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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.
Of course, with this new found (to me) technology, I couldn't resist adding
a few more to the Grande Armie, and running short on most soldierly supplies
now, I built up a few engineers...
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/rdulin/PortBrique/engineers5.jpg
Cheers
Richie
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| (...) Ach! (...) Well, they're Scots in a climate much warmer than they're used to, I suppose. Need to keep cool... And nicely done! I've been wrestling with paper-add-on kilts of one sort or another for the past two months -- a brick solution never (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes: snip (...) Hi Richie, Have you thought about using the Turbans from the Harry Potter/New Adventurer series to creat some Indian troops, eg; Bengal Lancers ? I know they are not regular troops but they sure (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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