Mosana

Thought I'd share how I get my things done. The example I'm using here is a 1815-peroid French fusilier. This is how every torso starts. You can see the blank template, the selection of colours below it, and the random useful objects around it. The first step is to get a picture of what you want to do, and stick it somewhere on the picture, like so: This covers over some medallions and the fancy lace, but neither of them will be needed. Drawing can then begin. The collar is the first thing I always draw. The lines I use are the second-thickest for most things, with small items done with the third-thickest line. Then some detail is drawn in with the thinner line: After that, a button is drawn, then copied to make all of the buttons the same size: The whole torso is then coloured: Crossbelts are then added, first by drawing them (in a non-black colour, so filling them in later doesn't interfere with the black lines already drawn). Care is taken to make sure the distance between the lines at both ends is around the same, although I often fail to achieve this. |-/ The belts are then filled in, and once all of the detail is filled in, the belt lines can be chaged to black: And with that, the torso is done. It can now be cut out, put on a grey background and have its edges cleaned up: With that, all that's left to do it save (AS A .PNG THIS IS IMPORTANT) it with an illogical difficult-to-remember-later filename and post it here. Or you could skip all this and just recolour an existing one. If you look at all the torsos I've done, you will find a huge amount of hussar recolours, the original being the French Guard Chasseur. All my mexicans are based off one body, and many of my recent cavalry torsos are recolours or modifications of the colonial British. You have strange ones as well, such as the French Zouaves being re-done as Russian naval artillery, although my favourite is that Peter the Great has to share a body with Charles XII! Hope this guide helps some people. If you want to start making your own, the template and official colours are here: Torso Template and Color Guide You don't need to use official colours, but it helps if, for example, your torso is mostly green and designed to be used on a green body, that the green used is the official shade of Lego green.

Little Wars Is a book written by H. G. Wells for "players in an inferior social position. It can be played by boys of every age from twelve to one hundred and fifty--and even later if the limbs remain sufficiently supple--by girls of the better sort, and by a few rare and gifted women." It is a set of excellent wargaming rules, and is available at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/ltwrs11.txt. Reading over this, I noticed that great emphasis is placed on the use of cannons that actually fire. Now, I have no firing cannons for my historical models, and, even if I did, I wouldn't want to fire things at them for fear of damaging them. I then realised that Lego is the perfect thing to use for this game. It makes cannons which fire, and Lego figures will hardly break if you hit one of them with a 1x1 cylinder! So here is an unusual idea for Lego wargaming, and I hope to try it at some point. Also, here is a picture of the man himself enjoying a battle:

Not really an area I'm familiar with, but here's a WWII German If/when I get round to doing those Russian naval ones they'll go here I'll take requests and etc

Light grey bits on the shoulder straps.

Sorry you've had to wait so long for the rest of these I've been very busy with school and etc Ceremonial/Daily for the system and out of the system Daily out of the system Ceremonial for the system and out of the system Summer form of the clothing of officers, Warrant Officers and ensigns VMF Also, in a rather belated answer to the flesh-tone question, if you can get me a square or whatever of fleshtone colour I can do flesh versions of these.

I'd like to see a musket, as the current Lego one is really more of a blunderbuss-type of thing. Would rather have a bayonet on it, as it would have been fixed always during a battle, usually, and was always fixed in some armies, such as the Prussian one.

Very nice work, and nice to see my stuff getting a bit of use. Also, I have a Crimean section in my BS, which isn't particularly comprehensive, and I can't remember what most of the torsos actually represent. But there it is anyway: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=260600

Regrettably, life, as it tends to do, has intervened somewhat, leaving me with little time for stuff. Just to remind you all I'm not dead, here's "daily" from the bottom of column 2 of http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/wor...avy-uniform.htm

In this thread so far, yes.

Disregard my first post These look similar but have Important Changes M36 Tunic: M40 Tunic: M41 Tunic: The M-year thing refers to the year they were first issued The shoulder straps are white, and by white I mean light grey, for infantry, but can be changed to: Green (Motorcycles -1942) Red (Artillery/assault guns) Orange-red (Military police) Black (Engineers) Light green (Jaeger) Gold (Cavalry) Copper-brown (Motorised recon -1943) Yellow (Signals) Light blue (Transportation) Dark blue (Medical) Pink (Panzer)

I'd like to, but whether I'll get round to it is the question. This applies for everything I do, I suppose.

I'll give that a go. Will be something different.

In response to the requests thread Netherlands Infantry: Netherlands Militia:

Artillery: Light Dragoons: Hussars: And with the Nassau and Prince of Orange torsos, I think that's the Netherlands decently covered.

They're taken from my main source for things, 1:72 figure boxes.

Well, the ones I did were Napoleonic ones. But I'll see what I can do about something earlier.

There's also a Nassau infantryman in there, somewhere. Also: http://eurobricks.hosting.ipsyn.com/eurofo...showtopic=13216

If you can be a bit more specific with the period I think I could whip up something.

Question about this set, please: Is there flesh tone printing on the top of Indy's body, or is it tan? I can't really make it out from the picture. Also, is there glass in the window? Thanks for the help.

Actual EIC uniforms looked nothing like they do in that movie. In reality, they didn't differ significantly from regular British uniforms, aside from a few modifications to help the soldiers cope with foreign climates.

I have a question - do you also get the green "Polizei" stickers as in older police sets?

Really great stuff. Is that a wurst-wagen in front of the cannon?

Thanks for the help.

Can anybody please help me out by telling me the dimensions of the large grey road pieces you get in the set?

It isn't that piece, but actually that one you linked to would suit my needs much better. So thanks for poniting that out!