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Colors of the Samurai by NickGreat

  • Andrew
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  • Nov 27, 2006
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  • Asia, Castle, Custom, LEGO, Minifigs
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    • Cool enough to blog on a purist LEGO blog, customizer NickGreat’s “Colors of the Samurai” project is fantastic indeed.

    Here’s Nick’s latest, the Black Samurai. I love all the kanji characters, the mask (a chopped-up Green Goblin mask), and the naginata spear:

    Since I’m blogging his newest, I might as well blog his previous two samurai. Nick’s White Samurai has a shoulder decoration that also uses the Green Goblin head, and an excellent double-sword carrier thingie for her back:

    Nick’s first color samurai was Red. I can’t get enough of that mask:

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    8 Responses to “Colors of the Samurai by NickGreat”

    1. Kyle Smith Says:
      April 12th, 2007 at 11:11 am

      Absolutely amazing. ^^ I love it!

    2. Shawn Says:
      January 6th, 2008 at 11:14 am

      The samurai look awesome.

    3. AzNTiGeR954 Says:
      May 6th, 2008 at 9:42 am

      I think the black samurai is in Mandarin Chinese, not Kanji Japanese~
      The uppermost character is 火, or fire, zai or 在 is the symbol for time…just thought i’d let you know…
      But anyways sweet samurai. Where did you get horses?

    4. Andrew Says:
      May 6th, 2008 at 10:01 am

      @AzNTiGeR954: Yes, I think you’re right that the black samurai mainly uses Chinese, though Mandarin is a spoken dialect, not a specific written form.

      But that would also have been typical of “learned” medieval Japanese people — much of pre-modern Japanese literature was written completely in Chinese (without any phonetic hiragana and katakana). So, for a samurai, one could argue that they’re still kanji. ;-)

      Horses are available in many LEGO sets, starting in the mid-1980’s (Castle sets) through today (current Castle sets and even Indiana Jones).

    5. Colin Says:
      May 10th, 2008 at 4:08 am

      samurai pwn! were do you get the hornish things on the helmets?

    6. llamalad32 Says:
      August 8th, 2008 at 7:32 am

      i want one

    7. sam Says:
      August 16th, 2008 at 11:13 am

      hello do you have made the samurais by yor self
      can i buy 1 for $ 15

    8. marti Says:
      October 30th, 2008 at 10:27 am

      where did you get the samurai
      did u build them

      i would want to know

    9. KatanaDave Says:
      November 12th, 2008 at 8:32 am

      These are really cool items! Perfect gifts for the coming Christmas season. Does anyone know where I can get these samurai lego minifigs? I honestly don’t have a talent for these things so I don’t plan to build them myself. Calling NickGreat, can you help!

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