Missus Heid Joins Treefrog Forum (1 Viewer)

[Harrytheheid]

The title of this thread isn’t quite true of course.

Missus H is actually far too shy to join this forum as a collector in her own right and attempt to communicate in English on a male-dominated American forum. However, I did promise I would post this on her behalf. Besides, she can’t join TF yet in any case cos I still haven’t finished setting up her new laptop – I’m having real problems with the Chinese version of Windows. Looks like a job for her girlfriend’s brother, but I digress as usual.

I was presented with an ultimatum this morning along the lines of, although she likes all the new East of India Japanese figures I’ve been getting lately well enough, she was fed up looking at them in the living room all the time and wanted to try her hand at putting a display together using her Chinese stuff. So the Samurai got relegated to the public reception room in Heid Mansion while she had a go at putting a wee display together.
Now, just looking at it objectively, there’s no doubt at all that my influence is there in the layout, but it’s not a bad first effort all the same – and I can actually see the story she’s trying to tell.
Course she’s heard it from me enough times before.
I think if she develops this theme further then she’ll be painting new Chinese language characters on the Opera Stage and the banners she’s adapted from other K&C sets, cos when translated into English, they don’t quite convey the meaning she’s trying to put across.

Missus H took the photos herself too, although I’ll admit that it was me who did the processing then uploaded them to my Photobucket account – and she did a pretty good job of that as well.

So anyway, without further blethers from me;

My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present –

THE SUMMER PALACE 1860 by Lucytheheid.

Dunno about you lot, but I’m a bit jealous of how good that display turned out. So I’ll be posting my rearranged EoI display pretty soon – but my photo’s are nowhere near as good as these ones.

Cheers
Mister & Missus Heid

 

[thebritfarmer]

These are very nice indeed. Wlecome to the forum Miss Lucy I look forward to seeing more of your dioramas and photos. Great stuff !!!

 

[theBaron]

Willkommen ins Forum, gnädige Frau Heid! A very nice display, congratulations on your premiere in the forum! And don't let Harry tell you otherwise, we're all quite gentlemanly here in TF!

Prost, which is so go as gan bei!
Brad

 

[PolarBear]

Harry

A splendid collection and Missus H did a superb job arranging it. Tell her that's from an academic art historian too.

I especially love this scene. Is the building K&C? I would love to find a building just like it:

 

[Harrytheheid]

Harry

A splendid collection and Missus H did a superb job arranging it. Tell her that's from an academic art historian too.

I especially love this scene. Is the building K&C? I would love to find a building just like it:

She's sleeping at the moment Randy, but I'll certainly pass on your very kind comments. I think I can persuade her to post her own message in the morning using an on-line translator - we'll see.

The building is from the K&C Imperial Collection - The Opera Stage - which I understand might be retired now.

My own thanks to Brad and Scott for Lucy's welcome on her debut to the forum. I'm sure you appreciate that it's not easy for her to post here - especially if she uses my English keyboard. Once her own laptop is configured, (and I've given up trying to decifer the Chinese instructions), then I might think about showing her how to enrole as a member of the forum so's she can contribute in her own right even when I'm safely out of the way in Thailand.
I dunno though, as Simon pointed out, there's the chance that she might decide to have a look through my old posts and threads - and if that happens, then the thought of where her broomstick might just end up doesn't bear thinking about....
............

Cheers
H

 

[Spitfrnd]

Great choice of figures and a very artful display. You may tell her that that is from a professional and lifelong critic of just about everything. Please convey my warmest welcome to Lucy as well.

 

[aujj65]

Harry,

Yvonne and myself would like to extend our warm wishes in welcoming Lucy to the forum and what a way to start! I can see you two squabbling over figure placements in future displays

If all goes well I can see Yvonne wanting to do the same

Jeff

 

[maddadicus]

If you let her join, you will become Harry the Hide..Michael

 

[Louis Badolato]

Please extend my warmest greetings to Mrs. Heid, as well as my compliments on an excellent set up . . .

 

[kogu]

A warm welcome to Missus Heid,
and I am very much looking forward to future postings.
Those arrangements with the Imperial Collection are phantastic.
Konrad

 

[marco55]

The Chinese range is really a beautiful line.
Mark

 

[Njja]

Welcome Missus H! We look forward to your posts!

 

[OldDragon]

... about showing her how to enrole as a member of the forum so's she can contribute in her own right even when I'm safely out of the way in Thailand.

I dunno though, as Simon pointed out, there's the chance that she might decide to have a look through my old posts and threads - and if that happens, then the thought of where her broomstick might just end up doesn't bear thinking about....

Cheers
H

Well .. here's to a warm welcome to Missus H.

and Harry, before you leave for Thailand, you may wish to move your "precious" troops to the safety of a fallout shelter.

OD

 

[Phantom Warrior]

Lovely display.

Does this finally prove that two heids are better than one?

