Karate Forms in Miniature…

The next instalment in the miniature representation of Kong Sudo karate forms.

Jion. Another old school video from Shotokan karate showing the form…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrr-c5RCKpo

Cool.

So – goats.

Shout out to Torros for highlighting these:

http://www.minibits.net/animals/28mm-animals/

Messed around with a few different browns – don’t use Aggaros Dunes – this happens…

Any way – back to the drawing board – Rhinox Hide with a wash of Agrax Earthshade a highlight with a Zandri Dust was what I used in the end for one of the goats- can’t beat old fashion methods sometimes

Also decided to do a white one so tried Apothocary White – worked fine – just added a dry brush of a white (any white would work I suspect).

Horns were done with Ushabti Bone with a Agrax Earthshade wash then a lawyer of Ushabti Bone again -didn’t really need to highlight any more.

Also did the udders and using a Bugmans glow, wash with Agrax Earthshade and then layered back with Bugmans glow and then a lighter shade of pink by adding some white into Bugmans glow.

Forgot to take photos so here is the final product..

Base was done with Green Stuff to anchor in the little bleaters and then added some stones from the garden. Added some Stirland Battlemire and covered stones and some of the Battlemire in Mechanicus Standard Grey.

Light dry brush of Grey Seer on the top of the grey bits and some Zandri Dust on the brown and added a little bit of grass in the ‘muddy’ patch inbetween the rocks.

As with the Cobra some new bases arrived so I could finish this.

Used Green Stuff to build up and over the metal base of the horse onto the plastic base to anchor it.

Then some Stirland Battlemire over the top of that.

With a dry brush of a lighter brown and then some static grass I had to hand – Citadel stuff which on reflection I shouldn’t have used – it’s not great! It’s very bright so just stippled with some Waagh! Green to tone it down a bit…

Any way happy enough with the final result.

All I’ve done since the last entry on this is tidied up the parts I messed up by going over any mistakes with Wraithbone base and reacting the painting steps and FINALLY some new bases arrived (not to self – keep spare bases).

I used some green stuff to well and truly anchor the large metal figure to the base. Just put a thin layer of the stuff over the base, plant the mini push it up into the gaps and bob’s your uncle.

Base of black, then used Agrellan Earth from , with a wash of Cassandra Yellow and a dry brush of tyrant skull. Finished off with some ‘desert sand and stone base ready mix’ from Geek Gaming . They have a great range of base ready stuff – https://www.geekgaming.co.uk/collections/base-ready.

Any all done! Quite happy with this one.

The form is here in what looks like a rather old school video. I’m not entirely sure if the form shown in the video (from shotokan) is the same the form in Kong Sudo as I haven’t learned this form yet – but the first few moves look the same to me at least!

Bassai is the Cobra form. Not a hard one this for a mini!

Reaper minis have this rather cool thing so I dove straight in with a base coat of Wraithbone.

Again I used contrast – this mini looked ripe for contrast.

I used:

• Creed Camo for the skin. It’s quite a nice warm and ‘jungle’ type green to my mind. Milatarum green was another option.
• Skeleton Hoard for the underbelly. (2 coats and coaxing the paint into the under ridges).
• That’s it…

I decided to create some black stripes and used Black Templator contrast over the top of the green. In future I’d probably undercoat with Wraithbone again as there was no highlighting from the contrast when put on top of the green…

Applied the usual trick of a light dry brush of Tryant Skull which I think fixed the Black Templar issue.

Did the eyes with an undercoat of Wraithbone and then Blood Angels Red.

Played around with doing some cuts and scrapes on the skin of the Cobra, but I don’t like it and they need fixing!

Started on the stone the Cobra is one – thought a strong Yellow would be a good base before layering up with some lighter stone colours (but not got that far yet).

More to come!

The form is all based on ‘horse riding stance’ and has the power of a horse.

It was bit tricky to come up with a mini for an Iron Horse however.

I could have done an armoured horse – but I found a unicorn from Reaper Mini’s sooo….iron horn horse it was to be!

I believe there are three Naihanchi forms. The one I’m learning is here if you are interested. (It’s not me!)

Added the base colours using contrast paints:

• Snakebite Leather for the body
• Black Templar for the mane and tail
• Apothecary white for the hoof hair.

Used contrast skeleton horde on hoofs, and Leadbelcher on the horn aiming for an iron colour eventually.

Added another layer of Snakebite Leather to the body and Black Templar to mane and tail.

Made a ligher area on the nose and above eye with a couple of layers of wraithbone.

Shaded the horn with Nuln Oil and shaded the hoofs, white hoof hair and light areas on face with Agrax Earthshade.

Just finished off things with a very light Tyrant Skull dry brush highlight on everything bar the horn, with a dry brush of leadbelcher on the horn.

And finally… re-did the eyes with Wraithbone base and then Volupus Pink, which I really like but can’t get a great picture of!

Next I need a base… Another entry to come later.