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After getting some really nice reference books with "kamon" (clan symbols), some scanning and fiddling with Avery labels, I was able to produce my own "sashimono" which are battle flags worn by ashigaru (common soldiers) on their backs and horsemen (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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| | Re: Japanese Sashimono (battle flags) + Ninja Chess Upgrade
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(...) Here is my sugestion. Do the battle in super microfig scale, using 1x2, 1x4, 1x6 tiles or plates to represent each side. The book should have pictures of the terrain so model that out on a couple of baseplates. We called them sandboxes in the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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| | Re: Japanese Sashimono (battle flags) + Ninja Chess Upgrade
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(...) Joel, That is a great suggestion !! I had thought of making a very large microfig battlefield but even having 1 minifg to represent every 1000, that's a total of 170 minifigs. Ouch ! But with the super microfig scale and doing diorama scenes, (...) (23 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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| | Re: Japanese Sashimono (battle flags) + Ninja Chess Upgrade
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Sekigahara in Lego! That is my ultimate ambition, but at this rate I wont be able to do it till the 500th aniversary of the ballte (99 years from now). If you liked Bryant's Sekigara book, pick up the other Osprey titles by him and by Turnbull or (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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