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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: cheng on January 25, 2011, 00:46:04
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War Drums (Tai-ko) were also used in feudal Japan to motivate troops, set marching pace (usually six paces per beat of the drum) and call out orders (eg. nine sets of five beats to summon an ally to battle, nine sets of three beats, sped up three or four times is the call to advance and pursue an enemy etc according to Wikipedia). :)
oooops...getting carried away again, this is Playmofriends not Gardenwargaming :P
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Those are wonderful drums. I always like learning about history....yet another wonderful thing about Playmobil...... :thanks:
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very nice. i especially like the hairstyle and the sweat band as they always wear them. i enjoyed the history notes, thanks for including them.
kaeth
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Hey Cheng! Great item and history lesson!! What did you use/how did you do the drum?
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I love these. Thanks for posting, Cheng.
:)
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Hi cheng, yet more wonderful customs (this one with the drum and the detail of the drummer with his sweat band and bald head is especially so) and thank you, too, for the interesting information.
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Excellent custom figures & drum, cheng! Your attention to details of the period is first class!
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Awesome as always, cheng! I love the drum! :clap: :clap: :clap:
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thanks everyone! :love:
....What did you use/how did you do the drum?
(I presume you're asking about the part under the Native American drum skin)
its just a temporary wooden barrel sprayed from a PVC cup(for mouth wash/eye rinse)...while looking for a suitable PM part...
(the large bucket suspended by a pulley from PM knightcastles is a wee bit too big...but rather than have the drum tapering on one end, a beer keg/water barrel that has taper on both side would be more suitable...and I've to buy another drum skin for the other end and add a drum support/stabiliser...in reality, these could just be stakes driven into the ground ;D anybody knows of a more suitable PM barrel?)
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I was excited to see this before I even opened the page. :P ;D
A barrel! :D
That is what I was thinking of. :)
Excellent custom Cheng! :wow:
That reminds me, I got a present for you... ;)
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(I presume you're asking about the part under the Native American drum skin)
its just a temporary wooden barrel sprayed from a PVC cup(for mouth wash/eye rinse)...while looking for a suitable PM part...
I thought you'd sliced up a Merry Men's Feast barrel! You are a superb artist with the spray paint, cheng. :wow:
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I thought you'd sliced up a Merry Men's Feast barrel! You are a superb artist with the spray paint, cheng. :wow:
That would be a crime! :lol:
very nice custom cheng. Im always amazed at how neat they look!
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I love them, really excellent figures again. I love the whole Samurai theme. Have I missed it but are the pictures of your whole army up on the forum as well as the marvelous unit shots I've already scene? I'd love to see them set up for battle. My father is a wargamer and he has 15mm Samurai army which looks amazing on his table and I'd love to see yours.
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:love: :love: :love:
I love them, really excellent figures again. I love the whole Samurai theme. Have I missed it but are the pictures of your whole army up on the forum as well as the marvelous unit shots I've already scene? I'd love to see them set up for battle. My father is a wargamer and he has 15mm Samurai army which looks amazing on his table and I'd love to see yours.
Not to my knowledge... and I have asked him for some before! ;D
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thanks everyone! :love:
(I presume you're asking about the part under the Native American drum skin)
its just a temporary wooden barrel sprayed from a PVC cup(for mouth wash/eye rinse)...while looking for a suitable PM part...
(the large bucket suspended by a pulley from PM knightcastles is a wee bit too big...but rather than have the drum tapering on one end, a beer keg/water barrel that has taper on both side would be more suitable...and I've to buy another drum skin for the other end and add a drum support/stabiliser...in reality, these could just be stakes driven into the ground ;D anybody knows of a more suitable PM barrel?)
Great idea!!! Thanks!!!
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thanks everyone :love: (I thought these uniformed samurais were starting to bore everyone :P)
@EmmaJ & WOT; I dont really play with them so never take them out for a photo shoot but I'll see if I have a shelf-photo (you see, their wooden fort & Torii gate(the red Buddhist gateway) is supporting the shelf above, so i cant move them) somewhere on my PC. EmmaJ, please show me photos of your dad's 15mm army, are they mint or painted/customised by your dad? (I saw in a military figures shop on the top floor of Queen Victoris Building in Sydney last month...I was so tempted to take photos ;D)
@tonguello&Playmofire; after so much said in forums about the beer barrel, I wouldn't dare cut up a beer barrel (maybe after DS starts selling, thanks to the effort of you all and the club)...anyone owns a beer barrel and this native indian drum skin(or even the zebra patterned drum skin from the jungle set) and can try to fit them together? (i think the beer barrel is too big for the drum skin) thanks in advance :wave:
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thanks everyone :love: (I thought these uniformed samurais were starting to bore everyone :P)
Boring!? :omg: Definitely not! Your customs are amazing!