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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: seawarrior on April 18, 2008, 19:07:57

Title: Rangers Apprentice
Post by: seawarrior on April 18, 2008, 19:07:57

   Hi  :wave:,

 My friend just finished a great book; Rangers Apprentice
so we decided to make our own ranger from our playmobil
collections  :yup:. We painted the arms olive drab and the
 cloak black. Rangers are supposed to camoflauge and our
ranger is pretty good at that. Hope you like him!  :D

             Seawarrior and Friend

Title: Re: Rangers Apprentice
Post by: seawarrior on April 18, 2008, 19:12:13

more Pics

Title: Re: Rangers Apprentice
Post by: seawarrior on April 18, 2008, 21:26:48

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Title: Re: Rangers Apprentice
Post by: CountBogro on April 18, 2008, 22:53:35

Great looking figure I must say.

Just out of curiosity though: which time period is he from?

Bogro

Title: Re: Rangers Apprentice
Post by: Timotheos on April 19, 2008, 15:53:11

I'm guessing he's not a Texas Ranger.  :lol:

Joking aside, the klicky looks great!

Seriously, though, we need a little more context... 

Rangers can mean:

1) elite US Army infantrymen (the Rangers), known for sticking their heads out bus windows when being transported to the rifle range like the canine-level intelligence fellows that we army linguists presumed them to be.

2) a Texas state-level law enforcement agent ("Texas Rangers") who apparently know kung-fu

3) guys who hang out at National Parks urging us to pickup litter and not start forest fires (park ranger)

4) a busy-body sort of knight in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings whose ancestors survived the Tolkien-equivalent of Atlantis and now roam around the Shire and environs counter-spying on Sauron's spies and scaring Hobbits into cleaning up litter and not starting forest fires.

5) a sniffy warrior type in Dungeons and Dragons who contributes his excess goldpieces to Greenpeace, helps to organize anti-fox hunting rallies in the UK, and can cast Druid spells starting at level 5 (but the spells suck anyway). 

I'm guessing your custom is "none of the above"....

Title: Re: Rangers Apprentice
Post by: playmofire on April 19, 2008, 18:13:42

I'm guessing he's a ranger in the sense of a mediaeval forest ranger who acted as a sort of gamekeeper looking out for poachers after the king's deer.  That's my guess, but right or not it's a great custom.

Title: Re: Rangers Apprentice
Post by: seawarrior on April 19, 2008, 21:07:26

Quote from: playmofire on April 19, 2008, 18:13:42

I'm guessing he's a ranger in the sense of a mediaeval forest ranger who acted as a sort of gamekeeper looking out for poachers after the king's deer.  That's my guess, but right or not it's a great custom.

   a ranger is a kind of secret elite force that does work for the king but is a special kind of soldier, they usually do alot of secret missions and do a lot of the kings dirty work.

Quote from: CountBogro on April 18, 2008, 22:53:35

Just out of curiosity though: which time period is he from?

   He is from about the same period as lord of the rings or earagon

Title: Re: Rangers Apprentice
Post by: cachalote on April 20, 2008, 19:26:03

a very nice "gothic" special operations guy, sewarrior.  :)

Title: Re: Rangers Apprentice
Post by: Redcap on April 21, 2008, 00:18:20

hey seawarrior this is a picture I took at my house.(thanks for the permission)

Title: Re: Rangers Apprentice
Post by: seawarrior on April 21, 2008, 00:21:11

he looks great with the horse and battle axe!

Title: Re: Rangers Apprentice
Post by: playmofire on April 21, 2008, 06:20:14

That last photo really shows him at his best - with the one's in the woods etc you could hardly see the detail, which shows the camouflage paint worked!