Juxt
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I managed to play a tiny skirmish encounter last night and snapped a couple of shots of the final fight as the bosses of each side duked it out.
Samurai general on a mighty stone temple dog defending his village, accompanied by a halfling ashigaru and oni, versus a mysterious fox priest and three ghost samurai that he conjured up.
The temple dog has to win the award for 1988's least dynamic miniature, but I really like him and the samurai general is a fantastic sculpt packed with detail- the deerskin boots are really well done, the lacing on the armour is just as good as many modern samurai minis. I didn't use the correct Jes Goodwin lance as the details didn't match the rest of the (Aly Morrison?) model particularly well, opting to replace it with a Perry Brothers hand gripping a gunbai fan, much more suited to his position as a general. The only poor parts of the samurai to my mind are his eyes with one being sculpted much lower than the other, and the rather beefy oversized back banner. If only the rest of the Oriental Heroes samurai were as well crafted as the general, then I'd be hunting high and low to get a full set
Samurai general on a mighty stone temple dog defending his village, accompanied by a halfling ashigaru and oni, versus a mysterious fox priest and three ghost samurai that he conjured up.
The temple dog has to win the award for 1988's least dynamic miniature, but I really like him and the samurai general is a fantastic sculpt packed with detail- the deerskin boots are really well done, the lacing on the armour is just as good as many modern samurai minis. I didn't use the correct Jes Goodwin lance as the details didn't match the rest of the (Aly Morrison?) model particularly well, opting to replace it with a Perry Brothers hand gripping a gunbai fan, much more suited to his position as a general. The only poor parts of the samurai to my mind are his eyes with one being sculpted much lower than the other, and the rather beefy oversized back banner. If only the rest of the Oriental Heroes samurai were as well crafted as the general, then I'd be hunting high and low to get a full set