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Re: How much are Blue soldiers worth?
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Mon, 1 May 2000 21:21:06 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Franklin W. Cain writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > [snip]
> > ... Loonies at auczilla have paid as much for a ... backpack
> > as I do for the entire figure.
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> Now, wait a second, I'm one of those so-called loonies,
> and I'd like to object (just as soon as I can figure out
> how to get out of this straightjacket ;-)
Aha! I knew I'd flush some of the deep-pocketed scoundrels out. :-)
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> The reason I was willing to pay a rather high price
> on AucZilla for some of those Backpacks,
> and the reason I'd (probably) do the same
> for some Shako Hats, is that once I get a Trooper minifig,
> whether Redcoat or Bluecoat, I'm not disassembling him!
> ("No disassemble! No disassemble!" -- trivia points
> if you can give movie reference ;-)
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> Thus, if I'm not gonna disassemble a complete Trooper 'fig
> (notice that I did *not* mention the Officer/Lieutenant 'figs...),
> then the only way to get extra backpacks and/or shako hats
> is to get them from other sources.
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> Now, you may ask *why* would I need extra shako hats,
> and the answer is rather simple: I have *extra* Troopers
> that are only *partially* complete; i.e., they're missing
> their shako hats. (And, no, not quite all of them
> started out as surplus Lieutenants... some of them, yes,
> perhaps even *several*, but not quite *all* of 'em...)
Yes, but I figured out the false economy of that. You buy a Shako for $3. And
a Backpack for $3. Six bucks. Or buy a complete figure for $5 (not that I
pay that much), and sell the stripped figure for a minimum of $2. I can see $1
per BP or shako, maybe $1.50, but after that, It's just cheaper to buy the
whole fig and sell off what doesn't match up evenly.
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> And, as far as the backpacks go,
> I'd like to be able to use brown backpacks with some
> of my custom kit-bashed (modern/near-future) military 'figs.
> I also use the dark grey backpacks (from the SW Speeder Bike sets),
> but the military 'figs I make using dark grey torsos
> look a whole lot better with a brown backpack
> than with a dark grey backpack.
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> Thanks,
> Franklin
My extra soldiers without backpack and shako actually aren't sold. I give them
a white or gray backpack, white epaulettes and white pith helmet. A bit
Victorian rather than Napoleonic, much less Golden Age of Piracy, but I like
the variation.
Bruce
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| Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) them (...) like (...) I'm planning on converting my red soldiers to use dark grey backpacks. This will free up plenty of brown backpacks to outfit more blue soldiers (now I just need to find a source of (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | Re: How much are Blue soldiers worth?
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| (...) They're around...sneaky devils, they be. ;) Actually, the Pirate Game created a few deep-pocketed scoundrels out of otherwise normal people! (...) Well, here's what I've done: Blue troopers get grey backpacks from 7128; that way I have more (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Now, wait a second, I'm one of those so-called loonies, and I'd like to object (just as soon as I can figure out how to get out of this straightjacket ;-) The reason I was willing to pay a rather high price on AucZilla for some of those (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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