Creating Custom Duplo Redcoat Officer Figures

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I’ve posted previously about Creating Custom Duplo Redcoat Figures and Creating Duplo Tall Ships for them to sail on. In those earlier projects, the officer redcoat was one figure where I simply left off the gray tricorn hat (he’s bald!) in order to differentiate him from the rank and file soldiers.

I recently set about making that officer figure a bicorn hat!

See the project here: https://www.evancrouch.com/duplos/creating-custom-duplo-redcoat-officer-figures/

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I wanted to post an update. Today I added gold epaulettes to the officer and I think it really completes the image.

I used the epaulettes from the chest portion of the original pirate head piece. After cutting the black beard off, I used super glue and a clamp to glue the gold epaulettes onto the officer. The way the cut plastic goes around his neck kind of looks like a collar.

I will likely make a second front-back bicorn officer as lieutenants, and a side-to-side bicorn officer for captain. They may look good with red capes.