Author Topic: Medieval Army  (Read 4726 times)

Offline Justindo

  • Playmo Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 2045
  • Gender: Male
Re: Medieval Army
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2010, 19:42:23 »
That's a wonderful display of Medieval warriors!  You certainly have a great variety of heraldry.  Can we hope for sharper pictures in the future?
:egypt: :roman: :viking: :knight: :arrr: :indian: :cowboy:

Offline playmofire

  • Klicky Firemeister
  • Playmo Guru
  • ******
  • Posts: 10924
  • Gender: Male
    • Copt Hewick Volunteer Fire Brigade - probably the world's smallest fire brigade!
Re: Medieval Army
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2010, 20:27:50 »
Great display, Andrew, and thanks for sharing it with us.    :wave:   I like the fact that where troops share a common livery there are still variations in uniform, e.g. the helmets worn.  This is just as it would have been, the idea of a uniform as such not coming in until much later.

Now I'm sure everyone is looking forward to some battle photos!
“Today well-lived makes every yesterday a day of happiness to remember and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”

Offline AndrewL

  • Playmo Lover
  • ***
  • Posts: 370
  • Gender: Male
Re: Medieval Army
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2010, 17:47:55 »
Dear All,

Many thanks for the kind comments -- much appreciated.
To reply to some individuals' comments: indeed, only about 1/3 of the floor was covered, but unfortunately we still need to be able to move in the room. Like I said, need a bigger house. Or maybe learn to levitate...

At the time, I set up somewhere in the area of 750 figures, but that number has increased already since last December. I have gone for lots of figures of each livery, but deliberately trying to make them similar but not uniform. In the same vein, I haven't tried to have fixed 'unit' numbers, rather simply building groups of men in each livery based on the figures/parts I had available to fit with the colour scheme of each group.

I'm planning to do more detailed (hopefully sharper!) photos of each group, but I need to get a bit better organised for that. Camera tripod is in the post, should arrive tomorrow, so that will be a spur to get going with that.

And yes, I do have pictures from a couple of battles I've fought using some of the figures shown in these photos. I was planning on putting those up on Garden Wargaming, though -- thought those might be overly, um, belligerent for Playmofriends  ;). Happy to put them here, too, if folks would like.

Cheers,

AndrewL

Offline Martin Milner

  • Eugene, Oregon, USA
  • Playmo Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 2754
  • Gender: Male
    • An Englishman in Eugene
Re: Medieval Army
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2010, 17:58:59 »
At the time, I set up somewhere in the area of 750 figures, but that number has increased already since last December. I have gone for lots of figures of each livery, but deliberately trying to make them similar but not uniform. In the same vein, I haven't tried to have fixed 'unit' numbers, rather simply building groups of men in each livery based on the figures/parts I had available to fit with the colour scheme of each group.

I'm planning to do more detailed (hopefully sharper!) photos of each group, but I need to get a bit better organised for that. Camera tripod is in the post, should arrive tomorrow, so that will be a spur to get going with that.

And yes, I do have pictures from a couple of battles I've fought using some of the figures shown in these photos. I was planning on putting those up on Garden Wargaming, though -- thought those might be overly, um, belligerent for Playmofriends  ;). Happy to put them here, too, if folks would like.

Yes Please! No harm in putting them up on both forums. In addition to a tripod, if your camera has a timer button or a remote shutter release it's a good idea to use that to eliminate shake from pressing the shutter release, especially on small digital cameras. My Pentax Optio S6 has a 2-second timer which is ideal for this.

Offline AndrewL

  • Playmo Lover
  • ***
  • Posts: 370
  • Gender: Male
Re: Medieval Army
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2010, 18:04:03 »
Hi Martin,

Yep, self-timer combined with tripod for the camera is what I had in mind.

That's my weekend taken care of, then...

Cheers,

AndrewL

Offline Martin Milner

  • Eugene, Oregon, USA
  • Playmo Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 2754
  • Gender: Male
    • An Englishman in Eugene
Re: Medieval Army
« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2010, 20:03:08 »
Hi Martin,

Yep, self-timer combined with tripod for the camera is what I had in mind.

That's my weekend taken care of, then...

Cheers,

AndrewL

LOL, yeah, it can get pretty time-consuming.

Offline Bill Blackhurst

  • Playmo Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 6158
  • Gender: Male
Re: Medieval Army
« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2010, 20:47:20 »
WOW  :o! That's an awesome collection display you have there! I can understand your quest to collect more than one item  ;)!
  Forget about all of the other stuff,....all we need is the reintroduction of the 3526 Fire Engine!

Offline Richard

  • Retired Playmobil
  • Wargamer
  • Playmo Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 4965
  • Gender: Male
    • Garden Wargaming
Re: Medieval Army
« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2010, 00:30:47 »


OMG ... That's an incredible army, Andrew! ...  :wow:

I think that you could put some major hurt on that scary "clown army" that Ras has put together ...  ;D

All the best,
Richard

Offline Gepetto

  • Playmo Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 1776
  • Gender: Male
Re: Medieval Army
« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2010, 18:50:39 »
Very impressive troops Andrew, I love to see them massed like that! Thanks for sharing.  :wave:


Gepetto

Offline Giorginetto

  • Playmo Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 7849
  • Gender: Male
  • Playmobil Aficionado
    • TheGiorginetto channel
Re: Medieval Army
« Reply #19 on: February 08, 2010, 06:57:31 »
Awesome army !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! very nicely set and also i looked with great interest to some of your knights the combos of armour and shileds is very nice !!! ;D ;D ;D
:knight: Steck is Holy . Bring back more steck sets and its guardians , the Nuremberg Guards :knight: