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Miniatures Adventure => Old West => Topic started by: 3 fingers on October 13, 2018, 10:00:41 AM

Title: Samurai cowboy style
Post by: 3 fingers on October 13, 2018, 10:00:41 AM

Never heard about this before but stumbled across it  , and by the power of a famous search engine images 😂
I have discovered samurai cowboy/red steel 2 /six gun samurai and wondered if anyone has seen or converted miniatures and skirmished gamed it.
Should be easy to do basically adding katana to  gunfighter figures wearing greatcoats .

Title: Re: Samurai cowboy style
Post by: goon3423 on October 14, 2018, 07:05:12 AM

I have not but I always wanted somebody to make a samauri cowboy for about as long as I’ve been into old west miniatures. I think for conversion stuff right now the Lucid Eye stuff is your best bet. I think Malifaux had something in the ball park years ago but I didn’t care for the overall look.

Title: Re: Samurai cowboy style
Post by: 3 fingers on October 14, 2018, 08:53:04 AM

I thought lucid eye , was quite large, I have a handful of artizan an was thinking of some of the Dracula’s America stuff and some more artizan,then seen Dixon miniatures do katanas..

Title: Re: Samurai cowboy style
Post by: Malamute on October 14, 2018, 10:53:07 AM

This thread reminds me of the film Red Sun starring Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune. It’s a Western about a cowboy and a Samurai teaming up to find a stolen samurai sword in the Old West. :)

Title: Re: Samurai cowboy style
Post by: goon3423 on October 14, 2018, 04:57:57 PM

Quote from: Malamute on October 14, 2018, 10:53:07 AM

This thread reminds me of the film Red Sun starring Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune. It’s a Western about a cowboy and a Samurai teaming up to find a stolen samurai sword in the Old West. :)

Love that movie.

Title: Re: Samurai cowboy style
Post by: Bugsda on October 14, 2018, 06:43:05 PM

Quote from: goon3423 on October 14, 2018, 04:57:57 PM

Love that movie.

Me too  8)

Title: Re: Samurai cowboy style
Post by: Comsquare on October 14, 2018, 07:02:28 PM

A while ago I made some conversions going that direction, using Black Scorpion minis as a starting point.
You can see them here:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=11169.msg492665#msg492665
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=11169.msg545480#msg545480

Made also some minis based on Afro Samurai:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=11169.msg832259#msg832259
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=11169.msg918049#msg918049

Title: Re: Samurai cowboy style
Post by: goon3423 on October 15, 2018, 02:15:15 AM

Quote from: 3 fingers on October 14, 2018, 08:53:04 AM

I thought lucid eye , was quite large, I have a handful of artizan an was thinking of some of the Dracula’s America stuff and some more artizan,then seen Dixon miniatures do katanas..

I can’t speak to all their stuff but I got some Corelocks to use as a base for some Bone Tomahawk troglodytes & they scale up just fine. A little bigger than Artizan but nothing really noticeable.

Title: Re: Samurai cowboy style
Post by: 3 fingers on October 15, 2018, 12:49:49 PM

Oh that’s interesting to know Goon thanks 👍