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Those who like custom minifigs or are pirate fans should check out this site (sorry, I can only read one word in twenty of German, but the pictures speak for themselves). (URL) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Custom Pirate Fig site
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Thanks for pointing those out Bruce. Some of the hats and vests had the same "shine" as the ABS. Do you think the creator did some plastic molding type of work? Those are some pretty incredible designs. Markus (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Custom Pirate Fig site
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(...) Look carefully at the edge of some of the coats - very thin. Probably paper or some kind of material. Others possibly could be plastic "clay" (Sculpey and the like). I'd guess a variety of techniques, but the picture quality and size is not (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) These customised minifigs were made by the German AFOL Jojo -well known to frequent visitors of 1000steine.de. He stated that the hats were made out of paper and the vests are made of cloth. And yes, Bruce, you did leave out a letter :-) (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) You can get some very basic information of Jojo's fantastic creations at his Brickshelf gallery: (URL) if interest "grows", I would be glad to do some basic translating. "Germinate" well, Andreas Stabno (URL) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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