult.
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last two
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I like it!! A lot!!
the romans look cool with their catapult, what do they use for ammunition?? ostrich eggs??
Cause if they use them one has been dropped by a clumsy Roman :P
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I like it!! A lot!!
the romans look cool with their catapult, what do they use for ammunition?? ostrich eggs??
Cause if they use them one has been dropped by a clumsy Roman :P
That's funny, Rob ... :lol:
Great collection of customized weapons, Pyrrhus!
I especially like your Aztec battle axe!
Thanks for sharing.
All the best,
Richard
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I like seeing the old figures - shows you've been collecting for some time!
I did a Ninja too recently -
(http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd97/Martin_Milner/ninja1.jpg)
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Thank you very much to all for the words, indeed I am only now beggining to get newer klickies, I bought too many in 1990-1992, and then stopped (I was 12 then and did not buy them with my own money). :-\
Martin Milner, your ninja is much better than mine, hehe, I would like to have these nunchuck (is that well written?) handles instead of the candy splint I used. :wow:
With respect to the torsion catapult ammunition, these were the cannonballs of the old pirate ship (3550) made by Antex, which I think corresponds to the old 3050 pirate ship. Yes, they are uglier than the grey ones, but in a time the Antex sets produced these ugly cannonballs. :'(
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hehe, I was slow, the broken ostrich egg was the paint in the wood-base (I though you were talking about the whitish cannonballs)!! ;D
My lack of prolixity became evident there 8}, hehe
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Nice customs!
Personally, I love the Macana best - it's awesome.
Can you tell me how you did it?
Bogro
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Hi Pyrrhus,
great customz love your new style weapons !! This Aztec weapons are a great idea !
Can you make a little bigger size pictures ?
I want to see some more details of your Ninja. Love this small sword.
@Martin: great Ninja !! are the Sword at the backside ?
I love this Playmo Asian !! :love:
world greets
Andi
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Hi, Bogro and Customizer! thanks for the words.
I attach close-up of the Aztec macana (later of the ninja katana).
The ninja katana was made not from a Playmobil original piece, but from a plastic piece which I "eroded" (sorry about the bad use of the English - Bogro, ¿cómo se dice "lijar" en inglés?) to have the shape of the sword edge-bearing part, with a thin splint-like part where the handle and crossguard were inserted. The handle was made of the hollow splint of a candy. The crossguard was made with the part of a cklicky with a hole that grabs the legs piece, eroded also to make it round.
Sorry about speaking in Spanish to Bogro (you are Spanish, no?), it's just that I do not know the traslation of some of the next words and do not have a dictionary here.
A la macana la hice con el mástil de la bandera portátil de viejos mercenarios alemanes renacentistas o soldados unionistas, cortada, y le pegué a los lados trozos cortados de esa especie de "espaditas" que suelen usarse para mantener juntas las partes de un sándwich (no sé si allá se usan), pero que no vienen en los sets de Playmobil. A cada trozo de espadita le lijo uno de los filos, por el cual lo pego al trozo de mástil. El pegamento que más uso es cianoacrilato, pero tiene el problema que cuando se seca deja unos colores feos alrededor de donde fue pegado, a veces se lo puede sacar raspando.
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sorry about the bad quality of the photos
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The atlatl (dart thrower) is really nice too, this is the first time I've seen anyone do one for Playmobil.
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thank you for telling me the name with which it is known in English, Tiermann. It was made with a mutilated spoon (I cutted off the lateral borders of the spoon) and a shortened "Indian" spear.
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stone axe
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Hi Pyrrhus,
Great custom figures, and the weapons are very original. Great job! :yup:
I really like your catapult, mind if I try making one?
Best regards,
Jimbo
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Thanks Pyrrhus.
(allthough I am actually Dutch ;) )
But I can follow your instructions ... a bit :-[
Bogro
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ooops, sorry Bogro about the error... I will traslate that tomorrow.
Hi, Jimbo, this torsion catapult was made of wood, and is inaccurate, but here I attach a real version of the Roman torsion catapult.
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I wrote a letter to Playmobil about making a Greek-Hellenistic line, and I there adjuncted my idea about how a Greek catapult (that is not a torsion catapult as those of the Romans) should be made. I think a torsion catapult may be made in a similar way.
I attach here the proposed guidelines:
http://gardenwargaming.playclicks.com/forum/index.php?topic=1097.0
If you are interested in making catapults, please send me an e-mail to pyrrhus@live.com.ar and I can send you some info as pdfs.
Good luck
Pyrrhus.
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I like seeing the old figures - shows you've been collecting for some time!
