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In thinking about the future of wild west possibilities, especially when
combining WW with adventurers, the possibilities really are cool. The two
time periods are the closest together of all the sets. You could set the time
period towards the late 1800's, and include a confrontation between Northern
Native Americans-Nez Perce etc. , and The RCMP (Mounties) I've made mounties
from the red torso included with several paradisa sets,and the town minifigs,-
the horseback rider- black legs, gloves, a yellow pirate shoulder pauldron,
and the brown johnny thunder cap. A couple of these guys on horseback look
really cool.
Thinking ahead even further, you could set the time for the 1920's, even 30's,
and do a Chicago gangster theme. You could use the adventurer car parts and
make model t's. , even Trucks for shipping bootlegged whiskey into Canada
(more mounties!). THe Bad adventurer's sidekick (with the corny glasses), his
Black suits and top hats would make great capone style outfits, as would the
tuxedo waiter for the town, along with policemen, there are some cool
opportunities here. Oh well, we would need a Tommy gun for the minifigs.
This is almost an adventureres post ( Sorry)
In lugnet.western, Damien Nesbit writes:
> I just recieved an email from Jon Furman that included jpegs of his
> homemade nubian minifigs. They are really the motts and anyone who has
> followed this conversation that has not requested to recieve them from him
> really should get in touch. Also, Jon brings up two good points within his
> posting. number one is that rebel soldiers can be created with the grey caps
> that are included in rock raiders and adventurers amazon playsets, and number
> two is that setting your display in a period after the civil war may help a
> builder use their existing collection more efficiently. In an earlier
> correspondance that I sent to David Little a while back, I suggested that he
> might combine his western and adventurers playsets into a single display that
> would be set in a place where the architecture is circa the cicil war but
> the "current" era is more modernized. He seemed to recieve the idea well. I
> can't wait to see what he and Jon come up with next.
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In lugnet.western, Jon Furman writes:
>
> In thinking about the future of wild west possibilities,
> especially when combining WW with adventurers,
> the possibilities really are cool.
> The two time periods are the closest together of all the sets.
I've done this myself.
I've got several WW figs that were originally Adv.,
and vice-versa.
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> Thinking ahead even further, you could set the time for the 1920's,
> even 30's, and do a Chicago gangster theme.
> ... Oh well, we would need a Tommy gun for the minifigs.
[expression type="smirk"]
Do tell... Why, yes, now that you ask,
I *have* made a tommy-gun for my minifigs.
[/expression]
Take a 2x2 round tile, a 1x1 plate w/ "vertical" clip,
and a rifle. Clip the 1x1 "vert." to the barrel of the rifle
just in front of the receiver (i.e., as far back as possible
against the rectangular part of the rifle),
and then attach the 2x2 tile to the 1x1 "vert.".
Franklin
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