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Offline playmofire

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Re: Playmo Terrace Fire
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2009, 06:25:52 »
Excellent story and photos, Ben, your best ever I think.

The same question occurred to me as to kaethe - have you ever ended up with melted or semi-melted figures or equipment?  Oh, and what do the neighbours think of all these fires?
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Re: Playmo Terrace Fire
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2009, 13:42:10 »
Great story, & pyro effects as always, Ben  :wow:! I'm like everyone else in wondering if any radiant heat has distorted equipment or figures yet  ???? I have seen some scorching to figures helmets in your previous house fire story involving 2854 Yelton Lane with the Christmas lights!
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Re: Playmo Terrace Fire
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2009, 11:50:16 »
Hello Kaethe, Rasputin, Gordon, and Bill

Thank you very much for you comments and for taking the time to post them.  ;D

To answer your question, I have never melted any klickys. Equipment is a different story. I've had helmets and SCBAs get discolored, and melted a few ladders and some older style helmets. To be honest I have the klickys and equipment there just long enough to take the picture then they're thrown to the side. This set of pictures (and I have a lot of them) took me close to two hours to get all the pictures right, plus 4 or 5 hours to build the building. That's why I don't do it that much anymore. Sometimes it's more fun for me to skip the pictures and just play with Playmobil...


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Re: Playmo Terrace Fire
« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2009, 15:43:45 »
Quote from: FireChief on August 27, 2009, 11:50:16
plus 4 or 5 hours to build the building.

I was wondering about that. I was looking at it and noticing all the porches and windows and figured it must have taken hours to cut it out, assemble it and then paint it all . then to throw a match on it  :o. Could it be true that some firemen have a pyromaniac side   :lol: I know in my line of work Fire is a very useful tool not to mention how nice it feel to have a warming fire on a job site in the forest .
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Re: Playmo Terrace Fire
« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2009, 16:09:54 »
I like your new disclaimer  :lol:!
« Last Edit: September 03, 2009, 12:28:50 by Bill Blackhurst »
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Re: Playmo Terrace Fire
« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2009, 19:15:27 »
great story and good Pict's

In the netherlands we set a good inzet  brand meester

groet Peter 
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Re: Playmo Terrace Fire
« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2009, 01:31:08 »
Quote from: Rasputin on August 27, 2009, 15:43:45
Could it be true that some firemen have a pyromaniac side 

I have a friend who is a firefighter (and just got promoted to captain!), and he admits to enjoying starting fires.  He confesses that he has a pyromaniac side.   :lol:
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Re: Playmo Terrace Fire
« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2009, 02:08:29 »


I hope making these scenes doesn't make me a pyromaniac - and I hope no one thinks that -  really I just add the fire for effects. How many other people in the world do that? Frankly, it makes me quite, wait, really nervous to have very expensive toys next to something that can lead to their demise in a few seconds and I wouldn't suggest that to anyone.

Believe it or not I started doing more detailed pictures/scenes when I joined PlaymoFriends. I used to use a smoke machine... Here are some pictures of a display I made once. I did four of these large displays for safety fairs.
 

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Re: Playmo Terrace Fire
« Reply #18 on: August 28, 2009, 02:12:55 »
Peter, Thank you very much for the great compliments.  :)
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Re: Playmo Terrace Fire
« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2009, 05:51:35 »
That smoke machine is very effective.  The first photo looks very realistic.  I suppose with a smoke machine you can produce larger quantities of smoke for larger scale photos.
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