ILUVSkinner
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We have been getting a lot of nice samurai (and Shinobi) figures lately, from the Ignite/Crazy Owners wonderfully non-armoured, duel-ready figures to the heavily armoured DiD battle-ready samurai daimyos and commanders. But one thing most of the samurai do not have is the classic chonmage topknot, with the bald plate and the folded-over hair. We have the DiD International Samurai, all with long hair (OK for the era, and they are meant to wear helmets anyway), the crew-cut Beat Takeshi samurai, the long-haired Kojiro (coming soon). The only one with the classic, common looking chonmage, not made by Alfrex, is the bear-fur Tokugawa Ieyasu. The CO Mushashi has a ''pine-apple'' chonmage, much like Sonny Chiba when he plays Yagyu Jubei and Hanzo in the sequel films to 'Hanzo The Razor', and the black Ignite samurai has a downward facing chonmage, like Gorobei in 'The Seven Samurai', but most are not like this:
- Nakamura Mondo!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Samurais_wearing_Kamishimo.jpg - in Kamishimo
Do you think we'll ever get ''generic'' samurai figures from Crazy Owners? Or maybe some intrepid customisers/sculptors would be up to the challenge of creating heads with chonmage?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Samurais_wearing_Kamishimo.jpg - in Kamishimo
Do you think we'll ever get ''generic'' samurai figures from Crazy Owners? Or maybe some intrepid customisers/sculptors would be up to the challenge of creating heads with chonmage?