Plastic Prefecture

Hi all, happy Halloween!

Sadly I've been working over the Halloween weekend and have missed all the celebrations and have been too tired to put together a suitably Halloweeny style game (being a shift worker sucks some times!) so instead I've just got a post that was due to go out on Wednesday instead....sorry.

following on from my recent series of plastic Bushido Pirates of Jung sourced from Damon's purchase of the GCT Studios boxed game "Rise of the Kage" and its expansion set "The Docks of Ryu" I've managed to "steal" a few more of his figs for my own Bushido faction.  This time though I've taken some from the main game, they are duplicates as Damon was able to purchase not only the game but loads of additional minis (it worked out to about 75p per mini!).  As I've said in previous articles the plastic minis for the game have now been made into metal versions for Bushido - New Dawn i.e the tabletop version and although the detail is a little soft they actually look very good even alongside their metal equivalents.

First up we have Kenta Takashi from the ruling clan of Ryu

Kenta is a true samurai in every sense of the word. As a boy he knew his path, the one he has walked for many cycles in service to his family and the name Takashi. A veteran of countless battles and campaigns, he is a master swordsman, no foe able to outflank him due to practised footwork and deft movements. Many times enemies foolishly thought they had struck the killing blow but the ancestors favour Kenta amongst all others. Though quietly spoken his presence in battle banishes any fear in his troops, steeling their hearts for victory.

This is my version of him, not quite so polished as the metal version painted up by the Studio, but I'm happy with him.  I thought I would also try out the new basing idea for showing LoS in the game that I used for the Pirates.  Let me know what you think.

Next up is Iiijo Makato...

A ward is a member of a noble clan who has been taken in by another clan to be raised for a time. The practice varies, with it sometimes being undertaken voluntarily - to help prospective heirs learn the customs of other clans as part of their education. It can also be involuntarily, with the "ward" actually being a "hostage" for his or her clan's good behaviour or until a ransom is paid. Sometimes, as part of marriage alliances, one of the betrothed is taken as a ward so he or she can get to know his or her future spouse.

and my version, although he is a ward and not a member of the Takashi family, he has been equipped by them.

and finally for today we have Bachiko Takashi....

and my version of her

Use wise the two men are particularly good in combat as reflects their samurai status, heavily armoured they can go toe to toe with most opponents, with plenty of bite.  Iiito's "Inspiration" is particularly useful as it boosts other warriors around him.  Bachiko is of course still an excellent warrior but the best thing that she brings to the party is "Sixth Sense" allowing her to defeat the camouflage of the sneaky ninjas which causes a lot of trouble for most factions, this means she can act as a ninja radar!!

That's it for this time, I have some guards of Ryu and a generic Samurai to go from this set, there are of course hundreds of these figures that Damon has and I have left him to deal with them all!!  I will post them up here when I'm done but for now.

hope you enjoy
dGG

Korusea

hi all

The last of my Bushido posts from the plastic minis I nabbed from Damon 'Rulez' Carlton's "Docks of Ryu" - the expansion set from GCT's successful kickstarter boxed game "Rise of the Kage".  Last pirate post at least for a while and at least until Black Friday brings some more Piratey goodness my way.  But to round out this series of minis and to give me a usable faction until reinforcements can be raised I give you the Korusea....

The Korusea make up the bulk of the veteran seaman of the Jung, skilled sailors and warriors, armed with wicked curved blades which gut a man as easily as a fish. Their secondary weapon is a web woven from light but very strong twine, used to subdue an enemy up close or at range.

another dual track model so again I painted up two!

These guys will be damned useful with their immobilise attack slowing up the enemy and making it easier for my front line fighters to pour on the pain.

and finally a group shot with the boys so far...

hope you enjoy 

dGG

Kohanin

hi all

sorry but it's another Bushido post for my new faction the Jung Pirates, again taken from the models the boxed game "Docks of Ryu" and expansion of the Bushido Board Game "Rise of the Kage". These games I'm sure will be showcased by Damon 'Rulez' Carlton at a later date (hopefully on this blog if I can persuade him!).

Next up is the Kohanin....

A life on the waves makes you hard, bodies muscled and lean, the sway of the ocean becomes as natural as sitting under a tree. This is the life of Kohanin, their lives before swearing loyalty to the captain forgotten. Their crimes washed away as debris from a beach at high tide. More comfortable on deck than land, they are capable sailors and fighters, turning their weapons of labour into deadly instruments of battle in an instant.

These guys were also released as metal versions following the release of the board games so I post up, as previously the GCT version and special card followed by my own.

