Two buildings painted ....

 The two buildings finished ...

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 ......

Castle ... construction ...

Wall sections cut out from foam board; scribed thin card fixed to bottom part and card section marked out and scribed ready to cut the section roofs.  I also found a couple of suitable gates for the gatehouse.

took some time out to make some sketchy plans of corner towers and gateway....

upright framing added to the wall sections....

walls sections completed and fixed to bases, the basic structure of the lower part of the towers has been finished...

The gateway section... with temporary fixings for the gates...

The access ramp and  a small bridge.... with all sections in place - starting to look the part ....

Final fitting of the gates....

base for gatehouse top ...

next stage.... card walls and roof -  made using Wills tiles (spare bits leftover ...)

Framing finished ....

In place with access ramp ....

Started filling in the framing on the bottom of the corner towers before fitting window bars...

Building up the corner towers .... upper structure...

roofing ....

framing, roof details and finally the windows .. ..

Hoorah ! all the section done and ready for painting ....

While I'm in construction mode, I'll make a couple more buildings which could be a storehouse or barracks but which will double up for use in towns and villages.

Army Deployed ...

Clan Tidamatsu's army deployed for battle on the game table....

next phase of work on the armies is to organise them for game rules, should be by squads on 10 or 12.. still thinking on this; also rules must reflect tactics of the period to my knowledge and satisfaction.

Castle - getting started ...

Made the bases for the wall, corner tower and gate sections ... and laid out the bits of the old SYW field works I'm re-using for the forward slopes....

Tidied up the slope pieces, filling in holes and made up a section for the gateway with room for the access ramp and maybe a bridge...

Castle - prototype wall section...

 I was thinking about making a castle and how it would figure in a game; I came up with 3 or 4 scenarios. So I made up a prototype wall section from cardboard and foam board...

Using some old field work sections and one of my table riser sections - I can have a front slope for the wall...

Currently working how many sections I would need plus a gate and two corner towers for some combinations of table risers.

The last batch (?)

 The last batch of stuff for the project (for the moment ...). Some banners, defensive fencing and two teppo units (one for each army)..

what's next ...

• set up for one army deployed
• how to use the two armies for gaming battles - split them up into 3+ sonae ('regiments')
• add some more peasants and ronin
• a few more small action games
• a castle (or more likely part of one) - probably a wooden one - rather than the classic stone and big keep look