Tonight I did a bit more on the ones I started yesterday. The ONI in some pictures I have seen have quite fancy trousers so I went for it and tried to add some patterned material.
The rest of the ones I started yesterday are just about done apart from the blades weapons. The armoured samurai is going to have different coloured armour. The two orange things to the right are centipede demons…
I also got some Greenstuff onto the houses. This means I can get them sprayed tomorrow…
Today’s random re-enactment photo is this one…
Training with practice swords, what you can’t see is the other person trying to cut me off on the left.
Yesterday my parcel arrived, so I spent a bit of time glueing everything together that needed glued.
Glueing in progress
To speed things up I used pennies and two pences instead of sending away for (or printing) similar sized ones.
Sadly the snake necked lady, err had a little accident, and now is in three bits. Torso, neck and head. I will do something with Greenstuff to fix things. I sprayed everything white and made a good start on some of them.
Still a long way to go, but I want them done by next weekend so I am going to have to get busy this week. I will have to get Greenstuff into the terrain as well as print the base for the Shrine as well as get it all painted. so all in all, a lot of busyness will be required.
Biggest problem I think I will have is the Tin Soldier Miniatures (as well as the Battle Valour ones) are quite big. These ones are a whole lot smaller so the buildings may look out of scale. If the worst comes to the worst I can always reprint at 40% or whatever looks right.
Wish me luck, I am probably going to need it.
As Pete was painting Cuirassiers and has done the lancers, I thought I would share another random re-enactment photo
Not sure where my plume went! I would like to point out that we were on a hill and he was higher up it than me. I think he was from Eastern Europe from what I remember…
Well I now have to add… sort of.. unfortunately some pillock who shall remain nameless suddenly remembered after taking the photos that the sashimono on the Infantry were without their mon. Part of me thinks sod it, part of me thinks get them painted and a further part makes me think …buy some water slide transfers. Sadly the easy options are sort of out. First if I don’t paint them they may look a bit weird and secondly there is a lot of wisps of filament on the flat bits so any water slide transfers will be a right sod to get painted… but anyway here we go. Mon, bases and Banners withstanding. The army is done…
I am onto my next Samurai miniatures already. My mates Birthday present arrived. I want everything paint3d by next weekend so got straight on with them today.
That is everything done for this army. It has taken me a bit longer than I thought it would I started on April 4th and eventually got them finished May 22nd…slow by my standards 😂
Last unit done
Okay so I just noticed I forgot to paint the bearded faces! I will get them sorted tomorrow.
So tonight I worked on the Green samurai and got them finished. I also cracked on and got up to the armour stage on the Black samurai. All things being equal I reckon that I should get the whole lot finished by tomorrow night.
Well there wasn’t exactly a lot to do on these, but I actually started on the blades, then remembered that I needed to do the bowmen!
All finished, with the two free samples added in too.
As mentioned, I also worked on the blades and got on a fair old way with them too…
I would have got further with them, but I spent a while glueing buildings together. I will show them in another post in a little while.
I watched the Revenant today and quite enjoyed it. there were a couple of bits that stretched my credulity a bit, especially anything to do with being in the water with snow run off. (Sort of spoiler alert)As an ex white water kayaker, I ended up with hypothermia in my modern cold weather gear after going for a single swim. Sorry but anyone in that situation would not have walked away. I liked the start, I thought it pretty accurate as to what I have read about the early trappers and their run ins with the different tribes.
Tonight I got a bit of a wiggle on and tried to get the bow finished… I nearly made it! I only really have the arm guards to paint in the appropriate colour. I did consider painting them all the same one, but in the end decided to let them match the body armour.
As can be seen I have also started on the green armoured Samurai foot. They are all in their clothing and armour colour. I did have a bit of a problem working out which green I used on the cavalry. The conclusion I have come to is that they have had two lawyers of the ork flesh green.
I was very excited to find a couple of parcels waiting for me when I came in for lunch.
First up…
My ancient GW ones apart from the shining silver are pretty much shot. If I put them on a shaker for about an hour they might revive, but I thought I would give these a go… so a nice parcel to get.
The second one was extremely disappointing…
This was my resin… and err I don’t think the mixing cups made it!
Thankfully the resin, although squashed was not damaged. I have asked the seller for some more cups as I think the measurements up the side will be most useful. thankfully it was just some plastic cups, it could have been a whole lot worse!
Tomorrow I hope to carry on with the Samurai. The printer is chuntering away with more Samurai terrain so I will need to make a start on that soon.
Okay, not all of them but the red lot are finished apart from the bases…
I also worked on the bowmen too, I reckon that they should be finished tomorrow.
Once these are done I have twenty four miniatures to do for the army. Twelve in black and twelve in green. Hopefully by then my parcel for my mates birthday will have arrived so that I can make a start on them.
As I was looking for a kite today I came across this rather ancient photo. This was my first ever day in re-enactment!
Tonight I worked on the Samurai and got a good bit further on.
I suddenly found another base of bow that I had obviously missed. These got started this evening too. I reckon these will be finished tomorrow. I still have another 8 bases with an white undercoat to do but the end of the road is in sight for this army.
My daughter has done another picture today. This time of a wolf peeping from behind a tree. She is really getting into her art.
Tonight I got chatting to a colleague on Teams and didn’t get much time to paint anything really. But I did manage something…
These are over half way there now I would say. Really just the weapons and sashimono and tidying up to do… oh yeah and paint the mon on them too. The command are going to have different colours on their armour as befits their station. This will be added with a white undercoat and various other colours put over the top.
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