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Re: Ethnic minifigs
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lugnet.build.minifigs
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Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:29:06 GMT
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In lugnet.build.minifigs, Enrique Durand writes:
> > One of the ways that we are celebrating the move to new office space is by
> > having me "lego-ize" our personnel (plus families). For most ethnic groups
> > its possible to get away with using the stock minifig faces -- yellow is
> > close to a variety of skin hues. But, I have the challenge of one
> > Black-African family (a couple and their daughter). So, does anyone have
> > some ideas on how I could make a reasonable rendition of this one family
> > that does justice to their ethnicity? The only idea I've come up with would
> > likely look more like the vaudevillian "black-face" -- and I don't want
> > anything like that.
> >
> > Alan
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> Alan,
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> The tie fighter pilot in set 7146 has a brown head, with no printing. That and a
> Sharpie might do the trick for you. HTH.
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> Good luck.
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> Henry Durand
Thanks for the advice, Henry. I didn't know about those brown heads. Now I
just need to find three of them :) Off I go to BST!
Alan
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| (...) Alan, The tie fighter pilot in set 7146 has a brown head, with no printing. That and a Sharpie might do the trick for you. HTH. Good luck. Henry Durand (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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