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Samurai
I dug up these to see how many I actually had. The nice ones are pre-painted ones from eM-4, the crappy ones I did around '87 when I was still breathing solvent fumes.
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Samurai
Most of mine are Dixon miniatures, but one came from a Kinder egg. Yes, I really was that cheap, painting up crap from easter eggs.
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Samurai
These are the nice eM-4 ones.
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Samurai
I think I redid the monk and the sumo wrestler at a later date, which explains why they don't suck quite as much.
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Samurai dwelling
These are Hovels 25mm Samurai line.
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Samurai dwelling
I think I need some more/bigger houses. Maybe I'll try building some as soon as I get this stuff painted.
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House in the hills
Argh! No! Another useless top view...
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House in the hills
I bought a pile of these pieces without really thinking about the layout.
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House in the hills
The walls came in two batches. For some reason, the first batch contained walls with the creeping vines while the second batch was all clean -- even though there's only one order code for these walls.
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House in the hills
The corner piece length is NOT one half of straight piece, which limits the layout options somewhat.
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House in the hills
The house. These are done almost entirely in Winsor & Newton tube acrylics... except the white bits, which are mostly cheap indoor latex and the blue curtain, which is done in Miniature Paints with a dash of Warzone blue ink.
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House in the hills
These are all Hovels 25mm scenics.
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House in the hills
Doing the plankwork on the house was actually rather irritating...
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House in the hills
Another view of the house. I guess I could have defined the blinds better, but I was again getting the stage where I just wanted the damn thing to be finished.
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House in the hills
Since I did not paint up my new batch of samurai figures yet, I dug up some old ones for action shots.
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House in the hills
The nice ones are pre-painted ones I bought from em-4. The crappy ones are some Dixon minis I originally did almost 20 years ago, redid maybe 12 years ago and got ruined by a batch of bad varnish!
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House in the hills
The ishidori have maybe 5 levels of shading... not that you'd notice, they turned out much too dark.
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House in the hills
The monk is mine, but I can't remember whether I actually painted it or not. Could have been a friend of mine who actually has artistic talent.
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House in the hills
Samurai in colorful armor.
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House in the hills
Showdown in the sunset.
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House in the hills
The gate... the gate...
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House in the hills
More Hovels samurai housing goodness. This is the old house.
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House in the hills
Another view of the old house. And I still dislike doing the plankwork...
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House in the hills
Yet another view of the old house...
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House in the hills
Country inn, I think. I like how the roof came out.
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House in the hills
Considering that I prettu much just splurged some color on the sacks, they look ok.
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House in the hills
Candlemaker's store, I believe, is what they call this model.
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House in the hills
This one was much much faster to paint because it doesn't have that white stuff and planking.
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House in the hills
Here are all the Hovels samurai houses on display.
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House in the hills
Another view of the samurai houses.
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Samurai Cavalry
The one on the left is Grenadier, the one on the right is from Dixon. AD&D Oriental Adventures had just come out and we just had to play it.
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Samurai Cavalry
Closeup of the Grenadier samurai.
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Samurai Cavalry
Dixon samurai. I think this has been partly repainted at later date.
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Samurai Cavalry
At the time, my character in our Kara-Tur campaign was a member of the Tomato clan - thus the banner.
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Samurai
The three samurai -- we're on a budget here.
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Samurai
See how the water gleams... oh, there are some figures in the picture too.
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Samurai
Hybrid style: Flesh is 3-color while the cloth is still traditional wash and drybrush.
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Samurai
Here the cloth is 3-color but it's not the official Foundry palette. Contrast is too stark.
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Samurai
Again, the cloth is inkwashed while flesh is 3-color.
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Samurai
All facing the pond.
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Samurai
Painted fully in Foundry 3-color style, with official Foundry colors. I think I am getting better at this (the yellowish tint is just the camera).
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Samurai
And his backside.
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Samurai
Why is he looking up? Searching for some rooftop ninjas perhaps?
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Samurai
Hmmm... flash ruined the pic.
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Samurai
Two more samurai. It seems the red background cloth has messed the color balance on my camera... too bad.
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Samurai
This model is done entirely in official Foundry colors, but on a white undercoat rather than black. Black does work better with this style.
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Samurai
Unfortunately, the spear wouldn't sit well in the hand, resulting in the unsightly glob of epoxy.
