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| (...) You'll need some black hulls! (...) I think there's a minor difference between full-blown junks and sampans (sorry, I learned the spelling used by the US Navy during WWII--as maru traffic vanished, US subs began spending torpedoes on (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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