Rodney2q
LE
Been sat at home since saturday night with a sore throat, coughing and sneezing and a runny nose... 
Still, it has given me an excuse to assemble the various samurai models. I want to get them assembled and primed before the new Games Workshop toys arrive 'cos I just know I will get distracted with all the shiny new stuff...
Ashigaru footsoldiers - spearmen and some arquebusiers and archers...
Mounted samurai. These are much better than the Warlord Games models I was given. The detail is better and there are a lot more weapon and armour options. The horses are also easier to assemble and easier to stand up on the bases. They do make up into some nice dynamic poses as well.
Samurai on foot armedwith spears and naginata..
The Lord - I used matching armour and heads so I could have the Lord either mounted or dismounted. The head has lots of character as well and will stand out without the helmet covering his features.
Archers...
The bows weren't as thick as those on the two mounted archers I made up previously. These were just over 1mm thick. It was a bugger of a job to drill them out to string the bows with cotton and it took bloody ages to thread the cotton through the bows as I couldn't make the holes any bigger without breaking the bows.
Never again - that way madness lies...
Last jobs will be to use tissue paper and pva glue to wrap the waist belts/sashes around the swords to make them look as though they been (correctly) pushed under the belts to hold them in place rather than just being glued to the models. If I don't do it will bug me every time I look at them...
As a bonus it looks like the mounted samurai set comes with more upper body pieces than are needed to make the 12 cavalry models, so we should be able to combine these with some of the extra legs and arms left over from the other boxes to make up a few extra models.
Still, it has given me an excuse to assemble the various samurai models. I want to get them assembled and primed before the new Games Workshop toys arrive 'cos I just know I will get distracted with all the shiny new stuff...
Ashigaru footsoldiers - spearmen and some arquebusiers and archers...
Mounted samurai. These are much better than the Warlord Games models I was given. The detail is better and there are a lot more weapon and armour options. The horses are also easier to assemble and easier to stand up on the bases. They do make up into some nice dynamic poses as well.
Samurai on foot armedwith spears and naginata..
The Lord - I used matching armour and heads so I could have the Lord either mounted or dismounted. The head has lots of character as well and will stand out without the helmet covering his features.
Archers...
The bows weren't as thick as those on the two mounted archers I made up previously. These were just over 1mm thick. It was a bugger of a job to drill them out to string the bows with cotton and it took bloody ages to thread the cotton through the bows as I couldn't make the holes any bigger without breaking the bows.
Never again - that way madness lies...
Last jobs will be to use tissue paper and pva glue to wrap the waist belts/sashes around the swords to make them look as though they been (correctly) pushed under the belts to hold them in place rather than just being glued to the models. If I don't do it will bug me every time I look at them...
As a bonus it looks like the mounted samurai set comes with more upper body pieces than are needed to make the 12 cavalry models, so we should be able to combine these with some of the extra legs and arms left over from the other boxes to make up a few extra models.
