Latest purchases : 4 xwestern forts and related goodies

[Giorginetto]

here are the  4 western forts i bought to build my roman fort... i have 3 more forts and will buy all essential part to built a wooden roman square fort with 4 towers at each cornerts prety much like the ' Asterix' comic roman forts .....









..and of course they will prove handy when building my western collection which has been neglected since the mid 90s....... i also got some western steck walls and some other bits ...

[skypurr]

Your Roman fort sounds really interesting Giorginetto, I look forward to seeing it completed.
How do you plan to build the four towers at the corners?

Elaine

[Giorginetto]

Your Roman fort sounds really interesting Giorginetto, I look forward to seeing it completed.
How do you plan to build the four towers at the corners?

Elaine

Thank you Elaine..  Just go for the easy option and use the stand alone towers from these forts and the one complete i have... Will get a 3-4 more roman tents ( i have 3 ) and i will built a plain square fort with a  few gates and that will work nicely i reckon....

[Wolf Knight]

Giorginetto this is an amzing buy!!! 4 old western forts (and a few more)!!! I have none  ...exept from three systemx forts...and these days I am not very thrilled about them....

Looking forward to your grand roman fort!!!

[Giorginetto]

Giorginetto this is an amzing buy!!! 4 old western forts (and a few more)!!! I have none  ...exept from three systemx forts...and these days I am not very thrilled about them....

Looking forward to your grand roman fort!!!

Thanks Wolf Knight, i have gone way  over the top with playmo purchases in the past 3 months  but all the major projects are coming to an end. In 3 weeks i will pick up all my spares and klicky orders and buy the egyptians sets , set the romans and egyptians first this summer and at some stage hopefully all the mediaval . . I medidated about these forts i reckon were good buys pricewise and will prove very useful . Steck wood castles are rather neglected , the system x which i have one also is very bad in my opinion and these old forts can be so well tailor made and really look forward to set a roman fort next to the arena.....

[Wolf Knight]

I have a frind who has the Fort Randal still in its original box...In excellent condition...He loves it so much and he is not willing to give it away... but I can understand him...I feel like that for my first 3750 and many more....

Onca again congrats George on buying these great fortresses!!!

[Martin Milner]

What will your Fort's footprint be George? It sounds pretty big.

I've got 3-4 Western Forts (need sorting out and assembling) but I want to put them up in original configuration before I use them for other purposes.

Does anyone have instructions for how to assemble the Headquarters builidng? I thought I had instructions somewhere from the DS fort, haven't found them yet though, and it's proving more complex than I expected from the pictures.

[Giorginetto]

What will your Fort's footprint be George? It sounds pretty big.

No idea yet.... the big problem for me is to fidn the time to set all these playmobil right now.... I estimate very very roughly is going to be about 1.5m2......

[Martin Milner]

the big problem for me is to find the time to set all these playmobil right now....

Hah, same problem here. I've had several eBay wins recently that I've opened but examined only for breakages, with no time to assemble them. On top of that I still haven't examined and organised all my Playmobil that was shipped from London, after nearly seven months in the country, though less than three with my Playmoden to play in. 

I have no excuse on the space front now, it's just time, and having the inclination to spend 2-4 hours on a single project.

[Justindo]

Congratulations on your fort purchases, Giorginetto!  I had one Fort Bravo as a child and purchased several others off of ebay recently.  I created a Roman fort with them a couple years ago and it took up a lot of space.  Unfortunately I didn't take pictures or measure it, but as I recall it was around 6'x10'.  I've decided to use these fort parts for a Celtic hill fort instead and use the new System X wooden forts for a Roman fort.  Unfortunately, I was unable to get most of the parts I needed for this from US DS, so my System X Roman wooden fort has only one wall right now.  I also created a Roman fort out of System X castles.

Martin, unfortunately I don't have any directions for the headquarters, but the construction is pretty simple if you have all the parts.

It is tough to find the time for organizing and constructing all of these!