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Title: Playmobil as an aid to interest kids in history
Post by: Jim_K on November 17, 2011, 19:57:52: Hi from a new member!

My kids have grown out of Playmobil but had endless hours of pleasure from knights, pirates, cowboys and indians in the late 90's and early 00's.

I love certain periods in history and passed some of that interest on to my kids through Playmobil.

I think your terminology is "custom" characters - I created many of these from figures in the knights range.

I'll try and post some images soon!
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Post by: rms008 on November 17, 2011, 20:03:31: hi jim and welcome from malta. plesed to have you onboard with us will look forward for photos and comments. hope you will enjoy the it here with us.
regards

ryan :blackhair:
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Post by: tahra on November 17, 2011, 20:03:54: Welcome from Portugal!

Looking forward to those pics! :)
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Post by: Ace on November 17, 2011, 20:04:20: Hi Jim K and :welcome: to PlaymoFriends from Washington State! I can't wait to see some of your customs :picsplz:!
Ace :brownhair:
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Post by: Wolf Knight on November 17, 2011, 20:05:28: Welcom from Greece!! Looking forward to your customs!!
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Post by: bonniebeth on November 17, 2011, 20:16:32: Hello and :welcome: from Louisiana, USA!!! Great to have you with us!
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Post by: Jim_K on November 17, 2011, 20:18:56: Thanks for such a fast welcome folks!

To get me up to speed, please could you tell me how to upload photos off my PC? I have reduced some to the acceptable size and gone into the "additional options" and "attach", but I don't see how to actually insert the image I have attached! On another forum I use there is an "insert image" button to click once the file is attached. ???

I must be being thick!
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Post by: playmogal on November 17, 2011, 20:19:27: Welcome, Jim, from North Carolina!

Glad to have you onboard, Pgal :wave:
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Post by: bonniebeth on November 17, 2011, 20:24:08: Right above the smileys is a row of buttons, the one on the far left is the insert image button. But the pics must be no more than 100kb, and no more than three per post.

It's much easier, I find, to sign up for a free account on http://photobucket.com/ and host the pics there. You can then copy the image code and paste it in your post to imbed the pictures.
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Post by: Jim_K on November 17, 2011, 20:31:46: Thanks for the guidance bonniebeth - very kind of you.

I've tried the icon first. Having attached an image I clicked on the picture icon but all that appears is " (http://)" not the photo itself. What am I doing wrong? Do you click on the picture icon before or after you've "browsed" and "attached"?

Obviously I can try "Photobucket" but I thought I just quickly post a few piccies to get things going!
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Post by: Jim_K on November 17, 2011, 20:34:07: Ha! My image of Richard the Lionheart IS there after all! I'll try another - this time some Hospitaller knights from the crusades!

(http://)
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Post by: Jim_K on November 17, 2011, 20:37:30: OK, so I think I've got the hang of it!

Here's a few more:

William the Marshall

(http://)

King William The Lion of Scotland

(http://)

Philip of France

(http://)

All characters contemporaneous with Richard l of England.
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Post by: conniefrere on November 17, 2011, 20:42:01: Thanks for showing your customs. A warm welcome from the netherlands and hope to see more of your creations.

:wave:
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Post by: tonguello on November 17, 2011, 21:05:49: Welcome from Buenos Aires, Argentina!

Love the customs I could see, some images are not available though. :(

:wave: :wave: :wave:
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Post by: tahra on November 17, 2011, 21:20:07: I really like your customs! No problem seeing the pics here.
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Post by: Tiermann on November 17, 2011, 21:37:43: Welcome from Oregon!

Some great knight customs there, you are going to fit right in.
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Post by: grangel on November 19, 2011, 01:17:43: Good Job!
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Post by: PlaymoMan on November 19, 2011, 01:48:14: Awesome customs, Jim!
Anyways, welcome from Ontario, Canada! :welcome:
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Post by: Jimbo on November 19, 2011, 14:16:15: Howdy Jim_K.

Warm welcome from Arizona. :wave:

Best regards,
Jimbo
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Post by: Sylvia on November 19, 2011, 19:38:37: Hello and welcome from the Scottish Highlands! :coo:
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Post by: Bill Blackhurst on November 20, 2011, 03:50:09: Welcome to the Playmofriends forum from South Carolina USA, Jim_K! Thanks for sharing your pictures with us, you will find many members here with the same interests as you!
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Post by: Luis on November 20, 2011, 17:07:18: welcome to the forum! :) love your customs too! - (like Gastón, i can't see some pictures though :()
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Post by: Lynx on November 21, 2011, 15:57:31: Welcome from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. You will get inspired here!
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Post by: Skywalker on December 15, 2011, 09:51:38: Great Customs.

:xmascheer: welcome from germany
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Post by: cardensb on December 16, 2011, 03:56:36: I like the customs and welcome from North Carolina, USA.
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Post by: Playmobilas on December 16, 2011, 22:26:43: Welcome friend from always sunny Hellas !!! Very good customs and especially the cross on the cloak detail. :welcome:
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Post by: Birdie on December 22, 2011, 19:09:05: Welcome from Antwerp in Belgium.

I really like those knights!
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Post by: Justindo on December 30, 2011, 01:20:35: Welcome from Southern California! :wave: Great looking medieval customs!