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> 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.
Ach!
> 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).
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 occured to me! Chalk up another great inovation for the
master of Port Brique.
(British grumble)
> 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.
That's pretty much the system I've been using during my rapid expansion of
infantry, though for flexibility's sake I've been using ink jet labels --
self adhesive and not permanent. The color match isn't quite as good, but I
can restore my chaps to their original form, or more likely, change them
into some other sort of soldiers if need be.
> Hats are two-tyre busbies (what else?). If anyone has ideas about bagpipes
> for minifigs, I'd be most interested.
Hmm... one of those 1x1x1's with studs on 5 sides (I'm particularly
part-name illiterate, forgive me) with the old space control levers? Hmm...
have to work on that one...
> 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
(Further grumbling from Horse Guards)
Brilliant stuff -- again!
Kenneth
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| In lugnet.pirates, Kenneth Tam writes: <snip> (...) I've been using good quality printing plus poor quality glue, with that in mind, for the latest troops. (...) I'll give it a try. Control levers seem the most likely solution. (And a pipe band (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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