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Offline cheng

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Gauls or Celts
« on: October 03, 2011, 08:51:30 »
I've been looking up but do you think those shields and axes are historically acceptable, at all?  ???

any suggestion for a suitable pair of legs (lines/checkered) with old type shoes/bare light-skin coloured feet so that playmo dad can join them? (I cant find one amongst my napoleonic sailors)

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Re: Gauls or Celts
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2011, 09:13:06 »
Maybe these pants could work, but you'll need to cut off the feet and add a less royal coloured ones...

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or perhaps these? 30 00 9670 - Viking, redhead, grey fur vest

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Re: Gauls or Celts
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2011, 10:16:12 »
agreed WK!
both looks very suitable except i hope to avoid gluing on bare feet...maybe I'll just spray the second set of shoes brown instead of blue(are blue shoes ok?)!!

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Re: Gauls or Celts
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2011, 10:31:41 »
agreed WK!
both looks very suitable except i hope to avoid gluing on bare feet...maybe I'll just spray the second set of shoes brown instead of blue(are blue shoes ok?)!!

I am no expert, but I doubt they were..
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Re: Gauls or Celts
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2011, 11:17:22 »
if there is a whole hoard of these guys charging at your troops... i doubt anyone would take time to notice what color their shoes were.... :)

I need to get back to work on my barbarian/celt/gaulish type persons soon.... so many unfinished projects... :(  :lol:
Someday, I will organize my stuff, I promise.

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Re: Gauls or Celts
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2011, 11:55:33 »
if there is a whole hoard of these guys charging at your troops... i doubt anyone would take time to notice what color their shoes were.... :)

I need to get back to work on my barbarian/celt/gaulish type persons soon.... so many unfinished projects... :(  :lol:

Baron Marshall, I would be most interested to see what you come up with cause for me these groups are a headache... so many overlaps and use of the same parts over and over again  8}

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Re: Gauls or Celts
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2011, 18:32:09 »
The axes are not historically correct.
They would have had axes more like the ones from the fire fighter sets...
http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30%2026%206630

Or you could cut the top of the axe down!
I did that to one of mine...
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Re: Gauls or Celts
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2011, 00:55:16 »
@Baron Marshall : please do share.....I'm itching to make more of these...before I spray more brown shoes   ;D

@Wolf Knight : and I'm adding to the confusion with my still unclear mind...will just refer to mine as Celts/Gauls/Vikings  :P

@WoT : thanks!! I will substitute these axes with more crude/ancient ones  ;) .....I'm been hesitant to put one of those horned helmets on one of them (I'm trying my best to move away from our old-familiar PM vikings) too bad we dont have other oval shields (apart from those with African motifs)  :)

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Re: Gauls or Celts
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2011, 04:33:48 »
I do wish we had oval shields with Celtic designs. :)
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Re: Gauls or Celts
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2011, 08:03:06 »
Looking at cheng's second picture, why not customise the Masai warrior's shield? The shape is quite similar, isn't it?
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