I did a Ninja too recently -
(http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd97/Martin_Milner/ninja1.jpg)
Hey Martin....
Nanchukas (nunchucks) are Okinawan rice threshers.
It's unlikely that a highly-trained ninja would have resorted to such an instrument.
I think the reason we associate ninjas with nunchucks is because Okinawan martial arts are big in the USA (and presumably England?). And, because the American martial arts industry invented the ninja as we know him, they of course equipped the ninja with the Okinawan weapons they were familiar with.
I've worked with nunchucks (badly) and seen them in action. A nunchuck is probably useful mainly as a defensive weapon (it would be useful to keep somebody from getting too close to you). I don't think a dude on an assassination mission would take nunchucks. He'd have to stand over his victim and warm up with a series of theatrics before bludgeoning the b**tard over the head.
Give me a knife and save me the trouble!
-Tim
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stone axe
Hey Pyrrhus your stuff looks great. I especially like the dart thrower with the sling-like weapon.
-Tim
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Thank you for the photos Pyrrhus, I especially like the macana and stone ax.
Gepetto
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Bogro, now I think I can translate that Spanish paragraph below:
I made the macana the mast of the portable flags of old Renaissant German mercenaries or Union soldiers, cutted it, and glued to it pieces of these little "swords" used to fix olives to sandwiches or pricking olives, that do not form part of the Playmobil sets. I chopped the "sword" in small pieces, and completely worn flat one of the edges, so I can then glue the flat surface to the chopped mast. I used cyanoacrylate to glue; there is the problem that near the glued parts appear some ugly "colours", but you an scratch them with your nails and they vanish with relative ease.
Here I add a photo of the "little sword" I used.
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I chopped this blade. You may (or not) need more than one of these olive-pricking swords to make the macana.
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As the atlatl, one can make a "stone-thrower", using a cannonball (please ignore the klicky hat).
Both the atlatl and stone-thrower can be fully functional, and if you have a klicky where the shoulder joint is a bit loose, a fast fall of the arm, perhaps via a thread tied to it, will throw the dart or cannonball.
I do not think something like a "cannonball atlatl" has ever existed, but I think that with two mutilated "large soup spoons", we can make a sling as those used by Balearic mercenaries of Hannibal, in his war against Rome. One of the spoons will have the handle cutted off, and will be glued to the other spoon, retaining the handle, at both ends.
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Hello, Pyrrhus ...
I chopped this blade. You may (or not) need more than one of these olive-pricking swords to make the macana.
Thank you! I always knew that there was something that these "swords" could be used for ... :)
All the best,
Richard
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Thank you Richard!!
I also used these "olive swords" to make fencing foils and narrow swords, and perhaps they can also be used as pike points. The problem is trying to get some of them that can be grey in colour, till then I prefer them black.
One can pardon the masts and use these pieces that carry many small pieces, such as knives, cannonballs, etc., and that one commonly throw to the trash basket. Some of them can be grasped by a klicky, and may provide good shafts for short weapons, as the macana, or for spears. Perhaps I may sound obvious, but one can cut off all those ramifications these things have with a cutter.
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Great ideas, Pyrrhus!
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Hello, Martin ...
I did a Ninja too recently -
Sorry ... I was so intrigued with all the really cool weapons that Pyrrhus had created, that I forgot to comment on your beautiful Ninja.
Your Ninja is a real work of art. Have you made others? If so, how about a new topic, so that we can see them?
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Thank you Richard and the calid words of all the people I didn't aswered to.
Richard, and all others interested, sorry about not being able to attach the Antex catalog I promised you; please, write to me at pyrrhus@live.com.ar and I will send it to you, and you can probably then upload it for all people interested.
Good luck.
Pyrrhus.
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Hello, Martin ...
Sorry ... I was so intrigued with all the really cool weapons that Pyrrhus had created, that I forgot to comment on your beautiful Ninja.
Your Ninja is a real work of art. Have you made others? If so, how about a new topic, so that we can see them?
Hi Richard,
I did this one to annoy Timotheos, because there was a discussion over on Playmoboard about a possible Feudal Japanese theme, and he was worried it'd all be Ninjas and Samurai.
The fact that the nunchuck was the wrong sort of weapon was just a bonus, I was just trying to create a clearly Japanese weapon using Playmo parts!
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Hi Richard,
I did this one to annoy Timotheos, because there was a discussion over on Playmoboard about a possible Feudal Japanese theme, and he was worried it'd all be Ninjas and Samurai.
The fact that the nunchuck was the wrong sort of weapon was just a bonus, I was just trying to create a clearly Japanese weapon using Playmo parts!
;) ... :lol: