Modular fort sections

As I noted in the previous post on the fort construction, I also decided to make some modular fort sections in the same style as the 'Arato' fort. These are 10cm squares and can be used to make forts of different sizes. Again, the buildings are by Leven and Oshiro, with some modification. I'll probably…

It’s The Fort That Counts

One of the first things I wanted to do when I complete enough command stands and command groups for the Uesugi and Takeda was to try out Miike Yoshimasa’s alternative theory for Kawanakajima. This sees the battle starting with the Uesugi attacking Takeda forts and killing Takeda Nobushige in the process. Obviously, that game would…

Babō-saku Revisited

A few years ago I made some babō-saku, but the process was rather labour intensive. I wanted some representation of the ropes tying each join and that took a long time by hand. When the subject of fences came up in a Twitter conversation, I asked Paul at Sabotag3d whether he could design and print…

Oda Nobunaga at Inō

The Eiroku project is proceeding well. The first milestone was to have enough figures to try out a small battle with a decent number of ‘bushidan’ units, and also to try and see what the units would look like when improvised as sonae units for the big battle games, specifically as ikkō-ikki. There are also enough…

A few more bases

I've added another village base to the total. These are Pendraken buildings, nominally 10mm, but about the same size as the Mura miniatures ones. Oshiro Models are bringing out a long-awaited range of 6mm buildings soon, which will hopefully be Baccus-compatible. Also, there's another 'bushidan' unit. These units have as many figures as the sonae…

More rice fields

I've made another 6 rice fields to go with the previous 6, following the guide in the terrain guide section here. Which was useful as I certainly couldn't remember how I did the first lot. The 6 new fields: With the other 6 rice fields: And with all the other fields:

Back in the Village

In between 28mm games, I've recently added a bit more scenery to the 6mm. I've made some more forest bases using bigger trees, and revamped the small shrine which was hidden in one of the forest bases, to better fit in with the rest of the village bases. The small shrine base:   And the…

Fields of Mino

I've added some more field bases to the collection. These were inspired by the opening scene in last year's Taiga drama, 'Kirin ga Kuru.' It's the usual routine of static grass applied with an applicator. The farmers are plastic model railway figures. They're actually 1/200 with their feet cut off. You can recover the body…

Another watchtower

I made another watchtower to go on the usual 10cm base, to integrate with the village: And here's the rest of the village with the watchtower base included. Whole thing measures about 100cm x 50cm.

All Along The Watchtower

I thought I'd give my villagers some way of getting advanced warning before a load of samurai turn up to try out another set of rules outside their village. I think there may be a tower in the old Castle Arts range which will probably get released by Pendraken soon, but in the meantime I…