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Post by oldschooldm on Jul 11, 2017 14:39:45 GMT -9
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Post by lightning on Jul 21, 2017 20:23:11 GMT -9
Just returned from my summer holidays and love the preview of the goblin camp! Looking forward to see more :-)
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 22, 2017 3:32:27 GMT -9
What did you do for your holiday?
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Post by oldschooldm on Jul 22, 2017 7:41:21 GMT -9
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Post by lightning on Jul 22, 2017 21:08:02 GMT -9
Beautiful! Love the cauldron and the goblin horde treasure chest pile :-)
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Post by lightning on Jul 22, 2017 21:30:13 GMT -9
What did you do for your holiday? I (plus my better half) was invited by a friend to join him and his family on his sailing boat and spend two weeks in Croatian waters. Very nice of him as this was, is and probably will be out of my league financially :-) I was in Croatia before but only with car and this was a new approach. We saw islands and shores you can only visit by boat. Living in these kind of close quarters for two weeks has its own challenges but it was a very enjoyable trip. We sailed from Lignano, Italy where his boat is parked over to Croatia and down to Dubrovnik (where Game of Thrones and Star Wars was filmed!) and back to Krka National Park. I even got to sail the boat in wind force 6 and 2-3m waves. That was an adventure I'll never forget :-) Felt more like surfing than sailing! That is his boat: a 39ft Janneau yacht. Big compared to the boats on Austrian lakes but small compared to the rides of the really rich. There seems to be no limit up! Kornati National Park: a group of islands that you can only reach by boat. Here you can see a byzantine ruin. In Dubrovnik we walked around the old city on the castle walls. A long walk in the heat but the views were worth it! At the end of the trip we visited the famous waterfalls in Krka Nation Park. This is a special place on its own but for German speaking of my generation is has an even more special meaning... ... because here, in the 60ies, they filmed the Winnetou movies. Winnetou is the character of Karl May books, describing adventures of an German engineer in the Wild West. Because of his strong fist he was named Old Shatterhand and he meets and befriends the Apache chief Winnetou. I don't think these stories are known anywhere outside of German speaking countries, but for kids of my generation this was the ultimate Wild West movies. The funny thing is that the movies were filmed mostly in Croatia, the native Indians were played by the Yugoslavian Army and the Apache was played by a French actor. So most of my early life I thought that the Wild West looked like Croatian landscape, native Indians looked like Serbs and Croats and that native Indians spoke with a french accent
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 23, 2017 7:59:54 GMT -9
... because here, in the 60ies, they filmed the Winnetou movies. Winnetou is the character of Karl May books, describing adventures of an German engineer in the Wild West. Because of his strong fist he was named Old Shatterhand and he meets and befriends the Apache chief Winnetou. I don't think these stories are known anywhere outside of German speaking countries, but for kids of my generation this was the ultimate Wild West movies. The funny thing is that the movies were filmed mostly in Croatia, the native Indians were played by the Yugoslavian Army and the Apache was played by a French actor. So most of my early life I thought that the Wild West looked like Croatian landscape, native Indians looked like Serbs and Croats and that native Indians spoke with a french accent Mark Sergeyev has or had a number of Winnetou paper figures, boxy and simple. Also Oriental Odyssey figures
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Post by lightning on Jul 23, 2017 21:38:06 GMT -9
Whaaat? You guys know Winnetou after all?
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Post by Rhannon on Jul 23, 2017 23:23:09 GMT -9
Whaaat? You guys know Winnetou after all? Why not? :-D I ( Italy ) remember that as a child I used Winnetou's diskettes with my View-Master. About 45 years ago. :-D Sergey ( Ukraine ) is a big fan but also other russian guys love Karl May's characters. I just bought a few months ago two new kids' paper figures booklets from Karl MAY museum in Germany. www.tradingpost.de/
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Post by Rhannon on Jul 23, 2017 23:26:02 GMT -9
I was about to forget ... Sergey, over the years, has drawn, always with his very beautiful personal style, several Karl May and Winnetou series' characters as paper figures.
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Post by lightning on Jul 24, 2017 5:35:03 GMT -9
I was not aware how far this books have spread. I esp am surprised that they have reach the "real" Wild West. I wonder how people from the US react when they see the placement of these stories in an European country/landscape. Or does the Wild West look like that? I might be confusing what the real Wild West looks like based on some Grand Canyon/Mexican border westerns ...
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Post by bravesirkevin on Jul 24, 2017 6:59:46 GMT -9
Most of the significant Westerns made in the last century weren't American productions at all. Italy was quite prominent in the scene, hence the term Spaghetti Western, but I get the impression that a lot of other European countries jumped on that train too. To those not in the know, it might seem like the movies were American because they'd have Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson or some other famous US actor up front, but in truth, the entire crew and almost every other actor was European, and they'd all do their lines in whatever their native language was. It didn't matter because they weren't recording audio anyway, and the dialogue would all be done later, redubbing in multiple languages depending on where it was going to be released. American Actors would do their own voices for the US release, of course.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, for example, was filmed in Rome and Spain, and only the three main characters were American.
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Post by lightning on Jul 24, 2017 7:10:15 GMT -9
I would have loved to experience that multi-language performance :-)
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Post by okumarts on Jul 24, 2017 9:31:52 GMT -9
Most of the significant Westerns made in the last century weren't American productions at all. Italy was quite prominent in the scene, hence the term Spaghetti Western, but I get the impression that a lot of other European countries jumped on that train too. To those not in the know, it might seem like the movies were American because they'd have Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson or some other famous US actor up front, but in truth, the entire crew and almost every other actor was European, and they'd all do their lines in whatever their native language was. It didn't matter because they weren't recording audio anyway, and the dialogue would all be done later, redubbing in multiple languages depending on where it was going to be released. American Actors would do their own voices for the US release, of course. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, for example, was filmed in Rome and Spain, and only the three main characters were American. I'm always amazed at how many actors on American TV are not American and how many productions are not made in America. Toronto has been re-dressed as New York and Chicago and even Gotham City!
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Post by lightning on Jul 24, 2017 10:14:49 GMT -9
I'm always amazed at how many actors on American TV are not American and how many productions are not made in America. Toronto has been re-dressed as New York and Chicago and even Gotham City! The "rich" countries are getting to expensive, I guess. The movie companies (as are all other businesses) are going to the cheaper or otherwise "easier" locations. From what I hear lot's of productions have been done in Canada the past years. Here in Europe, Prague is being used a lot and places like Spain and Croatia also.
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Post by wyvern on Jul 24, 2017 10:16:31 GMT -9
I would have loved to experience that multi-language performance :-) Actually, if you pay close attention while watching the movies, you can work it out by lip-reading, although that works best if you know what the original languages were, of course
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Post by oldschooldm on Jul 24, 2017 11:15:11 GMT -9
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Post by lightning on Mar 9, 2018 2:00:23 GMT -9
I woke up this night at 3am and realized that due to the Samurai Village buildings I now have a clay texture I like. So I got up and did a quick test build for the larger savages hut. I love it! Now all it needs is cracks at the bottom, some door and window openings and some nice 3D column options and we are ready to go! When you remember that I had the roof finished almost a year ago, this is the model so far with the longest gestation period!
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Post by cowboyleland on Mar 9, 2018 4:48:00 GMT -9
With a thatched roof it would start to look like a celtic "round" house.
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