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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: cheng on June 18, 2017, 13:40:05

Title: Did Samurai(s) use shields?
Post by: cheng on June 18, 2017, 13:40:05

They did actually use shields according to Dorothy Perkins's book, The Samurai of Japan, during the sixth century.
However, a few hundred years later, when they began using bows and later, firearms.....hand-held shields became impractical.
So they instead latched large pieces of armour on their body and also used floor mounted mantlets.

Tahra might remember me asking for dimensions of our playmo cowboy saloon floor boards. I had been trying to customize some mantlets for my samurai klickies using just playmo parts with perhaps our playmo easel stands.
I even bought many of those playmo camera arms to try out but again, they didn't work

.....so, finally, sigh.....these...although much much better BUT not with playmo parts....
well, my samuai klickies can't complain  :lol:

Title: Re: Did Samurai(s) use shields?
Post by: tahra on June 18, 2017, 14:26:57

Those look nice, master! 

As long as you don't show the back! :P

:o  BROWN lego parts! :love:

Title: Re: Did Samurai(s) use shields?
Post by: cheng on June 18, 2017, 16:13:21

thanks...the Lego arm/leg folds too and i forgot the easel pic

Title: Re: Did Samurai(s) use shields?
Post by: GrahamB on June 19, 2017, 06:28:05

I didn't guess those mantlets were Lego, until you showed the back view! A most creative solution.

Title: Re: Did Samurai(s) use shields?
Post by: cheng on June 19, 2017, 12:53:06

Quote from: GrahamB on June 19, 2017, 06:28:05

....A most creative solution.

thank you.....maybe frustration/desperation is also a mother of invention  :lol: