Japanese warrior monks

[cheng]

Sohei were Buddhist warrior monks of feudal Japan(not to be confused with their Chinese conterparts in Shaolin)

They held considerable power between the 10th and 17th centuries,
protecting land and intimidating rival schools of Buddhism.

Unlike the solitary mountain Yamabushi warrior-monks,
Sohei were generally organized into large armies or mobs.

Much like the Teutonic Order in ancient Germany and the crusades,
Sohei operated as as warriors in large extended groups of temples.

[tahra]

Those look very nice master cheng...

And I'd like a "how to" for that bald head, pretty please?

[cheng]

have been making those bald heads for my samurai half-shaven heads with top-knots for a few years now...

just sacrifice a klicky head, saw the back part of his head without his eyes and mouth and....if
youre against supergluing, just use blue-tac to fit it over a regular head (cleanly trimmed at the top to receive the top skull/cranium)

think i've shown this somewhere before but anyway, here's an older photo....this older version has a hole to take the 'pin' underneath the top-knot

[tahra]

have been making those bald heads for my samurai half-shaven heads with top-knots for a few years now...

just sacrifice a klicky head, saw the back part of his head without his eyes and mouth and....if
youre against supergluing, just use blue-tac to fit it over a regular head (cleanly trimmed at the top to receive the top skull/cranium)

think i've shown this somewhere before but anyway, here's an older photo....this older version has a hole to take the 'pin' underneath the top-knot

Thank you master

Another one to my never ending things-to-try

[cheng]

actually the regular bald pirate with red/black(think there's another new color, yellow?) bandanas are ok for my Japanese monks....its just that there's none at the moment with a white bandana, hence I had to make one....I don't think you want to try this if you can just use those regular bald pirate heads 

[tahra]

actually the regular bald pirate with red/black(think there's another new color, yellow?) bandanas are ok for my Japanese monks....its just that there's none at the moment with a white bandana, hence I had to make one....I don't think you want to try this if you can just use those regular bald pirate heads 

You may have a point there.. 

[cheng]

just sharing this photo i received from a playmobil friend.....

[cheng]

The warrior monks' favourite weapon was the Yari(a blade attached to the end of a long pole)

Another awesome weapon some Warrior monks used was the Tetsubo,
a one-handed (or two-handed, the largest ones being as tall as a man)
iron spiked club, used to smash enemies' armor, bones or legs of their warhorses.

these monks needed great strength, balance and skill to recover from a miss with the heavy club, which would otherwise leave a him open to a counter-attack

(Tahra, you can see a clearer shot of the baldie I explained earlier)

[Pynedor]

They look great!

[cheng]

thanks Pynedor, I'm continuing to make more,
however, I still prefer to make uniform-looking armies.....not to comfortable with non-uniformed armies but looking at Super 4, there's no need to conform anymore....at least I still make sure mine looks Klicky-like