Armoured Samurai

Another six Samurai completed this week - this time armoured and with flags - designs from the Osprey books.

The same six figures from different angles:

 

Monks and Ikko-ikki

Some more Perry Miniatures figures completed for my Japan project.

Armed Monks attacking with naginata (pack SAM54):

and Ikko-ikki advancing with mixed weapons (SAM38):

Ikkō-ikki were mobs of peasant farmers, Buddhist monks, Shinto priests and local nobles who rose up against daimyō rule in 15th- and 16th-century Japan.

The First Samurai

After a burst of activity making Japanese buildings and scenery following a visit to Japan in April 2015, the file box of 28mm figures waiting to be painted hadn't got much further than being based and primed in the subsequent two years.

The project had built into such a big thing, I struggled to restart it, and always had plenty of other projects to work on.  Andy's solution was to keep the file box closed and just concentrate on painting a single figure, which he chose, from the "Samurai fighting with swords in everyday clothing" set.

So here it is.  And fingers crossed the painter's block is gone!

Miniature Painting in 2011

Quickly going through my diary for last year, Rivals might be interested to know that I painted 230 28mm figures (mostly Zulu Wars), 184 15mm figures (mostly Napoleonics) and 60 10mm vehicles or infantry stands (World War II Americans for BKC). This is why you shouldn't be surprised that I never seem to catch the TV shows that everyone raves about... :-)