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Miniatures Adventure => Adventures in the Far East => Topic started by: OSHIROmodels on January 12, 2012, 03:45:15 PM
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One of the many commissions I have to do is done and there is a small write up on my blog about it and some more detail on the SALUTE board :)
It's of a small building base that utilises parts form the catalogue and some scratch built elements.
(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk138/jimbibbly/samurai/DSCF9464.jpg)
http://jimbibblyblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/slowly-bringing-in-new-year.html (http://jimbibblyblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/slowly-bringing-in-new-year.html)
cheers
James
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I likey, especially the well :)
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Fabulous work James.
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Its all these commissions, and your ability to fulfill them so nicely, that allows you to advertise for a figure cleaner ;D
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I love the fence and the well. Do you have any photograph of a real life square well?
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Thanks chaps :)
Its all these commissions, and your ability to fulfill them so nicely, that allows you to advertise for a figure cleaner ;D
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I love the fence and the well. Do you have any photograph of a real life square well?
Somewhere on the desktop but you should be able to find them on google if you look. I will be making proper ones to go in the catalogue soon :)
cheers
James
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Lovely piece of terrain there Jim
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Genuine question (albeit one that maybe based on an erroneous assumption).
These are fabulous models. The Japanese have a long standing reputation for loving detailed models, I'm thinking of all the plastic kit manufacturers, Tamiya, Hasegawa, etc, etc. They also have a fondness for little things like bonzai, which is really a form of hybrid gardening and modelling.
Do these sell well in Japan? I should have thought there would be a considerable non-wargaming market there. Feel free to answer or not Jim. Just curious.
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I have had one Japanese customer in the five years of doing it and to be honest, he was a surprise (nice chap to boot, very good English).
Wargaming isn't so popular over there mainly because of the time involved. The kids spend six days a week at school and most go to after school clubs in the evenings and Sundays. Likewise, the business men work long hours and so computer games are very popular, you can just switch it off whenever.
Kit making is very popular, because although it is time consuming and labour intensive, you only have to do a little bit at a time.
Model railways are very popular for the same reason (although space can be an issue when you see the size of some of the flats etc lol ).
I know there is a growing group of ex-pats over there (West Tokyo Wargamers being one) and GW have a foot hold, I even popped in a few years ago and we weren't accosted :)
The stuff I do is for wargaming and not dioramas, there is quite a difference and the people there who do period dioramas (not as many as you'd think) have the talent to do it themselves.
The Japanese appreciate and respect skill a lot more than other countries (that's how it seems to me) and although the sort of thing we do is still looked at askance there is still the appreciation there.
I hope that makes sense and if anyone has anything to add or alter (I'm going on my own personal opinion and through talking to my wife [who's Japanese and really has no clue lol ]) then please feel free to do so :)
cheers
James
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That's lovely James. 8)
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Thanks for the response Jim. You might want to edit your response lest your good wife stumbles on that post. they can be unforgiving creatures. :)
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Very nice work on all of them.
Looking forward to seeing your table at Salute!
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Thanks for the response Jim. You might want to edit your response lest your good wife stumbles on that post. they can be unforgiving creatures. :)
I'm not worried, she's said it herself on many an occasion lol
cheers
James
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Funny though, they seem to make quite a lot of kits of various Samurai castles in different scales. Just thought this might appeal.
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Stunning work! I checked out your blog to and the terrain on there is excellent :o :-*
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Thanks again chaps, the nice comments keep me going :)
Funny though, they seem to make quite a lot of kits of various Samurai castles in different scales. Just thought this might appeal.
Again, these are either for the model railway enthusiasts or general modelmakers. There has been a resurgence over the past fifteen/twenty years or so for reconstructing the stone castle tenshu (the most familiar castle 'image') as the Japanese are embracing their past a bit more.
More recently there have been reconstructions of the more common wooden yamashiro as more sites have been unearthed.
The kits that you are on about don't really lend themselves to gaming and would only sit on the table edge as a backdrop for 6mm games (1/300 or thereabouts). There a some approximate 15mm scale religious buildings (1/100 or 1/150) that can be utilised. You can also find now more tenshu kits in a larger scale more suited to 28mm but these are wooden kits and should be treated as such. They can be changed into full colour gaming peices but really don't look the part.
Anyway, I'm rambling again :)
cheers
James
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Cracking build :-* :-* :-*
I love the atmosphere you always manage to get into your builds.
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Cool. Always interesting to get a handle on what makes other cultures tick and I've always found Japanese populat culture a bit baffling with all those manga, cosplay, Hello Kitty, type cutey-kitsch obsessions.
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I'm a wargamer based in Tokyo for the last six or seven years, and I can confirm there's not much of a tabletop gaming scene here, for all the reasons that jimbibbly mentioned. And I've never once seen a Japanese historical/samurai wargame played here.
I do know some clubs around Tokyo where they play GW games, Warmachine/Hordes, Infinity, Malifaux, etc. These clubs usually rent a room and set up tables at local community centers to play on the weekend. Living space is at a premium here, and most people don't have room to game at home. There's also not really a culture of casually inviting your friends around to your house; people tend to entertain outside the house (at bars or restaurants or whatever).
But on the bright side, geek culture is pretty widespread here and non-gamers are mostly very accepting of modeling/gaming as a hobby, even for grown men who should have put aside childish pursuits years ago.
Back OT, this looks to be another lovely build, jimbib! I've been eyeing off all your J-scenery for a dream project which I'll start one day when i have more room.