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The bases need neatening but I am going to sort that out when the rest of the crew are Finished. These guys are a bit of a rush job but atm finished quickly is far more important to me than never finished. I will take longer on the rest of the crew though. When doing the rest of the crew and I have the colours on my pallet I will do some extra highlgihts and sort out the bases.

Here are my Police Swat Team for Fist full of Kung Fu. These guys are standard troops / mooks that will be in the game. I have some more mooks a protagonist and bruiser I haven't started to paint yet.

Without further ado Meet Echo Team





I've decided to name some of them based on some of you guys posting here just for a bit of fun as you help with the motivation to keep painting. I am not inventive when it comes to names by the way.

Always ready to blow the hinges of a door with a shotgun we have Grim - Call Sign "Reaper"



Next up we have Azazel leader of the team and the one who gets in the gak when things go wrong - Call sign "Top"



Next we have JoshinJapan sneaking into postion - Call sign "Shinobi"



Here we have Eyerai weapon pointed down ready to pick protecting the rear from threats - Callsign "Eagle"



Finally we have me armed with the pistol code name - "Revolver"



The Protagonist and Bruiser will be named after the movie characters they are based off but a suited agent, a sniper and a plan clothed cop in body armour I plan to name after posters here too one of which will probably be assigned to Pacific who has posted here since the start. If your reading this and you have a preference mate let me know. If I can eventually get a game in its gonna be hilarious to watch us die horribly which is the main reason I am doing this.

So here is the rest of the team that need to get painted.



from left to right we have. Suited Agent (Unnamed), Max Payne, Tequila, Sniper (Unnamed), Plain clothes cop (Unnamed)

If anyone would like to claim any of the unnamed ones feel free.

Nice Work and Excellent choice of figures to expand the group.

Cool, shotguns ftw. Nice work

Ooh! I've been named!

Yeah yeah, but don't you see that MY guy has a SHOTGUN? Oooh yeah.

Nice to meet you Echo Team!

Ha! I'm the sneak!

Yup Josh the Shonobi

When I finish all the group I will try to take a photo with better lighting.

Can I ask what range the SWAT team is from?

The Gas mask guys are from The Assault Group. Not sure where the leader is from though sorry.

Thank you for the info

Found the leader model. Its RAFM USX Modern Sgt. Flanagan.

So turns out the decals I had for the universal carriers are the wrong kind. So the tanks and universal carriers have been shelved for the time being until the new decals arrive.

So today I primed a few samurai and finished off one that needs to be based. Need to prime the archer and Arquebus troop tomorrow but the basic composition of my first buntai for Ronin is sorted.(Damn just realised the rules state you need 2 ashigaru for every samurai if you are using Ashigaru and Samurai. Meaning I will have to add another Ashigaru.)

Ashigaru - Yari - Medium Armour - 18 points
Ashigaru - Yari - Medium Armour - 18 points
Ashigaru - Yari - Medium Armour - 18 points
Ashigaru - Teppo - Medium Armour - 18 points
Ashigaru - Yumi - Medium Armour - 18 points

Ashigaru - Gashira - Katana - Medium Armour - 18 points
- 108 points

Samurai - Katana - Heavy Armour - 24 points
Samurai - Katana - Heavy Armour - 24 points
- 48 points

Bushou - Nodachi - Heavy Armour - 37 points
Powerful - 3 points
Kenjutsu - 3 points

Total Points 199

So here they are minus a single archer

Groovy. I expect frequent WIP photos.

Thanks Josh. Might be a week or two before I get any major progress done. Bit busy over the coming weeks. Cant wait to start painting the steel fist guy guy as the Buntai leader though.

Just realised I have an ashigaru officer from my archer unit painted I can use as the extra instead of an extra Yumi Ashigaru for the same amount of points. Will help me finish sooner.

Finishing sooner is usually cool

Nice! What game are the samurai for?

A game called Ronin from osprey but they will also serve double duty as kings of war models once finished.

Ronin can be had pretty cheap from amazon at around £12 for the paper rules and half of that for the kindle version.

The game requires roughly between five and fifteen models and looks like a lot of fun with some interesting diverse buntais (squads/teams/factions) you can build your own using models from perry, steel fist, the assault group etc or buy the northstar packs. I plan to get the northstar Koryu packs sometime down the road as it's the most characterful pack in my opinion. It's also the one pack that I cannot find equally as good models for a lower price in a diverse range of sculpts.

At the moment I have enough models to make a sohei buntai (monks) several bushi buntai (samurai) and at least one bandit / ikko ikki buntai. I can make either or of those previous two with models like peasants doing double duty being used for either buntai, don't have enough peasants to do both at the same time. Also have some wako I can make another bandit buntai with.

Plan is to section my models into buntai size forces and paint them then combine those to make my kings of war units. That's why everything is based on pennies and then placed in sabot trays. It allows me to easily use models for both games.

I can probably use them for fist full of Kung fu too now that I think about it. Fist full of Kung fu has silly enough rules to allow me to play swat teams against reanimated or time traveling samurai.

Only done a little bit of painting over the last couple of days. Bits of flesh is all.

