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Post by Vermin King on Sept 2, 2018 10:59:38 GMT -9
Well, as I was limping home yesterday with fuel-injection problems, I called my dear friend Mike that I don't get to see as often as I would like, and I should probably talk to more often than I do. While we were talking about my grandson's first birthday with a blue birthday cake, which evidently had indelible blue ink in the icing, he started talking about his love of the Smurfs as he was growing up. So, I decided it was time to pick up the Smurf project again. So far, I've gotten the three Kaukapedia huts done and a few figures, www.kaukapedia.com/index.php?title=Bastelbogen:_Fix_und_Foxi_und_ihre_FreundeI used to have a link to another magazine's Schtroumpf models, but with the recent changes at Wayback Machine, I can no longer get there, which is a real shame. They had a Smurf garage, Gargamel's house, the Moulin des Schtroumpfs (a pop up Smurf windmill), and a scene of smurf acrobats (all previously downloaded). I've been working on getting it all into the same scale with the Smurfs at 1/2 an inch to the eyeball level and cleaning up the colors and generally having a good time working on it EDIT-- I do have a couple regrets. I should have used join strips instead of tabs on the three main houses. Butt-joining the roof segments would have had a better appearance. The other regret is not taking all those figures and arranging as minis first. Cutting out fronts AND backs is a major pain
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 2, 2018 12:59:46 GMT -9
Also, watching 'We Were Soldiers' while working on this wasn't a good idea Yes, I should have formatted like minis... EDIT-- That site had changed its formatting, so Wayback wasn't necessary, chez-frangau.over-blog.com/search/Schtroumpf/
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Post by okumarts on Sept 2, 2018 14:37:41 GMT -9
I have these and think it'd be fun to spring a smurf adventure on my friends...
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 2, 2018 16:46:11 GMT -9
The four pages in the first link will all fit on one page, which puts them at 15 cm to eye level, if that helps.
I've got a lot of Smurf printables saved. It doesn't say on the files, but I think they were from the Uhu glue site
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Post by lightning on Sept 3, 2018 10:11:36 GMT -9
Was that a thing in the US? I remember reading Fix & Foxi comics when I was a kid! Feeling young again :-)
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 3, 2018 11:56:13 GMT -9
Smurfs seem to go in waves. I had never heard of Fix & Foxi until I discovered papercraft. These must have happened before Smurfette came on the scene, so when I was working on foliage, I threw a Smurfette on that page. Also needed more bases EDIT-- Gonna need more foliage. Actually there is foliage with some of the other buildings, so I collected some of them on the page shown, so that they could be done up quickly and they are also enlarged. More of the characters are done than those shown
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 3, 2018 17:42:50 GMT -9
14 characters, several trees and bushes. I have two more houses lined out to print and the windmill is almost ready to go. Gargamel's house and the garage are going to take a little extra effort.
But I think I need to get going on Halloween Haunted House, or I'll run out of time
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 4, 2018 4:53:00 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 4, 2018 15:51:54 GMT -9
When I was coming up with these, I kept the pages intact, and scaled the pages so that the average figure would be 15mm to eye level. That makes the houses too small. If anyone else decides to do something with these, scale the pages to the size you desire, but then scale the houses up by 10% or more. Just an FYI
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Post by BlackCat13 on Oct 2, 2018 4:54:51 GMT -9
For years an annual Smurf Hunt was part of my AD&D group's venue. They would venture forth bravely into the enchanted woods to try to stamp out the wicked blue vermin, but a few always managed to get away. Individually the Smurfs were weak and easily dealt with. Sure, they had a wickedly low AC, but they had low hit points could be damaged by most weapons. They were resistant to a lot of spells and took only half damage from blunt weapons, but most everything else worked just fine on them. Yeah, they were sneaky, though. They had all of the same advantages that elves gain in the woods and most wore no armor. They wielded sprite-sized weapons and the majority were zero-level fighters. They had leader-types and specialists with thief, cleric, and other player-character class abilities. The nest was always led by a horrible individual with the spell casting abilities of at least a 12th-level magic-user and a 9th-level druid. These creatures were known locally as "the Blue Peril" and greatly feared by local peasantry. They were magically created and completely unnatural and destroyed any ecosystem they infested. Their devilish antics and foul singing is so repugnant it will drive off even kobolds,ogres, and goblins from their ancestral lands. Even mighty dragons would rather move on than to deal with a nest of Smurfs unless they are sure they can annihilate the entire nest in one fell swoop. Contrary to the writings of Gargamel the demented, Smurf is not very tasty. My adventurers did not find it palatable at all.
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