04/04/2020

30 minutes a day - Part one

There's a Feudal Japanese group I'm a member of on Facebook and the runner/moderator came up with an idea to do just 30 minutes a day of a particular gaming project or group of figures and show progress. The first time it happened was last year and I managed to get some samurai painted up but this year I'm doing some terrain for myself in the form of a simple Japanese shrine.

I won't be posting here every day, just once a week and seeing as we're on the seventh day, here's the first post.

The layout is below and all the buildings are from the Japanese catalogue here mainly from the religious and additions sections. The base is the size it is because I have a particular box for it to go in. This was day one.




Day two was realising that it wasn't quite right and needed a little base to the front to include a torii, hand wash station etc. I also made a set of stepps up the mound.





Day three was painting some lose scatter terrain that will be dotted around the model.



Totally forgot day four so made up for it on day five by prepping the buildings for painting and filling in the steps to the mound.



Day six was getting the wood mostly painted but it will probably need some touching upat a later date.



Day seven is today and I painted the stone base for the odou and detailed some of the wood work with inks.






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11 comments:

  1. God you're well organized! I need to get my shit together big time.
    Great work as ever.
    Stay well & safe,
    Jeremy

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    1. Thanks :-)

      Not that well organised. The white background is so the complete bomb site of a work space I've got can't be seen lol

      cheers

      James

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  2. I really like the subtle differences in the wood planks of the decking- very realistic, great tones.

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    1. I thought the same thing, :)

      Another nice piece of work, very inspiring.

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    2. Thank you kindly chaps :-)

      cheers

      James

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  3. I love the terrain you do. Those colours are truly fantastic, I could never achieve such clean results on big surfaces like that.

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    1. Thank you :-)

      It's just lots of practise and having an eye for what sort of colours work together.

      cheers

      James

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  4. Very nice James...
    I am in agreement with the others... the wood tones are lovely...


    All the best. Aly

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  5. Excellent work,old boy! And it was great to meet you back in old Blighty last year!

    You might want to check your last few posts for broken images - I've had the same problem!

    Tally ho and toodle pip!

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    1. Thank you kindly :-)

      It was a pleasure to meet you as well!

      Apparently it's being worked on as some are coming back so hopefully it won't be a long term problem.

      cheers

      James

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