Author Topic: 28mm Samurai: Sekigahara Project (Read 21365 times)

Smoke Frog · « **Reply #45 on:** July 21, 2020, 03:55:46 AM »

Large crop of ashigaru and the heroes are fully based up.

Samurai Jack posing next to Tokugawa Ieyasu:

Samurai on foot:

Samurai Board is also complete:

Here are the buildings I constructed, all using leftover foam board. The roofs are cardboard.

Smoke Frog · « **Reply #46 on:** July 21, 2020, 04:08:51 AM »

Since the board is complete, here is a host of photos to show it off!

Ii Clan forces encounter the Otani Clan:

Test of Honour Bandits:

Samurai skirmish!

Ishida Clan forces:

Ishida Mitsunari and his bannermen:

Ii Clan forces:

Ii Naomasa and his bannermen:

Kobayakawa forces, the traitors at Sekigahara:

Tokugawa Forces:

Honda Tadakatsu, the loyal Tokugawa general, and his bannermen:

Tokugawa Ieyasu and his retainers:

So much fun working on this project. I especially enjoyed making the scenery, and loved the Steel Fist miniatures! Hope to do a lot more sometime soon!

Dr Mathias · « **Reply #47 on:** July 22, 2020, 09:27:37 PM »

Samurai look great massed up, and individually. Very cool project!

Smoke Frog · « **Reply #48 on:** September 29, 2020, 03:53:39 AM »

Completed a mini-project of multibases for my cherry trees I made earlier in the summer:

This will make it easier to use these trees on a standard skirmish matt if I want too for Test of Honour.

Some dramatic photos of Ronin defending a temple:

Ambush!

cree1978 · « **Reply #49 on:** September 29, 2020, 09:27:30 AM »

That is a tremendous amount of lovely looking stuff, I hope to be in a similar position one day, well done.

If I might give you some feed back and that is a coat of matt varnish (testors dullcote or Mr Hobby Flat are my preferred choices) would just take that sheen off your models and lift the paint jobs further. (of course you may prefer that)

Really appreciate you sharing the effort of all that is immense!

Bloggard · « **Reply #50 on:** September 29, 2020, 12:59:44 PM »

great looking board and collection of figures.

Smoke Frog · « **Reply #51 on:** September 29, 2020, 01:06:16 PM »

Many thanks!

Quote from: cree1978 on September 29, 2020, 09:27:30 AM

If I might give you some feed back and that is a coat of matt varnish (testors dullcote or Mr Hobby Flat are my preferred choices) would just take that sheen off your models and lift the paint jobs further. (of course you may prefer that)

Funny you mention this, I meant to pick up some matt varnish yesterday when I went to the paint store, but forgot about it until I made it back home

I do like the paint jobs as they are now (in my own barely tabletop worthy level of painting

) but want to experiment with it some more, specifically for applying water transfers in the future.

Smoke Frog · « **Reply #52 on:** October 25, 2020, 01:44:12 AM »

Took a break from my burgeoning Cryx warband to get back to some samurai cavalry this weekend.

Got a few more additions to the clans, starting with the Shimazu Clan along with previously painted cavalry models:

Ukita Clan:

Konishi Clan:

And two archers who could fit in with any clan right now:

Also completed my Red Devils of the Ii Clan finally:

Red Devils with Ii Naomasa leading them:

A couple more pictures of the cavalry as a group for the road!

Codsticker · « **Reply #53 on:** November 14, 2020, 02:28:52 AM »

Very colourful!

Smoke Frog · « **Reply #54 on:** November 16, 2020, 03:09:44 PM »

Got some more Perry and Kensei miniatures over the weekend and have started working on them, they will be enough to finish off three more daimyo: Ukita, Fukushima, and Shimazu.

The Kensei model will fill in for Fukushima Masanori of the Eastern Army

Planning to base his armor off this historical example:

The Kensei model is 32mm, so quite a bit bigger than the 28mm warlord games Ukita on the left. He is nearly the same size as the Steel Fist Honda model I already painted, mostly because of how big the horse is.

Also got some progress on the banners and on Shimazu Yoshihiro himself:

sundayhero · « **Reply #55 on:** November 16, 2020, 04:53:00 PM »

really nice project, where did you find the color schemes for the uniforms, please ?

thanks

Smoke Frog · « **Reply #56 on:** November 16, 2020, 09:13:49 PM »

Quote from: sundayhero on November 16, 2020, 04:53:00 PM

really nice project, where did you find the color schemes for the uniforms, please ?

thanks

To be honest the color schemes are from all over the place. I find examples on the internet and try and duplicate them with the paint on hand. Since my goal is creating two roughly-equivalent forces of equal size depicting the two sides in the Battle of Sekigahara, I decided to make the Eastern Army have a "red" theme, and the Western Army a "blue" theme. Granted this doesn't always match up, but its the goal.

Some examples:

Shimazu Clan- inspired by the green warriors painted by Alfons the Traitor over on Beasts of War. I am keeping the green and swapped blue for red.
Ishida Clan- inspired by the Warlord Games ashigaru scheme
Ii Clan- these guys are easy, they are just red. Many examples all over the internet on these guys
Tokugawa Clan- inspired by Kriget Kommer's amazing samurai army

The banners (sashimono, nobori, etc) are mostly modelled off of the sekigahara screen (first page of this thread) and banners found on either google search or in the samurai archives thread.

Also good reference on armor is this video; turns out most armor of the time period didn't actually match as it was mostly colored based on what was on hand, except for specific circumstances like Ii Naomasa's Red Devils.