15mm Samurai Army

It has been a Far East couple of months here. We've had a bunch of samurai or Oriental themed projects come in lately. We've managed to work through some of them but there's still more. This is the first of the projects: a 15mm samurai army. I can't recall the manufacturer. Allison did the bulk of the work on this project, where I did some of the shashimonos and other banners.

The cavalry and artillery

Rear view of the cavalry

Half of the infantry

The other half of the infantry

Close up showing some of the painting detail

It took me about a day to organize and base the army up according to the customer's wishes.

First Batch of Reaper Bones Ready to Go!

At long last here is the first batch of the Reaper Bones orders we have here. At least a couple of the orders. I didn't want to clutter up the images too much with four of the same figure so I only imaged two at a time.

This batch was composed of the demons, devils, half demons, and dark elves. All of the figures are the new Reaper Bones material from their first Kickstarter, with the exception of the Orcus and Tsathogga figures, which are metal.

Tsathogga

Two versions of Orcus

The Bones material is okay. Allison and I aren't entirely sold on it. The detail is much softer on many of the figures than the metal versions. This makes painting a it trickier and time consuming; many of our regular techniques don't work as usual forcing us to adapt.

Despite straightening some of the figures some of the bends came back. This can really be seen in one of the big demon/devil's wings. While for that figure is actually adds some character it is more annoying in some of the smaller figures.

Prep also had to be completely redone. The figures were washed then primed with Vallejo Airbrush Surface Primer. Regular rattle-can paint attacks the material leaving it forever tacky.

Likewise clear coating was a problem. I know Reaper says you don;t need to clear coat but I'm skeptical of the paint jobs holding up in the long term with use. Again my regular rattle-can Krylon results in a perpetually tacky figure. I found that Liquitex Matte could be airbrushed on. This takes more time, however, as I like to do a few coats and I like to leave each coat dry at least 48 hours before applying the next just to be safe.

Still I think Allison did a fantastic job on these. This first batch was a learning experience but at elast now we know what we are dealing with.

28mm AWI: Various Pieces

Here's a few AWI units we did for a customer.

Some Jaegers

Colonials

Hessians

This was a small order to round out a few items for a customer.

Various Warhammer Fantasy Battle Pieces

These are three of the bigger pieces for Warhammer we recently did for a customer. GW in making some interesting pieces. They are complex, however, with some kits hitting around 80 parts. I've found it best to paint them in stages, doing some pieces on the sprue, then assembling some parts, painting a bit more and touching parts up, and then repeating that process.

This first piece is the Emperor Karl Franz on his griffin, Deathclaw. The kit can actually be made into three different pieces.

The second piece is a Bastiladon for a Lizardmen army. This kit can be made into two variants; the kit is assembled into the Solar Engine version here:

This last piece is the most complex: The Hurricanum for the Empire army. There are loads of details to this kit, including complete details on the inside. In order to paint the inside details you have to do so before assembly. There is simply no way to get to them otherwise.

This kit can also be assembled as the Luminark of Hysh. The customer dropped a second kit off so we can do that one as well so look for it in the future.