Here are an odd assortment of items I’ve been working on over the last week or so… There are a few other items I’ve finished up (members of the various Ronin Buntai), but I thought I’d leave them for when I have entire Buntai finished.
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version):
Three Geeks – from Reaper
Miniatures
An old Rogue Trader era Eldar
Guardian from Games
Workshop. He is © and ™ Games
Workshop (though technically I believe it was Citadel Miniatures at the time)
and painted by myself and posted here entirely without their permission.
At some point I thought I’d run
an Only
War or Rogue Trader campaign for the kids and I thought it’d be fun to have a recurring band of
Eldar that pop into situations sometimes thwarting them, other times aiding
them, always acting on their own bewildering agendas which will likely make no
sense to the players at the time, but may be hinted as later in the
campaign.
A while back they’d offered to
send a free sample to anyone who asked. The have 1806 Prussians and some
American Civil War miniatures – which I’m not particularly interested in – but
they also have 1917 French – and the Great War IS something I’m interested in,
so I asked for a sample from that line, and the miniature above it what they
sent me. Now, I have no other Late War French… so there wasn’t any really need
to paint this straight away, but I figured if they were nice enough to send
along a mini, I thought I’d paint it up and show it off for them.
a few Ashigaru from Old Glory
a few Ashigaru from Old Glory
This is another batch of Black Hat Miniatures peasants
- so I now have 15 of them!
Three more Peasants from The
Assault Group - though the one with the sword looks less like a
peasant to me and more like a down-on-his-luck ronin. These as with the Black
Hat Peasants above will be going in my Peasant Buntai.
The banners are Ikko-Ikki banner that I found illustrations
of in the Osprey book on Warrior Monks.
(I didn't manage to fit the entire slogan on the one...)
The remaining Ashigaru archers
from the Perry
Miniatures pack I used to convert
three of to Monk Archers - these will also be adding to the ranks of the Ikko-Ikki
Buntai!
Finally a Monto Gashira Bannerman for the Ikko-Ikki
Buntai.(also from Perry
Miniatures ) - the slogan is the same as on the back of the samurai -
again I couldn't fit the entire slogan on it. It's supposed to say "He who
advances is sure of heaven, but he who retreats will go to hell" -
hopefully I got at least half of it on there. It would be terrible if it only
said "He who advances is sure of..." - that would seem rather...
uncertain...? Actually my calligraphy is probably unreadable to anyone who
actually understands Japanese... probably looks like "Bit the wax tadpole"
or something...
It was like Xmas around here today! Three parcels arrived in the mail (well... four actually... but only three are relevant to this blog...).
The first was this mysterious package...
GO Stones! (which may or may not ever be used for playing go... but WILL be used for playing Ronin!)
It was like Xmas around here today! Three parcels arrived in the mail (well... four actually... but only three are relevant to this blog...).
The first was this mysterious package...
GO Stones! (which may or may not ever be used for playing go... but WILL be used for playing Ronin!)
The other two packages that arrived were orders from Perry Miniatures (containing a few additional Ashigaru for my assorted Bushi Buntai... and... something else) and The Assault Group (with the rest of the Sohei for Sohei Buntai #2)
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
Impressive eclectic mix of brushwork, Tim. Really impressive banners on the Samurai. Best, Dean
ReplyDeletea great assortment and fantastic painting - really like the 3 geeks.
ReplyDeletecheers for sharing
Dan
Beautiful figures, details are amazing!
ReplyDeleteVery nice work, as usual, in your distinctive style! I like the bamboo effect.
ReplyDelete(maybe the banner just says "go to hell"...) (joking)
That would be funny!
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