Chojin's Ryu, Cult and Terrain WIP

my 3 30MM idols based on some Li family monuments.

These were early experiments with sculpting which reminded me i don't get on with GW type Green Stuff. for some reason i just cant get used to the curing process. I've moved on to Apoxie Sculpt which wile more expensive, is a resin that handles more like clay and blended with green stuff give you the best properties of each. these are formed left to right on a coffee sterer, bamboo skewer and lolly pop stick. 

i like it because it is just like the clay i used at school and collage. You can just work down to the finest detail as it cures but i think it does benefit from a third blend with green stuff to remove some of the bitty ness while its soft. Must also admit that when i am being a bit lazy, i just let it set and carve into it afterwards with wax tools.

the last of the 30MM pieces, 6 Gorinto, (the one on the left got warped due to the angle of the pic)

i decided to go with a rough hewn look for a couple of reasons, i plan on coving around a third of each with vegetation and leaf fall so it would be difficult to justify so much detail. Fleafa's excellent work also hit the forum when i was roughing these out of miliput and helped me realize that it would take a fair bit of time to get a newly constructed look.  

Thanks,

Now for some fun stuff; 3, 50MM objectives.

One town well, I'm not sure how durable the cocktail sticks will be long term but corrugated cardboard does make excellent roof tiles.

One Signal/Camp fire, took me a while to think up a third concept for this set and making the smoke from cotton wool and super glue was interesting be careful of the fumes. they are not pleasant.

One larger Shrine, loosely based on one for Nobunaga Oda. Old Zo is on the plinth as is kind of worked and no one in my little group has SMS

Wraith,

i had been trying to emulate the studio work with  this one but i often find as i progress i look at the source less and variations start to creep in. I made the jump from GW to Vallejo MC so the blue is lighter as i didn't have the right one and i could do with having another go out wet pallet again to smooth out the blending as it looks a little stark when viewed closely

The base was fun though, was trying to work out what Wraith was doing, figured it looked tree like and went with the emerging out of the ground theme thinking that "Sum Jung Gi, was taking in the Sakura at the moon bridge, the clouds clear, wait, that's no Cherry tree! Splat"

Still plenty to do though. might have to add a single geta to the bridge now.

Ryu Mercenaries and Advisors

i started with a Warring States/SW3 theme to get something a little different to the studio set. these are still in progress so will get a better pic once they are done. unintentionaly they have ended up with a yellow/blue/purple palete and mostly indoors bases.

Daisuke a mix of a period doctor picture i found and Kanbei Kuroda from SW3, mostly due to height. i got a little carried away and built a box for the back of the base.

Mikio, found a modern sumo with tattoo so copied that. he has part of a sumo ring (More Takeshi's Castle) and upturned bowl behind his feet and loosely tied him to Yoshimoto Imagawa from Samurai Warriors 3

Bikou, based on Hanzō Hattori SW3, Bamboo is loosely tied in to House of Flying Daggers

Golden Sentinel, Simple one this, went with the Guy from The Warrior with the Mongol Sword https://www.movie-asia.com/wallpaper/v/korea/musa/Musa_08.jpg.html. kit bashed a banner from a Perry Miniatures Japanese banner to a Korean example,  

Yukio Koshimori, Banner is based on Nobunaga Oda, Clothes are from a NSFW Manga as i found the picture before finding the series it was part of.

Kioshi Makoto, i appear to have lost the reference for this one, so will need to remember and was pondering a telescope so had started the base.

I think its was the last flourish of pre kid lifestyle as i have slowed down for the last year while i adapt to having a Son around. Apart from that i just try to work to a pattern that keeps me productive.

typically i will have a think about a character when the promo comes out, i will try to build, prime and foundation paint a model as soon as i can so i don't forget what i want to do. i start projects at the weekend so i have more time and energy. i use evenings once every ones gone to bed to work for an hour on stuff i have started and try to make sure i do something every day, no matter how small and it soon adds up.

Best thing i was ever taught was to make sure you have a couple of projects on the go at once. So if a project gets stuck you can take the time to work out what's not working and how to fix it rather than trying to force it and having to start again or giving up completely.

That said, just found my first post and still nothing finished

TheChojin wrote:

Chojin (Richard) and his warring states Prefecture reporting in. I’m formally a GW collector/modeller, re-enactor and DnD player. Found out about the game through Countess (we are married) while she was looking for oriental themed games and something that is a little more portable to play.

The is a good chance I will be off to the modelling and painting forum in the not too distant future as I have already broken my first promise, no new figures until the starter pack is finished. So I am now sat in front of the full unfinished faction, 1 unfinished shrine, 3 unfinished idols, 6 unfinished foam board houses, 48 inches of unfinished fences, barriers, shields and bamboo and have Just started 6 scratch built trees as well...

One day I will finish something.

i should also have said that it is also a work around for an inability to get a project through to completion.

