Giorginettos Medieval Collection

[sunflower]

This is so impressive! Some of them like to walk close to the edge.

[Cloud Strife]

Whew what a long thread.  I am halfway reading and promise to read all the way through but just want to chime in to say how impressive this is...like Cecil B. deMille epic!

[Giorginetto]

Well i have managed to collect 'quite a few spare steck' pieces but need some more and specific ones too. Will be placing a steck order soon with Playmobil and the plan is to start dismantling this set up and at the same time start building the next . I wont do everything at once, will start with the castle walls and fortifications  first , then  the knights / barracks, palace etc  then the city houses and folk , then the forrest etc , this time the vikings ( in combo with my gauls for their light infantry and arrow fodder  )  will be set also and  all the wolf knights. Have quite a few more townfolk also and a couple more steck houses to add ( over extra 10 steck houses  now to set) and i am contemplating if i should get more pine trees, pretty keen to have two separate forests but them oak tree pretty rare to find these days unfortunatelly ... 

Hopefylly my new set up will be all set within the next 12 months. Wont be easy to dismantle all this but as I will be setting a new set up i wont mind that much i suppose ........ 

[basilsdad]

 I always find it hard to tear down anything that I have made.     That is the reason  there are so many houses taking up space in the family room.    
Best of luck on your newest creation.  Sounds like it is going to be a fun project.   

Joe

[Rhalius]

A shame to take it all down, but building up an even better setup will be a lot of fun too! surely over the years you must have noticed stuff you werent happy about or would have done differently when building again. Might be a great chance to add roads for example! 

[Tiermann]

Best of luck with the project George. I don't mind tearing down castles, because I know that then I get to build them again. Each time there are new parts for me to add, or I have found new ideas to try and interesting new floor plans to play with. It's always easier to start from zero building than to try to rework an existing building as well. I am sure you have plans to be organized about it, but my biggest advice is to split the parts up into storage bags and boxes by type as you go. It is so much easier to build again if you know you can reach into a particular bag for a two way connector etc. I found a brand of zippered storage bag that's just the right width for the wall connectors, makes it much easier.

[Giorginetto]

Best of luck with the project George. I don't mind tearing down castles, because I know that then I get to build them again. Each time there are new parts for me to add, or I have found new ideas to try and interesting new floor plans to play with. It's always easier to start from zero building than to try to rework an existing building as well. I am sure you have plans to be organized about it, but my biggest advice is to split the parts up into storage bags and boxes by type as you go. It is so much easier to build again if you know you can reach into a particular bag for a two way connector etc. I found a brand of zippered storage bag that's just the right width for the wall connectors, makes it much easier.

Some very good tips there , thanks. Finding the time is going  to be the most difficult task  . The bit of free time outside famila i have these days I  spent it in  my car restoration project that has been going on for 2 years now but its pretty much 100% complete ( over 200 parts bought and installed !!! ) which has been great fan and I am very proud of the result. My restored sports car has been featured in a car dealer promo video and will also be featured in a car magazine in a couple of months ( !) , thi sis all done now though so its back to playmobil soon and  hopefully this project will start soon . I will do the castle walls first and overall steck design and then put in the steck houses in a more  realistic fashion and with bigger roads too indeed ! . So much to do but i am sure it will be less stressful as progress is made !!!

[Giorginetto]

Alas , more klickies added to the world of krull, about 30 of them as well as furnishings and other details, i wouldnt say try to spot as i cant even spot them my self ! Have 12 steck houses now to add to the city plus a custom steck castle / keep as well as two baron old steck towers that are still MISB.. and to mention the vikings etc etc .. anyways its ALL GOING  TO BOXES SOON ( !!!!!) so here are some pictures before its all packed away... i am keen to set it all up in a private garage that is 200m2 but with all this climate change there are tremendous floods in athens where this garage is and it was a lucky escape a few weeks back as there was 2m of water only a few metres away from this underground garage ! at the moment i only have most of my victorian collection there, in boxes., where my medieval collection is set ( different city) there is no such risk. So i am a bit hesitant to set all this up in the garage despite the measures taken ( auto anti flood pump and aux system etc ) so i dont know yet if and where i will set it up..... anyways all the stuff will be packed up soon ( its been set since late 2009 !!!!) ,so here are some last pictures before the world of krull goes in boxes... ( only temporarily though as it will be set again ...)

i hope you dont get bored of seeing more pics of this set up asi have posted plenty already as well as videos ...  .. but there are the last ones of the biggest diorama i have set up in my life and with parts and sets i have had since 1978 so allow me to be a bit sentimental here as this is the ' This is the world of krull signing off' ( narrated in a similar fashion as Lt Ripley in Alien at the end...) . So this is my last post and the last of the world of Krull , the story line  and the set will be different in my next set up, as this iseroth character will be more of a darker and despotic figure with magic powers too ( currently reserved for the king of the dragons alliance )  and there will be a new set of prominent characters and a complete different set up with focus on sea  and ships as well as  islands and vikings/gauls and wooden castles too .. and  more dragons and magic and big open  farms /farmers . Anyways this is it folks , the end of an era in the world of KRULL.... 

[Tiermann]

Great to see.

Worry not Emperor Iseroth, Krull will rise again!!

[Rhalius]

*plays the song "memories" while watching the pictures.*   

Somehow it now feels like the soldiers are moving out of the city and everyone is preparing to move out.