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Those Koreans look really nifty. Are those the Perry ones?

Battle pictures look great, but I commented on those elsewhere already. For painting wood - what exactly are we talking about here? Wooden poles on weapons or rather wooden beams on buildings and such?

If it's got enough texture drybrush is the way to go, else you can paint on wood grain to fit, then wash, then reinforce wood grain if required. Or if it's got texture highlight edges and such manually.

Wooden Ships. Some bits are more textured than others. Any way to do a combination of the two?

You could do as much as you can with acrylics (basecoat, drybrush, etc), then go over them with oils. Oil wash for the textured parts and add your own textures with different oil paints on the smooth.

That might be worth a try Az. Particularly for the ship decking oils might work well.

Couldn't sleep but was too tired to paint. Decided to break out photo shop and try to make a reference card for Ronin. I am terrible and remembering rules and stats so I figured that reference cards with the units skills and stats on them would be helpful for when I start to play.

I made a basic template for it so I can add any other units and values I want into it. Not 100 happy with it might need to tinker with colours, font and background but I was wondering what you guys thought of the basic idea and what you think i should change. I also plan on taking clearer pictures to use on the card as the unit identifer when I have the card itself sorted.

Those cards look pretty good.

Yep, those cards are sweet. I need to do something similar for pulp alley and potentially other skirmishy games.

So far the best suggestions for the cards have been change the unit name to something more readable and actually include Yari on the Ashigarus's equipment.

Those do look nice. You might also consider putting a brief summary of the attributes if you have trouble remembering and don't want to crack open the rulebook mid-game.

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Those do look nice. You might also consider putting a brief summary of the attributes if you have trouble remembering and don't want to crack open the rulebook mid-game.

Thats a very good idea. Would have to distill the explanations in the rule book to something a bit smaller though.

I wish I was more familiar rules so I could be more helpful.

Im not that familar with the rules either. I have looked at the buntai creation rules many times to create lists to help me decide what to paint but the actual game rules I have only looked at maybe once or twice.

I didn't think they were that confusing, most of the abilities just add an extra dice, +1 bonus, etc. You *may* want to add the +/- init / +/- damage value for the weapons too though like
Naginata (+1/+1) or whatever it is.

I suck at rules

Yeah adding the damage etc to the card could be a good shout.

The cards look good!

I agree with changing the font to something slightly more readable.

I always use cheat sheets and things when I play so having ones that look nice are particularly awesome.

Changing the font is one option. The other is sticking with units having a "Shoop" option, which has it's own kind of cool.

So not much progress to update latley considering I have been learning and failing to grasp painting white. Still the unarmoured part of my korean force is considered done (mostly) for me, the bases still need doing but I will do the entire force at once. Not the greatest painting in the world but I am ok with it. Might go back to them one day in the future if I get better at white but I just want to get them finished at this point.

So here is what I have. Next update should contain their armored buddies. Hopefully in a few weeks but I wouldn't hold my breath.







When I take the photos of them all together I will probably try to do it outside so I can get some decent lighting and use the misses phone which has a better camera than mine.

Sweet! That's a lot of white, meesh.

Looking forward to seeing the whole force

Yeah, white is tough, especially if there is a lot of it. For what it's worth, I find it better to treat white as very light grey, with a final highlight of white.

Thanks Josh. What I did was use very light grey. Then put white on the higher parts, then watch with despair and frustration as the white trickled down into the recesses, then just try painting the whole thing white then put the light grey back into the recesses near the end. Will be more careful next time.




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BTW if anyone has any photo taking advice along with any how to paint white advice I would love to hear it.

Maybe your white it too watery? Another option is a very thing glaze of dark blue-grey, making sure you go back and pick up the glaze that settles on the raised areas.

Yet another option is desert yellow/ivory, highlighted up to white.

Thanks I will try one of them at some point probably when I get to the sohei.

For photos, it depends on what you have access to. If you can get A3 prints, google "photography backgrounds" and print some of the various backgrounds out. Even A4 will work (though obviously A3 is more versatile.

My "photo box" is just some segments of a cheap shelving unit with opaque sides that I then blu-tac-ed some baking paper over the top.


The three lamps are $10 specials from the local hardware store, and the bulbs in them are "white light" LEDs. Again, cheap and cheerful.

I've seen people do the same as I've done with the shelving unit using a cardboard box with panels cut out of it instead (and then the baking paper).


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For white, try base coating white and then shade it by mixing your off-white of choice (Wolf grey, P3 Menoth Base, P3 Menoth White, Orc Brown, etc) with a medium (Lahmian Medium is actually really good) to make a subtle shading wash.

If your white is too thin/watery, these are some guesses.. You might also want to not thin your white paint, make sure your brush is damp but has no water in the reservoir, or even try a different brand of white paint.

Thanks mate. There are similar things on ebay for a not unreasonable price.

The white doesn't look too bad! I haven't painted white before, sounds like you've had a frustrating go of it.

IT was certainly frustrating enough that Sohei will probably be painted after bandits now. Though apparently my local game store is having a flames of war Journyman this year so might start cracking out the FOW stuff after the koreans.

Just Pre Ordered Daisho. Been waiting for the release since Salute.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/655547.page#7967008

And North Star are great to deal with too, as soon as they have it the rules will be winging their way to you.

Your reference cards are a nifty idea as well.

I have not used their website before so their checkout system is a little confusing I have to say. I think I have ordered but I cant be 100% sure atm.

Still after speaking to the creator of the rules before salute and trying them afterwards I have had the money for them put away since.

I also picked up one of their bargan grab bags because why the hell not.

My hope is that I get some of their ronin range (Bandits or Monks would be ideal) and some of their Fist Full of Kung Fu stuff. But a nice random selection of Mini's wont hurt.

They usually send a notification email, they have always been great for me in the past.