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Offline Hadoque

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Re: Birdie's medieval town and castle
« Reply #40 on: August 28, 2013, 00:42:45 »
Great diorama, Birdie!!  :clap: :)9

I love all the different sceneries, and the ways you've put together the interiors!
I thought you weren't into historical themes, but rather into City Life? I must be seriously mistaking...
One small remark (if you can call it that): I'd try to arrange the houses with citywall a bit less in a square-shape. But that is probably easier said then done, unless one really drowns in available (customised) Steck-parts...

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Re: Birdie's medieval town and castle
« Reply #41 on: August 28, 2013, 01:42:07 »
Birdie,
Great Diorama! Awesome!  :hatoff:
So many details that I will have to see this post many times.
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Re: Birdie's medieval town and castle
« Reply #42 on: August 28, 2013, 01:53:36 »
Awesome diorama, Birdie! Great job! :)
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Re: Birdie's medieval town and castle
« Reply #43 on: August 28, 2013, 12:37:44 »
Thanks a lot, PlaymoMan, Limorrj and Hadoque  :)

I thought you weren't into historical themes, but rather into City Life? I must be seriously mistaking...

That's right, my focus has always been on houses and furniture, so city life and Victorian is what I mostly collect. But since any type of old house can still be seen in cities, I've never been picky with them :) So I had some western and medieval buildings from my childhood. 
Then my boyfriend Mitri started collecting Roman/Egyptian and western and I've been adding to that for the past few years with some diorama's as a result.

This summer I decided I should buy the DS houses (bakery, museum and such) before it was too late. And then I got excited about building an actual town. I went a bit overboard on E-bay, because I remembered all those sets from the nineties that I had been craving for back then.

I'm expanding  ;D

One small remark (if you can call it that): I'd try to arrange the houses with citywall a bit less in a square-shape. But that is probably easier said then done, unless one really drowns in available (customised) Steck-parts...

You're totally right about the square shape. I've used up almost all the medieval steck I have in this diorama, so there was no chance to make it more or less concentric. Maybe one day...

I also wanted to show some more detailed photo's of the green underground I've used, Tahra asked me about it some time ago:





This is what it looks like underneath:



This little photo session proves I'm still a bit allergic to it *achou*

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Re: Birdie's medieval town and castle
« Reply #44 on: August 28, 2013, 14:44:22 »
I'm expanding  ;D

And so it begins.

I also wanted to show some more detailed photo's of the green underground I've used, Tahra asked me about it some time ago:

Thank you - it is GLORIOUS.

Isn't it hard to make klickys stand up on it?

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Re: Birdie's medieval town and castle
« Reply #45 on: August 28, 2013, 15:05:53 »
Yes that's a bit difficult. There have been three domino-effects with the crowd at the jousting in the last few hours  ::)

And so it begins.

Point taken!  :-[


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Re: Birdie's medieval town and castle
« Reply #46 on: August 28, 2013, 15:13:34 »
Yes that's a bit difficult. There have been three domino-effects with the crowd at the jousting in the last few hours  ::)

The dreadful domino... That "underground" does look hard for "balance"... but it's sooo gorgeous.

Point taken!  :-[

I speak from LONG experience.  :-[