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Re: Castle Women Figs
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Thu, 3 Jan 2002 23:42:46 GMT
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You had me worried when you said you used an X-acto on your minifigs. I'm
too much of a purist, I would never paint or altar a minifig in anyway.
However, by scraping off the paint it looks pretty good! They now have a
waist and hips. But they still look like town minifigs with a waist and
hips..... Let's see if you can make them look medieval.
-Aaron
In lugnet.castle, Josiah Nicely writes:
> I don't know about anyone else, but I have an abundance of non-castle
> figures and few generic castle minifigs. Especially in the female
> department. So I started looking to see what I could do to increase the
> female population in my villages and I came up with a few options:
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> 1) Go out and buy more female figs
> Problem: Expensive and only a limited variety to choose from
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> 2) Forget about it
> Problem: Ever been around a guy who hasn't seen a girl in a couple of years?
> Times that by a few hundred lego men. Prognosis: not good
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> 3) Convert some generic town torsos to fit the need
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> Well, I had plenty of hair and female heads, but the problem is, until
> recently, Lego did not make any difference in shape between a male fig and a
> female fig. Kinda hard to distinguish between the two figures at a distance.
> So I whipped out my handy X-acto knife and went to work. I think the
> pictures speak for themselves.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=9821
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> Not only can you make nice female figures out of the generic torsos, but if
> you wanted to get so technical as to include a little bit of paint, you
> could really get some use out of all the extra minifigs that you have laying
> around.
> Just thought I'd share. Maybe somebody has already been doing this, but I
> haven't heard about it. I wouldn't bill it as a better substitute for a
> Lego-made female torso, but in a pinch, or with a burst of creativity, you
> could really do some wonders. A little more work on the bathing suit pic and
> you could have a Bikini. What with the new turbans, you could make an
> Arabian Nights kind of scene. If anyone has any more Ideas on how to use
> generic town Minifigs, share the knowledge!
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> - Joe Nicely
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| (...) Normally I would never touch anything to my Legos, but I have a large surplus of torsos that have sat there for almost five years now. Better to do something with them than nothing at all. I put this up the minute I finished the Girl in red so (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| I don't know about anyone else, but I have an abundance of non-castle figures and few generic castle minifigs. Especially in the female department. So I started looking to see what I could do to increase the female population in my villages and I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.castle)
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