Shopping street

[bonniebeth]

This is really lovely! Great custom buildings. I love all the floors and wallpapers. What did you use for those?

And I love how y'all did a joint thread and each showed your parts of the street. Chris and I will have to start doing that on our joint projects. (Chris is my husband, his user name is clong.)

[tahra]

^ The tassels are tzitzitot:

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/ask_the_expert/at/Ask_the_Expert_Tzitzit_out.shtml

He's just a Modern Orthodox Jewish man passing by...

Mystery solved - thanks!

[leefert]

Very cool family Ravens

[DrDalek6]

Nice project you've both made I like the bike shop and the details like the Dad bringing in a broken bike and the kid looking in longingly, the baby shop also looks great (even got a little toy Pichu  cool) and I really like the owners hosue with that nice spiral staircase.   The baby Dino  cute that they also like flowers.

Very nice   (you guys scare me - one of this day's I'll find myself hunting System X. That will be THE END.)

The pet =

And what's with the tassles on that klicky's waist? Details?

I didn't parituclarly notice that first time round but, looking at him the hat does look like the ones some Jews wear, it's interesting to me reading that article since I'm Jewish and I've noticed the men in my cousins family having tassles hung out of their clothes good to know the reasoning behind that thanks   

[basilsdad]

Being creative with custom building is just the best use of Playmobil i think.

I wholeheartedly agree!

Joe

[Mr Raven]

What a great looking street full of active shops. They look very well layed out and the flooring in particular is just perfect. What was used aS a wheel truing stand?

The wheel truing stand is actually an optical illusion. Now i look at it again then yes, it rather looks like one. But it is two wheels hanging on some hooks on the wall, together with some downwards (racing) handlebars.

Thanks all for the compliments. 

[Raven]

I love all the floors and wallpapers. What did you use for those?

In Mr Raven's building, the floor coverings are a combination of scrapbooking paper, and cheap coloured paper (printed over with a dotted pattern to resemble carpet) - both of which are thin enough to lay underneath the walls, which makes for a very smooth finish.

But in order to do this, one has to take the building apart again - which he did.  I, however, couldn't face taking my building apart again - it was big, and complex in places - so I went the cheats' route, and took some thin cardboard, cut it to size, and just pushed it in.

It didn't cover doorways, however, so I had to add extra pieces there.  And the joins showed:



As for the wallpaper: it was my first attempt at this, and I did it after the building was made, so it was a bit tricky in places, and I'd also left it too late to cut around window pieces (I had none spare).  I tried a few types: thin 80 g paper for the apartment stairs (not shown in the photos - I do have a photo of it, but it looks quite good on there, whereas in reality, it looks like what it is ... thin paper stuck to the wall); shinyish craft paper (in the apartment itself and the pink/gingham recess in the Baby Shop), which was the best stuff to use; and (mostly) the same thin cardboard as I used for the floor.  The thin cardboard was extremely easy to apply (some of it it isn't even stuck in position: it just held itself securely there), but at certain angles, it does show all the joins.

[bonniebeth]

Thanks. I have used scrapbooking paper before in making custom signs for my western town. It's pretty great, since the variety of patterns is mind-blowing. I may have to experiment with some custom floor coverings in the house I currently have set up. I actually managed this last time around, almost by accident, to coordinate every room perfectly with the existing grande mansion wallpapers. But in future I would like to do some wall coverings.

[Tiermann]

Great building designs and interiors. Some nice creative uses there. Thanks for posting them for us to see.

[Birdie]

Brilliant! I haven't seen many modern system-X creations like this that take up a whole street.
It's splendid, the look of the street from outside.
The supermarket see-through walls look amazing with an extra floor on top, somehow they make more sense that way.

Do you need a truckload of buildings to make something like this? I know you have that three-story house with the blue lights, the supermarket and what looks like parts of the hospital, but I don't recognise the green windows or the red one sticking out.

The result is stunning, so I might try something similar once.

And then there's the inside of the buildings  !!

The bike shop is a neat idea. I spotted a poster with an actual Playmobil child on his bike, nice detail 
The living room and kitchen work really well, and so do all of those wallpaper and floor coverings. They really add to the feel of the room. And the pet!!    Those dinosaurs do look awefully cute. A lot of them have this cheeky expression on their face 

The picture of the supermarket attendant who's having a break: love it!! It's like she's actually looking at the clock!
And I applaud the bad decor in the apartment 

Baby shop, another great idea. You must have put quite some thought in building it all up, because everything connects, like how the shop has a door to the owner's house.
I like the bathroom there, it's narrow but it looks just right, with that wallpaper. It's for the studio apartment, right?

The scrapbooking paper is a great find and you did a wonderful job with it, covering those doors and such. It looks very professional!