Playmobil: Knights Templar Of The Crusades

"A Templar Knight is truly a fearless knight, and secure on every side, for his soul is protected by the armour of faith, just as his body is protected by the armour of steel. He is thus doubly armed, and need fear neither demons nor men." – Bernard de Clairvaux, c. 1135, De Laude Novae Militae - In Praise of the New Knighthood.















I decided to re-shoot my Knights Templar Of The Crusades coz I have added variants to them.
The cavalry:



The general & knight:



The king:



Heavy armour knight:



Archer & palace guard:



Jostling tournament knight:






Go to Wikipedia if you wish to find out more on the history of the Knights Templar & their Crusades.

Playmobil Trains

New train carriages for my playmobil western theme.
Playmobil 4101 Cattle Car:



Playmobil 4122 Western Freightcar:



Playmobil 4123 Western Postal Car:



Now I have to get myself some train tracks to make my western town! Clicking HERE if you wish to see my 4054 Western Locomotive & 4120 Western Passenger Car.

Playmobil 4924 Red Egg Pirate

My 1st Playmobil Easter Egg! From 2009 easter egg series.



Is a pirate & his parrot inside!



Is so nice to be out from the egg.



He wears the same top as the butler from 3021 Royal Banquet set. Maybe he was once that butler & decided to change career.



Here are some pirates tat Playmobil has been producing recently. Red seems to be the "in" colour for pirates these days.

Adventures Under The Sea

Most of the underwater shots turn out blurred. Salvaged wats half decent to form tis short scene!






Diver A, B & C: Jackpot!



Sub: Turn back! Our divers hit pay dirt!



Diver A: Over here! Over here!



Diver B: It's so @#$%^&* heavy.



Sub: Head back to the surface, we'll take care of it.



Sub: With this powerful machine arm it will be easy!



Diver A: Mayday! Mayday! Malfunction with my diving suit!



Sub: Dont worry, we got him! Opps...

...& sum misc snapshots

Ambitious But Rubbish

Fresh off the last Playmobil pool shoot, we decided to quickly do another... with bigger ships, bigger numbers, bigger crew, & even more cameras! This will be better then the previous... but the results were far from it.

Minimun of two ships per collector made up an impressive lineup



& it also resulted having three ship of the same kind...



Due to the strong winds, they finally had to be strung together...



Strong winds tipped ships with sails over easily...



capsizing the ships many times



I spend more time bailing water out of them vs getting any decent photos...



The noon heat did not help either, but cooling off was easy. However there were no solutions for pesky kids



Much was learn from this round, hopefully there will be another in the future. Now I can only hope the yet to be developed underwater film will bear some fruits.

Explore The Unknown

Here is another set of pictures taken with George's hi-tec underwater 35mm film camera (HK$50).



Is so quite down here...



I think I'm lost...



Into the abyess...



Duo surface shots was really hard to achieve.



Some "behind the scenes"