The Miyoshi titvation is complete

For now lol.

All the figures I've had for this clan have now been sorted and it's onto the next clan. I've got several to choose from, the main being Sanada so I'll see what tickles my fancy next :-)

The casaulty markers wil be used for indicating 'shock' in FFoL Bigger Battles.

The Great titivation continues

Albeit slowly :-)

But at least the Miyoshi clan is completed. I've got another clan being tarted up at the moment but I'm not sure who to field them as. The mon is done but I can't remember who it was supposed to be as several clans use the same one.

I'll get a whole clan shot done in the next few days.

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The Great Titivation begins

I've finally gotten round to finishing off my Japanese re-basing project that was started a long time ago. It's basically changing bases from square to round. There is also a lot of touching up to do as most of the figures weren't varnished (shock horror lol) and some of the colours are a bit dark.

The top pictures are what have been done in the past week or so. These were the easiest to do, mainly flocking and varnishing. The bottom photos are what needs to be done; there's a good couple of hundred figures there.

I'm both looking forward to getting them finished and dreading the task lol.

The clan is Miyoshi and is an historical clan but they got pretty much wiped out during the Sengoku period (a fact I found out after starting them).

I'll be doing one clan at a time and will take a photo of the entire clan assembled after each has been done.

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30 minutes a day - Part three

So week three is down and it'll be another two until it's done I reckon. Still around 30 minutes a day although it fluctuates.

The shoji took ages but the basic groundwork didn't lol

I'll be working on the smaller 'entrance' base this coming week

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30 minutes a day - Part two

Just a quick post today.

I've painted the panels for the buildings and given the roofs a base coat. There's six layers for each panel but I'm thinking I could've gotten away with three or four lol

Door details and roof inking tomorrow.

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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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Odou base

I've been  quite ill over the past couple of weeks hence the silence but I'm on the mend. This one was done a while ago but here it is :-)

Quite possibly the most popular commission piece I've done over the years. I think this is the seventh time I've done one. It uses the re-mastered Odou from the webshop so there is opportunity for interior access.

Available here if you fancy one  ;)

28mm religious buildings

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The raid of Karasawa

The sleepy village of Karasawa was quiet with nothing much going, on the outskirts however, aband of roaming ronin were looking for trouble...

Fortunately, an ally of the villages diamyo, was in the area seeking out the local samurai over the issue of splitting the cost of a meal from the previous week.

Quick as a flash, the ronin broke cver and charged towards the Murakami troops and fierce fighting ensued (apart from Yamada Arinaga who ended up chatting to one of the local girls).

Hearing the clash of arms a small force of Sanada rushed into the village to see what the trouble was about.

Seeing that there was trouble in his village, Sanada Yoritomo quickly charged into combat with his faithful retainers and made short work of the ronin (the dice being quite a splendid factor in helping this to come about).

Unfortunately for Murakami Morokiyo, Yoritomo remembered about the splitting of the meal cost and also remembered that he and his retainers only had water all evening whereas Morokiyo's men drank all the sake. He saw this as unfair and set upon the Murakami troops with renewed vigour.

Needless to say, the Sanada men were victorious but Morokiyo managed to escape and will no doubt seek revenge....

Rules used were a variation of Fistful of Lead of which there will be a proper Japanese supplement in the New Year.

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