Wraith, update

• Added 1 geta to the base made from off cuts of coffee sterrer
• added some VAL72135 Verdigris to the brass to try it out, i suspect any Cyan would have been fine.
• Highlighted Flat red with ivory (goes bright pink, rather unexpected) on one side and sunny flesh on the other,
• started adding water effect to the base and drooped in some Sakura scatter made from Gale force 9 snow, dyed with 2 red/1 purple ink until softly pink.

I tried they experiment with Water effect, fair to say it didn't work.

• easier to make flat and bend to shape.
• i knocked it while drying, it pooled and took 4 days to completely set
• it took the date of a jar lid it was put on while drying
• the crumpled foil did give a good ripple effect so this might get used at another time.

Quick Play Board

i hate set up, a bit of a throw back to larger skirmish and wargames ware you need the tape measure and 30mins just to mark out the terrain, objectives and deployment zones. so this is my take on a pattern with all the required measurements worked in so hopefully it can be town, temple and rural with only a change of scatter terrain.

i went with the easy option of a road to link the various objectives having marked them out in pen, it is a little wide but not too far out from the Ryu city in the rule book. Most Japanese pics i found online have slabs to the Centre and cobbles at the edges so on it went, shown by the unintentional difference between the yellow and white milliput. i have started to fill the lines in with smaller stone/gravel to look like drainage/repairs but this is taking a bit of time to get right.

the grass areas started with 6 inch squares of cork board to raise the height but as the texture was limited i have covered it with sand in rectangles and painted so it resembles small back gardens or farming plots. the paints are Daler and Rowney Hookers Green, Sap Green, Yellow Ochere and Opaque Oxide of Chromium. the walkways are Vallejo GrunBrun Surface Primer.

So from above you can see where i intend for the items above to fit depending on scenario. next i need to finish the road and give it a once over with Army Painter Quick Shade (Dark) then i will paint it properly.

a little weekend update.

Tempura and Soba Yatai stands and a notice board.

the first two were on Wikipedia and one of my first projects that have been through several revisions before i was happy withe the scaling. the notice board was simplified from an illustration and i might change a couple of the facion symbols as the front two have enough paint to use but plenty more work to finish.

Large tree

bit of an experiment to see if i can make a cheap large tree while getting the scale and volume about right. its currently 24.4cm high on a 50mm base.

the frame is oasis wire for the upright and extra branches, bulked out with Tescos value bandage stuck on with hobby tack. i bound this with oasis tape for texture and wired in some extra branches to the original stem ends to help fill out the final effect. each wire end has a piece or ripped up Tesco basics sponge skewered and stuck on with with hobby tack and i then cut away the sharp edges for a softer effect.

it needs some more painting then will experiment with gluing various leaf products over each piece of sponge as i am aiming for a bonsai autumnal oak.

ROTK part 3, Pimped Prefecture

some of these pictures are up on the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/978331922263243/  but as I've not posted for a while, heres what I've been up to.

2016-08-06 while i had decided to replace the Yari, i then decided to do most of the Katana. parts fitted include Perry Miniatures banners, Oshiro Model terrain helmet crests, Albion alloys 2mm brass rod and from Master Crafted Miniatures 2 Katana packs, 1 tanto set and a pair of the tall lamps.

2016-08-08 a good number of the weapon swaps complete, red and blue squad have large banners. black has a lamp. I've re-used the original Yari heads which needed a compass arcamedies/ GW drills and some very fine bits to fit back on.

2016-08-17 starting to under coat / flat coat the minis. also fitted a lamp to the Watchtower and Shinto streamers to the Tori Gate. Oddly the streamers are easier to just fold from paper than sculpt.

2016-08-28 figured i will need to be methodical to paint this many figures so i am trying to batch paint. there is a light/mid/dark version of each coat color with a brown/green/grey/blue per squad for the kimonos. also did a little sculpting including repairs, changing hair cuts and finishing the yari off.

2016-09-06 One month in, time for a class photo. I'm not planing on collecting the Jung Pirates so will be painting them as part of the three squads with the same kimonos and a bit like yakuza.

2016-09-17 Slowly getting there.

2016-09-22 most recent pic, just a close up of the Dark/mid/light coats with Dags and Kanji. not finished but experimenting with a flat coat of color, three gradual highlights with ivory and ink washed with the original color/medium mix. Also this way i can work along on the coats or front to back on the same kimonos.

Cult of Yurei,  Post Halloween.

i have a bad attention span so before i hit the burn out stage with the ROTK, i switched back to a different project i have been working on, some cult for my brother. i have hit the first mile stone with these by building the last of the bases so now to concentrate on the painting as i need the storage space. Here is everything i have been given to do and a couple of home brew rat swarms. 

Wanyudo, has had some of the VMC fluro added to bring out the flames.

Taisho, thinking WWF Kevin Nash dressed as Tom Cruise from last Samurai

Waku, i asked how my brother wanted it. the reply "well its lo-pan" (Big Trouble in Little China)

Araka, Mo ises, for some reason i cant get these right. Araka is up to 3 goes at the flesh and 5 goes at the face and getting somewhere at last. Googling for reference material for the flesh is also a difficult experience...

The Marionette, i like this little guy so i figured i would make the base a stage based on the promo shot background so he can be a giant.