PIRATES: Captain Blood vs. The Red Coats - Pt 1

Setting up the Captain Blood and The Buccaneers playset was the last thing I did with the Pirate toys before packing it all away. It was a lot of fun and my grand daughter even helped with the set-up! The board this was set up on was meant for our seasonal train displays but it was a lot of fun putting it to use for the playsets before breaking out the trains. Here's the first group of shots from that little adventure. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

PIRATES: Battle For Fort Treasure - Pt 2 Final

After looking at the photos of this set-up I'm thinking to myself, "Meh" LOL I enjoyed messing around with the toys but at the same time the photos aren't what I'd hoped. But that's okay - this is the first time ever on the blog that a sea-born battle was waged and photographed. I'm going to need a different base with a bit more realistic looking water (not just a platform painted a flat sky blue) and different backdrops for more effective photography. That being said, here's the remaining pics from the photo shoot of Tim-Mee's Pirate Fortress Playset. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

The fort rests on a piece of green poster board simulating an island. Good 'nuff for playing but lousy for photography. I have a bunch of playset forts and castles in the collection as well as random sheets of Styrofoam laying around. I really need to take a look at what I can make for a proper castle/fort base

The smaller 45mm Tim-Mee figures look much better with the MPC boats than the MPC 60mm ringhands which would normally have come with them

The original MPC boats are colorful and toy like, whereas the repop's are brown or rust colored

A bird's eye view of the set-up. This table will be used for my Halloween and then Christmas train layouts in the coming weeks, but it needs more panels for the backdrop. I could also use some more landforms if I'm gonna do set-ups like these.

You can see that a plain, flat sky blue painted 'water' isn't all that great, but it's a step in the right direction.

The fort is about the same size as some of the Marx Fort Apache stockades. The 'island' took up the entire size of the green poster board and appears to be a decent size for it however, some of my castles are a bit wider and will need a larger base if I ever get around to making one.

PIRATES: Tim-Mee #5730 Pirate Fortress Playset - Pt 2 Final The Fort

This is the fort which came with Tim-Mee's Pirate Fortress Playset and it can rival just about anything Marx put out like their Fort Apache series. It includes not only the obligatory walls and gate but lookout towers that are actually easier to place figures in. Unlike Marx, who used tin-litho buildings as a part of their sets (a very big plus BTW), Tim-Mee made a small stable to fit inside the wall. There are enough accessories to bring life to the post. Once assembled the overall dimensions are 17 1/2" (44.45cm) W x 11 1/4" (28.57cm) D x 5.5" (13.97cm) H to top of gate. 

I'll be posting photos of these various sets in the coming days or weeks, all set up and ready to play.

Enjoy! Opa Fritz

There are four walls with ramparts/catwalks. the measure 5.3/4" (14.60) W x 4 1/4" (10.79cm) H

There are five walls with gun ports.

The three-piece

The stable is comprised of a side wall, front wall, and roof. While those three pieces all connect, once assembled the structure does not connect to any of the fort walls and basically gets tucked free standing, into the cor

Water trough with pump,

Hitching post

Two Barrels

Well

Log pile

Flagpole

Gun rack (that odd looking piece in the bottom middle that looks like the top of a teepee)

Two ladders