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Yeah, just put them on the right bases/trays. It can be one of those size indirectly proportional to badassery things. They're obviously Oni, that should do well enough.

Yeah sadly I couldn't find any decent size comparison for the mantic ogres next to normal people. I like mantic ogres a lot but they just don't fit thematically. I will probably end up with 6 ogres total. Mostly red but maybe one or two of them will be blue.

Mantic ogres are pretty big but just off hand I'd say they're probably a touch smaller than gw big belly ogres. Kind of in that big but realistic/convincingly huge, not crazy over the top large.

The guys you ordered win for your theme regardless.

Thanks for the information mate. Still wanna get hold of the rackham dai-bakemonos eventually.

Have you given up on your space marines completely then?

I've shifted to the "wait and see" camp. I dunno if I'd work on them just for fun, so I'm waiting for the book to come out and then I will check the reaction of that 40k club. If the internet thinks it's passable and those guys intend to play full steam... I'll start working on them again, it'll only be a 2-3 week setback.

I kind of hope it falls apart though, I've had a great tank graveyard/scrapyard idea to use up all of my vehicles

Those Rackham guys do look pretty cool, good luck finding them.

Maybe you should just pick out a few models you like the look of from the space marines and paint them for the hell of it. If they are no good game wise you have some nice looking models you can use in Deadzone.

I would love to see you convert a Landspeeder to contain enforcers or another deadzone race.

Or as you said lots of burn out tank terrain.

Land speeders may look futurey enough to let them hang around deadzone terrain for sure I'm definitely going to keep back some stuff to paint and or use, but the only way I'd paint space marines for fun anymore is if I went through the trouble to tall scale them so they're sufficiently imposing.

But hey, aren't we supposed to be talking about Samurai here?

Are you planning to implement any war machines in your forces?

Yeah don't own any yet but the plan is to use this pack as the crew for two cannons


https://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=23_38&products_id=2344&osCsid=lkp0utkb2aqcfni9l7ggc23pa0

The two cannons will be these from oshiro model terrain

Sweet, those fit the bill nicely.

Two Crew per cannon should be fine.

Yeah, that's how KoW seems to do it. I guess remembering back GW had more like 3 usually, but the KoW machines I've seen have all been two, and the crew are little more than decorations anyway.

Hey! Just found this blog. Your samurai-themed force is looking great - very cool to see it developing here stage by stage. While I realise that it's officially naughty to suggest it, I'd look into the recasts of the Rackham Dai Bakemonos - especially since they're not actually available any more. Also the Relic Knights guys that I suggested ages ago - if they ever come out!

Thanks mate. Heads been playing up so I haven't made much progress yet. I will plan to paint or even sit down and start painting but not feel up to it and only get 5-10 mins done. My unit leader for my archers is nearly done now.

The dixon ones work fine for me at the moment but the rackham recasts are on my radar for the future. Trying to finish off my archer unit then I'll either move onto a unit of teppo Ashigaru, some oni or paint up a steel fist bear fur armour samurai. That said I have a pair of monks half way through painting that need to be finished so I may knock together a unit of Monks next.


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The sashimono needs some work but this guy is pretty much done besides the base.




And here is how he stacks up next to the oni.

Lookin good. I think the oni are big enough, they're just crouched.

Yeah I would prefer it if they stood up straight to look more imposing.

That's alright. They're temporary until you get the Rackham boys in. Then these guys can be repurposed into something else. Unit-base them appropriately and they could make great Foot Guard with 2h weapons (Lesser Oni).

The guy you posted above looks good. I especially like the red-white-dun on him. Very effective.

Yeah they certainly do the job for now and they are decent despite the age of their sculpts not perfect but decent.

I managed to get a few quid from sales and trades this month and checked a message to Steel Fist to get their next pack of Samurai the moment they get released. The reason I did this is becuase A) I like the models and the customer service I received has been great so far, which means a lot to me and B) because they have the perfect model coming out to represent Kojima Yataro on my command base. Kojima was one of Uesugi's generals. He carried a Kanabo and had an Oni/Ogre helmet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojima_Yataro



Here is the model



Just need to practice some free hand to get his banner right.

That stick looks fairly hitty. Probably good at crunching those lacquered plate things that seem go make up the armor.

Imagine it would do a good job of crushing plate, bones and anything else that got in its way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanab%C5%8D

Yeah, sounds like they used them to break horse legs to forcibly dismount enemies.


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That and the ogre mask... like giving a kanbo to an oni

Awesome pic. Kuinyoshi is my favourite artist after his pupil, Yoshitoshi.

My all-time favourite Samurai is Saito Toshimitsu, largely cos of this pic:



I would give my left nut to own a full set of Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon.

That's a fantastic print fifty. Any idea where I can find others by the same artist?

Painting progress has slowed from a snails pace to stop this past week as I hurt my wrist getting better acquainted with the floor. Its still not better so I may liven up my weekend with a trip down to the hospital to get it looked at.

In lieu of any painting I wanted to share with you the lovely buildings from oshiro model terrain that should serve as a great backdrop for both Ronin and Kings of War. Ronin will need much denser terrain than KOW.

Here we have two small village houses and some Japanese gravestones.

Huh those look pretty spiffy.

Can be found here.

http://www.oshiromodelterrain.co.uk/catalogue.html

Highly recommended.

Hope your hand/wrist is okay.
That's some looking terrain. If you're interested, here are some other buildings that some friends of mine have:

http://www.johnjenkinsdesigns.com/japan.htm


oh, and a nice army box:
http://shop.zenitminiatures.es/category.php?id_category=20&id_lang=1

Thanks az

Sadly as nice as kensei are I can't really use them, their heads and hands are just to small when I compare them to something like perry or tag. If I was using them alone they would be fine but they are to small compared to the other ranges to look right mixed in a unit for me. In to unit by themselves they could work though.

Some of that terrain is pretty sweet though, wonder what uk shipping would be like.

Finally made some progress, some drying time and some varnish tomorrow will leave me with a complete archer unit finally.

Used some uesugi decals to make the leaders sashimono. As long as nothing happens while drying I am happy with how it turned out

That looks sharp, I like it.

Custom job I ordered a while back from a place called company b. highly recommend them.