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I am rather impressed.
While there are some goofy details/poses (as the very strange left arm on the first mini in the BOW video) the overall impression is: job well done!

I have placed orders for 30 samurai and 150 ashigaru.
Hopefully they wil inspire me to finish my massive Samurai army.

Looking over WGF and Perry's stuff makes me want to make a Japanese themed Empire army. Anyone know where I can find a good japanese dragon and some spirits (steam tank and warmachines).

Surtur wrote:Looking over WGF and Perry's stuff makes me want to make a Japanese themed Empire army. Anyone know where I can find a good japanese dragon and some spirits (steam tank and warmachines).

Clan War has a few dragons, a bit pricey though

http://www.veltd.net/28mmunaligned.htm

Bushido has some spirits like oni, not sure if they're what you're looking for

http://www.bushido-thegame.com/catalog

I think Malifaux has some japanese-esque ghosts too

Yes! Those are amazing. Those dragons look awesome. And Bushido has some interesting things to stand for warmachines (oni with the buddha head is my mortar)

kenshin620 wrote:huge banner is HUGE, why you take so much space ,

*looks at empty space below huge banner*
Y U NO INCLUDE TANTO?!?

And BoW has a review of their samurai. Keep in mind this is BoW

Where's the rosetint orkmoticon?
*rummage* *rummage*


'Best release of the year' was taking the piss but BoW's boosterism *is* rather refreshing. Even when they're doing something like rip into the Tau codex it's all warm and happy and relaxed.
And quite probably medicated.


They don't look so bad in those shots, their flaws aren't nearly as apparent as in the CAD shots. And even Darrell was able to assemble them with all the arms and legs in the right places and unbroken so they can't be as fiddly or fragile as might have been feared.
Plus, the engineer in me wants to play with the stackable sprues.


Edit: Surtur, if you're looking for a centrepiece general or wizard as well there's Studio McVey's Azumi: http://studiomcvey.highwire.com/product/smm21-azumi

That is a very pretty model and a very pretty paint job. I'm probably gonna use one of Perry's Diamyo as my general, though she could definitely fit as a wizard of some lore.

It is sad that I can't use ninjas as empire has no assassins.

Surtur wrote:

It is sad that I can't use ninjas as empire has no assassins.

Lore of Shadow/Death wizard?

Actually for a death wizard I'd probably try to make a Shinigami ala Bleach. :3 Shadow could work though.

I have received my 30 samurai.

Positive impressions:
They Wargames Factory samurai are really nice and work well in scale with Perry Miniatures.
The "sculpting" is more realistic than what you normally find on 28 mm miniatures, i.e. the hands, heads and weapons are not exaggerated. This is both good and bad.
Good surface detail = easy to paint.
Crisp detail (not soft like cheap plastic).
Many parts that can be put together in millions of combos = no miniatures will ever be identical.

Some negative impressions:
- rather dull faces
- the arms have different armour, making it harder to mix bits
- the legs have different armour, making it harder to mix bits
- one totally mis-sculpted arm
- weak weapons (due to realistic thickness)
- too few helm ornaments
- very fiddly to put together, each figure is in at least 8 parts (often more).
Most annoying is that the arm positions are very "stiff" with hands positioned like action figures, in order to get realistic weapon positioning one has to bend and twist wrists/joints a lot which is extra time consuming. I have 150 ashigaru on the way. Those will probably take forever to assemble.

Overall I am very happy with my purchase - Wargames Factory did deliver way more what I was expecting.
Biggest flaw is that gluing the multipart minis together takes way too much of ones patience and time - which could be better spent in the painting stage.
Plastic miniatures are so easy to convert that I would have preferred much fewer variations in pose.

Some images of my first batch (Obu Toramasa and ten samurai):

Did they happen to fix the whole leg going through thigh protector issue?

Nice models BTW

lord marcus wrote:Did they happen to fix the whole leg going through thigh protector issue?

There are a few loose spare armor plates that you can put on top of the strange looking thighs.

oh, well that clears up the one problem i had before ordering. thanks!

what do you all think of the ashi-garu now that they have been released?

I bought a box of the samurai. Got an extra sprue for some reason. I decided to convert my samurai into skellurai, and thought I would show the results.

The extra sprue (25+5) was a bonus to those who ordered the (100?) first Samurai boxes.

Like your "skellurai", please post pics of painted ones.

Will do. Gonna speed paint him tommorow. Unfortunatly i am probably going to have to hollow out the helms, unless i can fluff something up that the "faces" are deathmasks.