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Author Topic: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro/Wajo (Update August 2021)  (Read 40554 times)

Offline von Lucky

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update March 6th 2019)
« Reply #105 on: March 08, 2019, 10:07:45 AM »
A nice test piece. Will the posts on the end be half widths? And how will you deal with corners?
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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update March 6th 2019)
« Reply #106 on: March 08, 2019, 10:19:13 AM »
The posts at the ends are the same width as the others (they are already very fine)

For the corners I'm going to do corner elements, logically I'm making one this weekend

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update March 6th 2019)
« Reply #107 on: March 08, 2019, 11:03:18 AM »
But will it look weird when you put two lengths together? (I don't know the answer to that.)

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update March 6th 2019)
« Reply #108 on: March 08, 2019, 11:25:51 AM »
But will it look weird when you put two lengths together? (I don't know the answer to that.)

No , don't worry : i will show you when i will have 2 or more lengh made !

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update March 6th 2019)
« Reply #109 on: March 12, 2019, 10:55:45 AM »
Hi !

Here are some more lengths of walls including a "corner"







Next achievement: a door

For now I realize these sections of walls using only falls of cardboard and balsa! (I preciously keep the falls from a certain height, well I'm doing well!)

I have enough to make at least 3 or even 4 meters of walls, I will work on plans of prototypical Yamashiro to make the whole as flexible as possible ...

To be continued ...

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update March 12th 2019)
« Reply #110 on: April 28, 2019, 05:51:33 PM »
Hi !

Back after an absence due to my PC down!

I continue to experiment, always in the optics of building modular elements allowing me to constitute Japanese castles as well of the beginning of XVIe S (Wood and plaster) that of the second half of XVIe S (with the multiplication of the bases in stones and roofs with tiles)

Here are two fortified doors: note that the door itself (the ground floor what) is the same, I simply interchanged the floor ...









For later versions, I first thought of getting inspired by Tsuwano Castle:






Well, it's a beautiful castle, it's in the Chugoku, I can adapt the dimensions to fit on a large table 240 X 180, the highest court will culminate to 40/45 cm high, there are Stairs and stairs,  very interesting ...

But it's been a long time since I spotted Bitchu Castle - Matsuyama!



Same: Chugoku, adaptable on large table, different levels, flanks, what to make a beautiful piece!

I think I will work to the maximum modularity to be able to more or less do the 2 ...

We will go slowly but surely: I will start by assembling some lengths of walls (2 different types), a guard tower (Yagura) of about 15 cm side and 2 levels, a dungeon (Tensho) of 3 levels at least, and 25 cm side (this will be my maximum) plus some gates more or less complex / fortified, and I will start working on the stony bases to see how I will work on modularity and differences in level ...

There's work, it's quite stressful, but it's exciting, and at the materials level it's not very expensive ...

To be continued ...

PS Do not hesitate to tell me which of the 2 castles you prefer, and why!

PPS Level figs I have enough to make a great army Mori (already well advanced), a very large army of Ikkis (monks fighters, Ronins and peasants in arms) about 205 figures that have the distinction of being all different each other (!), and a small Amako army. (I also have a big Ming army, I have to mount an army of Koreans Choson). And I continue to work on a system of campaign, little by little it is rather complex, I will surely create several situations of departure according to the times ...


Offline Lord Raglan

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update April 28th 2019)
« Reply #111 on: April 28, 2019, 06:04:14 PM »
Outstanding thread, so much inspiration!!

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update April 28th 2019)
« Reply #112 on: May 01, 2019, 04:09:23 AM »
Fantastic miniature carpentry!

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update April 28th 2019)
« Reply #113 on: May 03, 2019, 10:17:05 PM »
Lovely stuff - slowly but surely is the way to go.

I don't have a preference of castle - both are interesting (I think your idea of being able to do both is the way to go).

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update April 28th 2019)
« Reply #114 on: May 04, 2019, 06:58:59 AM »

I think your idea of being able to do both is the way to go

Indeed !

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update April 28th 2019)
« Reply #115 on: May 04, 2019, 07:30:07 AM »
I continue my research!

Here are some illustrations from Rekishi Gunzo (volumes on Mori Motonari and Mori clan)








Besides that these illustrations are superb and inspiring, they confirm to me what my research revealed to me: that these famous castles, all plaster, tiles and stone bases, monumental, date from the end of the 16th century at least, and represent mainly the next period called "Edo" ...

Until around at least 1550/60, Japanese castles are basically made of wood!

The first dungeon dates from ... 1557!

On the other hand we can see on some illustrations that  there is an intermediate period or at the foot of the mountain there are already more evolved buildings while on the heights the wooden Yamajiro continues to dominate .. .

It is very interesting, and it encourages me to realize a whole series of buildings in wood and plaster, as well as walls of this kind, to reproduce these famous wooden castles type Yamajiro which seem for a long time to have been the norm, and still more at Chugoku.

And if you look at one of the illustrations, we see one of these Yamajiro "hybrids" (with some stone bases) subjected to an artillery fire! We are clearly advanced in the sixteenth century!

I will still make a beautiful "black" castle with its various levels, its keep and its stone bases, but I will certainly realize what to do with these famous wooden Yamajiro!

You have not finished seeing my achievements;)

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update April 28th 2019)
« Reply #116 on: May 06, 2019, 11:46:43 PM »
Your scratchbuilding is simply superb!  :o :-*  I always leave feeling inspired.  Can't wait to see what you come up with next!

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update April 28th 2019)
« Reply #117 on: May 16, 2019, 06:12:39 AM »
 :oCan't wait to see more progress on your buildings...love them all!!!!! :-* :-*

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro / Wajo (Update April 28th 2019)
« Reply #118 on: May 21, 2019, 04:13:22 PM »
Great "Tensho" WIP





Well, it's going to take some time, huh!

What is interesting is that for a footprint not much larger than my little dungeon, I should have a much larger interior area!

If everything goes well there will be 5 floors

Subsequently I would do an interior design

I will be inspired by a castle described in an Osprey:

Floor 1 = living rooms (4)
Floor 2 = weapons and armor storage
Floor 3 = Living rooms

For the rest I would be logical: the ground floor for example will surely be a "big room" ...

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Re: [Sengoku Jidaļ] Byblos's Yamajiro/Wajo (Update May 21th 2019)
« Reply #119 on: July 01, 2019, 02:29:50 PM »
Hi !

WIP : This time on the Yamashiro base, period beginning/ middle 16th century: I work on a simple plan, with a main courtyard surrounded by walls, other courtyards and terraces surrounded by palisades ...



From Takane Castle (Once owned by the Takeda)












The progression on the main courtyard (N°3 on the plan), note that the palisades will be on terraces located at a lower level ...












Note that the palisades are made of ... suchi mats! The idea was inspired me by the excellent blog "Wab Corner":

http://wabcorner.blogspot.com/2013/12/siege-of-haengju-terrain-wip-1.html

Let him be thanked!

To follow;)

 

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