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Yeah I will share it in whatever state it is in when it arrives. The purchase of it however means my next buntai after the Samurai will probably be Wako/bandits rather than the Sohei.

As Wako pirates raiding a costal village sounds fun to me.

It should look something like one of these



obviously as a wargaming piece it is likely to be smaller and less detailed.


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I look forward to seeing this warship. But if you have a warship you'll want some cannons. And if you have some cannons you'll want another warship. And if you have two warships you're gonna need a water mat....etc.

Regardless, looking forward to it

Slippery slope it surely is.

Cannons I shouldn't really need to buy for this one. Japanese boats were often prone to capsizing and not built well enough to take a gak ton of cannon fire they usually had a few but not the 50's. Their method more commonly tended to be to fire volleys of shots from arquebus at enemy ships. Which is probably why the Koreans wrecked them in naval battles.They did some really high caliber arquebus too they didn't just use the normal ones.The Japanese seemed to prefer boarding actions and attempts to kill the crew rather than trying to take out the ship instead.

I really, really want to see that ship when it arrives. Hopefully it will be big enough to be the whole board rather than one piece of scenery. A boarding action sounds like an awesome scenario.

I don't think it will be big enough to be a whole board josh as awesome as that would be.

Im thinking of having it as a deployment point as the wako for a costal village assault and then maybe buying a Korean ship later on.

That way either ship can be used for Wako because they have no problem looting gak and I can do Wako vs Koreans, Wako vs Samurai and Samurai vs Koreans.


This is my costal mat. would have liked more water if I am honest but I can always get a smaller water mat to extend it in the future.


Got news earlier the ship is on its way to me. However he was out of oars so they will come a little later. I will do an unboxing if you like.

An unboxing would be great. Where did you order the ship from?

Scheltrum I think its spelt.

That mat looks great. Now I want to build a harbour!

bargan for a fiver too.

A Harbour would be cool.

So this arrived today.



In the box was a metric [MOD EDIT - Language! - Alpharius] of packing peanuts and the following



Here is the ship not glued together but balanced in the right place with the resin parts in place with blue tack.

I guess that is too small to be the whole battlefield, but it is cool nonetheless.

Yeah way to small to be the whole battlefield. Its nice though. Maybe a Pankeson to go with it would be great.

Big enough for skirmish boat battles, woot.

Problem is that requires a second ship.

That looks great.

If you are thinking about adding more water, take a peak through here:

http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2015/04/adepticon-2015-fistful-of-seamen-and.html

It looks like they've used either model train water sheets or the textured plexiglass you can buy for lighting panels. Slap a piece of colored construction paper or a 'mat' underneath and you have instant sea.

Nice one mate thank you. Im also considering making some kind of base just because the thing feels a little top heavy.

The blog is great and its name is hillarious.

Wow, I want a board like that

Repaired some of the Miniatures that broke a little on transit today. Will try to touch up the scratches sunday.

Tomorrow I shall be heading to salute. Woe bE my wallet.

Just leaving salute. Pretty sure I am bankrupt at this point. First time in a long time I decided to just get what I want without worrying about much it costs. That's not strictly true there were more things I wanted but decided to abstain from.

If any of you are interested I will post up photos of the various tables of there and some of the stuff I bought as long as you promise to make no attempt to tell me how much I spent.

Highlight tables include the battle of hoth. Oshiro mode. Terrains samurai board and a huge pirate ship board with pirate island.

Also had a paranticipation game of daisho a small skirmish game in mythical Japan and will be reordering the rules on release.

Yeah do pictures!

Out with the misses in China town atm but will post something on the way home

While I didn't buy any x wing stuff mistakes were most certainly made this day. I missed salute for the past few years due to my head injury so I may have over compensated.


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Here are the salute photos. Many of them were taking quickly on my phone and my hand was shaking probably due to lack of eating.

http://imgur.com/a/YzQMI

Was a good time all in all though.

If anyone cares ill post up some pictures of what I picked up. Tomorrow I must paint and convince the girlfriend to do so as well.

Thanks for posting the photos. Looks great.

Looks like quite a day!

Looks like a great day, I have done a couple of Salute's myself.

Was the not eating to fit in more purchasing time? It is nice to have a splurge sometimes, some pictures of your haul would be great.

As for the Warship, looks great to me Carlos.

Yeah it was quite fun. Though without a doubt the most expensive day me and the misses have had in years.

Here is most of the haul.

Not included is a few hasslefree models and a korean warship.

I had already bought the koreans when I saw the ship and didnt want them to drown so i felt it had to be done.

http://imgur.com/a/yUMg1

Nice haul! Looking forward to seeing some paint on these!

Me too

Nice haul, mate! Now get to paintin'

Those tables are spectacular. Very inspiring stuff, particularly the Ronin (well, at least Japanese...) table.

Samurai are done except for the Sashimono.

Build a Rice Barn the other day, Did a quick paint job on my Bridge, build a few garden wooden box things, Glued some cherry blossom trees and bamboo to stands, and got quick base coats on a ship and boat over the past week or two as well

I decided to see how my table is coming along by quickly laying some stuff out on my mat. Not everything is finished painting and I obviously need a few things like a river and maybe another building or two.

Let me know what you think. Not everything has finished being painted.

I now have a shelf to keep my Samurai stuff on, at least for the time being



Better look at the Samurai. Will get clear closeups once the Sashimono are attached (Will then give them a once over and any needed touch ups)


Better look at the terrain


Someone hiding in the trees


Overview of the game mat. Bridge looks lonely without a river. Layout far from finalized.


Closer view of the town centre


Also some Bamboo stands I am working on

Really nice work

I really like the look of the village, and how you've managed to shoehorn the attack ship and rowboat in on the side is pretty awesome.

Get another Buntai done and do some battle reports on that layout stat