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Your terrain is really impressive. Good work.

Thank you.

Most of it is 4 ground. The resin stuff is from Oshiro. I have some plasticraft too but I wouldn't buy any more of it.

Your table is coming along nicely. I think the shelf really works in the way you've got it there to display your figures and terrain as well - the terrain makes it all look almost like a diorama.

I really like the splash of colour the trees add. They are really nice.

 carlos13th wrote:
Thank you.

Most of it is 4 ground. The resin stuff is from Oshiro. I have some plasticraft too but I wouldn't buy any more of it.

I have a couple plasticraft models, but haven't built them yet. What don't you like about them?

No texture on anything. Everything except the resin inserts are just flat strips of card.

If your willing to spend ages with a hobby knife scratching in texture they might be alright. But how they look in the photos is a far cry from how they look if you build and paint them.

After way too long I have finished a Buntai for Ronin.

Hoping to move swiftly on to Koreans, Sohei or Bandits next. Haven't decided which but feel free to say what you are most interested in seeing. That said the misses wants to play with whatever I paint second so her vote will probably veto yours just a warning.

The Miniatures consist of Mostly Perry Miniatures but the leader with the huge sword and Red Hoop Sashimono is from Steel Fist Miniatures. Once my Kickstarter from them arrives I plan to work on a Tokugawa Buntai with Ieyasu leading the troops and Honda Tadakatsu on horse back also.

The buildings you can mostly see are from 4 ground. I do have some Oshiro buildings which are a little smaller but just as fantstic. Problem is I royally suck at terrain painting.

Finally the Uesugi Decals except the one on the banner bearer (Who is a constant source of annoyance as not only does it keep falling over but I put the decal on backwards  :?) are from CompanyB. I asked them to make a set for me a while ago and it seems they will be going on general release soon.

As ever I apologies for the Photo Quality. Poor lighting and only a phone camera which ends up looking like I smeared vasline on the lens. Will try to take a few better photos outside tomorrow if the sun keeps up.













Link to the full Album

http://imgur.com/a/1IAuJ

They really look nice man, and with the terrain you've got a great complete set going on. Personally, I'd like to see the bandits as I quite like your bandit leader. But if I recall you'll probably end up doing Koreans next

Those came out great. Really like the basing, flowers suit Samurai so well.

Thanks mate. Yeah my misses and a few people over in lead adventure want Koreans too.


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 durecellrabbit wrote:
Those came out great. Really like the basing, flowers suit Samurai so well.

Yeah the flowers help the look a lot.

Very very nice. The complete buntai has a unified look while remaining indivuduals. I vote for sohei next, but I'll probably be outvoted.

The Sohei are tempting as a few of them do have paint on them already.

The only one who kinda doesnt look like he fits with the rest of them is the guy in red. I may later make a red Armour Uesugi Buntai to swap him too and put another Samurai in his place.

I say leave the red guy in. Any samurai over a certain rank would have worn customized armor, and the sashimono ties him to the rest of the buntai quite nicely.

Its less that and more I will probably build another Ueusgi buntai as I want to use most of my Ronin models in KOW. So if I have red Uesugi vs Black Uesugi its easier to tell between the two. We will see how it goes though.

Looking forward to getting my steel fist kickstarter pledge soon ish which will be the start of a Tokugawa Buntai.

Here are what the Korean models look like btw Josh. Two of them will have shields that are not yet attached.

Those are pretty nifty.

Thanks guys. Just got home from archery so think its priming time.

Very nice looking!

My vote is for the Koreans if that is what the missus wants!

The Japanese warband has come up really nicely there, and the great looking scenery selection just sets them off well. They've really come a long way. The Koreans look interesting as well. I know even less about them than I do the Japanese.

Work on the Koreans started yesterday. Going to paint up the archers first.

I know next to nothing about the Koreans either Azazel only that the Samurai invaded Korea and that a Joint force of Koreans and Ming Chinese fought back against the invaders. They look cool though so I picked them up at salute to fight against the Samurai.

All looking good.

Thanks Robert.

Looking very good. That ring banner works great. I may have to try and mod one from plasticard.

If you struggle I think steel fist sells them individually.

Quick question. Anyone here have any good ways to paint wood?

Is this for the ships? For small flat surfaces, I usually do a very dark brown basecoat, chestnut brown stripes to simulate individual planks, add swirly lines in a medium/leather brown for the grain, then hit the whole thing with a chestnut/soft tone wash to make the contrast less harsh. I'm not sure that would work for a whole ship, though.

Is that a swanky new banner? Nice work Dunno much about painting wood grain on flats unfortunately.

Yeah its for the large ships and smalelr boats.

Also might have to try my hand at free handing a dragon for the Panokseon ship too.

Got any examples of your wood josh?

Edit: that would sound bad without context.

 carlos13th wrote:
Quick question. Anyone here have any good ways to paint wood?

If it is flat or mostly untextured, oil paints are a fantastic way to paint wood.

http://www.aeroscale.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&page=1&artid=3009

Oils don't dry as quickly, and can be pushed around to blend into something that looks a lot like wood grain.

 carlos13th wrote:


Got any examples of your wood josh?.

That's a bit personal

I find wood hard to paint, probably because I can never get a nice brown I'm happy with.

Some of the ship is textures other bits are less so.