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Offline Richard

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Re: new direct service pirates 2008
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2008, 13:01:33 »

Hello, Timmy ...

Quote from: Timotheos on May 02, 2008, 23:59:31

My geography is a little rusty, but Richard might be Caribbean Scum!

He is!  I just googled the Virgin Islands!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Islands


You must have missed me ... ;)

Can't think of any other reason for your very "interesting" post ...  ;D

All the best,
Richard





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Re: new direct service pirates 2008
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2008, 20:04:14 »
Richard,

I am curious?????????  How does Ralph make his pictures look like they are the fronts of Boxes?? Is this a computer art program?  Is he an artist as well as a talented customizer?  I have enjoyed looking at all his works but I keep wondering how does he do it?

Thanks,
Janice
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Re: new direct service pirates 2008
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2008, 01:18:01 »
Quote from: Gustavo on May 03, 2008, 01:15:26
no matter what ecologists will say about it / I don't defend whale hunting myself, only it is part of either History & Literature ... I am saying this afore head because I think it may give loooong discussions in the future ...[/size] 8} :)

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Re: new direct service pirates 2008
« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2008, 01:23:59 »
Quote from: Janice on May 06, 2008, 20:04:14
Richard,

I am curious?????????  How does Ralph make his pictures look like they are the fronts of Boxes?? Is this a computer art program?  Is he an artist as well as a talented customizer?  I have enjoyed looking at all his works but I keep wondering how does he do it?

Thanks,
Janice

I'm sure he has a template image that he superimposes his photographs against.  But, how does he so cleanly cut the picture away from the background?  Or is the background "real"--part of the display he sets his figures against?

Quote from: Richard on May 06, 2008, 12:46:35

Perhaps (for the many reasons that you have already stated above), Moby Dick might be a diorama subject that we may want to avoid making ... ???


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Re: new direct service pirates 2008
« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2008, 03:15:29 »


Hello, Janice ...

Quote from: Janice on May 06, 2008, 20:04:14
Richard,

I am curious?????????  How does Ralph make his pictures look like they are the fronts of Boxes?? Is this a computer art program?  Is he an artist as well as a talented customizer?  I have enjoyed looking at all his works but I keep wondering how does he do it?

Thanks,
Janice


Yes, Ralf Gemein is an accomplished artist ... Click HERE!

We have not asked Ralf, but he probably uses Adobe Photoshop (or a similar program) to create his wonderful "boxes" of imaginary Playmobil sets.

Playmofriends Sylvia is a very competent and gifted Photoshop artist. Sylvia could no doubt answer your question much better that I can, Janice.

All the best,
Richard

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Re: new direct service pirates 2008
« Reply #15 on: May 07, 2008, 15:25:05 »
Well not that i condone whale hunting but we seem to be getting all the parts for it . The 3551 Fishing Trawler, the new 4489 whale, and now that 7373 grappling hook cannon can easily be made into a harpoon . I guess you could even use the 4472 Cargo ship to ram the whalers  ;)
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Re: new direct service pirates 2008
« Reply #16 on: May 07, 2008, 16:01:38 »
Quote from: Janice on May 06, 2008, 20:04:14
Richard,

I am curious?????????  How does Ralph make his pictures look like they are the fronts of Boxes?? Is this a computer art program?  Is he an artist as well as a talented customizer?  I have enjoyed looking at all his works but I keep wondering how does he do it?

Thanks,
Janice

It's more easy, that most people think.

Look this, just 10 minutes with photoshop...

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Re: new direct service pirates 2008
« Reply #17 on: May 07, 2008, 21:32:47 »
Little Joe is equally adept at custom boxes also.



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Re: new direct service pirates 2008
« Reply #18 on: May 08, 2008, 01:24:56 »
Thank you all for your answers!  I'm still trying to learn how to use a camera..Ha.  I tried to input some photos into the album and they didn't go in like I wanted them to.  I've given up for a while. 

Your works fascinate me.

Janice
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Re: new direct service pirates 2008
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2008, 03:46:54 »
Quote from: Richard on May 06, 2008, 12:46:35
Hello, Gustavo ...

Have you seen Ralf's Napoleon in Egypt Playmobil sets? Click HERE!

Have I seen it?? ... Well, not only I saw it, mate, as it's one of the most booootiful things I've ever seen!! :yup: ... I had seen it in the other post, intitled "TEN YEARS" that you posted. It's great: it feels really like the 1900 collection, I mean, to look at the pictures really makes me feel like I felt, when I saw the first 1900 sets ... Something like a dream, or a vision, or like thinking "is it real?" (I remember that I felt really like this when I saw the first Victorian sets, in a supermarket ... Euromarché, in Vila Nova de Gaia ... We used to go there, and it was a new sm, back in the early '90s ... There I bought the first sets I had, in the theme) ... They didn't look real, and, in a way, I think I felt so because I had never before seen anything so well conceived. In this way, I think, this Napoleonic collection rises the same feeling in the bottom of my being :yup:

(It's really a pity that, unlike the 1900s, I cannot buy these ... :'( )

But they're great, and it's enough for me! ;) Thanks for sharing it with us here, in Playmofriends Richard! :)

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