Finished Ronin and Sanada WIP

So I finished my ronin, a nice looking unit, nothing that good about it, but ok.

This would be about 600 ronin,

I like this red dude,

I'm now also almost done with my Takeda Shingen force, I only need to finish the ashigaru unit and General/bodyguard, this will be the forces under the direct command of Shingen, it will be about 4600 Troops.

The next "division" is that of Sanada Yukitaka, It will be somewhat smaller, it will have a big unit of 1800 shigaru, a smaler unit of ashigaru, one unit of samurai, one unit of teppo armed ashigaru and one with bows., in other words very close to the one under Shingen exept for the cav, As Shingen will have about 600 mounted samurai.

The first unit I'm making is the teppo armed ashigaru, this will be a standard smalish unit of 16 figures or 600 ashigaru, It was nice getting to paint a diffrent banner, tho this banner is also kinda hard to paint, even tho it sounds simple, just 6 black dots on a red banner, but getting the dots to be right is not easy.

This is my forces so far. This would be 4800 soldiers.

More Japanese

So done some more figures, finished my archers, again since these are ashigaru, the armor is simple, just bare metal with some lace.

I still suck free hand so the banners suck, but they kinda work, make it look like tin soldiers kinda.

I've also started work on my Ronin, since these these are lordless samurai, I did two types of armor, more elaborate and expenvice with lots of color, and more cheaply in bare metal and just black lace. Basicly the better of ronin got more expencive armor, and the poorer ones got simple armor.

The more expenvice armor is either black or brown, some got a mix of white and purple lace, others got green and white or blue and white.

And Now for something completly diffrent

So I've restarted my Samurai project,

This is for Killer Katanas 2,

So I got a few more packs. and I've been thinking about what kind of force to make, This is takeda force, The plan is so far 3 big Ashiguru formation each of 1800 soldiers, With teppo and archers inbetween the formations.

Then behind these, I'll have smaller Ashiguru formations, aswell as samurai, I'm also thinking of a sparate division of "mercs" with ronin and monks.

My table is a little small for a full army, So I'm thinking my army should be 20-25 000.

Unlike my normal projects, I've decided to do one army at a time.

I've also decided to do all my ashiguru in bare metal, with diffrent laces, to stand out from the rest. the idea is that they would not spend alot of money on laqure, so I gave them a dull metal look.

These figures are quite hard to paint, I've gotten better at painting since last time I did this project.

So far I've only done two bases of Archers and these two bases of monks since I restarted the project. My first monks in the back rank, were very dull, in brown cloaks, I did instead a new take on them in colorfull cloaks. Since they don't have the back banner, they need color to stand out on the battlefield.

My force so far, one medium unit of ashiguru, one small unit of samurai, one small unit of mounted samurai, one small unit of monks, one small unit of teppo, I got enough ashiguru to make one of my 1800 soldier strong formations, thats 12 bases or 48 figures, I got enough archers for a small unit, and enough teppo for a medium unit, I also got more monks, some ronin, more samurai, ashiguru with swords.

More Hood's Texans

So I thought I was done with this unit, but I've decided to expand it to a 24 figure unit instead of 18.

So again this is really Iron brigade figures, just painted as hood's texans.

I did all the frock coas in grey, with some butter nut trousers.

This is my rebs so far,

Finished Battery

So this is a two model battery, representing 4 real guns, which is the standard number of rebel guns. This works for like a bazlilion rules, Guns at gettysburg, Black powder, and ofcourse fire and fury.

Hoods division had like 4 batteries I think.

It's kinda anoying, the evil rebs have divisional artillery park, but the evil yankies only got corps artillery park, I guess my union division could have attached artillery.

Also there is a big diffrence in the size of these formations, So basicly Hoods division has 18 regiments and 4 batteries, the union 1st division/5th Corps only got 12 regiments and no artillery. Even if you give the 20th Maine ungoodly powers like close air suport and a couple of miniguns it's still a big diffrence,

All in all a good looking battery.

Reb artilery and hood's texans.

Well not really, these are chinese hud's texuns, not the real thing. most of you will see that these are actualy iron brigade figures, that I painted as hoods texans, as I gather, both used the frock coat, but the hardee hats and leggings kinda give them away.

I tried to hide the hardee hats by painting them grey and brown.

I did the leggings in butternut.

And I finished the base of the artillery.

I think this gun and crew looks very good.

Here "hood's texans" defend the gun