The Memorial Collection

[Wesley Myers]

Going through some stuff tonight and realised I still had a pile of half-timbered gable ends.  So, I thought I would try to figure out what they were all for.  Two are for the two 3666's so that took care of two, but I was still left with ten extras.  Well, putting some walls and roof pieces together it looks like there are five 7109's.

Those placed with all the "olde houses" plus my six yellow, red and blue houses should make a pretty nice medieval village!

Now all I have to do is try to figure out how I will furnish them ...   

[Wesley Myers]

The tailor was extra nice to his wife today.  He was feeling sorry she was bending over so low to do the washing and dying of the material so be brought her two stands for the wash basins.

(I had an extra one of these from an old lot I bought a few years ago but had no idea what it was for, so an extra was basin and stand to help flesh out the tailor's shop).

The blacksmith's shop is getting extra's too.  I also want to order all the baked goods for my bakery (too bad they didn't have all those back when the Bakery was first made - they really add to it).  Not to mention a nice fireplace to bake the stuff in ...

[Giorginetto]

Not to mention a nice fireplace to bake the stuff in ...

I always wondered abou this, all we had was that furniture  but no furnace like the smithies shop .... shame really as the bakery is such a classic steck shop. i cant wait to buy 2-3 of them when it arrives in Greece  ( or 4 , they are the best for making shops ...  )

[Wesley Myers]

I always wondered abou this, all we had was that furniture  but no furnace like the smithies shop .... shame really as the bakery is such a classic steck shop. i cant wait to buy 2-3 of them when it arrives in Greece  ( or 4 , they are the best for making shops ...  )

I was thinking of the large oven from 4251.

[Wesley Myers]

It's been a while since I've attahced any pictures.  It's been a while since I've done a lot with it, either.  A bit of sorting here and there - but not a lot.  Busy with other things at the end of summer and autumn.

However, what time I have been spending has been trying to sort and compile the sets.  It's taking a lot of work.  More than I thought it would.  I just wish I had more time ...   

Here are some of the St. Christopher knights:



This shows that the lady was still buying stuff fairly recently.  It also shows, based upon the sets, that she liked Steck and the figures from the 90's and the sets from the 70's.  So, like a lot of other medieval collectors and enthusiasts on here she was on the same page. 

A few of the new knights were obviously good enough to add to the glory days of medieval sets but not the System X lineage.

I like the details she painted on with the facial hair.  The brush strokes show a shakey hand - but that happens with old age and adds character and charm to them.  Note the blue paint detailing as well as the silver paint.  The blades of the swords have also been painted so they are silver instead of gold. 

I have four others of these, by the way.  I decided not to retake the photos as I would surely want to add more to the next or change them and then not post any pictures ...

[Wesley Myers]

Some Black Knights. 



Note the painted details of the crests to add variety.  She had the shields in a different manner than I usually do.  These are the figures holding the top of the handle so they hang lower.  I can tell they were this way by the tiny bit of glue residue left on that part of the shield.  It works.  You can't hold them this way dismounted, but you can mounted. 



I need to go through the zip lock bag of helmets and find the rest of the visors.  (I've been trying to put different parts in bags and then from there to put some sets together.)



It looks pink in this photo, but note the blood painted on the axes.  I can hardly picture a little old lady sitting there painting blood on battle axes.  LOL  There is also a stump - the one with the axe groove in it - that's painted with red for blood and it must have been with the executioner. 



The silver detailing is on all the caprisons and it does add to them.  Note also the silver on the rivets on the shields.

[Wesley Myers]

There are some small oak trees.  This set is present:



Have to take a picture of it (actually, I have to combine all the parts into one bag ...).

Anyway, according to Playmodb.org that tree was not used in many sets (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-08-8400.  However, I have a few of them.  So how did they come to be here?  Was it something they sold through DS?  Or was it something that she special ordered from DS or ?

Sadly, these questions will never be answered in this life, I think.

The trees are quite nice, actually.  (Wish the branches stayed in better - they're good, mind you, just wish they were in there stronger, but the beauty of Playmobil is that it come apart along the stressed areas where other toys break!).  Actually, the branches stay in just as good as other trees, so disregard what I was saying, it's a moot point unless you're playing pretty hard with them.  Guess I'm thinking of them in the Superset Fairy Garden - this is the part that always come off first ... 





I figured a few forest dwellers would add to the image.



I thought this painting was a very nice detail!  Even with the beauty of the colour moulded parts of brown for the branch and green for the leaves this just adds to it.

[tahra]

Well, the lady had good ideas to add to stuff with a brush, that's for sure!

[Bolingbroke]

thats the way my knights hold their shield too. they can stand up like that, if you tilt their arm a bit forward!

[Hadoque]

This memorial collection keeps amazing me!