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Those and the corsair were what I was interested in for.bones too. Just not interested enough to back for them alone.

Great job.on the steel fist guys josh.

Do it .grim but wgf has a sake.every now and then so wait for that.

There was a lot of stuff I was interested in for Bones 3, but I would have ended up with so much stuff I don't need that I found it easy to resist.

The steel fist guys are very easy to paint, especially compared to the Clan Wars stuff I did a while back. If only they were a little cheaper...

Steel fist are easier to paint than Perry too the sculpting is much crisper.

Yeah they are sadly s bit pricey

Those steel fist guys look great. Will you be mixing them in as heroes/unit leaders, or will they be assigned to their own unit(s) as elites, etc?

The more ornate sashimono will look weird, I think, mixed in with a regular unit, so In KoW, these guys will be a single unit of hatamoto. I figure I can just call them a troop of foot guard with a heavy duty magic item to make them more elite. In skirmish games, of course, they can be heroes.

You and Carlos13th, he was also subtly suggesting that I didn't need them

Was I being subtle? That wasn't my intention...

Bwahaha ha. Too bad I like oni

Neither of us were at all subtle. I tried selflessly taking his excess Oni of his hands too but he ungratefully declined.

Even looked into Bushido Josh? My local store plays it so me and the misses are getting involved.

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Neither of us were at all subtle. I tried selflessly taking his excess Oni of his hands too but he ungratefully declined.

Even looked into Bushido Josh? My local store plays it so me and the misses are getting involved.

I already have Ronin and Daisho. Is Bushido different/good enough to pick up as well?

Honestly not sure yet. I am getting into it mainly because its played often in my local store, which at the moment is the most attractive trait in any game.

Part of the combat system seems similar to Ronin in that you have a combat pool which you can attack and defence dice from in order to attack or defend which is blind to your opponent. The game is more character based though so you will buy a model called for example Kotenbo the tengu who will come with a set of skills and stats rather than creating your own characters. I like the models a great deal though and the demo game was fun enough that me and the misses decided to jump in with both feet. Your character also generated Ki each turn allowing you to use certain skills and traits. There are also certain characters that can leech ki from or give Ki to others etc etc. It seems worth getting into if you have someone to play it with.


Example of cards that come with models.

I finished off one more Steel Fist samurai:


This is actually the second one I started working on, but I had trouble figuring out what was going on with his armor. The lower half of the front and all of the back was weird looking, like the lacing was coming apart, and I couldn't wrap my mind around that. Then I realized that it's supposed to be bear fur, and it all made sense. I got a little lazy with the actual lacing, and painted it as if the lacing was much tighter than sengoku armor usually was, and then went back and black-lined it a little bit to assuage my conscience. Here's a group shot:



That's half of the unit complete. Four more and I'll have a complete troop of hatamoto. I wonder what magic item I should give them to represent their super-elite status...?

Looking good. That last guy though... Big ass Nodachi, banner ornament looks vaguely like something inappropriate... I think he's compensating for something!

Heh, lacing. You and Carlos both... If I ever get Samurai they'll be lucky to get a quick drybrush on details like that

Yeah, the banner is quite distinctive, which is what it's supposed to be-- the guy will stand out on the battlefield.

Lacing isn't any more difficult than, say, a purity seal, there's just a lot of it. If I could start again, I might try a simpler technique, but as it is, I want to be consistent across the whole army.

hahaha, you know, I didn't notice until Grim pointed it out. I actually thought it looked like a butternut from my parents' garden at first.

Looks great. Though I think you should get enough of these elite guys to bump them up to a full regiment!

Quick glances never help, at first I thought you lit his head on fire . Then I took the time to look and I got that same vibe Grimdork had. it's a couple hundred years before Japan goes anime penis crazy, I guess this guy is an originator.

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be a gourd of some kind. That said, enemy samurai may very well have gotten p*ssed off and came after him, which is the point of a magnificent banner.

I might get another pack of guys to fill out a movement tray, but not for a while. I spent far too much on minis last year, and I'm trying to clear out my backlog a little before I get any more.

Me too, I just wish I could stick to it in practice

Yet another Steel Fist samurai finished:


I've been trying to keep with more subdued colors for this unit, but I gave this guy red armor because it seems to be obligatory-- every Google Search I do comes up with multiple red-lacquered suits. The black lacing helps town it down a bit, as does the white banner. Here's a group shot:


I have three more until this set is finished. Two ranks of four on 25mm square bases will give a footprint just a little deeper than a 2x5 set on 20mm bases, making them a legal troop. I may pick up another pack to make a full regiment once I clear out a little more of my Closet of Shame.

