Juxt
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After mulling over the merits of doing something like this for a couple of years, I've decided to put common sense behind me, ignore my knowledge of my limits, and start an oldhammer armies on parade entry for the 2020 competition. I have no aspirations of winning anything, hence choosing to make an oldhammer army, doubly so I'm making an oldhammer fantasy army, triply so I'm doing a Nippon army. Outdated models of an unsupported army in a dead game, can't go wrong!
This is also going to be an eBay rescue project- as with most things on this forum, so that's a fourth reason for people not to vote for my entry instore, I haven't spent any money with the company apart from on paints. Destined to fail.
Here's a look at my starting materials, a couple of copies of Aly Morrison's excellently sculpted Oriental Heroes boxed set, the definitive Nippon models to my mind. Lovely designs, dynamically posed, exquisitely detailed and a huge pain in the rear to paint because of the microscopic lacing on the armour plates.
I love how these sculpts are based on historical characters, not just that though, they have the same fluidity of motion and unfathomable masses of fabric that bring to mind the ukiyoe paintings of Japan, something missing from the later slotta based oriental ranges.
Here's a close-up of the tortured souls, ready to be cleansed and absolved of their previous lives' sins.
After a good soak in the horrifically oderous dettol brown stuff, I got to work on the first model, a lowly peasant soldier, an ashigaru armed with a katana, a basic papier mache jingasa helmet and a straw raincoat. The type of guy who isn't going to last long in any battle, still slightly drunk from when he was press-ganged into the service of his local lords, ruddy nosed, bare footed and ready for adventure. The striped tattoo on his forearm mark him as a career criminal, caught and punished twice, this is his last chance before being put to death, so why not take up the sword and serve his betters?
This is also going to be an eBay rescue project- as with most things on this forum, so that's a fourth reason for people not to vote for my entry instore, I haven't spent any money with the company apart from on paints. Destined to fail.
Here's a look at my starting materials, a couple of copies of Aly Morrison's excellently sculpted Oriental Heroes boxed set, the definitive Nippon models to my mind. Lovely designs, dynamically posed, exquisitely detailed and a huge pain in the rear to paint because of the microscopic lacing on the armour plates.
I love how these sculpts are based on historical characters, not just that though, they have the same fluidity of motion and unfathomable masses of fabric that bring to mind the ukiyoe paintings of Japan, something missing from the later slotta based oriental ranges.
Here's a close-up of the tortured souls, ready to be cleansed and absolved of their previous lives' sins.
After a good soak in the horrifically oderous dettol brown stuff, I got to work on the first model, a lowly peasant soldier, an ashigaru armed with a katana, a basic papier mache jingasa helmet and a straw raincoat. The type of guy who isn't going to last long in any battle, still slightly drunk from when he was press-ganged into the service of his local lords, ruddy nosed, bare footed and ready for adventure. The striped tattoo on his forearm mark him as a career criminal, caught and punished twice, this is his last chance before being put to death, so why not take up the sword and serve his betters?