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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: Hadoque on April 26, 2011, 05:57:10
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A few pics of some of my English Redcoats.
They are situated in the 18th century. I'm working on/with 3 regiments: 1st one (infantry or cavalry) is based on the redcoat-officer from the new blister-set 4127, 2nd one (infantry) is based on the pirate-captain's torso from the 4290 pirateship, and another one (artillery) on a servant-figure that came in set 3021 Royal Banquet...
Sorry for some bluriness or not very good quality of the pics, I've not photographed Playmo that often so I've to learn a lot...
First pic shows some guys from the artillery.
Second pic is a colonel and infantry.
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The guards on the castle's walls and towers are the ones based on the blister-redcoat. I've given them other colour-hairpieces and crossbelts to be "degraded" to privates.
(the castle is the new small one 4866, enlarged with the DS extension-sets. The towers have a big opening towards the outside of the castle, I used some artillery-pieces to fill that void...)
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And a couple views from inside this English fortress.
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Amazing customs Hadoque!!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:
I love how you used the 4690 pirate special torso for the redcoats and how you turned the 4293 pirate captain into an english captain!!! :)9
Keep up the good work!!!
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Excellent customs Sir !!!
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Amazing job! They look stunning Hadoque! :wow:
I really like your Redcoat army,
It makes me want to buy the parts needed for my army now...! ;D
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Two thumbs up!
The only change I would make: swap the silver collar for a black or white one (3rd pic). The combination of silver and gold buttons/embellishments is somewhat strange.
Cheers,
HDL
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You did a great job on combining parts to make your redcoats :clap: when those packs become available in the US I may just have to make some of these soldiers if you do not mind
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Great work Hadoque, Love how the small castle is serving a different purpose!!
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Thanks for all the encouraging replies! :)
The only change I would make: swap the silver collar for a black or white one (3rd pic). The combination of silver and gold buttons/embellishments is somewhat strange.
Yes, I've thought about that too, but then I'd need 60 of these black or white collars for this particular infantry-regiment... ::) I find it not that disturbing so I used all the silver collars I had and bought a few extra.
Maybe I could get hold of black ones (the regiment based on the blister-redcoat has them but I'm not gonna disassemble these soldiers)...
Never seen the collar in white, except in a recent set from 2010... from the Special Agents-theme if I'm not mistaking.
Do you perhaps have the ETN-number for the white collar?
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Love how the small castle is serving a different purpose!!
I use all my castles as 17th/18th-century fortresses. I extented this one with the enlargement-sets from DS, so it is already a bit bigger.
But the possibilities are limited with the add-on sets, so I might order some more wall parts from DS, as it should still become somewhat bigger to function as one of several harbour-protecting fortresses.
(I'm not building very big castles; otherwise the relative size to the houses and ships is off too much.)
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Very nice customs indeed, Hadogue, and nicely posed too. :wave:
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Small update...
I've recently received a supply of white soldier-collars - with many thanks to another collector - so I've started swapping the metal-coloured collars with the white ones on the soldiers of my 2nd infantry regiment. In a while the whole regiment (60 men now, to be expanded soon to 75 men) should be equipped as such.
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I love them..
The walking horse is brilliant...
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The white collars do look very sharp. I can hear the hustle and bustle of activity when I look at your mini dioramas, including the clip clop of the horse's hoofs. Looking forward to more.
kaeth
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The white collar is a great detail touch Hadoque!!!
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I really like your redcoats and fort, Erwin. It's nice to see the different redcoat uniforms you've chosen for your different troop types and officers. And the white collar is definitely a positive addition as the silver just didn't look quite right. I've used some of the same torsos for my redcoat army, but since the release of the new blister back redcoats and the Add On redcoats, I'm in the process of completely revamping my army.
I'd really like to see some more pics of your fort to get an idea of its size and floor plan.
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White collars look so much better. what on earth playmobil was thinking to put the metal ones i dont know.... left overs from 7664 perhaps... they should just wait for a year or two , i would have bought all the remaining 7664 .....
anyways , great stuff H, look forward to more pictures of these soldiers.... you know i was planning to get like 400-500 of them but decided to stick to medieval instead and bought more 7664. they do look very smart though especially with the white collar !!!!
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I'd really like to see some more pics of your fort to get an idea of its size and floor plan.
Well, this one is a 4866 "Falcon Knights" castle, with an additional tower and the DS-wall extensions. I'm planning to add a few extra wallparts and perhaps one more tower as well.
I like the floorplan of this particular castle, because if you point the gate townwards in a harbour-city, one side of the castle shields off the inside of the harbour and the other walls face the seaside.
I've several castles and bastions (steck + other systems), but I don't put them together into 1 big fortress, but rather in several small fortresses. Intention is f.e. to place a fortress on each side of a bayarea, with a harbour in between.
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Thanks for the information on your creations and plans, Erwin. I like your idea of using several smaller castles in different strategic positions, which would have been historically accurate for many ports. Your layout of each castle makes sense too. I'd love to see your complete harbor scene! :captain: