wargamesdiary   A diary of war games and board games

New samurai warrior monks from Fireforge games arrived.

Painted using citadel contrast paints.

Spray wraith bone white after assembly using plastic glue. I made 8 shot and 16 naginata . Next I went over the white areas which were hoods and trousers plus arms and waist and wrist bands with contrast white. Faces in flesh contrast paint. Wood use wild wood contrast . Metal use army painter contrast broadsword. Leather pouches and sandal soles using leather brown.

For the main colour scheme which is the warrior monks jacket I chose either yellow using contrast sun yellow or a mix of this with blood angel red to make orange.

Finally for teeth I used white then applied contrast skeleton brown .

For these bases I applied the same scatter mix I used on all my samurai which is based on the games workshop base similar to sandy ground with tufts applied. The bases I chose were square to use in massed battles but singly based for skirmish games if need arises. For tufts I used a brighter green and a sun burnt brown to try and capture the theme of Japan but remain closer to my early figures.

I thought this new range look quite good . Simple enough to assemble with a few fixed poses and good to form a massed unit . Also they are fairly similar in size to my original Perry samurai so they is good too . These warriors will be useful to field on either side in a samurai battle .

Link has painted up his new stormboyz in readiness for the Armageddon. Battalion coming soon.

Link has set up a small battle to play with his friend this week. The space marines using his new painted jet pack and outrider squads vs essentially a Necron combat patrol.

The Necrons are attacking the space marines base in the ruins of a fallen civilisation on a planet being consumed by lava.

Link and me played a Sengoku Jidai battle using the Midgard rules. Capturing the spirit of the battle of the frozen river centuries earlier our two forces met across the frozen main outside Kyoto. Scenario two of the rules was used with Link defending two crossings across the icy waters. The river being otherwise impassable

Wild West ticket to ride . This time Phil came first but only because he went crazy looking for the lost treasures of sierra madre. He burnt through his special cards and with the help of the treasure hunter found two treasures . However he then ran out of trains to complete his roots having gone mad in his gold fever and had to use his special reserved cards to cancel them .

Hopefully this will let him catch up with the others as he was last in the previous game . We now have the bad lands map open and soon will be on our way to California!

Link wanted to try out his Tyranids vs Necrons combat patrol. The Tyranids won through on VP when he brought his warlord on from deep strike at the end of the game . Good game and well played Link . Great painting too !

Some statues and kilns useful scatter terrain