Some of my rudimentary customizations

[Timotheos]

I like seeing the old figures - shows you've been collecting for some time!

I did a Ninja too recently -

Hey Martin....

Nanchukas (nunchucks) are Okinawan rice threshers.
It's unlikely that a highly-trained ninja would have resorted to such an instrument.

I think the reason we associate ninjas with nunchucks is because Okinawan martial arts are big in the USA (and presumably England?).  And, because the American martial arts industry invented the ninja as we know him, they of course equipped the ninja with the Okinawan weapons they were familiar with.

I've worked with nunchucks (badly) and seen them in action.  A nunchuck is probably useful mainly as a defensive weapon (it would be useful to keep somebody from getting too close to you).  I don't think a dude on an assassination mission would take nunchucks.  He'd have to stand over his victim and warm up with a series of theatrics before bludgeoning the b**tard over the head.

Give me a knife and save me the trouble!
-Tim

[Timotheos]

stone axe

Hey Pyrrhus your stuff looks great.  I especially like the dart thrower with the sling-like weapon.
-Tim

[Gepetto]

Thank you for the photos Pyrrhus, I especially like the macana and stone ax.


Gepetto

[Pyrrhus]

Bogro, now I think I can translate that Spanish paragraph below:

I made the macana the mast of the portable flags of old Renaissant German mercenaries or Union soldiers, cutted it, and glued to it pieces of these little "swords" used to fix olives to sandwiches or pricking olives, that do not form part of the Playmobil sets. I chopped the "sword" in small pieces, and completely worn flat one of the edges, so I can then glue the flat surface to the chopped mast. I used cyanoacrylate to glue; there is the problem that near the glued parts appear some ugly "colours", but you an scratch them with your nails and they vanish with relative ease.

Here I add a photo of the "little sword" I used.

[Pyrrhus]

I chopped this blade. You may (or not) need more than one of these olive-pricking swords to make the macana.

[Pyrrhus]

As the atlatl, one can make a "stone-thrower", using a cannonball (please ignore the klicky hat).

Both the atlatl and stone-thrower can be fully functional, and if you have a klicky where the shoulder joint is a bit loose, a fast fall of the arm, perhaps via a thread tied to it, will throw the dart or cannonball.

I do not think something like a "cannonball atlatl" has ever existed, but I think that with two mutilated "large soup spoons", we can make a sling as those used by Balearic mercenaries of Hannibal, in his war against Rome. One of the spoons will have the handle cutted off, and will be glued to the other spoon, retaining the handle, at both ends.

[Richard]

Hello, Pyrrhus ...

I chopped this blade. You may (or not) need more than one of these olive-pricking swords to make the macana.

Thank you! I always knew that there was something that these "swords" could be used for ...

All the best,
Richard

[Pyrrhus]

Thank you Richard!!

I also used these "olive swords" to make fencing foils and narrow swords, and perhaps they can also be used as pike points. The problem is trying to get some of them that can be grey in colour, till then I prefer them black.

One can pardon the masts and use these pieces that carry many small pieces, such as knives, cannonballs, etc., and that one commonly throw to the trash basket. Some of them can be grasped by a klicky, and may provide good shafts for short weapons, as the macana, or for spears. Perhaps I may sound obvious, but one can cut off all those ramifications these things have with a cutter.

[Richard]

Great ideas, Pyrrhus!

[Richard]

Hello, Martin ...

I did a Ninja too recently -

Sorry ... I was so intrigued with all the really cool weapons that Pyrrhus had created, that I forgot to comment on your beautiful Ninja.

Your Ninja is a real work of art. Have you made others? If so, how about a new topic, so that we can see them?