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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: Hadoque on September 30, 2011, 18:07:04
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Though he commands an English (British) 18th-century frigate, his picture ( :eh?: ) was taken ashore... ;D
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Oh wow!! He is awesome!!!! :clap: :clap: :clap: and the legs are good ;D
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I love him too!! Where do you get all the stuff for the customs? :lol: :lol: DS? You have chests and legs I haven't even seen before :lol:
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I think we re buying stuff from the same ebay sellers, Erwin ;D
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Awesome! :rock:
He looks perfect Erwin!
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he looks cool! but, no shoulder epaulets or collar? There is a way to add the cape even if you already have a collar, fyi. You can force/bend it on, and/or cut the part of the cape that fits around the neck a little bigger so that a collar and/or epaulets can fit underneath it. That's what i did with my redcoats leader.
but he still looks good the way he is :)
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Where do you get all the stuff for the customs? :lol: :lol: DS? You have chests and legs I haven't even seen before :lol:
The legs are new since August (from the Redcoat-private in set 5139 English Fortress)...sofar I've only 2 pairs of these.
The chest is the same as the one from the 3740-white schooner captain, but comes from a pirate in a German Pirates' Island exclusive set from a few years ago.
I do have some stock of klicky-parts just for making customs. Sometimes I order a klicky in several numbers from DS just for use of specific parts. Other times I find the parts "in quantity" on ebay, or I get them through other collectors/customizers.
I think we re buying stuff from the same ebay sellers, Erwin ;D
Might very well be. S? H? ;D
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he looks cool! but, no shoulder epaulets or collar? There is a way to add the cape even if you already have a collar, fyi. You can force/bend it on, and/or cut the part of the cape that fits around the neck a little bigger so that a collar and/or epaulets can fit underneath it. That's what i did with my redcoats leader.
but he still looks good the way he is :)
I decided not to use a soldier's collar on him, nor officer's epaulettes. (I did do so on some other English officers with the same torso, somewhere in a thread from a few months back)
The epaulettes are more suitable for the 19th-century I think. Often there aren't many ways to do without them for making officers, but this time I thought just a cape would look fine.
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He looks great, Hadoque! Very distinguished!
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Brilliant! Magnificent! I love him! :wow:
He will make a stunning leader! :wow:
I cannot wait to see him manning a ship. :clap:
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Very smart custom, Hadoque. By using the new legs rather than, say, the older legs with boots you are more authentic as the sensible choice during battles at sea was silk breeches and shoes rather than high boots. The reason was that a musket ball would drive the silk breeches into the wound and the ball could be pulled out easily. (It seems that the ball failed to penetrate the silk.) With stiff leather boots, the musket ball went into the wound and also drove shards of leather into the wearer's leg, making a much worse wound.
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the sensible choice during battles at sea was silk breeches and shoes rather than high boots. The reason was that a musket ball would drive the silk breeches into the wound and the ball could be pulled out easily. (It seems that the ball failed to penetrate the silk.) With stiff leather boots, the musket ball went into the wound and also drove shards of leather into the wearer's leg, making a much worse wound.
Thanks for this info, Gordon!
I knew that clothing often caused addtional problems to bullitwounds, but not that this was the major reason to wear shoes and silk breeches at sea.