LPL entries

As some of you know, my favourite forum (The Lead Adventure Forum) has a painting competition called the Lead Painters League. Basically it's a ten week competition where participants have to (ideally) enter a new 'team' of at least five figures each week with three weeks being special bonus rounds. Points are awarded for the bonus rounds and for new entries.

Quite the challenge...

Most entrants seem to use it as a good excuse to get a whole new batch of figures painted for what ever projects they have on the go and I was no exception and now the competition is officially over I can post my entries.

I failed to get new teams in for two of the rounds but all the new entries I managed are below. My painting quality seems to have improved during the contest, let's just hope it stays that way...

Round 1 - Shimazu ashigaru for generic samurai gaming

Round 2 - Shimazu ashigaru for generic samurai gaming

Round 3 - Shimazu Ashigaru for generic samurai gaming. I'd learnt after this round it's best to change subject as often as possible...

Round 4 - Korean archers for generic samurai gaming

Rounds 5 + 6 were photos I already had as I didn't have time to paint new entries but they are here for completion.

Round 7 - Boshin artillery for the British invasion of Japan.

Round 8 - Rourke's Drift characters for the British invasion of Japan (hence the different hair colours).

Round 9 - British camel corp on Mars.

Round 10 - Girls and Panzers for the Akira project.

 The competition is a great impetus to get stuff done, it's just a shame I'm away on holiday so I can't carry on lol

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Things to make you go boom!

Once again, apologies for letting this blog slide into obscurity somewhat but these things happen :-(

To make amends here is a project from a while ago of a Chinese fireworks factory (assuming that such things exist...)

No lengthy wordage for this one, just plenty of pretty pictures :-)

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The gaming table is bloodied...

The year is 1586 and things are starting to hot up on the south coast near Nagoya. The Murakami clan are getting more arrogant with their raids and more wako are teaming up with them to partake of the spoils...

The small village of Kaigawa just inland from the coast with Sanada forces moving through it to intercept the incoming Murakami

The aforementioned Murakami and wako on the move

The Sanada moving through the village

The two forces get closer, who will spill the first blood!

The raiders enter the village and come under fire from some Sanada teppo on the periphery but with limited effect

The Sanada rush out from the village to try and catch the Murakami in the paddy fields (yes, I know there's only one  lol )

But are taken out by the roaming wako

The Sanada samurai 'hide' behind some of the village buildings (a ritual disembowelling for Sanada Akihito if he survives...)

They finally come out from cover into a hail of arrows which they pass through relatively unscaved and see off the offending archers with aplomb

After seeing off the archers, the samurai turn on the remaining Murakami foot troops and a bitter struggle ensues...

But the Sanada samurai are victorious (just) and chase the last remnants from the field

But in their victory they forget the wako who are left to raid the village and kill the hapless locals (only two though so it wasn't too bad  ;) )

All in all, quite a bloody game with no clear victor (although others will tell a different tale).

Will nothing stop the Murakami from plaguing the coasts...

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Lack of posts

Well, apologies for the lack of posts recently, we've just completed a rather messy house move that took an awful lot longer that we hoped.

The good news is I have a dedicated man cave and will be able to fit an 8x4 table in at a push, normally it will be 6x4.

So here's looking forward to many more games and projects for 2015 and beyond :-)

Here are a couple of random pictures to make up for the lack of posts.