Painting Journey

DBA v3 IV/59 - Post Mongol Samurai

Well, here I am just under a week from the tournament. My army isn't finished.

I still have the following to do:

1. Pike shafts

2. Pike blades

3. Wash armour on Samurai

4. All bows (on both Cv & Bw)

5. Bridles & stirrups

6. Base everything.

I do have the bases cut to size, and have stuck the magnets on. I hope to get the majority of the above done this evening; with the exception of the basing. I will get the gluing to bases all sorted, just wont have the fancy bits done.

Some of the works in progress

Another year, another project

The Idea

Once again I'm embarking on a quick painting project...

DBA IV/59b - Post Mongol Samurai Army 1465-1542

This was originally intended to be a different Samurai army for the MOAB competition, but life got in the way and they remained on the pile of lead shame.

The figures are from Eureka Miniatures, but from what I have seen may not exactly be from the correct period. I have had to purchase some Ashigaru with pike to fill the gap. I still havn't purchased the back-banners, but will do that sometime in the future.

The list that I will use is:

1 x General (6 Cv)

1 x Mounted Samuai (6 Cv)

3 x Samurai (4 Bd)

1 x Nobusi (4 Bw)

6 x Ashigaru with yari (3 Pk)

Painting

I'm using Ran as my inspiration for the colour scheme. I've found a few different examples on the internet for different paint schemes, but in pretty much all cases I don't have the ability to reproduce what has been done.

Plan

I am thinking that this could potentially increase into creating the armies of each of the three brothers from the film. In the film the three armies have Red, Yellow and Blue as their primary colours. The base of the armour for the armies of each of the three brothers is the plain ?black laminate.

I am torn on whether to paint the general of the army in white or orange, as the Warlord from Ran appears in both of these colours on a few occasions. Just from memory, painting white is very hard to do nicely, so I might just stick with orange.

I will attempt to accomplish something similar, working through the main base colours for the figures, then finally painting each base with the dominant colour. But I should really try to keep this as simple as possible, so it gets completed.

Paint Scheme

The paint scheme is as stated below

1.    Undercoat airbrush with Vallejo White

2.    Light wash with Vallejo Sepia Wash

3.    Flesh with Vallejo Sunny Skin Tone

4.    Laminate armour (including segments of helmet) with Vallejo Basalt Grey

5.    Trim of the armour Vallejo Carmine Red

6.    Horses: Vallejo Light Brown, Vallejo Cavalry Brown, Vallejo Medium Grey

7.    Wash laminate armor with Formula P3 Armor Wash

8.    Pants of Ashigaru Vallejo Green Grey

9.    Weapon blades Vallejo Natural Steel

10.  Boots / footwear Vallejo Cork Brown

11.  Pike & Naginata shafts Vallejo Beige Brown

12.  Belt & scabbards Vallejo Beige Brown