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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: cheng on August 08, 2012, 07:17:10

Title: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: cheng on August 08, 2012, 07:17:10
not an entirely new custom...but further customised to depict 2 layers of clothes for winter..
wearing their shorter blue outer coats over their longer inner white cotton shirts....
folded back over their shorter blue sleeves (depicetd by those Santa-claus type of cuffs or those used by the new olympic tennis klicky)
and their front white shirt tails hanging out under their heavy blue coats.

I also completed the gold printing around their necks using gold PVC stickers

their conical hats(old customs from PVC sheets) and shoes(sprayed) are not new customs.
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: Ismene on August 08, 2012, 07:57:58
I love the details  :love:
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: playmofire on August 08, 2012, 08:41:57
Wow, cheng, your customs and ideas and detailing just get better and better.  I can see Geobra now scrapping their plans for a Chinese theme and saying, "We can't equal cheng's work, let's just give up!"
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: mike1003 on August 08, 2012, 09:05:04
i hope those hats comming out soon.. or malone does them :)
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: cheng on August 08, 2012, 09:16:42
adding this photo to more clearly explain what I meant about the gold print around their necks (what do we call these?   ??? they are not collars but an edging sort of, needled together  :P
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: cheng on August 08, 2012, 09:21:27
....I can see Geobra now scrapping their plans for a Chinese theme and saying, "We can't equal cheng's work, let's just give up!"

thanks guys! ;)
...and NOOOOO....my chinese kungfu shoes and the thin PVC hats are only temporary and like mike says, I'm sure they will one day make a Chinese Fi?ure (Fisherman/rickshaw-puller/labourer)with this hat if not launch a whole new Chinese Theme :love:
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: playmofire on August 08, 2012, 11:04:49
adding this photo to more clearly explain what I meant about the gold print around their necks (what do we call these?   ??? they are not collars but an edging sort of, needled together  :P

"Edging" sounds good, or "trim".
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: cheng on August 08, 2012, 11:11:42
"Edging" sounds good, or "trim".

thanks Gordon....perhaps 'trim' is a better word then, especially if its a broad/wide trim ;) 
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: cowabounga on August 08, 2012, 11:51:18
Excellent job, Cheng! Once again, the way you enhance the details of basic clickies is impressive.

I can see Geobra now scrapping their plans for a Chinese theme and saying, "We can't equal cheng's work, let's just give up!"
More like "We can't equal cheng's work, let's just copy it!"  ;D
A.
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: Lynx on August 08, 2012, 12:16:23
They're wonderful again, cheng! I wonder if you would make a diorama/ battlefield with all your chinese soldiers how it would look like..  And if Geobra ever goes oriental, they should hire you as a creative director!
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: Pynedor on August 08, 2012, 14:37:20
Fantastic detail and great customs, as always, cheng! :)
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: cheng on August 08, 2012, 14:49:33
thanks cowabounga-Arnaud!

and Lynx, I'll work for free for a month if they can put me up in their playmo hotel and just give me 50 hats and 50 pairs of chinese legs to bring home...then the following year I go again for 50 pairs of Japanese legs and 50 half-shaved samurai heads
....or give me a week and I'll make a chinese soldier Fi?ure and another to make a proper samurai Fi?ure....but if you guys wont buy them, they'll can put me on a slow junk home ;D

Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: cheng on August 08, 2012, 14:54:24
oh, thanks too Pynedor!
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: Justindo on August 09, 2012, 18:03:57
Nice updates, Cheng! :)9
Title: Re: Imperial Qing Guards in winter uniforms circa 1900, Peking
Post by: cheng on August 10, 2012, 00:31:24
thanks Justindo!
...and Lynx, I thought about what you said (diorama with a battle amongst chinese buildings).....hmmm, I've seen what chinese buildings some very talented customizers have made...I'm pretty lazy, hoping Geobra will make some first and I just buy them :P