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Tonight. I promise. The heros are going up (Eight legendary heroes who saved the world a millenia ago) and more pics of the dragon, and some basic around the world pics.(King, peasants) and Finally, the baddies. <<KM>> (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) That's just what I do, any of the gunpowder devices get removed and then they fir in pretty good with the rest of the Castle stuff I have. It just means that the Ninja based minifigs get more spears as they lose that number of firearms, the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Andy Glad to find someone else who has taken the time to read the book. Even the movie takes a significant amount of time to finish (not very often that you find that to be the case). The movie is so good because it was very well researched and put (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) The japanese comic series "Lone Wolf and Cub" is currently being fully reprinted for the first time uncensored for western readers, and i can't recommend it enough. It first appeared in Japan about 30 years ago and an amazing lot of research (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.castle)
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But the Japanese didn't think it was very realistic. When I lived in Japan I asked about it, and the general response from Japanese people I talked to is there is a western bias to the show (there probably is since we filmed it), and they were (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) And yes, I know I misspelled Citadel. eric (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Citidel. Citidel Miniatures makes gaming miniatures for Games Workshop, which makes Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, etc. You should be able to get to the Citidel/GW online store from their site, (URL) do sell decals as seperate packs, so you (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Well, they were premade decals. WARHAMMER (makes pewter figs) has tons of these decals. I have yet to find ANY medium for printing out graphics onto a stickable surface to be placed on plastic. -Kyle (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) I'll probably break it into at least two files (structures and "other"), but the internal references is a good idea. I need to refresh my memory on how to do that (I've done it before). Of course another little bit is to really go wild and (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Great. Of course my next job after finishing Castle, and cleaning up the Pirates, Wild West, and Adventurers lists with anything which has come along is to start on the 3200 or so messages in lugnet.trains which I haven't processed yet... Of (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) It's the Princess Storm head, Tamy! I agree - Karl, good stuff! I like that modified insectoid head (tho I didn't recognize it at first!) -Shiri (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I like it a lot. You've got a lot of stuff going on there! I agree w/James, tho - either break it down into a few pages, or make referrence links to different parts of the page (like they do in FAQs, usually?). Can't remember the exact (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) like your attention to details, James, (e.g. bunks and beds, card games) combined with the large size of the castle. Good stuff! -Shiri (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) (URL) uncropped jpegs... bandwidth warning. I've only got about 2 or 3 more hours of work on it before it is *finally* finished, at which point it will get populated, and have better pictures taken. Given my inherent capacity for (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Could you also put in a link for the Castle World "temp"? It's the real site now (at least until the automated one goes live). Thanks. =) (URL) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yeow! Wowza! Yes!!! (...) Well, that's a bit big to put in the yellow box along the side. :-) For now, I simply added link's to Frank's lists from the Castle, Pirates, Wild West, and Adventurers areas. --Todd (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I'm ok with it. Todd may also want to add my other theme links (at least Pirate and Wild West, I think he already has the gaming link). (...) I've thought about breaking it up, it would actually make it a bit easier to edit in some ways also. (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Excellent list, Frank. If you're OK with it, I'd suggest that Todd add this to the Links & Resources at news.lugnet.castle (...) The only suggestion I would have is that it could be broken down into multiple pages. It's a loooong list to (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Here it is: (URL) my Lego page at: (URL) is not absolutely the most up to date since I edit it off line, but I did just re-fresh the live copy Friday. I'd love to hear feedback on what I can do to make it more useful, and especially if I have (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Muskets, from the European standpoint, exit the Castle line, though I do make "hand gonnes" with a "bathroom plunger" and 1x1 round, appropriate to the 1400s. But from the Japanese standpoint, the late 1500s and 1600s are still considered (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Where is the head from on Marythe1? Cool figs! Thanks for posting! Tamy (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Frank, Where's your index page at? I want to browse through it... Matt (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Thanks for your detail information. I must act now to order the sets :> The Adventurer and Soccer also sounds nice, thanks you Steve! (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I loved the book Shogun. I've read it a few times, it is very enjoyable. A glimpse into a very different culture and time period from my own. I also remember that there is a short comparison to life in medieval Europe, through Blackthorne's thoughts (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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I got in on this string a bit late so if I repeat what someone else said I apologize. I was an Asian History major in college and I must say that one of the best movies depicting medevil era Japan is the Movie "Shogun" by James Clavell (spelling?). (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) On my quest to index everything of interest to me in lugnet.castle, I'm down to about 430 posts to process... (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hey all, I received a baggie of chrome parts from an Ebay auction today and outfitted my knights with them. It's great to see the breastplate available in such a small set, and the chrome Dragon Master helm is great! I hope this is a trend that (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I couldn't agree more, muskets don't belong in castle, nor do cannons fot that matter. But since the ninja theme came with 'gunpowder' I figure you just keep the traditional castle away from fuedal japan, except for the occasional encounter. (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yup! I had my find today at the local Farm & Fleet; they only had seven sets left from the chrome series (wish I could have gotten there when the toy section opened on Friday, but my car was in the shop). Anyhow, I bought them all up for the (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.loc.us)
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(...) Recently, I saw "Throne of Blood" (1957), a great film by Akira Kurosawa. Subtitled, of course. Its a remake of "Macbeth". It is also called "Cobweb Castle" and "Spider Web Castle", or by its Japanese title, "Kumonosu jo". This movie is in (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) "Ran" *IS* fabulous but its late medieval if medieval at all, primary weapons in it are bows, swords and MUSKET'S. Fabulous scene of the various sides going back and forth with the advantage swinging one way or another.... My view is muskets (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yeah, if i do say so myself, I'm pretty impressed with him. I kinda got tired of him. He was finshed in about June, and has been just getting moved around, then I'll take a few peices off of him to use in something else, then rebuild him. I (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi Karl. I spotted your dragon the other day. Very cool. I look forward to seeing more. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) It captures the sweep and movement of battlefields very well. The movie can also be a little tedious at points. Kurosawa's films always seem to hover around 1600 (firearms usually appear) and I recommend them in general: Seven Samurai, (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I just called as of 3pm Mon Oct 30, 2000 and I was told that 4819 will not be available until next year. The operator told me that there was a code of A1 for this set which she had to ask about. I do not know if the information she received (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(URL) everyone, please check out my Brickshelf gallery, I'll be updating it constantly in the next few days. I know there's not much now, I'll get lots of pics of the dragon tonite, and post character backgrounds tomorrow hopefully. LMKWYT! <<KM>> (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wow, what kind of a material did you print onto to get those custom decals? I need some for a custom fig I wanna do. I also xposted this to build.minifigs <<KM>> (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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I actually have already visited your Nagateppo site through Brik Wars. I have already gathered ideas from your battle...excellent weapons! (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I haven't seen it yet myself, but from what I hear Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" is far and away the best movie for medieval Japanese battles. While ninjas had every kind of bizarre weapon you could think of, traditional armies had a very basic (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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