Well after awhile away from painting anything Samurai, I started reading this book called "The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth - Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China" by Samuel Hawley. I have to say that it's completely wicked and awesome! Which you can figure out is why I am probably painting Samurai again. A really good read so far, and I highly recommend for those who are unfamiliar with the period to get Stephen Turnbull's book "Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War 1592 - 1598". A good compliment to the aforementioned book.
So I've finished up another unit, and it's another Clan from Takeda's 24 generals. Easy to research, for me anyways, banners and such. The Clan I chose to paint this time was Tsuchiya Masatsugu. White mon on black banner. The earlier Clan I did was Yamagata Masakage. Both these generals or family Warlords where killed at the battle of Nagashino 1575. My plan is to paint a unit of arquebusiers for each family and then to paint up some cool full armor Samurai dudes. Will see where my spinning wheel ends up cause as anyone has figured out who follows my blog, next week I could paint up Scifi, or Romans, or mice, or.... well you get the picture. So first two photos are ones I did two years ago, after that are pictures of my newly painted Masatsugu Ashigaru unit. Oh and you can click on the pictures to see larger ones if you don't know this already.
[Above I did almost two years ago]
[above first new group of 4]
[above 2nd new group of 4]
[and finally them all together]
As always thanks for looking.
Cheers
Kevin
I love how you are doing the different sub groups under the same clan leader. Brilliant! So many variations available! A great way to take 2 exact same castings and paint them altogether differently yet, have them fighting side by side!
ReplyDeleteI have all these Old Glory Samurai figures... Hmmmmm!
Yep doing it that way keeps me out of the historical police sights. The figures are wargames factory plastic model kits. So these had to be put together and they are a pain. Warlords owns them now, but you can only buy seperate sprues from them.
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Kevin
Very nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks Steven:)
DeleteStunning work, Kevin! I have the Turnbull book, but only read excerpts online of the Hawley book.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean, it's worth getting the Hawley book. Do it! You know you want to;)
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Kevin
I have seen these up close and they are awesome. Lots of detail incorporated to simulate the printed designs on their clothing. The decals on the sashimono are excellent having no visible edges and the basing is top notch.
ReplyDeleteThank you Dave. Basing reminds me to say I added washers to the bottom of these litko bases to keep the figures from getting knocked over easily because they are plastic models. That's why they look so thick.
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Kevin
Amazing details, they look superb!
ReplyDeleteCheers Phil, thanks for visiting.
DeleteLove these guys, I’m working on something similar at the moment. Where did you get those excellent Yamagata clan decals?
ReplyDeleteHi Sean, and thanks. They are waterslides from Veni Vidi Vici. Get the 15mm ones as the 25’s will be way too large, and make sure you state color you want (white, black, red, or yellow).
Deletehttp://www.3vwargames.co.uk/asian.htm
Cheers
Kevin