Samurai Castle

[Argonor]

Some nice ideas for LotR Easterlings... 

[Captaingeneral]

Are the roof tiles just corrugated card?

Very effective...

Yes the roofs of the Castle are corrugated card but not in layers, they have rows scored along them with a craft knife.

[Argonor]

Ah, yes, got it. Two different approaches to the same task.

[Grimm]

  love it !!!

[DrunkenSamurai]

This is just amazing!  Between this and the Okko stuff I am doomed! 

[flytime]

they look great, both of them .

[majorsmith]

wow!!!!!!!! thats an amazing castle!!!!! cant wait to see some figures from your army!

As always all comments welcome and is anyone else doing Oriental stuff? I like to see whats out there

im doing samurai in 1/35th scale, my dad painted the start of my collection as a christmas pressie!

[BigMecha]

the castle is outstanding!!

and the Samurai's are awesome! 

great painting work!!

[Captaingeneral]

Thankyou you are all very kind

wow!!!!!!!! thats an amazing castle!!!!! cant wait to see some figures from your army!

As soon as I can get some good light, I'll try and do some nicer pictures than the odd one on the website, with some nice terrain, but be aware they aren't in as good as yours.

[Schweizer]

For someone who's never looked for corrugated card before, any ideas as to where I might find some?  I put in an order last week for the Zvezda Samurai Castle only to be told that "they no longer exist," so I'm itching to scratchbuild, but thought the roofs too daunting.

Would it be the inside of packing envelopes?

Clanty - if you DO writ a tutorial, please, let us know!

[Rabbitz]

Most storage places do it along with the other packaging materials.    You know the places where people can put all there belongings into storage.

[white knight]

I found some the other week in a "paper" shop (the kind that has all sorts of paper, cardboard and such for crafts  and school).

[fastolfrus]

Going to Japan for the summer, so may well get the bug whilst there.............

You used to be able to get plastic kits of castles/temples etc although most are quite small scale (1/300 or smaller) - we have a couple that look ok as backdrops for 15mm games, but there may be bigger kits available that you wouldn't get to see over here.

[fastolfrus]

For someone who's never looked for corrugated card before, any ideas as to where I might find some? 

Card crafting (or scrapbooking) stores might be a starting point for a search - but card crafters pay ridiculous amounts for some of their stuff. I think there's an American store called Michael's ? Not sure about that.
Card crafters actually have a gadget to make your own corrugations - might be called a ribbler ? but not sure how useful it would be.

[Onimusha]

The castles look just awesome, I have done one myself and try to make a picture tonight when my lighting is good. Here is another japanese temple I made


After seeing the okko scenery board I was hooked on that game since I always had a weak spot for japanese miniatures and the beautiful scenery was just too much for me to resist

For the rooftiles on the temple I used strokes of cardboard with thin bamboo straws cut in half to glue vertical.