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Re: Highlanders!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs
Date: 
Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:44:20 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes:
Ahoy

Taking a break from the Grande Armie of the South Pacific, I came up with
some highlanders as guards for the Brikkish Embassy in Port Brique.

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/PortBrique/highlanders2.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/PortBrique/highlanders4.jpg

The kilts are a bit too short, but using 1x1 bricks (rather than 2 2x1
plates made the kilts too long, or the figs too tall, depending on how much
leg they showed).

The torsos are printed on a good quality printer and glued on, and impress
me for quality and speed over the hand drawn alternative, and for cost over
purchasing real guard/soldier torsos.

Hats are two-tyre busbies (what else?). If anyone has ideas about bagpipes
for minifigs, I'd be most interested.

Your figs caught my attention...really nicely done! The kilt/legs are a neat
solution!

As for the bagpipe, hm...(this is off the top of my head)
Short lengths of flex tube for the pipes, with a grey light saber blade for
the bottom tuning pipe. Use a 2x3plate with 1x1 with clips on the top to
create the bag. On the other hand, you could use a 2x2 with 3 1x1 with clips
on the top. 2 top clips can hold 3 tubes if you use the space between the
clip tiles and the bottom clip is for the light saber handle.

It's a start:) I'll need to try it myself and see how it really looks (seems
bulky right now)

Joe Meno



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  Re: Highlanders!
 
Another thought might be to a set of control levers to make all the pipes. Joe Meno (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs)

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  Highlanders!
 
Ahoy Taking a break from the Grande Armie of the South Pacific, I came up with some highlanders as guards for the Brikkish Embassy in Port Brique. (URL) kilts are a bit too short, but using 1x1 bricks (rather than 2 2x1 plates made the kilts too (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs) ! 

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