Test of Honour: Samurai, Ronin and Unlikey Allies

I managed to finish my Ashigaru Scout warband (the yellow/purple themed miniatures you've seen me post before).  Since then I've been pinned down getting ready for my Napoleonic game at the end of the month.

Fortunately, the honorable and most excellent Steve Dake has been hard at work getting my primary Samurai warband done, along with the 7 Ronin and 8 Unlikely Allies sets from the Test of Honour miniatures line.  These are all 28mm figures.

The postal service dropped these beauties off to me yesterday and I quickly unpacked them and got to finishing the basing for them.  With that done, here are some pictures of the figures.  These pictures are just from my phone ... so not the best but good enough.

First up is the 7 Ronin all together ...

Below is the full Samurai warband ...

The 8 Unlikely Allies set ...

Closer pictures of the 7 Ronin set ...

Finally the closer pictures of the Samurai warband ...

With the terrain I have completed, my Ashigaru Scouts, and the stuff finished from Steve, I'm all set and can start playing Test of Honour - hooray!

Test of Honour: Ashigaru Scouts Nearing Completion

Just one more group of three scouts left to do and I'll have my 24 point warband completed.  I added a banner bearer (waiting on decal paper to arrive so I can add the Japanese characters to it), Samurai companion, and a group of fire archers.  The warband is filling out nicely now.

I'm very happy with how the fire came out.

Hoping to have this all wrapped up by the end of the week.  I need to assemble some stuff to send off to Steve Dake which will delay me a bit.  I had shipped some stuff but it has become lost in the USPS system ... they are searching for it but my hope is near zero that they will find the package.

Test of Honour: Ashigaru Scouts Progress

Managed to knock out two more Ashigaru scouts.  One reading a scroll and another running.  These two are additional followers for the warband.  Each warband must have 1 hero and can have up to two companions.  Rest must be followers.

I have another group of three warriors to do, then one group of archers, a Samurai companion, and banner bearer.  All together that will give me my 24 point force.

Test of Honour: Samurai Shrine

A short update today.  Painting continues, hopefully some more painted Samurai pictures by Monday.

I took a short break from painting to work on some buildings.  I'm missing a couple of parts for two buildings (waiting on those to show up).  Buildings are from 4Ground and Things From The Basement.

Sad news about 4Ground closing.  They really pioneered the pre-painted MDF market.  I've put in some final orders.  Trying to figure out if I need anything else from them.

Anyways, I did finish a samurai shrine, pictures below.

This is a great little kit.  Easy assembly and painting.

Test of Honour: Ashigaru Scout Hero

Not much progress this week.  I did get the base coat and wash done on another 6 miniatures in this warband, which is a good start to the remaining models.  I had planned to paint it all as a group, however the hero just had to much on him so I ended up finishing him individually.

So here you go ... for better or worse, here he is ...

I must say I really like these models.  The detail is crisp and well defined.  Painting them is fun.  Also, when they arrive they are very clean, almost no flash and mosy have no assembly.  The few that require assembly go together easily.

More to come!