Married With Children --the Bundy Family

[summersong86]

Well it's taken me a full year to get this where I wanted it to be...ta da...my Married With Children Bundy Family set!
 
Now you all need to know that this set was rejected at MTS2 because they insist Al Bundy is packaged with Rosesims hair recolors.  That has GOT to be some kind of glitch with their automated upload system--one that I have encountered before with Clean Installer--because I made Al myself, and that includes his freaking hair, using Maxis base game content only and his hair is just a small alpha edit and slight recolor of the Maxis shade.  If for some reason there actually is a Rose hair in all that mess, please let me know how to get it out of there!  I am running on a new Windows Vista PC and do NOT have Clean Installer, which from my understanding does not even load on a Vista PC anymore.  

They also say I need to strip out a mesh.  I have a Chriko clothing mesh that IS redistributable and has the proper Readme file associated with it.  

And then one other rule I violated was my reference photos --they've changed the rules on how to present celebs--must be side by side comparison photos so they can compare facial sculpts.  My set is a caricature of the real people.  If they're going to be scrutinized to that level of detail, I'm gonna get a migraine.  I'm not striving to copy real people into my game cheekbone for cheekbone--I just want to capture their spirit.  If you want something more, you can do whatever you want to my sims to improve them to your standards and reupload as you wish.  I'm not fussy in that respect.

Set is packaged as follows:
Al Bundy is an adult and packaged exactly as shown in the photos. His hair uses a recolor (by me) of a Maxis base game style.
 
Peggy is an adult and packaged with the custom outfit as shown, the required mesh (and Read me file) and Maxis hair.  The outrageous Peg hair is a custom recolor NOT included in the same package as the sim, so please Download the hair package separately below, and get the mesh at XM Sims site as specified in the link provided in the credits.
 
Kelly is packaged as a teen, and will hold her resemblance into adulthood (took me months to make THAT happen!).  Her clothes are Maxis as pictured, hair is a Maxis style.  She is shown with Raojena style hair described more fully under "Credits".  
 
Bud is packaged as a child with Maxis content, and holds his resemblance to David Faustino better as he ages, the best being teen, adult age being respectable and matches his adult mugshot better than I was expecting.  The child is not precise as I would like and is more of a cartoony version than photo realistic, but this is the price I pay to make him a decent enough facsimile through 3 age groups.  
 
I depict the kids' age progression for your benefit but again, the sims are packaged as youngsters to fit into the family package, depicting the early years of the series.

CREDITS
 
Custom Content by Me:
- SS86 Bud Bundy
- SS86Lite10707MWC
- SS86 Kelly Bundy
- SS86Lite10707MWC
- SS86 AL Bundy
- SS86Lite10707MWC
- SummerSong86MWCAlBundy
- SummerSong86MWCAlBundy
- SS86 Peggy Bundy
- SS86Lite10707MWC
- Chriko Summersong86 PegBundy Green Capri
- SS86edit of XM#39 p.54 hair 4 Peg Bundy

Peggy: Brows Helaene Realistic brows 6
Eye Shadow Ombre Couture by IcedMango...link kinda irrelevant because I got this content off of IcedMango's OLD site, which isn't up anymore.  This is Icedmango's MTS2 profile, hope that suffices for credits: http://www.modthesims2.com/creator/icedmango
Eyeliner by Rose at http://www.rosesims2.net/
Eyes by Bruno, Olivia's Eyes, Ebony from MTS2. http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=229117
 
Lipstick by the incomparable Helaene of http://www.helaene.com and is called High Shine Lips 2.  I got it from her site back when it had all her content up there.  She did say go ahead and download her work before she shut down the site for whatever work she is doing on it now.
 
Hair included with Sim is by Maxis. Custom hair shown in photos but not included except as a separate downloadable package  is custom alpha and texture by me and uses XM Mesh http://www.xmsims.com/sims2/ehtm/hair/hair54.htm I learned how to do the alpha edit by examining work of this artist, bailelizabeth: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=218771 but used my own alpha edit and texture after examining how bailelizabeth got rid of the headband. You may use my texture and alpha edit for your own projects as you wish, without permission.
 
