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Re: Crowns, Native Americans and drills
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lugnet.build.minifigs
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Fri, 17 Mar 2000 03:18:19 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes:
> (You're prolly thinking: what the hell is she doing? Xposting
> to .castle, .belville, .western AND .build.minifigs? Well, there's a reason...
> patience... :)
>
> Today I got a 6676 (my first Native American set) on sale, let me tell you the
> model was boring as heck but the pieces were excellent. (I won't elaborate
> this unless someone wants a review.)
> Anyhow I decided I have to play around with the minifigs a bit. The hair
> striked me as castle-fit female-ish hair from the first time I saw it in the
> catalogs, so I wanted to check that out first of all. I looked at the feather-
> holes in the back of the 'hair' and suddenly noticed there are two holes in
> the head! One at the back indeed but one at the precise top of the head.
>
> Well, what does that have to do with anything?
> I immediately remembered an idea Craig (I think) told me about a while back...
> he said he drilled a hole in a minifig's wig in order to insert the Belville
> (small) crown in it...
> (In fact you can see a pic here, in the 'royal family' picture. It's princess
> Shelley's wig that has the crown:
> http://community-2.webtv.net/anonymouseye/craigolego/ )
>
> So anyway, I suddenly remembered that and I figured: Oh my gosh, I don't have
> to drill a hole!!! There's already a hole there!
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> What it all boils down to: you can have an extremely cool prince/ss minifig,
> with Indian hair and a BV crown! Perfect for castle settings! I'd try it out
> RIGHT NOW if I had a crown... but I'm getting one soon ;-)
>
> LMKWYT!
>
> -Shiri
Another BV hairpiece you can use with the braids in the top hole is the
hairbow. I tried this, and it looked very good. I've also used a dragon plume
turned to the side, in the back hole as a fancy hair comb.
-L
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