'A Tale of Four Gamers'

[FierceKitty]

'nutha baggage waggon. Marking time waiting for a new range to fire my imagination.

[Techno]

Started the penultimate code for the next Warband army. (Actually, I stuck some of the wee chaps on corks, last thing yesterday afternoon.)
Finished the tweaks & soldering 15 feeds on the last two codes. (Soldering feeds is a job that's a pain......But today it went really well.....Must be down to the extra arm I've stitched on.  )
Cheers - Phil

[O Dinas Powys]

Started prepping my desert rats earlier this week 

Evil crab-walkers and robo-soldiers primed and some base coated 

Having a wobble about how to base them now, was going to do squad bases, might go for 25mm round bases with a couple of figures then use sabot bases for squad type stuff 

Decisions, decisions... 

Cheers!

Meirion

[Techno]

Half (15 figures) of the new code well under way.
Nine of these all but done, apart from a tiny bit of cleaning up to do on three of them.
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Almost finished the next batch of Samurai, only about another week of details to do...

[Leman]

Busy day today on my WIP lancers. Reins highlighted, horses coats highlighted, riders hands done. whole lot took about 2 1/2 hours. May get the bamboo lances completed tonight.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

About halfway though the detail stage after 2 1/2 hours.
Too tired to carry on, been a long week!!
All is good, just need tozzzzzzzz...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Bamboo shafts, then Many many lines on bamboo weapon shafts done, bridles and bits done.
Flag mons, horse flashes, bronze work and tack details still to do...   
Samuari take forever!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Not said this for a while - WORK FASTER, and for Phil - WORK SAFER. After all those the flint tools are SHARP.

IanS

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ian-
I'm going to have to, another five units to do plus generals and camp to sort...

Anyone got a suggestion for a Samurai camp? 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Seated general and bamboo screens, or the obvious one tents.

IanS

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Think I'm heading to an extension of my preexisting seated general, just doing the maths of base conversion and looking up cherry trees on tinterweb!

[O Dinas Powys]

Good news: great progress on my Robots of Death and attack drones 

Bad news: Crab Walkers ruined when I flooded them with spray paint
Tried using the upside-down aerosol to spray off the excess paint trick, but all to no avail

Wacked them in Dettol whilst still soggy, so hopefully I'll be able to strip the paint adequately for a second go...

Fingers crossed!

Meirion

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Youch!
Fingers crossed mate.

Samurai batch had arm details and metalwork done tonight. Mon on flags to do, then sort out and basing soon...
Plus two 'extras' that will be generals, more on those later.

[Techno]

Penultimate code of the Lizards all but done.
Photo to 'Da Boss' for checking.

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

WORK FASTER

Well not told you for a while, also stop this fantasy garbage, star work on some proper stuff. The way it is at moment we will be getting 16th century Mexicans soon.

IanS

[Techno]

WORK FASTER

......Shan't !
Still got loads of fantasy to do, as well.
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Samurai batch done, plus two generals.

Question: other samurai painters, are your units 'regular' ie looking the same, not bowel movements, or 'irregular' and multi coloured?
All the Renaissance Japanese sources have different armour, but modern reenactors in photos have similar armour? 

[FierceKitty]

Apart from the Ii Red Devils, I have my samurai (and monks) in varied positions and colour schemes; ashigaru are uniform.
It is worth remembering that those pretty woodblocks are not contemporary records: they mainly date to the 19th century, so are hardly super-authoritative sources.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thanks mate.
The exact opposite of where I'm headed with mine! All my ashugari are individuals and the samurai are going to be uniform!