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Title: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Beekhuys on May 20, 2019, 22:39:50
Hi playmobil fanatics,

Here some of my creations, made with only original playmobil parts. :viking:

Greetings
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Beekhuys on May 20, 2019, 22:50:03
A few more pictures.
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Beekhuys on May 20, 2019, 22:53:00
And to finish it (figuratively :P)
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: PlaymoFrankJon on May 21, 2019, 00:23:28
Very nicely done!
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: austinf4564 on May 21, 2019, 01:30:16
These are amazing! Great work!
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Post by: playmofire on May 21, 2019, 08:13:48
Very nicely done - simple but effective.
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: tahra on May 21, 2019, 09:03:59
They are great! And brownish always works well, imo :love:
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Post by: Hadoque on May 21, 2019, 14:32:39
Nice combinations & colours  :)
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Tiermann on May 21, 2019, 16:35:25
Those are really nice, look very period correct to me!
 :love:
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Macruran on May 22, 2019, 01:25:45
Classy!  :knight:  specialist has some competition!   :munch:
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: TableKnight on May 22, 2019, 11:02:38
These are really nice  :love:
Great work !
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Beekhuys on May 26, 2019, 14:40:55
Thanks, everyone! I'm also satisfied with the knights! ;)
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Beekhuys on July 12, 2019, 17:47:46
I have made 2 new figures, 1 guard and 1 lord of the castle. I have found out that the gray inlay of the fi?ures series is not very useful for the normal heads. Next time i will use just the normal white inlay again.
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Beekhuys on July 12, 2019, 17:49:40
...and the other photos.
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: tahra on July 12, 2019, 18:38:50
I have made 2 new figures, 1 guard and 1 lord of the castle.

Very nice - those colors!!  :love:

I have found out that the gray inlay of the fi?ures series is not very useful for the normal heads. Next time i will use just the normal white inlay again.

I use the figures frames and heads mostly for drafts... When the klickys are final, they get "normal" heads and frames (unless the heads exist only in "figure" form)
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Macruran on July 13, 2019, 02:39:15
Charming!  :)
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Klickteryx on July 13, 2019, 05:13:41
I have found out that the gray inlay of the fi?ures series is not very useful for the normal heads. Next time i will use just the normal white inlay again.

If you keep the triangle heads and grey frames together then it doesn't matter.  Great looking lord there.
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: StJohn on July 13, 2019, 07:59:38
Great looking figures! Thanks for showing.

As to the guard, small point of personal taste, if you will excuse me: I myself keep chainmail "hair" exclusively with chainmail collars. It makes no sense to wear such armour solely on the head, unless the illusion is created that the lower part of the vest is hiding under body armour. Geobra has been overdoing unaccompanied chainmail "hair" big time in their knight designs.

Best wishes
StJohn
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: tahra on July 13, 2019, 11:36:08
As to the guard, small point of personal taste, if you will excuse me: I myself keep chainmail "hair" exclusively with chainmail collars. It makes no sense to wear such armour solely on the head, unless the illusion is created that the lower part of the vest is hiding under body armour. Geobra has been overdoing unaccompanied chainmail "hair" big time in their knight designs.

Though you DO have a point, there aren't enough of those neckpieces to go around - at least here :(
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: StJohn on July 13, 2019, 20:22:00
Please take a moment to appreciate the beauty of this.

(https://i.imgur.com/D4PK8IJ.jpg?1)

Simple but brilliant, it is great PM at the top of its game: The "hair" and the neckpiece fit perfectly, constituting together a single wearable, effectively transcending the compartmentalization of PM parts (head|neck|arms|etc.) that had been the norm — head- and neckgear here are one.

I don't think the sheer brilliance of this leap forward has been sufficiently appreciated: certainly not by Geobra, where soon after its launch (2004, Knight's Empire Castle/Große Königsritterburg 3268 and associated sets, I believe), the idea was wrecked by some cretin who put the "hair" without neckpiece onto some heedless victim of flawed design.¹ It has been downhill since.²

Best wishes
StJohn

¹ A quick look at the Productarchiv (https://www.playmobil.de/online-shop/produktarchiv/) yielded some specimina among the Vikings [who are beautiful, don't get me wrong!] of 2005.
² Not entirely, of course: some bold boundary-smashing can be encountered among the Stone Age figures, when shoulders meet neckpieces.

Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Klickteryx on July 14, 2019, 04:36:38
Collectively geobra have produced some amazing parts, as can be seen in threads like this of what the potential is. Unfortunately they get colour blind people with zero interest in history to mess around with the designs afterwards.
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Beekhuys on July 15, 2019, 12:32:50
Thank you all!

@ StJohn:
You are right, luckily I still have a few chainmail collars (more than 35 :P), unfortunately only in silver, it's quite difficult to get the anthracite version.
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: HDTM on July 23, 2019, 12:54:03
Very Well Done! I love them!  :love:
Brown pieces are all the rage for me!
Title: Re: Custom knights (made with original playmobil parts)
Post by: Beekhuys on July 25, 2019, 21:18:34
Thanks!! :D