Zoe wanted a Christmas Playset

[Vermin_King]

We have quite a few old, old, old Christmas decorations from when my son was little and even from my childhood, and my step-granddaughter Zoe wondered if we had anything she could play with.

Enter Grandpa with all sorts of nonsense on my hard drive

The defunct Disney Spoonful site had a Christmas Village which fits the bill, sort of.



A really bizarre thing. It's a backdrop for the Christmas Village Characters. It's actually one building. Not sure why they would make the two outer buildings low profile, but have the middle building extend back almost as wide as the whole thing.

I built it, just to see how awful it was.



It is clever in a way, but could be a lot better.

Started by enlarging Santa's Workshop



Successful enough to proceed. Now the characters were gigantic, so I reduced the reindeer to 65% and the other characters to 57% to be closer to the scale of the doors on the buildings. They also needed stouter bases. So, in the next photo, I've got the original building with the reduced characters



But I'm guessing she would rather play with this



The trees are from the Cardboard Warriors Christmas Hoard of 2012. The figure bases are from Kev's Lounge (repainted). The two smaller buildings actually fit inside the larger building, with room for the trees and figures, allowing for less storage space throughout the year

[Papierschnitzel]

Lovely little diorama and what a nice idea! You have now started pre x-mas season for me officially :-)

[Vermin_King]

Thanks. I still need to make the bottom box that the workshop and all the goodies fits into. I plan on making it just large enough to extend to the upper roof's eaves, so that it will be protected except for the chimneys

[elliott]

What a neat set of toys for a little girl, sure to fire her imagination especially at this time of year. How old is Zoe anyway?

[Vermin_King]

She will be seven on the 25th of this month.

The plan is to have the bottom box look like a wrapped package. Heavy on the ink, but she deserves something special

[Wyvern]

That’s a neat set you’ve built! Where’s the flying vehicle sourced from?

Wyvern

[Vermin_King]

That's a chicharra that toposolitario once offered.

I'm not sure if it was on the old Ebbles Miniatures forum or on the Cardboard Warriors forum. I would imagine that if you emailed Marcos, he'd email it to you (if he still has it). If you don't have his website link handy, here it is -- TopoSolitario.com

[Wyvern]

Never seen that site before; thanks for the direction!

Wyvern

[Vermin_King]

You are very welcome.

If you build a chicharra, reinforce the wings and legs. The legs on the Santa Sleigh are not the standard legs

[gotham]

Everyone wants that cool grandpa in their lives.������