Poor Knoest...

Kapitein Knoest is his Dutch name, and in the United Kingdom, he was called Captain Roger, but North-America knew him as Captain Redbeard - and it's not hard to see why. ;o)

The Pirates line was the first theme where LEGO experimented with the as-unoffensive-as-possible look of their minifigs, and with Kapitein Knoest, they really went all-out...

Besides giving him messy, red beard, they gave him a wooden leg, replaced his left hand with a metal hook, and as if that wasn't bad enough already, they also took out his left eye and gave him an eyepatch...

Poor Knoest... And they wonder why he became a pirate??

Stay tuned!

Creepy Knoest

Something seems missing... ;o)

Even though it's just a plastic LEGO minifig (or a 3D model in this case) and not a real person, for some reason I always find it very creepy when they don't have a face, brrr...

Only one thing to do about that, of course, make the face texture! ;o)

Stay tuned!

Time for some real papercrafting!

Although it takes up a lot of time, it's a lot of fun to make Kapitein Knoest's 3D model in SketchUp! ;o)

But still, I also like to do some actual papercrafting of course!

So when I didn't feel like sitting behind a computer screen again, I started a new Advance Wars unit by hand: the Orange Star Fighter (obviously based on an super deformed McDonell Douglas F-15 Eagle, like many if not all Advance Wars units are based on real-life counterparts ;o)

I don't know when I'll release it (before or after Kapitein Knoest), but here's just so you know I'm not just making SketchUp models now... ;o)