Picspam figures in the glass vitrine (Detolf)

[dieastra]

For niviene and everyone who always wanted to know who is in my Detolf:



Sherlock and John (the empty chair is reserved for Mycroft). Sherlock usually in his famous hands on the nose pose but I changed his hands for a scene:



Stargate & Doctor Who: Jack and Daniel. They used to sit holding hands and arms around each other, but I took the Weeping Angel out recently so the poses got a bit disturbed:



Doctor Who & Torchwood: The Ninth Doctor (walkie-talkie), Ianto (made from Dragon Jamie Classic Adam figure), President Obama (with which I became famous and was interviewed for TV and newspaper when the real one visited Dresden), Jack Harkness (made from a Max Steel figure) and Martha:



Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor and two Tens:





And finally, the Barbie kitchen and Sindy room divider:



Soon I'll need a new shelf for Kirk and Spock.

Comments

[merlynsminion.livejournal.com]

too cool!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Oops, the Stargate picture was missing, please look again!

[kanarek13]

These look awesome :D

Oh, question... are there any figures of The Persuaders? (Die Zwei) I feel like I could go for a rewatch, hee...

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

No idea, sorry! Have you asked google? I'm afraid the chances are rather small though. Is there a large fanbase? Mostly they make figures of superheroes, Avengers and the like. There's also the James Bonds, Indiana Jones, Terminator, Superman, Batman etc. and Harry Potter figures.

We were very lucky to get Marty from "Back to the future" which people have begged for years. And the Kirk and Spock I have on pre-order are the very first that ever got made - in 50 years!

So I would guess a crime series is not very high on the figures makers list. Then again, you never know. I've never watched it, that was before my time in the Seventies, remember, no Western TV ;) It is quite famous in Germany though because of the German dubbing. They livened it up with a lot of jokes that were not in the original script and it has become kult for it.

[kanarek13]

Heee, I have a soft spot for old series, I wasn't even born when it was on :D But I do own the German complete series box solely due to the dubbing option :D

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Oh, so you knew about it! That's awesome ;) Are you learning German with it? LOL

[kanarek13]

LOL, yes, it was part of my training, I learned German as a kid by watching nothing but German TV. But, unfortunately, due to a severe lack of practice it's become insanely rusty :P

Schade :P

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Well, if you feel like, you can always try the odd word with me ;) Like I tend to drop a Russian word in the middle of a conversation with my friend in Kazakhstan if I feel like it. But sadly it is also only mostly single words or ingrained phrases that are left. I used to be able to write whole essays. It's really true that you need to train it on a regular basis, and now with English being everywhere there is no need for anything else. I still was very proud when I watched one of those Russian lessons on TV and actually understood what they were talking about in a little play scene. So it's not all forgotten - you always understand more than you can speak yourself.

But did you have at least subtitles? Or how would you know what all those German words meant? Just from watching?

[kanarek13]

No subtitles at all... at first it was just watching pictures but then it got better :D

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

That is quite impressive!

The fluent English I know now I did learn by reading Stargate fanfictions. At first looking up almost every word (my basic school English was not up for it) but when you look up the same word three times it kinda sticks and soon I was able to read without the dictionary. At my first UK vacation I opened my mouth and started to talk as if I never had done anything else. If only my English teacher could see me now, watching Shakespeare in the theatre in original ;)

[hamsterwoman]

The Sherlock scene is wonderful! And they have a dog :)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thank you!
And yeah, the dog was given to me many many years ago by my grandmother. I thought it was very fitting!

[sharp2799.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing any of them, each box says oops, it was linked incorrectly. :(

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

That's odd. I see them perfectly fine. Just come back tomorrow and see if it has sorted itself?
I also posted on Dreamwidth but it's the same links: http://dieastra.dreamwidth.org/188453.html

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I just read a friend's post that apparently photobucket was down yesterday evening. All seems to be okay now though.

[sharp2799.livejournal.com]

I finally got to see them, yay!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Yay! I actually didn't pose them in any special way, just snapped pictures of how they are sitting there, as a friend was curious. I probably could have made a bit more of an effort *shrugs*

What is odd though that after this one you commented on others where you were able to see the pictures? Sometimes I don't understand the internet ;)

[sharp2799.livejournal.com]

Eventually (I think!) I was able to see everything. :) Wonderful stuff!

[sharp2799.livejournal.com]

I don't try to understand it, I just pout when it doesn't work. ;)

[fueschgast]

OMG, you have miniture Easter twigs!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I collected the twigs from a meadow ;) I had found the little eggs in MäcGeiz and couldn't resist buying them.
This stood there since last year's Easter, including through Christmas times LOL So now I don't only have to decorate my own house but also my doll's houses as well?

