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Miniatures Adventure => Adventures in the Far East => Topic started by: Snake777 on February 09, 2015, 10:43:42 PM
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Hallo All,
Am new here but wanted to share some of my Japanese terrain pieces, I'm in the process of building a 1/72 Samurai clan and needed a few bitz to go with them, so here is my WIP of Kamioka Castle, a small Yamashiro in Hida Province, dates from the 1560's built by the Ema clan on the 'suggestion' of Takeda Shingen... :) I'm aiming for a very weathered look, something that has seen a few Alpine winters, so not too pristine!
Enjoy
Best wishes,
Snake
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That's a bit special. love the weathering on the roofs especially. Great build and paint job.
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Just excellent work :o
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Outstanding!
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That is amazing work! Do you have any in-progress pictures? I would be curious to see how you modelled the roof tiles, for example.
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Great work :-*
Any pics of your clan btw?
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Welcome Snake - lovely work.
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Welcome and quite a lovely piece of work there :-*
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Thank you all for the comments :) very much appreciated!
@ WuZhuiQiu: Many thanks, I don't have any in-progress pics, it's something I'm going to have to work on! The roof tiles are basically corrugated card with photo textures of green roof tiles pasted on, then suitably weathered and beaten up... I am a very lazy modeller!
@ pocoloco: I've attached some very bad pics of my Clan, apologies for the quality, there are a few more now than appear here will take some better pics soon (ish) also some of my other pieces a couple of Shinto shrines and a rural Samurai house.
Thank you all,
Best wishes
Snake
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you fooled me... I thought the first picture was a real photo of a real castle for reference... that was aaaaamaaaazing! :-*
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I know you weren't the only one ;)
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Lovely stuff!
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Very special, looks amazing
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Really nice work! That first picture fooled me as well.
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Simply divine structures all look very realistic - especially the very first pic - had initially thought that it was a reference shot.
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Thanks for the clan pics Snake777, they are looking mighty fine 8)
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Hallo All,
Thank you again for the comments :) My apologies for causing some confusion with my first pic! It's amazing what a good camera angle and some natural light can achieve :D Just to clear up any confusion, here are a couple of pics of the real thing...
Best wishes,
Snake
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Pretty close match in look and feel.
What are those trees in the foreground in the first photo? They look like grape vines (ie for wine).
They're probably some fruit tree, but I am getting ideas.
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Pretty close match in look and feel.
What are those trees in the foreground in the first photo? They look like grape vines (ie for wine).
They're probably some fruit tree, but I am getting ideas.
Not sure... could be heavily pruned Cherry trees... :)
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Blimey, it's a bit uncanny when it becomes difficult to distinguish between 1/72 miniatures and the real thing!
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Amazing work! :-* :-*
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Many thanks Duke Donald & archiduque, I've always thought that much terrain that you see is way too neat and pristine, a bit of grime adds to the realism I find, I'm sure that even the most resplendent Samurai would probably start to look a little ragged after a few weeks of campaigning :)
Best wishes,
Snake
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That really is exceedingly good work. I was almost fooled by the first photo too. Real craftsmanship.
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That really is exceedingly good work. I was almost fooled by the first photo too. Real craftsmanship.
Many thanks Carlos, much appreciated :)
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That's some amazing work. :o
Please can you share how it's made?
I'm working on a castle myself but your put my projects to shame :'(
The detail work is incredible !
How many hours did you spend on it?
Please post a how to guild
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Absolutely stunning work!
What make are your figures?
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I too thought that first pic was of the real thing. All of your terrain is amazing! You really should make some tutorials.
What are you tatami made of? Are your shrines hand made?
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Hot damn that is aces! Amazing colours and textures - are those paper buildings with additional detailing/cutaways? It's hard to tell.
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Missed this the first time round, glad I've caught up 8) 8) 8)
cheers
James
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Hallo All, my apologies for being a tad quiet of late, but I was re-arranging my attic and came across a box of H&R 5mm Franco-Prussian War figures that I'd started to paint about 20 years ago... I suddenly found myself veering off to Alsace-Lorraine... GAH! :o
Many thanks for all the recent comments, I'll try and answer your questions as best I can... I've included a screen shot of mu patterns for the castle, if anybody is interested I'm happy to share the files, just pm me here with your e-mail and I'll get them to you, no instructions I'm afraid, so you will just have to use your ingenium!!
