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That's some good work there. Unfortunately, I don't have any requests right now, but I'll see later. Keep up the good work!

I see what you mean now. you use the dotted-line square tool to draw a square around it, then copy and paste it into a new paint window. You move it up into the top-left corner, then drag the endges of the paint window closer until they touch the edges of the torso, as seen in the last picture of the tutorial. You can then colour the background in with grey.

I've never printed out or cut out a torso. I just don't like using them, so I can't help with any stages past printing it. Also, the classic-castle stuff is here: http://www.classic-castle.com/howto/articles/Torsos.html This article and all the subsequent torso articles on the website use the colours I use.

I manged to miss this post somehow. The figures look really nice. With regards to the blue, it's the blue off classic-castle.com's colour palette, which I use for all my customs. Also some Napoleonic Austrians: Infantry officer: Infantryman: Grenadier officer: Grenadier: Grenze officer: Grenze: Cuirassier: Cheveaux-Leger: Artillery: Uhlan: Hussar: Coming next: Filling various gaps in the Napoleonic period

Also, my torsos are the same size as all the cutoms on classic-castle.

When it's all done, you can stick it into word and shrink it down to the right size, then print it.

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.

Crimean War II: Britain Line infantry: Highlanders: Heavy Dragoons: Scots Greys: And, lastly, a trio of torsos allowing the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to be recreated: 8th/11th Hussars: 17th Lancers: 13th Light Dragoons: Coming next: Open to suggestions

update Crimean War I: Russia Infantry in greatcoat/artillery Infantry in dress uniform Officer Naval Artillery Terek Cossack Don Cossack Uhlan Dragoon Hussar Coming next: britain

If it were 2014, that would mean he died the year before Waterloo. I think the date you're looking for is 2021. :) Also, today, june 18, 192 years ago, the Battle of Waterloo took place.

I'm not a huge fan of why it's there either, namely to commemorate the spot where the Prince of Orange was wounded.

Great pictures. If I was really going to nitpick, I'd point out that in the eighth picture, the grenadier on the right is in fact a Dutch Grenadier, whose regiment had been disbanded a year before, and so shouldn't really be there. You can see him again in the next picture down. Also, is that the Lion Mound I can see in the first picture?

GREAT NOTHERN WAR 2: RUSSIA Strelet: Officer of Strelitzen: Infantry: Officer: Artilleryman: Bombardier: Dragoon: Czar Peter:

Update time Does anybody know of the film "The Sovereign's Servant"? It is a Russian film, not released here in the UK, but I saw the trailer on youtube, and it looks very promising, as well as being the only film I know of about the Great Northern War. Inspired by this, I made some torsos. GREAT NORTHERN WAR 1: SWEDEN Officer: Trooper: Drummer: Artillery: Lieb-Drabant: Retiar: Charles XII of Sweden Coming next: GNW Russia Also, I'm still having no luck on the French naval torsos. Apologies. EDIT: I've set up a youtube page where I can collect videos of napoleonic battles and things like that, and you can see this here: http://www.youtube.com/profile_favorites?user=hjrf2k I'll add more things as I find them.

Seriously, though, 600-odd custom pirate torsos is excellent work. Congratulations to everyone who has contributed!

On a similar note, I did a count and I have contributed 134 of these torsos.

I'm a bit late for this, but I look forward to seeing them. I think Nelson and the grenadiers are some of my best work, so I look forward to seeing them "in the flesh".

I'd put them under "Hesse", as they're not really British and Germany of course did not exist at that time.

Ah! I have it. It is Pierre Bezuhov: EDIT: there is the british commodore

That's probably true. They're all just a big blur of collars and crossbelts in my head

That's some very nice work. However, I actually don't know what body it it you used. Could you tell me?

Actually, I have some British naval bodies over on page nine. If there are any more you want, feel free to ask.

The rest of the Austrians. Officer of regiment "ERSZTERHAZY" Trooper of regiment "ERSZTERHAZY" Trooper of Freikorps: Grenze: Hussar: Dragoon: Horse Grenadier: Cuirassier: Carabinier: Coming next: I have no idea

Nice work on all these bodies. I would like very much to see these "Hornblower" designs you've made.

I'm not liking the "French" idea at all for shakos, simply because they're too limited. They can only be used for French and British light dragoons. Every other country used variations of the stovepipe or Belgic designs, except for Russia, which used the strange "kiver" type shako.