Instead of using the Ashigaru I have already painted up I am gonna use a Ashigaru Banner bearer as the final Ashigaru to round out the Buntai. Mostly because Banners are awesome and I love the heraldry of Samurai.

Here is he is.



Having researched the Banners carried by Uesugi Kenshin's Army I will using be painting up the banner bearer to carry one of the following.



I will most likley either do the Bishamonte (Bi) God of War banner second from the left. Or the Dragon banner third from the left.



That or I will go for the standard Uesugi two bird mon seen on the right hand side of this image.

I will be using decals for this and not even attempting to free hand anything.

Also most of the troops in this force will have Sashimono (Back flags.) With the uesugi two bird mon on it. The leader will have a 3d sashimono, not sure which yet. Maybe a bell shaped one or the circular streamer type.

Huh sounds cool, I like standards and banners too so I'm quite looking forward to your results with this one

Those banners are nifty.

Yeah the samurai archives forum has a whole thread devoted to samurai heraldry.

Nice concepts - I'm looking forward to seeing how they come out!

 carlos13th wrote:
A game called Ronin from osprey but they will also serve double duty as kings of war models once finished.

Ronin can be had pretty cheap from amazon at around £12 for the paper rules and half of that for the kindle version.

The game requires roughly between five and fifteen models and looks like a lot of fun with some interesting diverse buntais (squads/teams/factions) you can build your own using models from perry, steel fist, the assault group etc or buy the northstar packs. I plan to get the northstar Koryu packs sometime down the road as it's the most characterful pack in my opinion. It's also the one pack that I cannot find equally as good models for a lower price in a diverse range of sculpts.

If you haven't played it yet, Ronin is a great game. It may take a little to get used to the adding and subtracting, but it plays very quick, has some great mechanics, and captures the feel of the period very well. There is a historical gaming group I play with, and we've run it a few times now (and I've played it a few outside of that). I have yet to have an unenjoyable game with it.

I've got sufficient for two Bushi buntais and a Sohei Buntai (one Bushi Buntai is mostly painted, and the Sohei are all in progress). So I do enjoy seeing someone else building up buntais for it.

Sounds like a pretty neat game. I have a couple of those Osprey games that I need to check out now.

Maniac_nmt wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
A game called Ronin from osprey but they will also serve double duty as kings of war models once finished.

Ronin can be had pretty cheap from amazon at around £12 for the paper rules and half of that for the kindle version.

The game requires roughly between five and fifteen models and looks like a lot of fun with some interesting diverse buntais (squads/teams/factions) you can build your own using models from perry, steel fist, the assault group etc or buy the northstar packs. I plan to get the northstar Koryu packs sometime down the road as it's the most characterful pack in my opinion. It's also the one pack that I cannot find equally as good models for a lower price in a diverse range of sculpts.

If you haven't played it yet, Ronin is a great game. It may take a little to get used to the adding and subtracting, but it plays very quick, has some great mechanics, and captures the feel of the period very well. There is a historical gaming group I play with, and we've run it a few times now (and I've played it a few outside of that). I have yet to have an unenjoyable game with it.

I've got sufficient for two Bushi buntais and a Sohei Buntai (one Bushi Buntai is mostly painted, and the Sohei are all in progress). So I do enjoy seeing someone else building up buntais for it.

Yeah I haven't had the chance to play a game of it yet for various reasons but I will do once I have two buntais painted up. Will probably buy some more 4 ground terrain at some point to as it really enjoyed putting the first one together.

Mind linking me to a photo of your buntais?

EyeamRai wrote:Sounds like a pretty neat game. I have a couple of those Osprey games that I need to check out now.

Yeah I am really liking the current osprey way of making games. Lots of cheap rulesets coming out from them. Many of them with their own small miniatures ranges but also with plenty of alternatives you can buy online. The kindle prices on some of the rulesets means you can buy them just for inspiration even if you are not 100 sure you can do anything with them. I did that with IHMN and while I'm not sure if I will get around to trying them for the 4 quid or so it cost me I really don't mind.

Here is my main buntai:



I still need to finish the third Samurai and add in some Yumi Ashigaru. I chose the Otomo clan for various reasons. As a minor clan I felt no one else would be running them. Then, as a Christian clan it would be a good excuse for including Teppos.

Then, my ninja:



My sohei aren't far enough along to share. Mostly just having primer and some base colors on a few.

Looking good mate. Combination of perry and kensei right?

 carlos13th wrote:
Looking good mate. Combination of perry and kensei right?

Samurai are Perry and Kensai. I have some WGF for the yumis.

The Ninja are a miscellaneous mix of out or print minis I picked up on Ebay

Trying to decide what Sashimono to pick for my Leader/Hatamoto wanted to get your input.



One of the following will be mounted on the models back. Not sure which yet.

Here are some painted examples of the Sashimono in question

http://www.steelfistminiatures.com/images/products/11/320/1.jpg
http://www.steelfistminiatures.com/images/products/32/320/1.jpg
http://www.steelfistminiatures.com/images/products/31/320/1.jpg