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

Very cool set-ups!

Stacey

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's like a huge dollhouse LOL

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

Definitely, which is awesome! :)

Stacey

[owensheart.livejournal.com]

Great pictures.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[niviene.livejournal.com]

Wow...did you make those tiny pics of JB/Captain Jack in the Barbie kitchen? At least I think that's him...is it only him?

Love the two doctors...reminds me of the episode called Journey's End (Ep 13, S4).

Look at you with the Obama figure...impressed you made that yourself...so creative! You have been interviewed a lot- amazing!!!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

You have good eyes! The left picture is Jack, the right picture is Ianto, and the middle is a photoshopped pic of the two of them I found in the net. I used these for my dancing scene on the mantelpiece of the fireplace:

http://dieastra.livejournal.com/187874.html

The frames are bought though. Here you can see it in close-up: http://dieastra.livejournal.com/187611.html

I love Journey's End! It was so great with all of them working together. A truly crossover. And I did pictures of that too ;) http://dieastra.livejournal.com/155636.html

Oh no, I did not make the Obama. But it was the first expensive figure I bought. Before, I only had had Jack and Daniel from Stargate, which were rather cheap, as they are not very well made. Only about 25 Dollars. The faces are not good, and they came in the simple green uniforms. Some nice accessories though. While searching for other clothes for them, I stumbled about the Obama. They had posed him with a light saber and a samurai sword... I couldn't not buy him! He looked simply amazing. So lifelike. And when I bought him I already knew he would visit Dresden, so I felt I should mark this special occasion. A lot of people asked me where I got him - I should have bought ten and sell them there LOL

The Doctor Who figures I buy now are 179 GBP which is over 200 Dollars. The Obama was only 70 Dollars. Yet he is much better and detailed. His shirt and jacket has real buttons with real button holes, while the buttons on the Doctor Who figures are just glued on and not working. His jacket also has real pockets. He has real shoelaces and a belt and a wristwatch and all lovely stuff. Even a second head with a different expression I have no idea how to change. The only thing I don't like about him - when you open his shirt, his body is rather white.

Here are the pictures of him posing I referred to: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--FTJtwRmi--/18mkjqm7z50z4jpg.jpg

[niviene.livejournal.com]

You have quite the collection of figures. In about 20-30 years your collection will probably be worth quit a bit of money above what you paid for it!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think you may be right there but then again it does not matter what it's worth but only what someone is willing to pay! Even now you can see some of the Big Chief figures on ebay, asking for 1000 Dollar as they are sold out and rare to find. And they are only a few years old. Some desperate people then pay that insane price. It is not right.

Even my small Stargate figures, which did originally cost 15 Dollars, go for 100 and more Dollars now. As I only recently started to buy the small Star Trek figures, I also had to pay quite a lot for some that are rare.

There are people who never take them out of the boxes, as they will be evem more worth if they are mint in package. But I want to play and have fun. I don't care about the value. Although I won't take my expensive figures to travels with me. I only use the cheap toy versions for that. Originally I had planned to take Sherlock and John to London but thought better of it.

It is quite an addictive hobby. I think I may have to buy the Victorian Sherlock and John figures as well ;)

I do worry what happens when I am old though. I should find a new lovely home for them, not that they simply get thrown away. That would be sad.

[niviene.livejournal.com]

I realized I haven't answered this...my apologies!

I'm sure they'll be worth something by then and you can simply leave them to someone who will cherish them, or donate them or sell them if necessary! But that's a long way off so no worries you and the rest of us on the internet can enjoy them now :)

Victorian Sherlock sounds cool as all things Victorian are!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Victorian Sherlock sounds cool as all things Victorian are!

Can you see this?

https://scontent-frt3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13239261_912880288810328_4393865513054418895_n.jpg?oh=e17eb19a208657903417f44a7bd90c1b&oe=57E3BEC4

Looks awesome! I HAVE to have these.

[niviene.livejournal.com]

That's too cool!11

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I'll be getting them. Can't miss out on that!

[niviene.livejournal.com]

Love the dancing scene! So sweet. Also love the Journey's End pics!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

It is always a huge hassle setting up that TARDIS interior so I don't do it very often. Mostly it is stowed away in a huge box. I can only hope that Big Chief Studios is not making a TARDIS console one day. At 1:6 scale, it will be HUGE!

The one I have here, if you put a battery inside, it even goes up and down and makes the TARDIS noise. So cool!