As a dual track model I can field more than one so I painted two!  They will be my workhorses, turning Idols and completing scenario objectives.

base colours, slightly different for one of them now

shading 

highlighted, although without tattoos

I added tattoos to each of these guys to further tell them apart

you can also see the basing better on these two models

as the sun goes down they're still working hard

hope you enjoy

dGG

Everyone needs a good 2iC

Hi all

Cracking on with the really cool Jung Pirate models I manage to "borrow" from Damon 'Rulez' Carlton's Docks of Ryu set.  They will form part of my Bushido New Dawn Jung Pirates faction. Next up is Yuji...

 All captains must have a trusted Juhin and there is none more trusted, in any port in the Gulf of the Three Brothers, than Yuji. A seasoned sailor and servant of the Jung, for many cycles he has barked the orders of his captains, the Kaizoku darting to complete his commands, an inspiration to them. Never far is his oldest friend Same, no one is able to catch Yuji napping with the old monkey around.

As before I will show you the GCT Studios version of the miniature which is cast in metal and his special card and then my version of him cast in the soft plastic that comes with the boxed game.

Next up my version...

base colours

shading

with the final highlights

with his basing, as a command model he gets a dock too...

sorry about the poor photo

Yuji is very much a support model, with his "Inspiration" Ki feat he can motivate another model to fight harder, adding dice to their combat pool.  His "Command"trait means he can move other models in a single activation and his "Battle Stations" Ki feat also gives him the Order trait, all useful for moving lower cost models around the table easily for less activations allowing you to outmanuvere your opponent with ease.

hope you enjoy

dGG

Jung Pirates

Hi all

Ok 3 posts in 2 days is getting silly but yesterday's two were bonus posts for me and we now go back to our regularly scheduled programming ;-)

I said I was going to start my next faction for Bushido with the starter set BUT then Damon "Rulez" Carlton of the Nerd Herd found someone selling their entire Kickstarter set 'Rise of the Kage' and the expansion set 'Docks of Ryu' with two lots of extra minis for a ridiculous sum of money.  

This board game version of Bushido pits the Ninja clan 'Kaze Kage' against the Prefecture of Ryu and the Dockyard thugs of the Jung Pirates.  The game is yet to be played by us and I will let "Rulez" run you through the unboxing and our first games rather than do it now. The amount of minis that he got with the game is astonishing and although cast in soft plastic they are to an amazing detail (as you would expect from GCT Studios) in fact they are the same as their metal counterparts that were released for the tabletop version of the game albeit the detail is marginally softer, marginally and for the princely sum of about 75pence compared to £7.95 for its equivalent it's a bit of a no-brainer!

Because of this I sifted through his extra set of minis and extracted the dockyard thugs (as well as a few choice Prefecture minis for my Ryu faction). First up is Minato Jung...

Although trained in the ways of the Samurai, Minato was always destined to follow his own unique path. A brute of a man, more at home in a water house than the courts. His body tells the stories of countless battles, wearing each scar proudly as a mark of honour to his physical prowess. That is not to say that he is all brawn, a cunning and clever leader, hiding from the Prefecture in plain sight. In battle he wields his trademark anchor, launching it through the air making it appear as light as a Tengu feather. Those unlucky enough to be caught by his attentions sent sprawling, dazed and disorientated.

I've shown the studio version of the mini first for a reason (i don't normally show them at all, why show up my own painting! lol), The studio version is the metal miniature that they released following the successful kickstarter and the release of the boxed games.  It's a particularly gorgeous miniature with really crisp detail but I wanted you to compare it to the plastic version and, paint job aside I defy you to see a big difference between the two.  The detail as I stated earlier is softer but it really is only just.

base colours

with shading

after highlights

rear view - ooh er! you can see some of the Prefecture models in the background.  The ninjas (green) are Damon's

to me the differences are so slight and once on the table you would be hard pushed to tell the difference unless you picked the mini up!  The plastic, where it had been stored and sent was a little bent on the anchor and spear shafts and swords on the other models but easily corrected with a little boiling water and ice water dip.  Then a quick trim and scrape got rid of most of the mold lines, finally a spray of whatever primer I had lurking in the shed (I had some white and some Dunkelgelb) finished off the prep.  The pinky red colour I chose on his "hakama" contrasted nicely with the yellow and he was fairly easy to paint in the end.  Finally I shamelessly stole a basing idea off a chap - Matt Sophisticat on the Bushido - The Game Facebook group whose Jung Pirates are amazing!  Not only did I pinch the feature on the base but also the LoS markings on the rim of the base, something I've been struggling with for some time.  If you let me know what you think, because if its a thumbs up I will probably do the technique for the rest of my factions (a process that will take a looonnnggg time!).  First up though this is the injury I received while cutting the minis off of the supplied bases using a flawed cutting technique....

This guy was always going to be added to my Pirate faction as he is absolutely brutal in combat and will take up the majority of the fighting tasks while the others crack on with the scenario conditions, so I'm really glad I managed to get him so cheaply - thanks Damon!!

Finally the base LoS will be more prominent on the next couple of posts.

hope you enjoy
dGG