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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: cheng on September 10, 2011, 10:24:26
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hey PFs...do they look english or french or neither? :P
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doesn't look like anything I ma familiar with, but i do like the technic!
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they look like venetian gondoliers :)
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Baron, I definitely agree....Venetian gondoliers.
Remove the cannon and replace with long oars and gondola....woooops....is there a PM gondola? Passengers should be drinking fine wine or champagne, too! Cheers, Pgal :wave:
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Yep!
Gondoliers. By default, the small Viking ship could work, wouldn't it?
Best,
Arnaud
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For some odd reason, they look vaguely french to me, but I have no idea why. ??? Maybe it's the mustaches. But yeah I agree they could certainly be gondoliers.
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Venetian gondoliers?? ??? :o 8} :'( :-[
how on earth did this 'uniform' register in my brains as english or french navy?
(I have seen PM customs british navy with blue scarves and white legs but not french navy...)
just googled and found these ;D anyone with larger colour plates? :)
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I have absoulutely no idea why, but I think they look like mimes. There's my weird opinion... :lol:
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Hi Cheng
Very nice, he looks great! 8-)
But I agree with the others; his companions look like Venetian gondoliers! :lol:
I still have to read most the other speedo-dad threads, I had a quick look on some but not the time yet to have a profond view of them or to react. It seems Speedo-Dad is to be found in almost all Playmo-worlds! :lol:
Btw, I like the way the cannon looks. I suppose the barrel is painted? Handwork or spraypaint? And which specific brand/color?
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that speedo dad seems to be very versatile! :love:
they look very french because of the moustache and stripped shirt stereotype
they do look like venetian gondoliers as well - i made a similar custom a few years ago for a photo contest:
(http://www.playclicks.com/galeria/albums/userpics/10021/normal_bella_italia.jpg)
my photo techniques sucked at the time though :-[
and my custom was simpler
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thanks all! :)
I'm not into civilians and definitely cant afford 5 Gondelliers ;D
yes...now that you mention it...looks like a mime too :P
but why cant he look like him? is something wrong with my eyes today 8} ?
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Baron, I definitely agree....Venetian gondoliers.
Remove the cannon and replace with long oars and gondola....woooops....is there a PM gondola? Passengers should be drinking fine wine or champagne, too! Cheers, Pgal :wave:
Someone, maybe Macgayver, made a custom gondola.
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that speedo dad seems to be very versatile! :love:
they look very french because of the moustache and stripped shirt stereotype
they do look like venetian gondoliers as well - i made a similar custom a few years ago for a photo contest:
(http://www.playclicks.com/galeria/albums/userpics/10021/normal_bella_italia.jpg)
my photo techniques sucked at the time though :-[
and my custom was simpler
Ah, it was you, Luis. Sorry! :-[
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I can see all three - gondoliers (the striped shirts, hats and long ribbons), French sailors (the moustaches and striped shirts) and mimes (the black and white striped shirt), and also two British sailors (but I think they would get teased by their shipmates about that ribbon round their hats!).
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Yeah, I agree. It could be any of the above. I think maybe we're all just more familiar with gondoliers so that's what comes to mind first.
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thanks everyone!
and playmofire-Gordon, so their ribbons are too long for serious navy duties...I cant bear to cut them...maybe i might just switch them with the other top hat knotted ribbons ;) ..the hats are supposed to be tarred straw hats right? but if British navy wore blue striped shirts, did the French also wore blue stripes or is red stripes also used on both sides (strange that both side wore about the same uniforms 8})
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Luis,
Love your gondolier!!!! That is fantastic and so romantic, which probably is why the women love it the most! It would be so cool if PM did a gondolier special! Pgal :wave:
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Thanks, Pgal :D glad you like it!
Cheng, I've been reading about it - i think you're customs are accurante, it's just that pop culture leads people to associate that outfit to a Gondolier than to a British or French navy uniforms
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It is certain that "common sailors" in English, French or other navies, did not wear uniforms, at least not untill in the 19th century.
I think uniforms for common sailors were introduced at the earliest around 1800 (probably later). Perhaps in the beginning just the gunners got a uniform... (?)
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oh thanks Luis & Hadoque!
mine are supposed to be around 1815, the Battle of Waterloo period maybe these striped shirts are uniforms ;)
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off topic.
but i love the fence in the gondola picture where is it from??
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Someone, maybe Macgayver, made a custom gondola.
EmmaJ made one:
(http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af143/Emma-J1066/Forum%20Playmobil%20Victorian/SDC19767.jpg)
Cheng, your stripped-shirted men could pass for gondoliers, stereotypical "french" characters, but yes, they look much like the pics you posted of british non-uniformed sailors. the yellow-shirted ones I would use on a french ship, though, personally.
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WOW! All this talk about gondoliers brings back memories of my only visit to Venetzia at age 16... fresh out of West Texas and awed by everything I saw in two months in northern Italia.
Yall please keep those gondoliers coming, okay?
I just booked a hotel in Venetzia because of this thread! It is totally yall's fault, Pgal!!!
PS: Keep up the great work guys!
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Cheng, can speedo's dad arms be swapped for regular bare arms or any other arms?? i'm still confused about the inside structure
thanks for any info :wave:
off topic.
but i love the fence in the gondola picture where is it from??
from the victorian dollhouse :)
WOW! All this talk about gondoliers brings back memories of my only visit to Venetzia at age 16... fresh out of West Texas and awed by everything I saw in two months in northern Italia.
Yall please keep those gondoliers coming, okay?
I just booked a hotel in Venetzia because of this thread! It is totally yall's fault, Pgal!!!
PS: Keep up the great work guys!
omg are you going to Italy because of this thread? how cool is that 8-)
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Luis....the internal skeleton's clips for his arms are narrower than the normal wider cliky torsos but still wider than the slimmer female klicky in bathing suit....so you cant change arms for speedo dad unless you do some surgery on his 'ball & socket' shoulder joints :) go get a speedo dad....
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thanks for the info - Gordon got me this one, as soon as I have him on my hands I'll do some surgery on him (er...on the figure! ;D)
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I hadn't noticed this! I thought the arms and arm clips were the same.