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Creative => Customs Gallery => Dioramas & Buildings => Topic started by: Timotheos on November 02, 2007, 21:07:30
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Because the forum has been a little slow lately, I'm posting some photos of my village. I think it is located in northern England somewhere, in a vague timeframe between the end of the War of the Roses and the coronation of King James I.
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Here are two more photos.
My version of the smithy, alas without the stove that comes with the legendary old building set.
The other photo is of the restaurant, made from the Merry Men set. The woman between the two robin hoods is a professional.
To Martin: You gotta get the Merry Men.
To Playmobil: Re-release it, for heavens sake.
-Tim
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Whoops, I forgot the chapel and the great hall.
Well, literally, I forgot the great hall. I can't find the photo I took. But here is the chapel.
-Tim
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Hokay, I found the great hall.
It's main claim to fame:
In order to make it wide enough for the lord's dais with reasonable room for the servers, I had to take out the two-section open-backs and leave the great hall floating in space.
Steck makes it hard to design something that isn't 2xN.
-Tim
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great work tim. :wow:
thank you for sharing. :)
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To Martin: You gotta get the Merry Men.
It's on my wanted list, but a set just sold (MISB) in Spain for €65 - that's a bit too rich for my blood yet. I don't really want MISB 'cos I'm going to open and play with it, but pieces are hard to find otherwise.
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It's on my wanted list, but a set just sold (MISB) in Spain for €65 - that's a bit too rich for my blood yet. I don't really want MISB 'cos I'm going to open and play with it, but pieces are hard to find otherwise.
I know what you mean about high prices. I paid US$35 + US$10 shipping for an out-of-box Merry Men set that was missing a few minor pieces (the sheriff's spurs and some sandals). I got lucky with the auction and the dealer, because the set was in great condition. Probably the fact it wasn't MISB led competitors to back down, or maybe even just the time of the month went in my favor.
I would consider buying it MISB for US$60, if the postage was US$10 or less. But, also, I'm really attracted to the set. I like the hunting set too, but can't bring myself to meet its now astronomical valuations ($40 and rising).
Playmobil should just re-release and bring an end to the nonsense!
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That's a great setup, Tim, with lots of nice detail. Great work.
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Great village layout. I just don't have that much space at a time.
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Thanks for all the comments!
Great village layout. I just don't have that much space at a time.
I'm at my space limit. I'm lucky to have a basement (cellar) that can't otherwise be lived in due to the insects during summer.
-Tim
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I'm green with envy. :wow: :lol:
I have a spare room at the moment which is my study, but my largest Playmobil-friendly table surface is a fraction of the space you have, and I can't even fit all the castle parts I have on it, let alone a village and a forest as well!
It's great to see such a layout, and be able to recognise Steck, System-X, and and a lot of the sets and figures in use.
You've spurred me into action. My castle, one assembled, became a dump for loose Playmobil bits and figures, but yesterday I started to tidy up, re-arrange, and think about the whole set up. I'll say no more now, but I've started planning my historical context and background, and hope to have things better arranged soon.
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Hello ... Is it castle "show and tell" time?
The summer before last, as many of you know, the "errant" David Hamer (http://gardenwargaming.com/armies/dhamer/dhamer.html) visited us at our home on Vancouver Island.
During that time, David and I constructed a Playmobil Steck-System medieval castle in our "pool" room. (The indoor swimming pool is temporarily covered, so we are using the "pool" room as a "play" room.)
It took us several weeks to construct the castle, as we did it between a lot of site-seeing around the Island. (You will notice that our castle lacks the interesting Playmobil klicky's that Tim has in his Castle.)
No, we did not leave it up. It's all packed away now.
Here's a couple of photos ...
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Wow, that's big! I think we've gone beyond mere castle and move onto walled town or city status now. ;D
It also illustrates one big advantage of Steck over System X, thw ability to build upwards as well as sideways.
So did you neve actually put klickies in, Richard, or was that just never photographed?
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Hello, Martin ...
It also illustrates one big advantage of Steck over System X, the ability to build upwards as well as sideways.
It's no secret, Martin ... I much prefer the old Steck-System!
So did you never actually put klickies in, Richard, or was that just never photographed?
We took a photo of a visit from the local clergy (please see attachment)
However, we never populated our "walled city" like Tim did in his great diorama!
All the best,
Richard
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I'm green with envy. :wow: :lol:
I have a spare room at the moment which is my study, but my largest Playmobil-friendly table surface is a fraction of the space you have, and I can't even fit all the castle parts I have on it, let alone a village and a forest as well!
It's great to see such a layout, and be able to recognise Steck, System-X, and and a lot of the sets and figures in use.
You've spurred me into action. My castle, one assembled, became a dump for loose Playmobil bits and figures, but yesterday I started to tidy up, re-arrange, and think about the whole set up. I'll say no more now, but I've started planning my historical context and background, and hope to have things better arranged soon.
Hi Martin
I'm looking forward to seeing your set-up!
I was having serious table problems. Worse, tables are expensive and I would have had to sacrifice playmobil purchases to buy the tables.
So, for the medieval village scene, I used saw horses for legs and laid sheets of plywood over them. If I want to enlarge it, I just throw on another strip of plywood and re-arrange the saw horses.
-Tim
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It's no secret, Martin ... I much prefer the old Steck-System!
Hi Richard, your castle looked great. I especially liked what you did with the gate house. The steck drawbridge piece is a hard part to work with.
I'm trying to accept system X, but steck pieces work together so well. It's a crime that so many great steck pieces are permanently off the market. I guess Geobra is just going to sit on the molds. It's a shame they can't lease it out to another toy company that will re-package it as part of a castle-construction line, or something.
Tim
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this is a nice set-up, Tim :)
I especially like the minstrels gallery in the great hall ;D
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this is a nice set-up, Tim :)
I especially like the minstrels gallery in the great hall ;D
I put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into that one.
When I was in my early 20s, I ordered a lot of bargain books from Barnes and Noble (I was in the army at the time, stationed overseas). One of the oddball books I ordered was a tome on 12th-16th century manor architecture fundamentals. At the time, I only opened the book once and thought it was a bore. But, now it's like my steck-building Bible.
-Tim
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So, for the medieval village scene, I used saw horses for legs and laid sheets of plywood over them. If I want to enlarge it, I just throw on another strip of plywood and re-arrange the saw horses.
-Tim
All in the best mediaeval tradition.
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All in the best mediaeval tradition.
That's right! I forgot about the trestle tables. Playmobil was really paying attention to detail when it made the trestle tables that go with Castle 3666.