links to carrds:
Barefoot Gen introduction by author Keiji Nakazawa, from the 2004 English edition.
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To a non-american, every Marvel movie is a 3-hour foreign film. Think before you post.
@petermorwood For your collection of fab, but not easy to use weapons
Backing music is Edith Piaf singing “La Vie en Rose” - very apt. :->
This one’s not easy to use simply because it’s so big. Trimming everything down by making the head actual rose-sized, and mounting it on a hollow not solid haft, would result in quite an effective and strikingly (ouch) pretty weapon.
Since the head would no longer be as massive, realistic-looking petals would need compressed into the more compact, sturdy shape suitable for something meant for thumping things - like, for instance, these…
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Maces with flanged heads were fairly common, and the Indian “shishpar” was sometimes even made with with spiral flanges.
I don’t know this one’s exact weight but if it has the usual hollow metal haft then it’s probably about 1 kg / 2.2 lbs or a little (not much) more.
Look at how thin the flanges are compared to the “La Bonk” petals (unusually thin, indeed possibly sharp-edged, though their spiral curve adds strength); between that and the khanda broadsword hilt, I’m betting it’s well-balanced and manoeuverable.
Yet if some Maratha or Rajput warrior had asked the weaponsmith who made it to make one shaped like a rose, the reply would probably have been “Certainly, sahib, would you like a guhlab rose, a paneer rose, a damask rose or a musk rose, and would you like the petal edges sharp or blunt?”
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Here are a few more Indian maces, and here’s another reason why Indian warriors liked hollow hafts - it not only saved weight, it made room for a little extra whether the weapon was a tabar (axe):
…zaghnal (”war-pick”)…
…or bhuj (”hatchet-knife”)
Those daggers seem so common that I’ve started think they weren’t actually a “hidden surprise”, more an accepted way to carry an additional backup weapon. Oddly enough Indian maces seem to be the only hafted weapon which didn’t have them - at least I couldn’t find a pic of one - though there were any amount of maces with sword-hilts.
However maces from other countries did. This one is from Germany, ca. 1550; it weighs 1.2kg / 2.6 lbs…
…while this one is from Poland, ca. 1650s, weight 1.07 kg / 2.4 lbs.
A “Petite La Bonk” scaled down to match these (with or without dagger as optional extra) would be quite something.
And easy to use, too. :->
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Poppies and Gold
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Source: The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome
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Matt made sure Travis was in team Wildemount because he knows Travis would have sussed out Bor’dor in half an episode.