Clothing Mesh by chriko at http://www.2-f0r-u.de/startsims2.htm Mesh Included in Zip. Put in Downloads folder. Unzip Peggy Bundy package file and install into game with Clean Installer or via Maxis installer as you would do for all packaged Sims. Textures used are my own.  Yes, they are horrendous but so is Peg Bundy's fashion sense. It is no worse than anything Peggy really wore...LOL.
MESH "NudeAlMules"
 
Al Bundy is:
Eyebrows by SeraSims http://www.serasims.de
 
Eyes by Bruno, Olivia's Eyes, Viridian at: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=229117
 
Hair is Maxis mesh, Texture, Recolor by SummerSong86.
Clothes is all Maxis.
 
 
Kelly, packaged as a teen, with Maxis clothes as shown, and Maxis hair (not as shown):
Eyes by Bruno: Moonlight, Caliban at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=242872
Lipstick is Poison Apple from the Venom Lips collection by Bruno here: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=227848
Hair shown on Teen Version is by Raonjena at http://www.raonsims.com/item/detail.php?num=162&cat1=1&page=1&key= And it is hair number 41 NOT INCLUDEDBrows from http://www.helaene.com and is Realistic 2-3 style. Lashes also from Helaene and is called Lovely Lashes Extended.
Blush: Glam Light by La_exotique at: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=228949
Hair on Adult Version is by Seomi: Calla style at http://seomi.zzo.net/
Another style is by XM Sims: http://www.xmsims.com/sims2/ehtm/hair/hair09.htm
 
Bud is packaged as a child and uses Maxis base game meshes.
Hair shown on child is by cherokee8699 and is from this MTS2 thread: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=134682. It is NOT included, but the dark brown Maxis equivalent is included.
 
Hair shown on teen and adult version is also not included, obviously, and is by RockChick based on a Kavar hair mesh: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=243788
 
Brows by Sera: http://www.serasims.de
Eyes: Olivia's Eyes, Ocean Bottom by Bruno.
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=229117

EDIT: Oops, sorry, I had forgotten to upload Peggy's hairstyle package. Doh!

[kim]

Nice Job

[sithprincess]

They look awesome!  Great job and thanks for sharing.

[zinzen]

Great job. Thanks!

[amadeus451]

These are excellent. Thanks for sharing.

[kere]

What a fantastic job!! Nice work

I appreciate the detail, the effort, and the efficiency with which you've posted them - it must have taken forever - thank you very much

[Kavar]

they look amazing, great likeness, especially peg! Good Job:)

[summersong86]

THanks so much and I appreciate that you like how I did the credits.  It's easy--as I get ready to package each sim for upload I go through BodyShop and note the content I used on an e-mail to myself, cutting and pasting links to the sources as I go. (Sometimes I do this even for rough drafts and intermediate prototypes)  I got used to doing this after totally losing an upload post at MTS2 about a year ago.  Now, if my internet connection times out, at least I still have all the text and links ready to go--just cut and paste when the connection is restored.  I hope this idea helps people who have difficulty doing credit lists as they are trying to post their uploads.  Using Notepad works, too, but I prefer e-mailing myself as it's slightly quicker.

I could understand if anyone isn't satisfied with Bud.  In a whole year I haven't gotten him truly to where you could identify him as David Faustino if you see the sim out of context.  As I said in my post, I have no objection whatsoever if anyone wants to tinker with ANY of my work and improve on it.  Or do the same characters yourself from scratch.  It is impossible to step on my toes.  I upload stuff to collaborate and cooperate, not compete.

[verenaheu]

They are amazingly good and reflect all the work and (I hope) also fun you´ve had while creating them. Thank you a lot for sharing!!!

[jjjim]

Great job on the whole family!! Thanks

[now_i_am_here]

WOW!!!! You've made a long work;)

[Al_Bundy]

hmmm gort to try this out, see how it is to play with my self, I already have the great work by rouge777 that has already created a amazing bundy family.Will be interesting to see this in the game to

[amc462000]

hah!  this is great!  you did a good job and thanks a lot!

[summersong86]

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know there was already a Bundy Family up.  I should have searched. It just never even occured to me to look.  I will go look now.  It might be fun to play someone else's Bundy family, too. I'm kinda sick of looking at mine, hee hee.

[PiperK1980]

Hey two Bundy families are better than 15 Jolie's or Smith's or Depp's!! I just have to say....YEAH!!!!! I too didn't know there was another Bundy family out there.