More work on the 6mm Samurai and I absolutely hate them. They just seem to be taking forever!
Weapons are all painted in now as well as the sashimono poles. Hands are repainted white ready for the flesh colour. I reckon a few more days and they will be done. Still no sign of the printer ☹️. The kids and I played with the resin and a couple of the moulds today. They ran around and collected flowers from outside and put them into the moulds. They should be ready by tomorrow evening.
Tonight I started on the samurai infantry. Again I went for the different coloured armour. Part of me thinks they are a bit bright, but with all of the white bits showing too then they aren’t exactly looking the best. The other thing I did was paint the undercoat in for all of the flesh on the cavalry
The other thing I think is the problem is that there is a lot of solid colour without a break. Once I add weapons and flesh etc it should look better… I hope 🤞
It was a nice day today so we went just over the hill to Catfirth. The kids went for a paddle and err, as you can see it progressed a bit…
Please note, the pile of clothes, by time we remembered, they were somewhat damp and my daughter’s leggings floated away! Not a bad place to live really!
As my Samurai army were already undercoated white I decided I would make a start on them.
I really hummed and hawed about colours, and in the end I decided that the samurai were going to be different colours. In my 15mm army I did three coloured clans. This time there would be lots of variation across the miniatures. For some reason I decided to start on the cavalry. Most of the horses are bay or chestnut, with a smattering of black and other colours too.
This is them looking a bit untidy as I just went for it, I will paint in faces, hands and weapons in later on. I have decided they will all have a black sashimono to tie them all in together. I haven’t decided on the mon yet,but it will more than likely be a dot!
The Ashigaru are my next problem… do I go all coloured natural browns and greens etc. Or do I go for a single clan colour… I will have to think on that one.
While I remember one of the ‘elf’ bases sneaked in for a white undercoat and they are very obviously skeletons with the undercoat on.
I gave them a quick blast with skeleton bone as well as grey for the cloak. I actually think they will look fine.
Or a happy little accident as Bob Ross would say. Today my good lady moved my figures and one of the Oni slipped off so she picked it up and put it back on the box file that I use for my paint, it was then that something struck me… I know have giants to go with my Fantasy Japanese forces!
As you can see from the photo, I spent this evening getting the bases painted and then getting them flocked. Once this lot is dry I will get some tufts and pebbles on the bases to match in with the lizards.
I also spent this evening looking for my super magnifier headband thingy. I was having problems with the next army to paint as I couldn’t actually tell what they were. I have spent the last few weeks calling them elves, well I suppose technically they could be long dead elves as they all seem to be skeletons. I am really not sure how I am going to paint these when you cannot actually tell what they are! I will have to try and do my best, but I really do feel that there is some swearing ahead.
Whilst looking for my magnifier, I came across this lot…
The mammoth were used in mammoth racing game, the ogres and giants were got to go with the ork and goblin army, they evidently got separated a good while ago.
All finished apart from the bases and no doubt all of the bits I will have missed and notice in the photos.
I will get them based up the same as the Lizardmen and then make a start on either the elves or the samurai. The samurai will be painted up like my 15mm ones. Instead of three colours I will probably just go for one.
Here are a couple of close up shots…
As I said in yesterday’s post I really like the colours here. On my way out to work this morning I saw them in the sun and they actually looked even better. I will try and get them photographed outside tomorrow.
Tonight I worked some more on the 6mm Forces. To be honest I was Nearly gnawing my own arm off, but at least I cracked on and got within spitting distance of finishing.
I am pleased that they have pretty much come out how I wanted them to look.
I decided that each Nobori cluster would have different Symbols on them, for no other reason than I wanted them to look different.
To be honest these aren’t the best painted 6mm I have ever done, but there again the details on these was a bit tricky at times. In no way is this a complaint against the sculptor, the best I have ever managed were pumpkins. Obviously I liked them as I bought lots of armies from Ian at Irregular Miniatures. I just suddenly remembered, that when I moved to shetland that my 6mm Napoleonic’s went in the bin, as No-one wanted them and I needed to reduce the amount I was bringing up here.
Okay, if truth be told it should be the Ronin hair, as that is all I did on them. I spent a lot more time on the 6mm stuff.
The sashimi are all painted black as are the Nobori , bows are done, just a mon to do on the black, weapons and faces on the infantry. Hopefully will be finished soon.
I was relieved yesterday as I managed to get more Spray paint… five cans of it (including a one with filler in). I thought the latter might be useful to fill in the lumps and bumps on the prints…
I gave some roads and my map tiles a few coats and it wasn’t that impressive…
Now to be honest, this could be a case of user error as Although I shook it a fair bit, I didn’t do my usual warm it up too. I will give it another blast tomorrow and see if it makes any difference.
Another band name, for when the first one falls out over artistic differences 😂
Tonight was pretty much spent painting hats on 6mm miniatures, then repainting white for faces, then repainting hats where the white went onto them then… well I think you get the picture!
So to save my sanity and eyesight I nipped our to the shed and grabbed the Ronin. I gave them some quick paint jobs as well as did a smidge more on the Oni.
Still a fair old way to go on them, but at least I have made a start. I really do like these miniatures. Each is different, so they are ideal for skirmish gaming. My box of new stuff arrived today, but I have been very good and handed it over to my wife for safe keeping until my Birthday. Just over two weeks to wait, so not too bad.
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.
So tonight I made a start on the next 6mm army. Another Fantasy one again. This time a fantasy samurai army with giant serpents and lizard cavalry. I hummed and hawed about the colours to go for, but eventually decided on purple, black and gold. I am not sure why, but it seemed a good idea at the time.
The problem I found is that the purple contrast paint is a bit naff, so to give it some oomph I used the army painter purple wash to darken it a bit. You can see the difference between the ones on the left and the washed ones on the right.
Yesterday I had a mooch about to see what I could find for the 6mm Forces… quite a lot evidently!
So we have a huge irk and goblin force (left) dwarves and halflings right, with some knights behind the dwarves and then some dark elves I think. What cannot be seen are the medievals to the left of the orks. I also found some WW1 Turks… somewhere I have some Allied Forces including Arab fighters. I was going to evidently do the Middle East!
Whilst mooching I also found some more Samurai bases. I gave them a spray with the remnants of my white, only to find I had missed one out!
Luckily there was just enough left in the can to give it a spray too.
For my birthday I have ordered myself some Baccus samurai. I went for the army pack. I am also considering getting some Irregular 6mm Japanese monks with naginata, they would go nicely with the samurai army I already have.
The pond and paddy fields have remained flat, so it must have been the heat on the windowsill that caused the warping…. lesson learned there I think.
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