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| | | I've been reading the Hornblower stories (and I watched the A&E miniseries) and I've decided to change my "classification" of the Pirate minifigs. I think something more realistic would be: Blue soldiers: Replace shako with bicorn hat, naval (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | Re: Pirate minifig question —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) This is not an unreasonable approach historically, assuming you are trying to duplicate the British navy (with Hornblower, Bolitho, Lewrie, Aubrey/Maturin and no doubt more series, at least there is a lot of inspiration). Naval pressed (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | Re: Pirate minifig question —Ross McCullough
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| | | | | (...) labor. (...) you (...) be (...) A solution to the lack of red-coats is to make a French navy. All officers could be in blue, and though I'm not aware of the French equivilant of marines, perhaps a company of voltigeurs with blue coats and red (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | Re: Pirate minifig question —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | (...) a (...) captains (...) I like the Prussians someone mentioned (Lindsay, Frank?) a while back, or my own Black Guard. There's lots you can do with enough pirate bits. If I want English and French, I chuck history and make the English red and (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pirate minifig question —Ross McCullough
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| | | | | | (...) to (...) rarer (...) you (...) Meant to lable the stylish as French, not the French as stylish. Those aristocratic "fighters" are a lot of pansies, and don't deserve to deserve to be labeled English. Though the Duke of Wellington was an (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pirate minifig question —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | (...) ??? Oh, was that first sentence supposed to mean: Meant to label the stylish *English* officers as French? They were traitors? The French were pansies? No pansies are English? Americans kicked their candy sterncastles anyway. :-) Bruce (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pirate minifig question —Jason Maxwell
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| | | | | | (...) fore- (...) Thanks' for all the responses. I think I prefer the fore-aft bicorn, though as someone said they can be hard to come by (I still need one for my Harbor Sentry). I think I'll reman my second BSB as a ship of the English Navy with (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | Re: Pirate minifig question —Tony Priestman
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| | | | On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Bruce Schlickbernd (<Fw7wC3.6uA@lugnet.com>) wrote at 22:40:51 (...) <snip> (...) This is a fair description of how the Brickish Navy operates, although no-one gets pressed, they all get moulded :-) (...) Actually, I seem to (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | surplus officers (was "Re: Pirate minifig question") —Franklin W. Cain
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| | | | (...) Swap out their Tricorn Caps for Pith Helmets, and have 'em guard the Brikish East India Company. :-) Unfortunately, the Pith Helmet doesn't work well at all with the (Non-Opening) Backpack. :-( Franklin (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | Re: surplus officers (was "Re: Pirate minifig question") —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | (...) Hmm... have you tried to raise the head a bit over the backpack? That might help a bit... -Shiri (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | Re: surplus officers (was "Re: Pirate minifig question") —Marc Nelson, Jr.
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| | | | (...) It works OK if you put the backpack on first, then epaulettes on top, then the head. (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.adventurers)
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