Rob's Waterloo 'dogfight double' *DNF*

[Dazzled]

Great idea to use decals for the tartan. This opens up quute a range of possibilities

[rob_van_riel]

Good start Rob - interesting what you said about the legs - Perhaps they modelled him drunk?

Who knows? I suspect something other than water might find it's way into those canteens..

Seriously though, I couldn't resist doing some measurements. The problem is not the size of the step, which works out to about 75cm. If anything, my modification reduces this to a rather short step. The cant to the right (invisible until you notice it, then it becomes impossible to ignore) is a different matter though, which would suggest his right leg is actually too short in relation to the left.

But what we all want to is - what does a scotsman wear under his kilt?

Can't comment on Scotsmen, but this plastic chap wears absolutely nothing. And I mean nothing, the entire hip area is missing, and replaced by the kilt. There's the torso, which joins to the upper edge of the kilt, and on the inside of the kilt about 4mm down is a big plastic ridge where the almost separated legs are attached.
I can see hw that would make a person somewhat wobbly, not to mention otherwise unhappy, so maybe the pose is a result of that..



The pictures are from another Highlander that stalled decades ago. In this case I left the step size as it was, and built up the connecting plate with putty to correct the cant.

[rob_van_riel]

Great idea to use decals for the tartan. This opens up quute a range of possibilities

Assuming it actually works.. We'll see.

[Stuart]

Yeah that doesn't look too comfortable!

[rob_van_riel]

Assuming it actually works.. We'll see.

No guarantees is will print and handle well, but I think the drawing part can be considered successful. This pattern can now be duplicated and scaled at will, to create a complete piece of "cloth" of the right dimensions.

[PaulBradley]

Cool! Can't wait to see how this turns out.

[rob_van_riel]

Since I was hacking away with CorelDraw anyway, I added the tartans for the other highland regiments at Waterloo, plus the red and white thing they also used. That gives me Black Watch, Gordon, and Cameron.

[Purplethistle]

But what we all want to is - what does a scotsman wear under his kilt?

Tourist lady - "Is anything worn under the kilt?"
Kilted guy - "No, Madam, Everything is in perfect working order"

[rob_van_riel]

That kilt is really beginning to turn into a problem. the two parts don't want to fit together, even when fiddled into position it insists on causing 'drunk' highlanders, and with the position of the legs slightly changed, there's a fold getting in the way the guy's knee. I made an attempt to bend into a better shape by dunking it in boiling water, but this made a bad situation simply horrible. The front half of the kilt is now officially written off, and I'll be working on a plan for building a replacement for a bit

[Stuart]

Sorry to hear that Rob - I'm sure you'll get it sorted...

[rob_van_riel]

Sorry to hear that Rob - I'm sure you'll get it sorted...

I'll just consider it an unscheduled lesson in making 1/32 scale clothing. I'm going to need a bunch of those anyway

[Stuart]

[rob_van_riel]

Just some minor fiddling with the main parts going on here, nothing picture-worthy as yet.

I just prepped and sent the tartan decal sheet to the printers. A test run on plain paper with the office colour laser gave very hopeful results, so this should work. If it does, I'll have a lifetime supply of tartan decals, as print size for the laser stuff is A4. That's a lot of kilts in this scale

[Stuart]

You'll be able to do a whole regiment!

[Purplethistle]

You'll be able to do a whole regiment!

....or the Bay City Rollers!