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General => What is this??? => Topic started by: Gustavo on May 26, 2008, 01:39:10

Title: An older Crusader?
Post by: Gustavo on May 26, 2008, 01:39:10

(http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/album/albums/userpics/10285/normal_P2250967.jpg)

This catalogue is one of the old LHAAP's catalogues ... There's a set in the upper left, the second set from left to right, that brings a knight with a red cross shield of the Templars that I had never seen before! (Even though we didn't have all the sets in Brasil, many of them reached us here through pictures of dioramas ... I'm very surprised that I had never seen this one.) Does any of you know it ??? ?

Gus
:blackhair:

Title: Re: An older Crusader?
Post by: arab warrior on May 26, 2008, 04:42:40

That is an old color set they used to make.
All the pieces and klickies were white and you could buy pens to colour it in yourself.
http://www.playmodb.org/cgi-bin/sets.pl?theme=Color&sortby=setnum&focus=all&pics=on

like the ones in this link

Title: Re: An older Crusader?
Post by: CountBogro on May 26, 2008, 04:47:33

You're partially right, Gustavo. It is indeed a Crusader, ... but it is a colour-set:

(http://www.collectobil.com/images/items/3624.jpg)

It could become whatever you wanted to be; so as such not a real crusader ...

But good eye-sight! I would never had seen that, I guess.

Bogro

Title: Re: An older Crusader?
Post by: Timotheos on May 26, 2008, 23:44:26

The old color sets are interesting.  I have one from my youth--only partially color-able: the chickens came white with a picture on the box side showing to paint them. 

But, the expertise on the box covers is really fantastic.  When I was 15, I was painting lead miniatures and probably could have done as good of a job as the box artists.  But that must have been a mess for PM's target audience!

Does anyone know:

1) Did these sets attract teenaged/adult interest?

Richard has said that the markers are harder to work with than brushes and fade before long. 

At the same time, I think this was a fine idea, and wouldn't mind PM re-adopting this...

PS.  To Richard: I bought a can of that $15 Krylon fusion paint. 

Let the massacre begin!

Title: Re: An older Crusader?
Post by: Richard on May 27, 2008, 03:08:35

Hello, Timmy ...

Quote from: Timotheos on May 26, 2008, 23:44:26

Does anyone know:

1) Did these sets attract teenaged/adult interest?

That would be something very interesting to know ...
But, what happened to 2) ... ???

Quote from: Timotheos on May 26, 2008, 23:44:26

PS.  To Richard: I bought a can of that $15 Krylon fusion paint. 

Let the massacre begin!

Can't wait to see the results!

All the best,
Richard