British Marines?

[Lukemax]

Anyone got any pics of marines they have made, or any ideas of how to copy the British marines of nelsons navy?

Thx

Lukemax

[Captain Ka-Boom]

Have you seen their marine hats. They will be tricky.

Also No one has really built a giant Man'o'war yet.

[Admiral]

A decal shouldnt be hard, as for the hat you could get away with a shako...

[Capn Frank]

A decal shouldnt be hard, as for the hat you could get away with a shako...

A shako is the closest to British Marine headgear, but it's very expensive. :'-(

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[Col. Whipstick]

Basically you'd want to use the standard red imperial trooper, though with yellow epaulettes. That figure is almost entirely a British marine, the actual officers and crew would be wearing navy blue etc.

Edited January 14, 2008 by Col. Whipstick

[Lukemax]

I figured using those tophats that are about, mostly there in the wild west sets, also the marines dont wear blue

[Col. Whipstick]

I figured using those tophats that are about, mostly there in the wild west sets, also the marines dont wear blue

I didn't say the marines wore blue... I meant the officers and crew - i.e. - of the ship. Obviously the marine officer will be wearing the red with yellow epaulettes the same as his troops. Perhaps you'd have to use a different hat or face to denote rank.

The tophats aren't quite right because the cyndrical part should be more conical than what they are. Funnily enough I did a graphic design of what you're talking about and I only wish lego had made these - halfway between the tophats and the shakos.

[Peg Leg Pascoe]

A shako is the closest to British Marine headgear, but it's very expensive. :'-(

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I just picked up 2 for

[woody64]

You may take a look on the vignette showing Nelson and a lot of marines.

http://eurobricks.hosting.ipsyn.com/eurofo...showtopic=12478

Additionally I've added some Marine decals based on examples from Mosana. You will find some more on his brickshelf link:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=249255&n=48

Andreas

Edited January 14, 2008 by woody64

[Admiral]

Source

according to that, you could make a decal using this torso in red:

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[Tordenskjold]

You could use the imperial guard as a start if you want. but witch year are you in? in 1802 the british marines changed to Royal Marines. and after that mi opinion is that you can use the blue eupalettes as they are in the royal color (blue) but as far as i remember the royal marines had blue markings on the red jacket down by the hand. so cant say this would be accurate to have blue eupalettes.

but its lego. if you make them royal marines , then they are just that :-D