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Re: Custom Pirate Fig site
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.minifigs
Date: 
Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:53:06 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Markus Wolf writes:
Thanks for pointing those out Bruce.  Some of the hats and vests had the
same "shine" as the ABS.  Do you think the creator did some plastic molding
type of work?  Those are some pretty incredible designs.

Markus

Look carefully at the edge of some of the coats - very thin.  Probably paper
or some kind of material.  Others possibly could be plastic "clay" (Sculpey
and the like).  I'd guess a variety of techniques, but the picture quality
and size is not sufficient to really be sure.  And it was Arnold Stanicek
(did I leave a letter out?  ...czek?) that mentioned the site to me in an
email, by the way.  I was just passing it on.  :-)

Bruce



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  Re: Custom Pirate Fig site
 
(...) These customised minifigs were made by the German AFOL Jojo -well known to frequent visitors of 1000steine.de. He stated that the hats were made out of paper and the vests are made of cloth. And yes, Bruce, you did leave out a letter :-) (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.minifigs)

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  Re: Custom Pirate Fig site
 
Thanks for pointing those out Bruce. Some of the hats and vests had the same "shine" as the ABS. Do you think the creator did some plastic molding type of work? Those are some pretty incredible designs. Markus (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.minifigs)

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