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Re: Rifles!
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lugnet.pirates
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Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:28:45 GMT
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Well done. I like the custom Torsos, did you make them using Sticker
Printer? I liked your pix, do you have any more? There are so many good
projects that could be done if we could only get the hats and parts from
Lego. Keep your sails in the wind, the French are coming.
Hugh
In lugnet.pirates, Kenneth Tam writes:
> Well if there were any soldiers anywhere in the early 1800s who could hope
> to survive an encounter with Richie Dulin's Highlanders, it had to be the
> likes of these.
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> Yes, the much-famed greenjackets, complete with 'high-tech' Baker rifles and
> faded uniforms!
>
> A squad of sharpshooters have joined the ranks of my very ill-documented
> garrison. In fact, they join Foot Guards and Fusillers and Dragoons and the
> Navy in a small Newfoundland Cove in defense of the Grand Banks fishery --
> against evil Privateers!
>
> *cough*
>
> See them here:
> http://members.rogers.com/brickleyscove/Rifles.htm
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> Not a very distinguished lot, and the first unit of any sort to appear on
> that *very* embryonic website of mine -- but a start, nonetheless. And a
> good way to get rid of green torsos without having to worry about the
> mismatch in greens that my printer consistently gives me. Ahh, the faded
> uniforms defense...
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> I built enough to exhaust my supply of shakos, and nine seems an appropriate
> number considering the famed (Sharpe) character of chosen men. Unfortunately
> the pictures aren't clear enough to show the designed-on patches and dirt --
> but trust me, they look the scruffy part!
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> Well, next up will be the Fusilliers of the 4th Regiment... whenever I get
> time to put them in front of a camera...
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>
> Kenneth Tam
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| (...) Thanks! And that's precisely it -- Ink Jet address labels trimmed and applied. Not a perfect colour match, but given my limited torso supply, a useful versatility. (...) Working on it! : ) (...) Agreed. Our custom solutions create some (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Well if there were any soldiers anywhere in the early 1800s who could hope to survive an encounter with Richie Dulin's Highlanders, it had to be the likes of these. Yes, the much-famed greenjackets, complete with 'high-tech' Baker rifles and faded (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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