I think I've mentioned how much I like these models, and I hope the guy who makes them can stay afloat. According to his latest KS update, he lost a lot of money on the project, which seems to defeat the purpose of crowdfunding in the first place. I wonder if Kickstarter is becoming more trouble than it's worth for this kind of project...

When this guy was half-way finished, I read this post from Azazelx, and was inspired to dig out some of my Oldhammer Chaos stuff. Way back in WHFB 2ed, you could build an army of 3-4 Chaos Warriors (they were really high point-value models), which was pretty much ideal for a broke high school student like I was at the time. I picked up blister packs pretty regularly for years before Realms of Chaos was released. I have a lot from that era, but in my book the funky pre-RoC models remain my favorites:


This Chaos Thug was apparently named Link, which I guess derives from the chain on his wrist. A lot of the early thugs had a sort of court jester look, which is why I gave him the blue and white pants. I originally gave this guy a black gimp mask, but it was too dark and didn't feel Chaotic enough. I went back over the mask so it would match his pants, which I think is a better look. It doesn't show in these photos (nor will it show on the tabletop), but between his left elbow and body is a big ugly chunk of lead-- a limitation of the casting process back then, I suspect. I just painted it black and decided to ignore it after that.



I'm calling this guy a Chaos Marauder. There used to be six levels of Chaos Warrior: Thug, Marauder, Warrior, Champion, Knight and Lord. The labelling of the bottom two ranks had a lot of crossover, but for my puroses Thugs have exposed faces and/or limbs, Marauders have fully-enclosed helmets, and Warriors are fully armored. I used to paint Chaos Armor using a Ral Partha paint called Steel, which was essentially a metallic black. My last pot of that particular paint dried up long ago, so I had to try something different. I used Vallejo Tinny Tin, followed with a 50/50 mix of Tin and Mithril Silvre, with a final highlight of silver, washed with Dark tone to get this effect. It's not really the same, but I think it looks good and it's reproducible in 2015, so I'll stick with it for now. Here's these two together:

Great job on the steel fist stuff mate. Think the guy with the Kanabo is my favorite.

I like the old chaos dudes.

Thanks. As primitive as some of these older sculpts are, they have enough personality and funk value to make up for it. Once I get through the unpainted ones, I think I'll pull out and touch up some of the finished ones I have lying around.

Awesome work on the old Thugs. I only ever had very few of those, but man I wish I had more. Good stuff on the Samurai as well.

Latest banner-samurai-d00d is cool. I like the red. It also amuses me to imagine those are news papers and that he's got a route to run after the battle

Oldhammer stuff is nice too. Lot of character. I like the bright flail guy and the dark armored dude for opposite reasons, but both are quite effective.

I have a bunch of Chaos dudes, none of them newer than The Lost and The Damned, and I love every one of them. I actually packed them up with the intention of selling them off the last time I tried to rationalize my collection, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

Yeah, don't do it (unless you sell them to me, that's acceptable)...

I was a hair's breadth away-- I unloaded about 30 pre-RoC Chaos Dwarfs and was in the middle of listing up the WoC when I decided it would be a mistake. Now that Mantic is getting their Abyssals up to snuff I'm really regretting those Chaos Dwarfs as well.

You can always cancel the Auctions for CDs. Unless this already happened awhile back...

I sold them off about three years ago, along with half a case of Star Wars minis that I really should have kept for my son. The wife was getting antsy about all the unpainted stuff I had in the closet, but she seems to have settled down now that my son is old enough to start playing with minis (if not exactly gaming).

Here is yet another samurai:


This one has a variation on the nio-do, with lacing covering half of the torso like an open robe. I found a suit of armor just like this on GIS, which is where the alternating black-red-white color scheme came from. THe red ended up looking more orange because I added a little too much yellow to the mix when I highlighted it. I have no idea what the back banner is supposed to be, so I just painted it up as presented on the Steel Fist page. Here's a group shot:


Two more to go in this set. I'm ready to start painting something besides samurai for a while.


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Oh, and then there's this guy:



This is, of course, an owlbear from the first Reaper Bones kickstarter. I could have sworn that I got three of these to use as "werewolves" for a KoW undead army, but I could only find this one. That's just as well, I suppose, because three of these guys in this wacky pose would be too much, I think. There are other owlbears out there, and maybe I'll see about picking up another one or two next year. I started this model at the tail end of my summer painting marathon, but sort of lost steam half-way through. The most frustrating part was the eyes:


When I first did the pupils, I got them almost perfectly circular, but they were too small and not pointing in the same direction, making him look a lot like Jack Elam. Making them bigger works better, but they are a little irregular, and any touch ups would cover up more of the yellow. I think I may just leave them as they are for now.