Glenning's East Asian adventures(Gaming shots added 24/4)

[glenning]

As the title suggest - this will be the thread were I post all of my Asia-related stuff - small warbands and individual miniatures for games like Ronin as well as Test of Honour. I've got my first Ashigaru and Samurai at the painting station ATM, I've cleaned and primed some monks and a rag tag bunch of minis which could represent Ikko-Ikki, bandits or even Wokou. I've also ordered a bunch of Koreans from the Perry bro's.

Anyway, let's start with some scenery! A couple of Japanese-style buildings from 4ground - with some additional painting, weathering and scratchmade thatched roof from IKEA towels. Great kits to build all around but their website seems to be down, are they still around?

Anyway, thanks for looking and stay tuned for more!

[manic _miner]

 Very nice building and great work on the thatched roof.

 Looking forward to seeing your project take shape and seeing the first painted miniatures.

 Been on doing some terrain for a similar project.

[glenning]

Thanks a lot - appreciate it!

It's a pretty easy method but it looks great in the end IMO. All you need is an old IKEA towel, some water, PVA glue and a tooth brush.

[Metternich]

The thatched roofing is very effective.  Great looking house.

[sir_shvantselot]

Ooh, the IKEA make all the difference.

[marianas_gamer]

Your thatching makes all the difference on the building. Nice work.

[EnclavedMicrostate]

With regards to 4Ground, they shut their doors at the end of June. Long story short, their terrain business was a side gig while their main business was producing souvenir swords for gift shops, which collapsed due to Covid killing UK tourism, and that led to a load of internal restructuring that ultimately led to 4Ground and its terrain business being wound up. This was combined with an ultimately unfulfilled Kickstarter where they got halfway through production and then didn't actually ship. How everything got where it did is a little strange and there is a writeup on Reddit about it (which, full disclosure, I wrote): https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/vcu34h/tabletop_wargaming_4ground_fades_into_the/

[glenning]

Thanks a lot for the feedback as well as the info on 4ground. Sad to see them go but some pages still have their stuff in stock whis is a silver lining.

Anyway, here's my first finished mini, for my "Red warband" - as you can see I went with Obu Toramasa.
It's one of the superb Perry ones - very detailed so it took a while - glad to be doing small warbands for smaller games ... 
Pretty pleased with the result except I'm not really satisfied with the sashimono - might redo it in the future, but for now it'll suffice.

I've got a bunch of Ashigaru - 5 with yari and 5 with arquebus on the workbench as we speak so stay tuned for more red goodness soon. Thanks for looking!

[OSHIROmodels]

He looks great 

[commissarmoody]

Send in the Red Bull!. 

[glenning]

Haha, thanks guys! Made a new Sashimono - I think this one looks way better!

[glenning]

I think I'm going to pick up this code from Perry - would it be authentic to replace the naval carriage with a bigger, more menacing looking one and if so, which one would fit the bill?
Thanks in advance!

[OSHIROmodels]

There’s a larger cannon here; JA03 

https://oshiromodels.wixsite.com/oshiromodelswebshop/28additions

[glenning]

Oooh now we're talking - great stuff, thanks man! Lots of good stuff there! 

[glenning]

Would some random European wheeled mid/late 16th century one with wheels work as well?

Btw, really great stuff on your site - expect an order soon.