Ever since LEGO transported the Castle theme to medieval Japan in the '90s, samurai have inspired countless LEGO builds. @artist_davs pays tribute to perhaps the most famous samurai of all, Miyamoto Musashi, in an incredible LEGO vignette that looks more like a museum diorama than a model built from bricks. Musashi, the famous duelist and philosopher, is uses a minifig head and a cloth-covered brick-built body for realistic proportions.  Musashi's armor is as impressive as the man himself, incorporating cloth and string. The tatami floor, made from profile bricks laid on their side, is artfully raised a half tile above the floor. If you're wondering where the kanji scroll comes from, it's a sticker from the Hanzo vs Genji set and reads "Dragon Head, Snake Tail." I don't think that comes from the Book of Five Rings, but it makes sense that Musashi would display it as he was famously fond of playing Overwatch.
    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
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      21 days ago

      Wow, that’s really impressive!
      Indeed, one of my long-time peeves is in fact the standard bodies being uni-size. Really messes with the ability to create accurate-ish dioramas, sometimes.

      Meanwhile, I must still have The Book of Five Rings, somewhere. Could barely make head nor tail out of it when I was a late teenager, but maybe now, oodles of years later… 😅