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Re: A question
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Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:29:51 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
> > Shiri Dori wrote:
> > > that's simply because I already have all the KK figs and although they are
> > > really cool, they don't offer much variety.
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> > You're telling me...I'm practically drowning in 'smirking knight' heads (from
> > 4811...) I got tired of seeing so many 'clone knights' that I took a bunch
> > of my 'figs, decapitated them, put all the Castle-appropriate heads in a bin,
> > and started randomly putting heads onto bodies. Now I've got a fair amount
> > of variety in my generic soldiers.
Personally, I see little point with the "grunt" minifigs. ;) They generally
won't figure prominantly in a story, and in fact, they should probably all be
wearing redshirts, considering what will happen to most of them in a lot of our
stories... ;)
> I have an all castle-appropriate minifig bin. Basically any head without a
> mike and/or sunglasses went in there... But I got left with an enourmous
> amount of town torsos, and not enuff castle torsos. That's why I'm putting the
> town torsos up for trade... but that's beside the point.
> I tried to mix'n'match some stuff, which resulted in Kfir (Johnny T torso
> w/out guns, qui-gon face and brown hair), Daphne (who has about twenty
> thousand different outfits... you'll see), Flynt and others.
I've got a bag of "good" heads and a bag of "bad" heads. The "good" bag has
heads I like, and heads I think would work well as generic figs. The "bad" bag
has heads I don't like (willa the witch) or heads that are way too specific.
The rest of my minifig parts are sorted by theme (torsos, hats), color (legs),
and type (accessories). :)
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> > I've also thought about making a couple of separate bins with different
> > 'types' of faces - not all the same face, but faces that are all similar in
> > some way - to represent different nationalities, social classes, that sort of
> > thing...but I haven't tried it yet.
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> I realized pretty quickly that behind the kettle helmet, the Johnny Thunder
> head looks SO MUCH like the smirking knight... except no beard... So I put
> some JT faces on the 4811 knights just for a *bit* variety. I still have too
> many of both tho' :-)
Hmmm... I may have to try that... I could differentiate between the Swordsmen
and the Halberdiers in another way besides what weapon they carry! :)
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> > > If I had a choice between having the 6091 KK figs or older figs instead...
> > > I think I might choose KK.
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> > I might - the princess, queen, and chainmail guy are awesome - unless the
> > older 'figs in question were one of the other sets that had a female (like
> > the King's Mountain Fortress - Castle Chick *and* removable armor!)
Y'know, right know I'm leaning towards making 6081 King's Mountain Fortress my
second favorite castle... :) It makes me wonder why some people dislike it so
much...
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> Oh yah... but that's an exception, y'know. Most of the older sets just had
> repeating clones... at least they were smiley clones tho', you could pretend
> they had different faces ;-)
I like clones... They make a very impressive army! :)
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> BTW, if the figs were dark[forest]men, I'd take them over the 6091s any day...
> I want lots of these... they offer enough variety (IMO) without being
> unrelated to each other. You can recognize a forestman like that <snaps
> fingers> but each and every one of them is different... check out the
> fibblesnork guide, there are, like, 40 different ones. Sheesh.
Yeah, but the differences are resigned to feather size and color. That never
really meant anything to me...
Jeff
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| (...) Huh? Which grunt minifigs? Bulls? (...) LOL! (...) Heads that are way too specific are good for me, so long as I don't have multiples of them. eg Storms' faces (both Princess *and* Gail :) (...) Cool! (...) Second... after what? (375?) (...) (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) That's what I did with my peasants. I tried to make them all look different, they'll all be playing small roles in my story so I want them each to be different. I mean, it'll look weird if a random peasant meets Scar, and then just *happens* (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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