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(...) Yes...when the Ninja theme came out, I immediately thought cool! Shogun with Lego! If you ever read or saw James Clavell's "shogun" you'll see that the Portuguese were very active in Japan. I realize this novel takes great liberties with (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) To the best of my knowledge, junks (later called san-pans) were Chinese/Korean in origin. I was under the impression that a majority of Japanese ships were coastal vessels, small fishing boats or galleys, designed for short journeys and (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) That's a great scene! You can build some neat small ships out of non-pirate pieces - then you could do a Commodore Perry scene. Well, you have definitely inspired me - I already have my pirate crew assembled, and I'm going to start working on (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) You and me both =8^) (...) The reason why I built my "Gatehouse" in such large scale was to get a feel for how large a structure would need to be to accomodate many of the rooms you mention. A personal goal is to build a structure that can (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Answered offline (...) www.bricksmiths.com (...) Count me as interested, depending on price point, and I don't even "do" castle. :-) Larry Pieniazek Bricksmith www.miltontrainworks.com (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) No pirate ships. I don't have any and they are WAY too expensive in Japan. Two pics from that MoC are here (URL) plan to rebuild and overhaul this idea later since very few of the photos came out well. Chris (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Well, there were a lot of Japanese pirates. They used to make life very unpleasant for the Koreans and Chinese. The Koreans called em "Wako". Chris Barker chris@superfami.com (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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4 48x48 plates? Are you sure that will be big enough ?_? I went there years ago and all I remember is that the rooms were small and the floors were dark brown wood... Have you looked at (URL) ? lots of pics and it has a good English section for (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Guild of Bricksmiths (URL) Finally, I like the white+ blue combo for castles e.g. Himeji which was (...) Very ambitious! Are you thinking of dealing with the fact that each structure is built from a different base altitute? Chris (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Hmm, a Ninja island for the Pirate Game... I'll have to think about how that might work into the game... Of course there's lots of opportunity for piracy and whatnot in the oriental world. In fact, that corner of the world is one area where (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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