custom-pants for musketeers etc

[Hadoque]

Inspired  by images from 17th-century clothing-styles, I decided to make a combination of the kneetrouser-style that comes with shoes (found with pirates, new redcoats, etc), and legs with boots.
The boots have to be low enough, to be able to leave some space (for what should represent stockings) just below the knee-area and above the upper-end of the boots, so I used the low boots from the dwarf from the Surprise Figures.

Here is the first "prototype"...
Not sure if I'll make more of them, but I hope Geobra will one day release such a variation...

[playmofire]

Looks very good, Erwin.

[tahra]

I like him! He's taller than a regular klicky, no?

[cowabounga]

Don't know why, but I'm not convinced. Maybe with a lighter shade for the thighs?

[Pynedor]

I think it looks good. The slightly different stance somehow looks a bit more realistic to me.

[Wolf Knight]

Excellent custom job, Erwin!!! 

[Hadoque]

I like him! He's taller than a regular klicky, no?

He is about the same hight as a klicky with regular legs, I made measurements before cutting the legparts so the proportions would stay the same.
Perhaps the angle of the pic gives the impression he is somewhat taller.

Don't know why, but I'm not convinced. Maybe with a lighter shade for the thighs?

Well, it is just a prototype. What do you mean with his "thighs" (les cuisses)...  the pants?   

[bonniebeth]

I think he looks great Erwin! Somehow he does look like his legs are slightly longer, but it may just be an illusion. Height variation doesn't hurt anyway. Excellent custom.

[cowabounga]

Sorry Erwin, I meant tights (les collants/les bas)!
My mistake!

[Hadoque]

Sorry Erwin, I meant tights (les collants/les bas)!
My mistake!

Ah, the tights or stockings in black...
These are painted with a marker with non-erasable ink, and I haven't much colour-choices with those: black, blue, red or green.  I could have chosen another colour, I didn't reflect much about the colour as fixing the different legpieces together the way it would look good was of more importance (*).
Add grey, purple and perhaps just a few more to the colours mentioned, and then you have the most common colours for stockings or tights of this era. White ones were not so common yet in the mid-17th century, those became fashionable towards the 18th century.

(*): Making of:
First I cut off the boots from the legs of the dwarf-figure, and carefully drilled holes downwards in the top of the boots. Then I placed the boots next to the kneetrousers-with-shoes legpiece, to see where to cut those, while keeping the hight of an original legpiece.  I marked that area with a pencil, but  I cut the legparts a bit lower so I would have extra length to insert the legpiece into the holes of the dwarf-boots. I cut this extra leglenght in shape so it would fit nicely in the bootholes. Before inserting the legpiece in the boots, I put a few drops of glue in the holes to make sure it would all stay fixed.