Additional ninjas... (conversions)

 Five more ninjas completed by converting some Steve Barber figures, I tried to keep as much of the original figures as possible...

Extra Castle sections finished....

 A coat of paint and some dry brushing - ready for use...

Adding extra castle sections....

 I've started work on some extra sections for the castle : low level 1 story blockhouse (single storey yagura), plain corner section and a free-standing watchtower.

initially built the blockhouse and plain corner section have been constructed.....

a couple of days later and the watch-tower is finished...

Making some mantlets....

More work on siege equipment, this time some mantlets...

Made from 2mm card, wooden skewers and cocktail sticks; wheels from some spare clear bases and axel from thick florists wire.

Initial Warrior Monk castings....

First lot of castings done for the warrior monks... enough for a contingent in a small scale game

A couple of my generic peasants castings as well, two with heads from Steve Barber Models

I also bought a few figures from Steve Barber Models... I gave two some of my own home-made heads 

Castle done..

 Finished painting all the castle sections, nice to get it finished and setup on the gaming table....

A couple of buildings....

 While in 'construction mode', I made up a couple of buildings to use in the castle or as part of town...

time to paint all the new stuff up ......

Ashigaru with spear ... masters

 With some Ashigaru armed with spears needed to complete the armies, I have made up two new masters each with different types of 'armour' on their arms. Also I have thickened the bases, bulked out the legs and fitted a sword. 

 Shown with spear temporarily fitted....

Armed villagers (WIP) ...

 The bulk of the armed villagers assembled/converted, figures are a mix of Steve Barber and Irregular Miniatures...

The seven ... arrive ...

After receiving a recent order from Steve Barber, I revisited some of the figures I had already assembled and with some of the newly arrived ones I have finished putting together the first group of figures to defend my village...

the seven samurai...

currently working on the armed peasants ... then it will be the bandits.

A house gets an upgrade ...

 Modified one of the largest 3D print houses I had already finished to cover over the woodwork to make it look more high status...

Buildings tweaked and some armed villagers.

 I bought some buildings from Oshiro Model Terrain, really for 28mm - so have given them a tweak - a lift up with a thicker base and/or larger doors - makes them look better  with my 40mm figures.

Also I bought some Irregular Miniatures armed peasants from their 42mm samurai range - these are a bit smaller height-wise than my figures so put a small piece of cardboard in raise the height a bit - a couple have been tweaked. My favourite is the chap with the large hammer, I tried a sculpt of suitable head for him which has turned out OK.

Rice Paddies ....

 To make some rice paddies I used some of TimeCast larger ones (available from http://www.timecastmodels.co.uk/range_38/38fields.html .... codes 38/PF2 & 38/PF3) . They've been finished them in a mix of usage stages - a couple unplanted, one flooded and the rest flooded with planting.

Nabori flags (paper printout)...

 Today sorted out a template file to enable me to print nabori flags, can also colour in etc if needed.

The flags are as close in size as I can get to one available from Steve Barber; my paper flag works well with one of his figures or one of my own home-casts

Village Building uplift .....

A building kindly given to me for the Samurai project, but not a close match in style to most of my purchased ones. I started by adding some steps up to the doorways and part of the wooden framing using thin cardboard....

and worked my way a round the building

windows detail was done using some bits of ladders from the bits box.

Painted up .. the finished building...

I am going to use the same colour palette for all the other buildings and scenics I have.