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Samurai
I think the helmet came out well. Note how the base is not dry yet, you can see the white glue on it.
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Samurai
Another samurai. This is not 100% kosher 3-color one, though. The brown cloth is based on a Vallejo color and inkwashed before painting in the highlight. I simply squirted too much Vallejo brown and had to use it somewhere...
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Samurai
The black scabbards are getting a bit boring. I guess I gotta look up some reference pictures and start decorating them.
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Samurai
Very drab overall. I found the black hair a bit problematic, didn't quite know how to highlight it.
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Samurai
And the obligatory overhead view.
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Samurai in vest
I struggled to come up with this color combination, but I'm pretty happy with the end result.
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Samurai in vest
Red is definitely not one of the better colors in the Foundry palette, but this came out ok.
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Clan Wars troopers
I basically painted these to see how fast I could paint them.
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Clan Wars troopers
As Clan Wars is fantasy, so are these outfits. They are inspired by the real thing, but not quite it.
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Clan Wars swordsman
This quilted armor really should be colorful, I tried painting it but the individual strings were just too much, so I repainted it all black...
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Clan Wars swordsman
I gotta find a better way to do shiny swords. This looks pretty crappy.
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Clan Wars archer
This armor doesn't have as much quilting, so it was actually easier to paint. I'm particularly happy with the blue on the pants.
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Clan Wars archer
Another bit of seashell.
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Ronin with spear
Another Dixon samurai tries his luck. This figure comes with separate weapon, I chose yari.
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Ronin with spear
The spearshaft is bent... proving that Dixon is still into the old style alloys.
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Ronin with spear
Hmmm... the white paper background didn't quite work here.
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Ronin with spear
The pants are done in Buff Leather I think and the shirt is Ochre - but you can't really see the difference in the photo. If you zoom in, you'll see how bad the cord on the spearshaft looks. I think a wash would have been better.
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Samurai with sword
Note the shape of the blade. A Sakabatou?
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Samurai with sword
I'm not happy with the pants, there's too much contrast between the shade and the highlight.
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Samurai with sword
The back looks a bit better, IMHO.
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Samurai with sword
That's a real seashell on the base. I collected this authentic sand from a beach in Tenerife and a few bits of shell were included.
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Samurai in vest
Ok, he's got a sword too.
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Samurai with two swords
I'm pretty happy with this one, except the sword blades. I still haven't figured out how to do really shiny blades.
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Samurai with two swords
Macro shows its lack of depth focus again.
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Samurai with two swords
Again, patterns drawn with a technical pen. The hat is drybrushed and with Miniature Paints to boot.
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Samurai with two swords
It's slightly out of focus, but I think I'm getting better with the faces. Especially the gnarly ones like this.
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Samurai lady
I'm not entirely happy with the eyes, but otherwise I think it went pretty well.
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Samurai lady
I think the pants went especially well.
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Samurai lady too
The color combination is wrong. Should have been black pants and yellow shirt, since fair hair is not really an option.
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Samurai lady too
Black is surprisingly easy to do in 3-color, IMHO. Not quite satisfied with the hair, though. The patterns are done with a technical drawing pen.
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Samurai with fan
Another cheater: The brown robe and the green armor are both inked. Naughty me!
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Samurai with fan
But the red vest is okay, I think, as are the chrome-dome highlights.
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Samurai with hat
I should have used some other color for the socks. The starter set colors are pretty limited actually. You basically have one red, one green, one blue, black and white and a bunch of kinda brownish tones. Wouldn't be a problem if you mix, but the whole point of the Foundry paints is not needing to mix.
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Samurai with hat
The red jacket is looking a bit bland even with the patterns. I wish they made technical pens in white or yellow...
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Ronin
I'm fine, honest I am...
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Ronin
Sneaky gits.
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Ronin
Woo-hoo, my superdudes finally manage to kill a couple of spear-carriers.
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Ronin
Ikkoku-ryu is ready to start.
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Ronin
Let's go thataway.
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Ronin
Hiding behind the bush.
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Ronin
Sohei horde advancing.
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Ronin
The only way to avoid becoming a pincushion.
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Ronin
Ok, follow me.
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Ronin
The clash is imminent.
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Ronin
Battleline advances.
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Ronin
Hmm.... this did not go according to plan.
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