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Re: Bayonet Pictures!
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Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:16:44 GMT
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Greg,
I think your pics are sweet, I was out of the country so I missed them the
first time.  What do you do with all of the left over Rock raider parts?
The heads are useless, except the scowling bearded guy, because they've got
mic's on their faces.  I keep the Orange Jumpsuits for Rebel technicians in
my Star Wars hangar and the grey torsos for Confederate artillery (with the
brown Kepi's from The research glider, and the city minifig pack)but I
scrape the yellow and black caution paint off of his pouches with an exacto.
I try not to do too much of my own modification as I am a bit of a purist
now (not completely though, as I really enjoy the work of others)

I'm working on a Confederate cavalry now (with big floppy cavalier hats and
plumes like the mounted lancers from Virginia) but I can't decide if they
look better with the black or the brown bush hat (Johnny Thunder's).

A real confederate artillery would have red kepi's, do you guys think the
pirate bandana would look too cheesy?

LMKWYT!     Jon


In lugnet.western, Greg Perry writes:
In lugnet.western, Jon Furman writes:
You can see pics of their new charge here.

Thanks for the latest round of photographs Jon.  I meant to post a praise
after the first set.  Ever since first starting to build my Confederate
troops a few months ago I've been eager to stage a battle scene.  I actually
want to attempt a stop motion animation scene of a charge.  Before I do that
though I need a few more soldiers - but from the Union side.  Between
Brickbay and Rock Raider sales I've been able to increase my Rebel company
size to about 45 troops since I last posted pictures (see below).  I've only
got about a half dozen Yankees to whup up on though so that ain't hardly no
challenge at all.

I think it's great that the interest in Civil War LEGO seems to be getting a
little bit of a revival in recent times.  It's helped to expand my overall
interest in the Wild West theme in general.

One last tip about outfitting CW era mini-figs.  My local KB Toys was having
a clearance of the Dino-Adventurer small sets for $2.99.  One of these is
"Mike's Swamp Boat" which includes a brown kepi cap and a mini-fig torso
that looks fairly 19th century (vest over 3 button long sleeve shirt with
sling shot stuck in belt).  I think this torso works well for support
civilians - wagoneers, cooks, etc.

In case anyone missed my post last month, here again are my pics of the
beginning of my "army":

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3370

Greg



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  Re: Bayonet Pictures!
 
(...) I've been asking myself that same question - what the heck am I going to do with all those extra Axle, Bandit, Jets & Sparks mini-figs? I'm thinking that my nephews are about to get a load of Rock Raiders dumped on them. And how about a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)
  Re: Bayonet Pictures!
 
(...) ....... (...) Hey Everybody, The Confederate artillery doesn't necessarily have to have red kepi's. They can have any color hat really, but they do have some sort of red marking on them. Some wore a red band around a grey kepi, or around a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)

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(...) Thanks for the latest round of photographs Jon. I meant to post a praise after the first set. Ever since first starting to build my Confederate troops a few months ago I've been eager to stage a battle scene. I actually want to attempt a stop (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.western)

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