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> Kevin takes standard minifig torso designs, scans them, improves and
> recolours them to produce other and more torsos, enabling us (with a colour
> printer, a sharp knife, some art glue and a steady hand) to turn otherwise
> useless (say soccer team) torsos into much more useful (peasant, knave, lady
> etc etc) torsos.
Thanks to my blatant lack of any blue officer torsos, I had to come up with
a similar solution for my new project as I'm crewing it. I scanned a red
officer, then a blue trooper, and recolored the red officer with the blue
trooper's pigment. To print, I used some ink jet address labels -- saving
the taping/gluing bit. Here's Captain Magnus to display the work:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=162434
The labels are quite handy -- they're easy to manipulate as you cut, and
make for easy stick-on. Also, if you desperately need to restore the
original figure, a little bit of peeling time (well, a fair amount of time
to scrape all the sticky stuff off) and he's back to normal.
> These are similar to the familiar red coat and blue coat officer's attire,
> except that instead of being essentially a red coat front on a white torso
> (never could understand why the sides and back should be white), these are a
> modification to a green torso, and includes a printed cover for the back of
> the torso which has buttonned-round tails coming down to the upper calf.
That's a splendid idea! I must give it a whirl sometime...
> Anyone know who wore green coats?
Hmm... Naval-wise, no clue. Maybe one of the Mediterranean Navies, or the
Spanish. On land, though, you could count on either British Riflemen (ie,
Sharpe's 95th, from any Cornwell fans) or French Dragoons.
Kenneth Tam
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| (...) The Dutch had a small presence in the Carribien during pirate days and thier flag was mostly green. However, I don't believe that they had a royal navy down thier, and if they did, I wouldn't know what color uniform they had on. But just for (...) (23 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
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| Morning, Having made a pilgrimage to Kevin Hall's Andrastavia recently (if you have never been there, go now: (URL) and for the torsos, click on the left nav link to the Village, then on the yellow door to the custom shoppe, and then on the torso (...) (23 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
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