Terry

 

[UKReb]

Harry

You tell Lucy that's a mighty impressive start-superb placements and great photography-A big hand for the lady!

Better keep her away from your Crimean stash

Reb

 

[The Lt.]

Joining in complementing Lady Heid for providing the photos which have been a pleasure to see.....The Lt.

 

[Harrytheheid]

Well,

I really don’t know if I ought to do this, but here goes....
First of all, I’d like to thank all you guys who’ve welcomed Missus H’s very first contribution to any western forum even though it was just in the form of some photos of what I think is an incredibly well thought out display. I’ve explained each and every response to her and I can guarantee you lot have made an exceptional Chinese Lady extremely happy.
Secondly, she was gone for most of the day today. I just naturally assumed she’d disappeared on one of these mysterious missions that occur with monotonous regularity. Actually that’s not quite true as, for once, I was actually provided with a reason why she was out of the house today – a reason that I might or might not reveal in a future report. What I didn’t know was she’d put some snaps I took last night onto a flashdrive and went visiting with one of her girlfriends. Nothing unusual about that either, but when she came home, I was requested to run the following message through an on-line translator service.
Now, I’ve been instructed to “please post the message", as given to me. In actual fact, I’m quite proud of the effort Missus H and her pal went to in order to put the message together. Their spoken English is pretty good when all things are considered, but although nothing’s been said to me about it, I know they must have spent at least a couple of hours with their heads stuck into a Chinese to English dictionary so as to get the sentence construction correct. I wouldn’t be surprised if more than one girlfriend was involved anyway, because Chinese is spoken and written in what appears to us almost to be a back to front format. For example, instead of saying, “Down from my house”, they’ll say, “From my house down”. So as far as I’m concerned, this is a sterling effort and is to be applauded. I actually believe they had a lot of fun putting this together and am willing to bet there was a lot of giggling going on throughout the exercise. Its my guess they must’ve written it out in Mandarin, converted it into English, then changed it back into Mandarin in the correct English format because it doesn’t look like any Chinese text I’ve ever run through a translator programme.
I will say this once, here and now though. This is NOT one of The Heid’s “funny” wind-ups. This is 100% genuine. The only changes I’ve made are an attempt to put the Chinese to English translation back into paragraphs and uploaded the photos to my photobucket account. Everything else is her own hard work.
Mind you, I’ve no idea what you lot will make of it – but here goes.

大家好
我的中国名字是砰砰，并且我的英国名字是lucy 我的丈夫告诉我大家是非常好的并且是欢迎我对论坛感谢您的雨蛙非常
我是中国妇女，并且我是非常害羞，但是感谢万分为喜欢我的小锡兵的我的照片
我是非常愉快看我的在论坛的照片他们是非常好的，并且我喜欢他们非常 昨晚我的丈夫为我照相有这里我的小锡兵的我是，并且我希望您喜欢他们非常
我做与丝绸的一张图片投入与我希望的我的小锡兵您喜欢我的图片 这我新的计算机的照片，并且我想要它很快运作
谢谢
lucy

hello everybody
my chinese name is ping ping and my english name is lucy
my husband tell me everybody is very nice and are welcoming me to tree frog forum thank you very much
i am chinese woman and i am very shy but i thank you very much for liking my photographs of my toy soldiers
i am very happy to see my photographs on the forum they are very nice and i like them very much
last night my husband took photographs of me with my toy soldiers here i am and i hope you like them very much
i am making a picture with silk to put with my toy soldiers i hope you like my picture
here is a photograph of my new computer and i want it working very soon
thank you
lucy

What Missus H means by the picture is; it’s a silk embroidery kit she’s been working on for the past two months now. We saw it in a local shop and she decided to give it a go as a new hobby. I myself reckon she’s done a spectacularly good job of it and look forward to using it as a backdrop for some of my own Asian displays – if I’m allowed to.
As for her new laptop – no comment....

Cheers
Harry

 

[Andanna]

Ms Heid is certainly an enrichment of this forum. I also need to compliment her on the decoration.

Is there something like a "collector's interior designer" profession? Think about it - most work could be done through the internet.

 

[Harrytheheid]

My thanks for each and every reponse guys. I do think it's quite an amazing development that Lucy's so adament in her desire to join in with the forum. Even though she's been bending my ears about it for ages. I actually believed she was just kidding me on - but it's quite serious - apparently. I've even began to wonder if a couple of her girlfriends might want to join in as well. After all, Chinese Ladies are famous for their appreciation of fine art - and let's face it - that's what some of the figures we collect amount to.
I do assure you all, I've passed on every one of your kind comments to Lucy. Hopefully she'll be encouraged to make a few more contributions.
Just as a quick aside, she's 1/4 Japanese on her Mother's side, so I'm hoping she, (or some of her girlfriends), come up with some really unusual and innovative ways to display our collection of Samurai figures.

Cheers
H

 

[Harrytheheid]

Another couple of snaps taken by the Lady herself of her first ever real try at composing as display of her own figures.