Nac Mac Feegle!

[LEGOFREAK]

Ok the highlanders have invaded the area around Draelith.. thought you all might like a look.

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thele ... tle_01.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thele ... can_01.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thele ... can_02.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thele ... can_03.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thele ... man_01.jpg

OK so now some notes. I am NOT happy with the dresses for the ladies! I was trying to go for historical, because scottish women would wear a plain dress and then wrap themselves up in a big ol' tartan. However.. this doesnt look very lego-ey. So I will go back to this pattern I think:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/thele ... lady_1.jpg
That way I can use torsos and slopes like lego, and heck - they arent that historical anyway
so come on.. tell me what you think.


Freaky MacFreak!

PS
I forgot to thank the many people who made these guys possible..
Tony for his torso templates of course, but also Kevin for this muscley torso http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=367
and sir smittens/armothe's tunic thingie http://www.classic-castle.com/forum/vie ... php?t=1064 for the kilts.

if you are confused - see my quote

[The Blue Knight]

Great job Freak! I'd have never gotten around to making Highlanders myself. Excellent tartans. JP and TTK will appreciate the realism here as well. When do we get to see William Wallace charge off with his Claymore? Very original. Do you have any of the torso stickers to share?

[SavaTheAggie]

Aye Laddie!

Them be some mighty fine clothes for the wee people yew have there. I migh' hafta make me up some tew!

Though if I can give yew some advice: Never wear shiney shoes with yewr kilt lad! Bless me bagpipes that were an embarresing tew weeks...

--Anthony
Mac Intosh Clan (1), on me grandmother's side

*My apologies to the peoples of Scotland for my terrible typed accent.

(1) We're actually not quite sure if we're members of the Irish or Scottish variety, as they appear on both sides of the pond. I'm also not even sure I spelled it right But we DO have our own Tartan, that much I am positive!

[Sir Terrance]

Wow, great work!!!! I really like it.

[Barbapple]

Hi Freak!
I love the scottsmen. Very creative!
However, If you would be so kind..........
Would you make a Williem Wallace fig, Just for me
he is my hero after all, and I'd like to see him in the brick.
Keep it up!

Brian

[Teh Stud]

Pretty cool! Now you should show them being mowed down by some heavily armoured English Knights!

[Devari]

Pretty cool! Now you should show them being mowed down by some heavily armoured English Knights!

Nay, laddie! The Scots will kill 'em all!

Very nice... Are the torsos actual stickers?

[Glencaer]

HIGHLANDERS!

Yes Freak! These are AWESOME!

And a historical factoid for Richard - William Wallace was a lowlander and lowlanders did not wear kilts, as this was seen as a barbaric-highlander thing to do.

This is one of three un-disputed historical errors of Braveheart being

1. Wallace didn't wear a kilt.

2. Scots didn't paint their faces before combat - this was a practice of the Picts who had died out by the time of Wallace (Picts were contemporaries of the Romans - ~400 AD)

3. The Princess's illegitimate son was definately NOT Wallace's as he was born seven years after Wallace was killed. However, it was also definately not the Prince's and, if I remember correctly, Longshank's line did die with his son.

Now back to the Topic At Hand:

LEGOFREAK ROOLZ!!

A+

-Lenny

[Devari]

Out of interest, are these real tartans? If so, who are they?

Off-topic, I'm about 1/2 Scottish, 1/2 Polish (oh my ). I believe the Scot bit of me is highlander. Clan MacPherson. Or a sept of a sept of Clan MacPherson.

[LEGOFREAK]

Out of interest, are these real tartans? If so, who are they?

Off-topic, I'm about 1/2 Scottish, 1/2 Polish (oh my ). I believe the Scot bit of me is highlander. Clan MacPherson. Or a sept of a sept of Clan MacPherson.

Very nice... Are the torsos actual stickers?

yes - every one of them is a real kilt. Remember I am a lazy man trying to find an easier way to do something. So what I did was to make a kilt template, and then paste it transparently over a kilt pattern from here:
http://www.tartans.scotland.net/find_tartan.cfm
Of course I had to tile the tartan to make it big enough, but still easy enough.
Like all of my stickers they are printed on really good paper using an inkjet, then after I cut them out I go over the edges with a brush pen to hide the white edges, then glue them on using a simple glue stick.

So there you have it.



Freak

(btw - If someone would like to make a PSD file from my bitmaps and post em here for use that'd be cool)[/quote]

[moom]

Nice! And those little fur poutches that they have dangling in front of their kilts nowadays, is that later added folklore?
Or did they lay them aside before going in to battle?

With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.

[Barbapple]

HIGHLANDERS!

Yes Freak! These are AWESOME!

And a historical factoid for Richard - William Wallace was a lowlander and lowlanders did not wear kilts, as this was seen as a barbaric-highlander thing to do.

This is one of three un-disputed historical errors of Braveheart being

1. Wallace didn't wear a kilt.

2. Scots didn't paint their faces before combat - this was a practice of the Picts who had died out by the time of Wallace (Picts were contemporaries of the Romans - ~400 AD)

3. The Princess's illegitimate son was definately NOT Wallace's as he was born seven years after Wallace was killed. However, it was also definately not the Prince's and, if I remember correctly, Longshank's line did die with his son.

-Lenny

Also, another error in Braveheart, Williem Wallace was not born to a peasent family. He was born to a duke, so he did not become 'Sir' for his brave actions. It was born to him.

[LEGOFREAK]

Never answered me, LF.

Which tartans are they?

I seem to have mislaid my notes... When I made them I simply named them 01, 02 etc. I had a sheet of paper that had the original names on them though. However if you look through the tartans on that site I am sure you will find them. There's only about three thousand listed or so.



Freak
(happy hunting)

[TheCastle]

i like em (like the new avitar) thanks LF

[Rubberchickenknight]

Cool!!!! Can you make some bagpipes??? And the daggers in the socks??