Hi folks,
New to Bushido and the boards and apologies if this has been highlighted elsewhere.
This company were at Salute and a mate said the stuff was very good if a little pricey.
Lots of Japanese buildings for towns etc plus some Temple gates etc. Might be worth a look for anyone building their own board?
Cheers
Really good quality and detail but more 28mm scale, where as bushido is 32mm.
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I think 28mm would be fine as long as your not planning on playing inside it. Not a massive difference really and they do look really nice.
I'm also new and don't knwo if this has been talked about somewere else but I was looking at these buildings. http://www.johnjenkinsdesigns.com/28JAP.htm
Ben
You say that, but some companies 28mm dwarf your 32mm. The two scales are so elastic these days. "Roughly 28mm" scale is a term someone needs to coin :P
Yep, miniature scales is a mess.
It would be nice to see pictures of Bushido models next Oshiro's buildings.
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I have seen the models close to the oshiro buildings . to be honest they look small to me ... the buildings not the miniatures ...
I believe Oshiro built the table we used at salute, although absolutely beautiful they did look a tad small, even the shorter models were approaching roof height. although you could mount them on hillier areas, add depth at the bottom etc to create the illusion of size, and the Oni did look epic striding through them:) the scale thing is tricky, even identical scales can be different (compare GW's 'heroic' 28mm scale hands and faces to bushidos realistic 32mm scale and it's a big difference, imperial guardsmen must all have hands the size of basketballs) but with terrain it's all about how accurate you feel like being or how creative you feel- I made 2 Burakumin huts at the weekend, and they are intentionally small so they seem more squalid.
<edit> in fact I think I have some phots of models stood next to the oshiro buildings for comparison?
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I use those buildings and while scale may not be perfect, coolness factor wins everytime. One of the reasons I keep buying bushido figs :-)
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Bushido models next to Oshiro buildings-
a little small, but not too bad really.
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You say theyre small, but their heads come up to the windows, and the base adds about 5mm in height. I'd say they are the correct height to be living in one of those houses. (and by houses, I mean cabins, shacks, or favellas. Theyre not exactly two story buildings dont forget).
Consider the fact Bushido takes place on a very small table and the buildings are closed (so you cant place models inside witout a lot of work) smaller houses are ok.
The space the building needs is lost anyway for most models to play on. Except Nezumi and Kitsune dancing on the roofs...
More terrain/houses look cooler but give you less table to play on.
true, I'll be honest after playing on that table all day it was the price and not the size that stopped me picking up a whole village! although the beautiful paint jobs helped too:)
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I've got the temple and some temple lanterns from the John Jenkins range mentioned above, which look great. Pic below from our first ever gaming session last night (victory to the mighty Prefecture of Ryu in both games).
I really like the Oshiro buildings and may invest in some at some stage.
Here is my board. Everything is built from scratch and the roof comes off the house so figures can go inside
Looks really nice - well done!
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cool:)
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Agree! Is the river modelled on to the board, or can you move it?
My two cents regarding the scale discussion. Actually, you have to forget scales when dealing with miniatures.
Roughly, the 32mm scale is between 1/56 and 1/60.
In real life, a door is apprx 80 cm wide, which at scale gives 1.42cm = 0,6"...
So, if you make the door to the real dimension, you have something very very thin... Not good for the minis with their base... Or you want to have the real proportions, and you have a quite tall door in the model, more than 2,3m real scale!
So, quite hard to manage! On my models i use 2,5 x 4cm doors, and 5cm high stories...
You're absolutely right. Very few miniature ranges are "true scale" anyway (meaning the proportions are accurate at scale). "Heroic" scale involves larger hands, wrists and other extremities, and oversized shoulder spans and head sizes, not to mention facial features.
Infinity models are close to 28mm true scale, and those things are TINY!
We now have some Oshiro buildings at the Cross Gaming Club, largely for use with Bushido although they have other applications too of course. If you look closely then yes, the normal human sized models are slightly taller than the door jams, and come quite close to the rooves of thatched buildings, but it really doesn't notice on the tabletop while you're playing.
They're super terrain pieces, and look extremely effective, especially painted. Unpainted they are a bit more reasonable, but still pricey enough that you would need to be sure your own paint job would do justice to them.
I always assumed they were designed for use with Perry Miniatures and other historical Samurai model ranges, which are definitely smaller than Bushido miniatures.