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Eeep!
I've been off the board too long -- I come back and the Hussars have arrived
-- in fine looking fashion no less! Well, nothing like quite like cavalry to
tip the scales in a boarding action...
Huh?
Well, a good disincentive for a landing against Port Brique! And I've now
got a hankering to toy with some bearskins for grenadier companies... or
maybe highlanders...
Once again, great work!
Kenneth Tam
In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes:
> Ahoy!
>
> I've always likes James Howse's idea of Russian hats made from old style
> tyres (see pics at http://www.ozbricks.net/grandmoffmclean/Brickingrad.htm).
> (Historical note: the use of tyres as hats dates back to at least 1975.)
>
> Nice hats, but not really in my prefered era or region. Recently, though, I
> was surfing the net for some Napoleonic troop images and I came across a
> reference to hussars with flamboyant uniforms and *huge* bearskin hats.
>
> I tried using some of the larger tyres to make a hussar bearskin, but there
> was no easy way to lock them down. So I thought, why use one tyre when two
> will do... thus the 1st South Pacific Hussars were born. Check them out at
> www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/PortBrique/hussars1.jpg
> www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/PortBrique/hussars2.jpg
> www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/PortBrique/hussar3.jpg
>
> The double-tyre bearskins are assembled in the following order: minifig
> head, tyre, 1 x 1 round flat (push down hard so the tyre flares slightly
> over the top of the head), another 1x1 round flat, another tyre, another 1x1
> round flat. (The top 1x1 round flat is red to simulate the ornamental 'busby
> bag').
>
> Only the top 1x1 round flat is visible when assembled, so you can get away
> with using other colours inside... I finally made use of a lot of my
> trans-orange 1x1 round flats.
>
> How effective is a tyre bearskin? My daughter summed it up by asking "Daddy,
> why do those men have tyres on their heads?"... and my wife managed to knock
> a couple of bearskins off, but when she started looking for what she thought
> were hats on the floor, was puzzled that she could only find tyres on the floor.
>
> Perhaps using black 1x1 round flats on top would be better... the 1x1 flats
> look just like the red hubs that LEGO used for a long time.
>
> Exactly what the French Squadron will do with a unit of Hussars remains to
> be seen. At the moment they spend their time drilling outside Port Brique as
> well as charging up at down the main street at full gallop to impress the
> ladies...
>
> Cheers
>
> Richie Dulin
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