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Yes, you read that title correctly. English Civil War Lego.The good people at the Cromwell Museum have teamed up with United Bricks to create a small range of Civil War figures.As it was the Cromwell Museum who initiated the project, it will come as no surprise that Old Knoll has been created as a minifigure.Old Knoll and his hat. In case you are wondering, the blutack keeps him in place on top of my monitor On the grounds of impartiality, Charles I has also been created. As it is Lego you can easily recreate his beheading without all the gore and mess. As Château KeepYourPowderDry has familial links to the Parliamentarian cause, I don't own his minifig.There are a number of soldiers in the range: a musketeer, a pikeman and a pair of harquebusiers. There's also an officer, Samuel Pepys, and Matthew Hopkins the self-styled Witchfinder General, a very foppish looking Rupert, complete with his trusty Boye, and the latest release Elizabeth Cromwell.The museum sold out very quickly when…

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