Zvezda Samurai Battles

Three boxes' worth of Zvezda figures for the Samurai Battles board game. They were quite expensive but there are a bunch of game-specific items on the sprues. The figures are all multi-part and can be built easily.

I plan on using them with SDS and, perhaps at a later date, Lion Rampant. It's going to take a while to build up bigger armies, especially considering the fact that at this time I do not want to expand this part of the collection.

Zvezda Samurai

Here they are, based and mustered together. The set has 44 figures. Initially I thought the photos were crap but a little fiddling with brightness/contrast made them look better. Guess I'll have to buy a strong lamp in my room because autumn and winter days won't be much brighter.

I have disabled google+ autoshare but here the darn thing is again. 

Zvezda Samurai WIP #2 + Spring Cannon(s)

 I'm out of coins at the moment so the Zvezda figs, although the painting is done and they are varnished as well, are still not completed. 

I did not particularly like painting these fellows and they took a lot of time too. My original plans were to paint two major and two lesser factions in different colours but that may just be reduced to the two big armies as I feel no further inclination to do more.

What I have found instead is a six-barreled toy gun with a spring action. This is very cool and shoots BB bullets to three or four metres. A 'real' spring toy gun costs too much but this one was cheap and had multiple barrels. Cut the barrels off (they were moulded together), and I'll be making six single-barreled guns which fit for 54mm figs. I'd like to do SYW in the near future so the Armies in Plastic / HäT boxes would be a good start. I'll need wheels for the cannons first. There's a fellow in the US who sells MDF cart wheels on ebay but he ships only to the US - gotta look for alternatives.

Kinder 35mm Samurai + Zvezda Samurai WIP

 Some time ago I painted a Swiss figure from the Kinder eggs. These two are part of the same range of toys. There are 4 different Samurai figs, I'm still on the hunt for the other two. On the left one, I tried blending, while the one on the right had a shaded undercoat and was done with the traditional wash+drybrush way.