That's some amazing work. :o
Please can you share how it's made?
I'm working on a castle myself but your put my projects to shame :'(
The detail work is incredible !
How many hours did you spend on it?
Please post a how to guild
Thank you nash, all of this is made out of paper and card, my basic technique is once I've decided what I want to build, I try and find as much photographic reference as I can, Google Maps was quite useful for seeing the layout of the castle, they even have a 3D reconstruction of it, there are few very good pics but enough to get the overall idea and cross referenced with similar castles in Japan you can end up with a passable copy ;)
My next step is to collect as many hi-res textures as I can, CG Textures is a great source they have many purely Japanese examples as well as generic wood, stone, dirt-tracks etc... they can be found here:
http://www.cgtextures.com/index.php
Once I have everything together, I put it all into photoshop and snip, clone, twist and overlay furiously, until I've got the main elements textured and separated out, then comes the fun part of putting it all back together, this usually involves quite a bit of re-adjustment, trial and error as it is mostly done on-the-fly. When construction is complete the model is severely weathered and distressed with a combination of beeswax furniture polish and ash from my fire, finally a good coating of matt varnish seals everything in... Overall this took me about 3 months to build off and on... Hope that helps! Snake... ;)
Absolutely stunning work!
What make are your figures?
Thank you grant, the figures are 1/72 Zvezda Samurai some quite chopped about :-)
I too thought that first pic was of the real thing. All of your terrain is amazing! You really should make some tutorials.
What are you tatami made of? Are your shrines hand made?
Many thanks parcival, I should make tutorials, but I never seem to find the time!!! everything is made from paper and card including the tatami, the small shrine in the wood was built and textured in the same way as the castle, the larger shrine is a pimped up freebie from the internet with added ground work...
Hot damn that is aces! Amazing colours and textures - are those paper buildings with additional detailing/cutaways? It's hard to tell.
Thank you FramFramson, the models are I suppose 2.5D with the details just printed and weathered...
Missed this the first time round, glad I've caught up 8) 8) 8)
cheers
James
Thanks James :D I must tear myself away from the FPW and get back to old Japan!!
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Ah. Quite reminiscent of the late Captain Richards' (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=profile;u=3962;sa=showPosts) work in that regard.
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Ah. Quite reminiscent of the late Captain Richards' (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=profile;u=3962;sa=showPosts) work in that regard.
Wow, there's some amazing work. I can't say I've ever seen that before, and if he has passed away, the hobby is worse for it. A loss!
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Excellent work. How did you do the wooden beams on the underside of the roof?
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Amazingly good, something to inspire us all
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Ah. Quite reminiscent of the late Captain Richards' (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=profile;u=3962;sa=showPosts) work in that regard.
This is good :) Thank you FramFramson... if nothing else, photo textures save an awful lot of brushwork!! :D
Excellent work. How did you do the wooden beams on the underside of the roof?
Thanks Osmoses, the beams are simply thin strips of mounting board about 2mm wide which are then stained and dusted, took an age to stick them all on tho...
Amazingly good, something to inspire us all
Many thanks Vagabond, much appreciated ;)
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I've just gone through the text rather than just being blown away by the pictures and was amazed that this is graphics not paintwork.
I have always had a soft spot for card buildings but this akin to paper buildings as Concorde is akin to a Sopwith pup.
I also realised that the other most inspirational Japanese building post was your village a few months ago.
You are amazingly talented.
Don't let this go to your head you need to keep practising, post your results for us to criticise. ;)
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Thanks Osmoses, the beams are simply thin strips of mounting board about 2mm wide which are then stained and dusted, took an age to stick them all on tho...
Thanks. I feared as much. I remember doing the same thing with balsa many years ago, and it did take forever. I was hoping that you'd maybe discovered some miraculous material that came in sheets :)
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Don't let this go to your head you need to keep practising, post your results for us to criticise. ;)
Many thanks Vagabond... high praise indeed :D I do need to restore my MoJo...
Thanks. I feared as much. I remember doing the same thing with balsa many years ago, and it did take forever. I was hoping that you'd maybe discovered some miraculous material that came in sheets :)
Alas no Osmoses... it does come in sheets, but you have to cut it up!! lol Many thanks...