Buy Mode Blitz: Sim-Ages Antique Dining
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hat_plays_simsThe Sim-Ages Antique Dining set was texture-referenced-- small chair to tall chair-- by the inimitable Darkmoon, and I will admit right here in the header that it is nowhere near the most historically-accurate piece in all of Buy Mode Blitz... but that is a fourteen-seat dining table right there. The only other way to do that is with modular tables. How could I resist?
Furnish the greatest of great halls with 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals applied to wood subsets, in a blend of the original textures and Piggi's Wood 03 (as this was before I started using my Piggy 03/SDA Kitchen blend), and the table runners and chair cushions come in my usual deluxe crayon box of 82 Pooklet Natural, Aelia Autumn, and CuriousB Any Color You like shades over a simple lozenge-pattern brocade suitable for MANY eras-- plus the original fabric color, too, as it turned out so nice. The table even comes with a bonus invisible recolor for the runner, because that seemed like a good idea.
On the chairs, I did my best to darken the gilding to look like carving on the back of the chair, and around the seat, instead of the very 18th-19th century gilded scrollwork, I stole the still-out-of-my-period-but-less-so egg-and-dart carving off the table.
As is often the case, because full retexturing would lose me something I liked about the original wood textures (sometimes it's the sheen or the scuffing, in this case it's the carvings), the darker textures look better, to my eye, than the lighter ones.
The fabric colors, on both the upholstery and the table runner, all look really good-- though they're not all suited for all settings. But hey, maybe your Great Hall is in a haunted castle so that Indigo Brown is just the dusty shade you need, or you're building a black-and-white B-picture world (or movie set) so Jet fabrics with Pipe Bomb woods plays right into your hands, or instead of a Great Hall or Grand Dining Room, you're furnishing a McMansion Hell neighborhood so the less historical the color combinations, the better.
Invisible and Original Fabric recolors are in the folders with the wood recolors.
I will admit I am considering going at the table again with my SDA blend, but this'll be the only time I do the chairs-- I like them, I'm very pleased with how they turned out, but they feel much more Regency to me than Medieval.
So the answer to my usual 'is this set historically accurate?' question is 'technically yes, but not to the Middle Ages!' The table is permanent-- fixed to its eight cross-braced legs rather than on a trestle-- which for its length is very posh for most of the Middle Ages, and the chairs are upholstered, which wasn't done, and the carvings are just... very late.
But a fourteen-seat table! Six tiles long! What was I supposed to do with it, if not recolor the crap out of it?
CHAIRS
Pooklet Project Mayhem Natural Woods: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
Pooklet Project Mayhem Natural UPHOLSTERY: SWATCH | SWATCH FIX | DOWNLOAD
Aelia Autumn: SWATCH | SWATCH FIX | DOWNLOAD
CuriousB Any Color You Like: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
TABLES
Pooklet Project Mayhem Natural Woods: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
Pooklet Project Mayhem Natural RUNNERS: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
Aelia Autumn: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
CuriousB Any Color You Like: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
Furnish the greatest of great halls with 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals applied to wood subsets, in a blend of the original textures and Piggi's Wood 03 (as this was before I started using my Piggy 03/SDA Kitchen blend), and the table runners and chair cushions come in my usual deluxe crayon box of 82 Pooklet Natural, Aelia Autumn, and CuriousB Any Color You like shades over a simple lozenge-pattern brocade suitable for MANY eras-- plus the original fabric color, too, as it turned out so nice. The table even comes with a bonus invisible recolor for the runner, because that seemed like a good idea.
On the chairs, I did my best to darken the gilding to look like carving on the back of the chair, and around the seat, instead of the very 18th-19th century gilded scrollwork, I stole the still-out-of-my-period-but-less-so egg-and-dart carving off the table.
As is often the case, because full retexturing would lose me something I liked about the original wood textures (sometimes it's the sheen or the scuffing, in this case it's the carvings), the darker textures look better, to my eye, than the lighter ones.
The fabric colors, on both the upholstery and the table runner, all look really good-- though they're not all suited for all settings. But hey, maybe your Great Hall is in a haunted castle so that Indigo Brown is just the dusty shade you need, or you're building a black-and-white B-picture world (or movie set) so Jet fabrics with Pipe Bomb woods plays right into your hands, or instead of a Great Hall or Grand Dining Room, you're furnishing a McMansion Hell neighborhood so the less historical the color combinations, the better.
Invisible and Original Fabric recolors are in the folders with the wood recolors.
I will admit I am considering going at the table again with my SDA blend, but this'll be the only time I do the chairs-- I like them, I'm very pleased with how they turned out, but they feel much more Regency to me than Medieval.
So the answer to my usual 'is this set historically accurate?' question is 'technically yes, but not to the Middle Ages!' The table is permanent-- fixed to its eight cross-braced legs rather than on a trestle-- which for its length is very posh for most of the Middle Ages, and the chairs are upholstered, which wasn't done, and the carvings are just... very late.
But a fourteen-seat table! Six tiles long! What was I supposed to do with it, if not recolor the crap out of it?
Pooklet Project Mayhem Natural Woods: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
Pooklet Project Mayhem Natural UPHOLSTERY: SWATCH | SWATCH FIX | DOWNLOAD
Aelia Autumn: SWATCH | SWATCH FIX | DOWNLOAD
CuriousB Any Color You Like: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
TABLES
Pooklet Project Mayhem Natural Woods: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
Pooklet Project Mayhem Natural RUNNERS: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
Aelia Autumn: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
CuriousB Any Color You Like: SWATCH | DOWNLOAD
Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
