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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: bonniebeth on November 26, 2010, 18:04:25
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Ok, so this is what else I did yesterday.
(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy289/bonniebeth2/100_4939.jpg)
(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy289/bonniebeth2/100_4942.jpg)
I'm working on painting all the fencing for my zoo. I have never understood why playmobil picked that horrible yellow for all the zoo fencing, but it had to go! :lol:
I also painted these:
(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy289/bonniebeth2/100_4949.jpg)
They are from this set: http://playmodb.org/setpics/7835.jpg but I use them as part of my big cat exhibits as viewing windows for up-close encounters.
And then I painted these:
(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy289/bonniebeth2/100_4950.jpg)
This is the fencing from this set http://playmodb.org/setpics/4344.jpg which I use as a petting zoo.
As you can see from the box in the background, I have a lot of painting left to do! unfortunately, it is cold, windy, and rainy today, so it will have to wait.
Now, I need advice on this. I'm going to be combining several of these cages http://playmodb.org/setpics/7437.jpg to make bird exhibits, and of course, the yellow has to go. But i'm not sure what color it should be Thoughts?
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Those fences look really great in black
At farms and zoos here, I have seen them spray wooden fences in some black creosote stuff through a compressor.
Great use of the roof sections :)9
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Good job Bonnie!! really good job! Its true, I never liked the yellow fences maybe this is a reason for me not getting into the zoo theme! Looking forward to more work!
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Nice!!
Well regarding the color, I would go with white cages and red roofs if there will be tropical birds. ;D
Other option.... dark green cages, terracota roofs. ;D
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That's...a good idea. i wouldn't have thought of that. I'm going to have a very large enclosure (i have awesome plans for it) with bald eagles, and some smaller ones for owls and falcons. For tropical birds, I'm going to have a walk-through aviary using two of these: http://playmodb.org/setpics/4281.jpg or maybe a greenhouse. i haven't decided which.
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Dark green sounds good to me.
A few years ago in one of the convention displays there was an aviary made by using the structural frame from the 3079 space station and screen netting. Netting over poles is what some zoos use for larger bird enclosures that don't need to be heated.
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Yeah, I've thought about netting, too. My current plan is a little hard to explain, but it imitates raptor canyon from the fort worth zoo, where there is kind of a tunnel through the cage so the birds can fly over you as you walk through, but you are not actually in the cage with them. It will be rather tall compared to most exhibits, so I think it will add interest to the diorama.
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Yeah, I've thought about netting, too. My current plan is a little hard to explain, but it imitates raptor canyon from the fort worth zoo, where there is kind of a tunnel through the cage so the birds can fly over you as you walk through, but you are not actually in the cage with them. It will be rather tall compared to most exhibits, so I think it will add interest to the diorama.
Wow! you are really a zoo expert! I can't wait to see the whole thing! :wave:
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Thank you! I am always going to other zoos when I travel because I enjoy photographing the animals, and to get ideas for my zoo. I have been to 8 different ones so far, 7 of them more than once, (the other I will never go back to :no:) and i hope to see many more!
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Those are great fences Bonniebeth! Very good job with painting them! The black color isn't that be too! ;D I like very much! ;D
They look great!
Baden :wave:
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:wave: Another great job of painting, Bonniebeth. My hat is off to you! :hatoff:
Joe
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That's excellent paint work; look forward to seeing the finished zoo. :wave:
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Thank you everybody!!! I can't wait to see the finished zoo, either! :lol: I'm going to be hard pressed to find room for it. I want a playmoden! :hissyfit: :hissyfit: :hissyfit:
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I wanted to post a rough sketch of my plans for the raptor exhibits, just so you'll know what I'm talking about. It will look something like this:
(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy289/bonniebeth2/100_5019.jpg)
and be made using about 5 of these:
(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy289/bonniebeth2/100_5022.jpg)
Sorry, I'm not very good at sketching, but hopefully you can see what I mean! :lol: The horizontal surface between the two roof peaks, and the horizontal surface that forms the top of the tunnel are my problems. They need to be some kind of "caging." I've been thinking of weaving plastic string (the kind you use for making those keychains) back and forth for it, but I'm open to suggestions.
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I have no familiarity with these parts Bonnie, but don't the white parts have any slots to put plastic fenses on?
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Umm... yes. Why? ???
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Well, instead of strings, can you not place these yellow fencings on the white parts?
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Well, the pieces I am talking about are the middle "roof" section and the "floor" that goes under it. The white pieces only run vertically. But actually, you have given me an idea. If there is a cube somewhere with system x holes on all sides... well, I can't explain it. I'll just have to see if I can work on it. Thanks for the inspiration! ;)
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Yes that was my initial idea, use the supports horizontaly to fit the caging...I was about to suggest a square systex x part with a whole in the middle, but from what I see from the pics, its small for the width of the caging... this part however 30 05 4490 - Column, single-width, 3 levels of sockets on 2 sides (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-05-4490) might have a good width...
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We're thinking along the same lines! I've been experimenting with it. Hopefully I'll have time to work on it some more later on. I'll try to take some pictures to illustrate the probllems I'm running in to.
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This kind of says it all.
(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy289/bonniebeth2/100_5026.jpg)
I think if the cage pieces were really square I would have no problems, but they are rectangles. Oh well, I think I'm just going to have to do some cutting and gluing to make my own pieces.
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This kind of says it all.
(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy289/bonniebeth2/100_5026.jpg)
I think if the cage pieces were really square I would have no problems, but they are rectangles. Oh well, I think I'm just going to have to do some cutting and gluing to make my own pieces.
Atta girl, Bonniebeth! :)9 When in doubt, cut and glue. I know you will do a great job. :yup:
Joe
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Great ideas Bonnie. Good luck with the cutting and glueing :-)
We are going for the more regular netting option other suggested. Our current plan is to make a Hyena, Vulture exhibit based around the skeleton from 3040 (http://collectobil.com/catalogue/items/3040.htm).
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Oh, that's gonna be awesome! I've been looking at that set, thinking there had to be a good use for it, but hadn't come up with anything that good. I can't wait to see it!
I am probably going to do a netting exhibit for my vultures because they are so big, not much else will do. But I'm wanting to do this for my eagles, and smaller versions for owls and falcons. Then the walk-thru aviary for parrots and toucans. I'm arranging my zoo by geographical region, not scientific classification, so I can have different types of exhibit in different areas.
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For the roofs - keep in mind that gravity is your friend. As long as the roof holds itself together it just needs to sit on top of the walls. It doesn't have to be connected. Playmo animals are very well behaved, I've never had any problems with escapes ;)
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:lol: :lol: That is true!
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For the roofs - keep in mind that gravity is your friend. As long as the roof holds itself together it just needs to sit on top of the walls. It doesn't have to be connected. Playmo animals are very well behaved, I've never had any problems with escapes ;)
Saturday in Wolfsburg, we nearly had an escaped animal :-)
There was this huge pile of playmo that we were browsing through for parts when my wife went STOP!!!
The kids froze in their tracks and my wife started going over the area where my son was searching over and over again...it took her about a minute but then she came up with....
A white Mouse!!! (http://www.animobil.info/text/3e258fc-1066.html)
It was very close to escaping but my wives eagle eyes saved the day :-)
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Ooh, I don't have any of those! I always hide mice all over my zoo in funny spots, including one somewhere in the elephant exhibit. :lol: