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Sons of Set and the Oni

Well if I ever form a band then I think I have just found the name…

Tonight I did some more work on the 6mm miniatures. You can’t really see where I have been, but they all have had the purple wash, most have had white added back in for faces, as well as white being put onto the legs etc.

To save my sanity, I decided that I would take a break so made a start on the Battle Valour Oni.

These are nearly finished, really just the weapons and items on the belts to do. Hopefully these will get finished tomorrow.

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Birthday Present All Done

So today I set up the village and shrine with a few miniatures too.

I am really pleased with how everything came out. I was going to flock the edges of the pond, but decided against it. I may have a rethink tomorrow and do it anyway 😊

Another view of the same scene!

So that is everything done, including varnishes too. The only thing missing is the rice cart…

I also managed to get some more done on the 6mm lizards…

They aren’t looking too exciting at the minute and I think I may have done the crossbows a bit too dark, but we shall see tomorrow.

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Filling the Ponds and Paddies

So today I decided that I needed to get some water into the ponds and paddy fields and here is the result…

I added clear to the ponds then put a couple of drops of sepia ink into the paddy fields. This is the first time I think I have used a two part resin. I have used other stuff years ago… so absolutely no idea what his will end up like.

I also got all the miniatures and buildings coated in a couple of layers of Matt varnish. The shrine and fences have been coated too.

Hopefully by tomorrow I will know whether the resin pour worked 🤞

If it has I will get these flocked up to go with the miniatures. Soon I will be moving onto these.

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Work on the Shrine

Tonight I got a bit of a wiggle on and got some more done on the fences…

All 3DAlienWorlds apart from the Buddha

I have misplaced the foam flock that I used on the village roofs. I wanted it for the Tori and the Buddha. Hopefully it will turn up tomorrow.

The minis and houses have all had two blasts of gloss varnish. I will give them a blast with the Matt one tomorrow.

I also found a pile more 6mm fantasy, some Irregular miniatures Lizardmen and wood elves I think. I also have the sons of Set army too which would probably go well with the Samurai as they are the fantasy version of them.

WordPress is eventually costing me money as I ran out of space last night. I really never expected that day to come, I will just have to take less photos or blog less often….nah, I have two years to fill up 6GB… challenge accepted 😂

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Abandoned Village

I decided that the monsters in old Japan probably wouldn’t be hanging around new and bustling villages, so mine became a little down at heel.

Guess who forgot to water down the green wash on the long building?

I really fell like this is coming together. I will get the flock on the fence base tomorrow night so that it matches in with the miniatures.

Hopefully everything will be ready soon. I may try some resin in the rice paddies tomorrow and the pond tomorrow … wish me luck 😂

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Village Works

I actually managed to get some work done on the village tonight.

Still a fair old way to go, but certainly heading in the right direction.

I went out at half one last night to get a print off the printer and took a little video. Hopefully you can hear the snipe drumming…

My kids decided to paint rocks so here is one of my daughters rock of positivity…

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Sengoku…back with some Monsters

I decided to get the Battle Valour minis stuck onto their bases this evening. I have the half dozen Oni who will become something for my monster hunters to hunt down. I may get some of the other beasties that Battle Valour have.

I was going to get some of the buildings done tonight, but it never happened. Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow evening.

On the home front, my wife got a message to call her boss this morning, even though she has a meeting with him tomorrow. As you can imagine we were fearing the worst, but thankfully he asked her to come back to work starting onWednesday. She will still be working from home, but the problem we have now is how to get the kids work done from their school.

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On the Road Again

I just can’t wait to get on the road again… actually my times on the roads are coming to an end… a couple of 90 degree bends and perhaps another couple of straights then I will see what it covers.

The table it is sitting on up to the line is 70x75cm. I think there were four straights still sitting there out of shot. So the road is quite long now.

These are printed at 50%, the full sized ones are huge.

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Sengoku Monster Hunter…Done

So that is it, the miniatures are all painted and based. I need to get the bases sealed with watered down PVA and then everything varnished. But thank the lord for that. These have been a bit of a chore, but at least they are finished.

These seem to have taken a lot longer than I thought they would. I suppose in all honesty I have been making and painting the terrain that came off the printer, so it isn’t really surprising.

A bit more of a close up shot.

Tomorrow I will get on with buildings and hopefully get them sorted soon.

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The Long and Winding Road

My road is getting longer…

Excuse the mess!

This has got everything on it and the main road is 90cm (3feet) long. I am going to do at least another four straight and gentle curves plus a couple of ninety degree bends too. I have printed up some scatter bits too. These are rocks etc. A bit like the one to the left of the paddy field and next to the tree.

As can be seen from the photo above, I have also sprayed the shrine and pretty much a lot of other things too…

The shrine will have a clump foliage hedge around the edge… the inner section will be covered with sand and the edges under the hedge as soil as befits the need.