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.

Hopefully I will get this few finished ASAP.

Tonight I listened to Alien Earth War stories and painted some Samurai… not exactly the best connection, but it was on Youtube and popped up as I finished watching something else.

I also managed to get some more paint onto the Samurai Infantry.

I also managed to knock off a sashimono… I swore lots. I might just get a little blob of Greenstuff to hold it in place. In hindsight I should have done that for all of them. The ones armed with the hand weapons are going to be red (as you can probably tell from the photo). The bow and command stands are in whatever colour I fancied slapping on them.

After this lot I have 24 left to go and then the army is finished. Yeah okay I have another shit load of the Battle Valour ones to paint and then the Sengoku Monster Hunter ones to paint for my mate, but I am in fact getting there.

To be honest, I didn’t thing I would get anything done for today. I got up and promptly fell back down. I initially thought that I had stood up too quickly. So I stood up slowly and fell back down a second time. After three or four more attempts my brain decided that my body wasn’t having any of it and I was forced to lie back down again. I eventually managed to get it of bed at about 11.30… with a humorous interlude of trying to get into a pair of trousers. Standing on one leg trying to dress is really tricky when you are feeling dizzy.

Luckily it wore off by mid afternoon. And although feeling a bit drained I managed to stay upright for the rest of the day.

Whilst watching Asterix and the Temple of the Gods I managed to get these finished as well as made a start on one of the command bases.

I could have got more done on the command, but I decided to redo some of the colours on the clothing. Everything being the same colour niggled me. So I changed about 50% of the clothes to a brown or a different colour green.

I shall carry on with the rest of the force tomorrow.

I managed to get a bit more done on these tonight. they still have weapons and hands done but they are getting there.

Because I am lazy, all of the clothing is the same colour, but there are two distinct units of three bases each here. Can you spot them? Hopefully I will get them finished tomorrow.

Whilst mooching about in the shed I came across these chaps…

I had totally forgotten that they existed, I got them on the pre order. They came with metal hero miniatures too…

I got these to play Dragon Rampant and never got around to sorting them out! Question is now what do I do with them???

No printing for me today, but my daughter wants a mask making. Eleven and a half hours in it fell over! Luckily it only had a short time to go so the bit that fell over should be fixable. This thing is in four bits. It is a wolf mask that will be covered in fake fur. Not sure why she wants it, but I am being a nice dad.

So the Ashigaru are getting there slowly. Not much don’t tonight really, but I managed to get the skin done as well as starting on the armour. I am putting lots of different coloured armour on these as they can then be added to any force as well as being a bit more historically accurate .. yeah right because the samurai are in three blocks of three ready for their group armour colour!

I will hopefully crack on with these tomorrow.

On the weather front…It is snowing! Flipping freezing out there. To be fair it is only very light, almost the snow equivalent of mist. Still flipping freezing though!

Tonight I pushed on and got these finished apart from the mounted archer who needs his hair painting. With these I decided that their robes were going to be different colours as opposed to just orange as they would look a bit samey.

I still have the Ashigaru to paint followed by the samurai but I do feel like I have made some more progress on these.

I will start on the Ashigaru tomorrow. Hopefully some progress will be made quickly on these.

I was hoping to get these finished tonight, but unfortunately one of the horses decided to walk through the electric fence so we had to go and get him then work out where the little bugger got through (we still haven’t) but in doing so my wife touched the fence and said it didn’t shock her. So we rested with the tester and it was working.

My children then decided they would test it themselves (even though we recommended that this was not a good idea). Eventually one did so and got zapped, much hilarity occurred, the second followed, more laughing and then my middle one, against all advice sat on the floor and touched it. Needless to say she won’t do that again. (Luckily no children were harmed in this evening of hysterical laughter).

It did mean we didn’t get in to watch the movie until 21.30.

Still a lot of white on these but I am getting there. To be fair the cowls are going to be white.. so less work than it looks 😉.

Still have the rest of the army to paint too, this is the tip of the iceberg.

Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow evening.

Today I got the other Samurai sprayed today and let them dry outside.

For some reason the white undercoat is not covering the PLA on the sashimono. The grey covered well, but this is covering the miniatures well enough but not the plastic. Now with this set I only shook the can for a little while and took it out of the shed, so it might explain things if I hadn’t sprayed a couple of them yesterday. With those ones the can was warmed and shaken for ages and it still didn’t cover well. I gave those two a second coat today and it definitely helped.

With the lot above I think I will just paint them white with a brush, it will save my last can of white spray.

I also managed to get some painting done whilst chatting on Discord this evening. I decided to start with the monks and peasants, I would have got a bit further but my paints are spread between two boxes and I was having to paint in the kitchen with a box file on my knees.

Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow evening.