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Re: Giorginettos Medieval Collection
« Reply #930 on: January 12, 2018, 12:09:07 »
Don't you have the original images on file?

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Re: Giorginettos Medieval Collection
« Reply #931 on: May 09, 2018, 13:37:39 »
After so many years of setting up this collection, and after two kids ( 6 and 2 now)  :lol: i am very emotional to report that this set up is still standing  ::) with a few additions as clearly there is no space. I  have lots of additional steck houses ( 15 or so) to add , and with over 40 4 way connectors I am very keen to create a totally different and bigger set up , this time using also the vikings i have ( in combo with 170 gauls as foot soldiers ) as well as more trees etc. To achieve this i will have to box all this set up and transport it to a garage currently 70miles from where all this is set . Watch this space as only and when this is done and the new set is completed I will post pics and update this threat that I am so happy to see that it has received so many views and replies over the years .

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Re: Giorginettos Medieval Collection
« Reply #932 on: May 09, 2018, 15:04:22 »
Hats off to you. Best of luck and look forward to seeing it.
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Re: Giorginettos Medieval Collection
« Reply #933 on: September 23, 2018, 06:33:44 »
A quick update to a long forgotten diorama and life project. A most likely layout of the next diorama has been drawn. it will involve putting in the castled city another 15 steck houses and also more klickies. I will also set up all of my vikings and toying with the idea to used a Playbig viking ship as their master ship next to the playmobil viking ships . I will probably also use my 150 strong gaul army ( still MISB bags) as foot soldiers for the vikings realm as i think they go well together . will use more trees and animals in the forest and also set up a proper dragons army layout and not this crazy overcroweded set up. I have estimated to set it all up properly i will need about 40m2 of elevated wooden boards as i have done with this set up. I have this space but elsewhere so my current dioramata will have to dismantled , packed , transported and that is probably the hardest part

I havent decided if i use the new dwarfs and trolls. I also find my green and red dragons collections and their dragons and castles somehow aligned with the rest of my original 90s dragons collection and rest really

I have a big debate at the moment if my next castle will be 2 steck level high walls or 1 level as per original . i most certainly find the 2 level walls far more impressive but i think something is lost somehow when building such high walls. either way 1 level or 2 level the next castle will have two walled wallswith lots of square and round towers as per current diorama. any advice or views on whereas to go 2 level high again or return to 1 level steck walls will be more than welcomed. I estimate it will take me 12- 18 months to do all this once i start ...
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Re: Giorginettos Medieval Collection
« Reply #934 on: September 23, 2018, 06:34:01 »
This is a big question 1 steck or 2 steck wall high !!!  :lol:
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Re: Giorginettos Medieval Collection
« Reply #935 on: September 23, 2018, 06:43:03 »
my 150 strong gaul army ( still MISB bags)

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Re: Giorginettos Medieval Collection
« Reply #936 on: September 23, 2018, 08:19:53 »
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..but they are still in their plastic bags .... it will be a while till all these are set up. Meanwhile as i mentioned above I am very interested to hear views and opinions if i should make the castle wall two steck levels high or single level for the reasons mentioned above . its a difficult question  that i want to decide upon as having over 40 4 way connectors now will allow me to make much more complex and interesting steck designs.....
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Re: Giorginettos Medieval Collection
« Reply #937 on: September 23, 2018, 08:28:11 »
Do the biggest, most complicated and interesting design you can. If that means 2 levels, do it.
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Re: Giorginettos Medieval Collection
« Reply #938 on: September 23, 2018, 16:07:02 »
I will probably also use my 150 strong gaul army ( still MISB bags)

That's a LOT of detwinning. Detailed pics please!


Do the biggest, most complicated and interesting design you can. If that means 2 levels, do it.

Exactly!

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Re: Giorginettos Medieval Collection
« Reply #939 on: September 23, 2018, 19:00:26 »
One of the things about going two high is that then you will likely feel the need to go higher on the castle as well. I often feel like the ground floor of my bigger Steck constructions is almost wasted space. It feels like a basement rather than part of the main living areas somehow. Some of that is because I don't put windows on the ground floor usually, so that's certainly a factor. (most of my castles are at the North Pole and I am concerned about snow drifts so don't put windows on the ground level) Also just for defensive reasons I wouldn't think windows - and therefore more light - would be a thing you want on ground floors.
Two high walls do seem more forbidding of course.
On the other hand a certain open quality is nice for the viewer who is looking at your diorama and big walls can get in the way of that.
Don't know if I have been much help, but those are my initial thoughts. A general vague vote int he direction of single high walls I guess.
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