Heaven and Earth a Samurai Project

Every army needs a general so here is my interpretation of Uesugi Kenshin

I decided to make it a 20 man Samurai squad

I also painted up a Samurai squad as well.

Uesugi loved his Arquebus so that was next 20 man squad.

So the assembly line painting worked out very well I was able to paint up 40 miniatures in about two weeks. I was painting at least half an hour a night and  would average about fifty minutes a night. This is a lot of dry brush and wash and I think they came out alright.

This was the start of my 40 man squad of Asigaru and a little inspiration that I like to watch as well.

At this time a friend of mine got me to play Kings of War and it was fun very beer and pretzel but thats what we do when we play. He told me that I should build my s=Samurai for the Kingdom of Men and that lit the fire under my butt to get building up my Uesegi army so I did.

This would be my first Ashigaru for Uesugi Kenshin  a prototype that turned out OK

The first ten Ashigaru for Tekeda are finished but many more to come.

The first ashigaru I painted was a prototype for  Takeda Shingen’s force. I was overall happy with the paint scheme that I used the Mon for the backbanner would come later because I knew I would not paint them on but use decals.

So I started to collect what I could afford and that was at the time Wargames Factory Samurai and Ashigaru sets later to become Warlord Games Samurai and Ashigaru for Test of Honour and there Pike and Shotte line of sets. Now I know that there are a lot of people that don’t like these sets because they are fiddly with lots of bits but if it was not for these miniatures and to be honest the price of these miniatures I would have never got in to Samurai Wargaming at all.

So here are what I painted up first some Monks from the Assault Group line . This was the last miniatures that I painted with out the use of glasses and magnifiers.

Meet Dean this is the man that started me down the path of the Samurai with this game at Enfilade a historical miniature wargaming con here in Olympia, WA USA. Dean was running this game and I was lucky enough to be able to play. The miniatures that you see here are all painted by Dean I was blown away by the detail of the miniature and the level of painting that Dean put into his miniatures. To be frank I was surprised that he allowed us to touch them, ha ha ha .