Duel in the streets of an abandoned Edo village

[skip]

very nice indeed

[andisan]

Thank you, Lucky, pws and skip!

I'll try to stay that sexy with the next building

The last building in the Scene is the biggest, most complicated and will dominate the scene - the sake brewery.

Again I started from a cardboard model based on a Theater house from Kawai Shokai. As you can see in the upper right, the Roof taken from this set was not deep enough:



So I used some Oyumaru for moulding:



Filling it with Magic sculp resulted in a useful part:



Adding some liquid green stuff to hide the border between the parts resulted in this:



This time I used plastic Sheets on which all details were glued (grids are replica from the model using oyumaru):




Everything assembeld:


 
Aging with the usual technics (light grey, thinned ivory, drybrushing ochre, black pigments):



Finally I added some details. The small Roof in front of the building is typical for a sake brewery; they fixed a ball from fresh pine leaves when sake was fresh prepared - while the sake got older and better, the colour of the pine ball (Sakabayashi) changed from green to brown...currently there is no sake production running - so no pine ball

Unfortunately my Kanji skill is not the best...on the left it should read Tokuemon (Name of the owner of the sake brewery) and the right says sake brewery...




So here is the second part of the street:



Next to come is the completed scene with all actors.

[Lowtardog]

This is a lovely looking project

[pocoloco]

Great work, this will be a great piece when finished. But will you be happy with just this piece or build more?

[andisan]

Many thanks 

Great work, this will be a great piece when finished. But will you be happy with just this piece or build more?

I'm not sure what you exactly mean.
There will be no more buidlings to come in this Scene, as it is a closed diorama showing a duel in a street. And it is a kind of  standalone diorama, not part of a bigger scene showing more of this village.

In that aspect I am happy with just this piece.

But this diorama is the second part of a duel series I made. So I am rather sure that I will build more - even if the future projects may have no linkage to this scene.

Cheers Andreas

[pocoloco]

Hi Andreas,

just wondering if you were going to expand the scene besides this street duel setting.

It will a lovely diorama for sure but you should make a whole village next

[Burnin Coal]

Lovely work....very evocative....and very inspirational

[andisan]

Hi guys,

I finshed the dio and here is the whole story:


A Ronin was wandering the country and finally happend to come to a small town. At first sight it seemed completely abandoned.
The only living creature he crossed was a dog with his special loot:




Followed by the sound of a bamboo flute, a wandering monk suddenly stepped out of the shadows.
As the wind blew through the cape of the komuso, a metal claw became visible - a disguised assassin!




Sensing the bloodthirstiness in the air, the Ronin drew his Katana awaiting the battle.




As time seems to stop, both combatants are facing each other the emty streets...




But if anyone would take a closer look, he might see the shadowy figure in the sake brewery.



Maybe a poor soul, hoping not to get in trouble...



or maybe the one who paid the assassin?




So here is the whole scene:






Obviously a for an upcoming movie - as the Blue Screen technique is used

Cheers Andreas

[Pijlie]

Absolutely beautiful.

[Sangennaru]

Coooool!

[Damas]

A beautiful finish to an excellent project.  A whole story portrayed in one still. 

[OSHIROmodels]

Very good 

cheers

James

[marianas_gamer]

Great stuff! I hope to see more of your creations 
LB

[joekano]

Really fantastic work!

[andisan]

Hey guys,
thank you for your nice words. I am happy you like it! 

@marianas_gamer: I have another scene done in 28mm, which I will show later this week. Bofore that I was working in the 1:72 scale.