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Title: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Rasputin on January 28, 2010, 04:11:41
Hello

With all the forest stories going I was influenced into accumulating all our tree parts and having fun. The boys wanted me to share their creations and I made a sort of game out of it. Here are theirs first .

(http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/2233/p1010020v.jpg) (http://img237.imageshack.us/i/p1010020v.jpg/)
combined effort

(http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/1603/p1010031e.jpg) (http://img638.imageshack.us/i/p1010031e.jpg/)
Alexander's creation

(http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9593/p1010033hi.jpg) (http://img51.imageshack.us/i/p1010033hi.jpg/)
Zachary's creations

Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Rasputin on January 28, 2010, 04:11:56
Ok here is the one I made. I set 4 houses in each corner of the table, each player chooses a house, each player in turn adds a piece of a tree to make it larger, it can not be a terminating end, it has to have leaves on it . If the tree falls on your house your out  ;D I tried and tried to get this size tree to stand but it just will not. I even tried to put fun-tack in the joints and it only helped for a short time. Eventually ( 5 seconds) the tree would just circum to its inability to stand

(http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6403/p1010001u.jpg) (http://img145.imageshack.us/i/p1010001u.jpg/)

(http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3681/p1010002sf.jpg) (http://img9.imageshack.us/i/p1010002sf.jpg/)
this is the tree falling apart mid air

Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Gepetto on January 28, 2010, 04:48:55
What a treet Rasputin, I half expected to see Jack climbing up the branches! Looks like your boys were building a cypress swamp. Great photos, thank you.  :wave:


Gepetto
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Martin Milner on January 28, 2010, 06:19:08
You could try hot glueing. I've started using a hot glue gun to fix parts I don't intend to separate often, such as plumes on hats or torches in brackets, but you can easily separate them when you need to with no marks.

Tim showed me how he used hot glue in his Christmas Castle, and the next day I got a mini glue gun and 100 sticks for about $10-15.

Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: playmofire on January 28, 2010, 06:36:09
Great idea, Ras, and great results and photos.   :wave:
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Bill Blackhurst on January 28, 2010, 15:17:40
Great foliage collection your family has  :wow:! I've been using hot glue, & double sided adhesive tape for quite a while in my non permanent projects! They work great!
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Tiermann on January 28, 2010, 15:55:56
Larger size trees are a great challenge. The parts aren't quite tight enough to get really large
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: SubaruWolf on January 30, 2010, 18:19:28
Trees, trees!  *gets excited*  :woohoo:

What great creations and the supertrees are amazing.  I've never thought to try that but they are pretty cool.  :o
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Richard on February 03, 2010, 17:08:01


Ras ... You are a wonderful father. You have such great fun with your kids.

Also, you must have a gorgeous wife to have such beautiful children ... ;)

All the best my friend,
Richard

Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: flatcat on February 03, 2010, 17:09:07
Quite impressive trees Rasputin :wow:
There seems to be quite a few rude monkeys in the first pic :D
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: skypurr on February 04, 2010, 15:08:36
Great trees!  and I love all the animals and birds in the first picture.  :wow:

Elaine
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Richard on February 04, 2010, 15:51:59


Hey, Ras ...

What's that in your closet?
(Had to stand on my head to see it.) ...  ;D

see attachment
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Rasputin on February 05, 2010, 16:36:14

Hey, Ras ...

What's that in your closet?
(Had to stand on my head to see it.) ...  ;D

see attachment

Hi Richard  :-[

Yes we have a very large collection of Legos also  ::) My wife and 2nd born really like them a lot.

Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Jimbo on February 05, 2010, 18:49:22
Those are truly treemendous trees! :wow: You could try to grow them on a long piece of monofilament fishing line tied to the ceiling to get more height ;D

Well done!!

Best regards,
Jimbo
 
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: bennain on April 12, 2010, 08:32:49
I will say it with a song title: Welcome to the jungle  :lol: Great!

Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Wolf Knight on April 12, 2010, 10:12:26
Wow these trees are amazing!!!! Never thought of combinig so many together to produce huge ones.... :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: WarriorOfToys on April 12, 2010, 20:46:27
Amzing trees Rasputen!
You and your kids must have had LOTS of funplaying that game!
(Especially if the house broke too! ;)
Ofcourse I don't mean craked, just collapsed like the tree.)
Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Gustavo on April 14, 2010, 19:19:12

Hey, Ras ...

What's that in your closet?
(Had to stand on my head to see it.) ...  ;D

see attachment

HAHAHAHAHA!!! :lol: :lol: ...

(you're very attentive!)

However, what I like the most in your effort of solving a mistery was that you put the trees upsede down, and they look good that way: somewhat surrealistic, and not ... I have written stuff like that (upside down places), but it's still a little far from making it happen in playmo photostories ...

I've been working in one new photo, though ... I hope to tell more about it, in the playmo diaries, in the Community Events board.

 :wave:

Gus
:blackhair:
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Giorginetto on April 29, 2010, 17:33:48

Great trees and thanks for sharing these designs... actually part of the reason i went all green recently and bought 25 x 7725 sets was seeing quite a few playmo trees  recently. I cant wait to set all these trees up. Shame realy the oak tree is no longer available though accessories catalogue , i think its an awesome playmo tree only matched by the 31cm tall pine tree which in large numbers look awesome. The colour of the pines is spot on i reckon !!!! 0)
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Wolf Knight on April 29, 2010, 18:11:42
Great trees and thanks for sharing these designs... actually part of the reason i went all green recently and bought 25 x 7725 sets was seeing quite a few playmo trees  recently. I cant wait to set all these trees up. Shame realy the oak tree is no longer available though accessories catalogue , i think its an awesome playmo tree only matched by the 31cm tall pine tree which in large numbers look awesome. The colour of the pines is spot on i reckon !!!! 0)

I'll back you up on these trees giorginetto!!!
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Bill Blackhurst on April 29, 2010, 18:55:48
I agree with you on the 7076 old oak tree & pine tree addon sets being some of Playmobil's best ever produced :love:!
Title: Re: Trees, trees and more trees
Post by: Giorginetto on May 01, 2010, 23:57:12
I agree with you on the 7076 old oak tree & pine tree addon sets being some of Playmobil's best ever produced :love:!

When i was about 12 I only had an old coconyt tree (!!!) in my petit mediaval city that had onley the bakers shop ...  :-[

I really cant wait to maek the forrest with over 30 tall pine trees and about 45 mid sized ones, quite a few magic trees , bushes , mushrooms , lots of animals , wolf company, drarfs, fairies  ;D etc etc ... wish i had some more oak trees for my robi hood & co but nevermind .... it will be a lot of green people.....  ;D