Hey guys, thought to display my figures, currently all I've done so far is base them as I'm torn on how to paint them, what color schemes etc.
Kato and Marionette: Based these guys with a strip magnet so I can move the marionette to a separate base when in play, the mouse piece is just a filler so I don't have a glaring empty spot on the base. 
Ikiryo: Shameless idea theft of Duck21's awesome job, hey they say imitation is the highest form of flattery, but his model was the one that sold me on Bushido, that and the awesome looking Bikou. The model on the base is a carved up heroclix con-artist with drilled mouth and added hair. I like the touch of the crow. 
Kairai: Nothing out of the blue here, mostly cork tile with kebab skewers for the one on the left.
Hiro: doh, I still need to drill the skewer a little, but found out how to make Bamboo. Probably best to coat it first with white glue to stop it from fraying too badly, then with a pair of pliers I score about every centimeter and then 'crimp' the sections with the teeth of the pliers to add detail.
Ninja Bikou: Really like this figure and wanted to add a bit more to the dynamics of her action pose, initially I thought to have her racing across a tiled rooftop but I liked the tree aspect of her pose and so added some bamboo either side, not sure how that works in the literary sense of foliage but I like the touch, I might add some arrows or something protruding from the bamboo to give the sense of her dodging attacks.
Minuro: Placed the bamboo to appear as he's taken a nice firing position to snipe on the enemy, pic came out kinda blurry, murr this camera is so temperamental.
Really nice - might nick the bamboo idea too :)
bamboo is cool:)
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Looks like a good start. You might want to use some cocktail sticks along side the skewers, to vary the thickness of the bamboo. Have a look at some pics on the net. Same sort of thing I did when I did the ones on the display base.
Looking forward to seeing you put some paint on these, bring them to life.
:)
woot, my first painted figures for ages, I've finally found my stride and hopefully will be able to maintain it until the majority of my minis are painted.
"Have you forgotten? Aku Soku Zan... To Slay evil immediately was the justice shared by the Shinsengumi and the Manslayer. I cannot stand seeing you like this anymore… "
Alrighty progress, you know this is the first time in ... possibly ever that I've finished painting a whole set. Mind you I was slowly going crazy trying to finish off Jin and Yoshio, you can see I got a bit sloppy towards the end, but then I allowed myself Matsu as a reward painting project.
Many thanks to Orochi who's own Matsu thankfully used a similar paint scheme to tie his prefecture models together :P Once again, imitation is the highest form of flattery
And finally made an effort for the Cult, thanks to duck21 for inspiration for the base (my shameless plagurism, er flattery) and for corpsesmiths color scheme - I really suck at coming up with my own colors, or originality in general - Even when I play guitar, I prefer to imitate and capture the subleties of whom Im copying, as opposed to writing my own stuff, hey its where my fun is)
The purple will be the linking color for my Cult, and I'm toying with the idea of somehow making the ashigaru Kairai look like it was originally from the Prefecture, but then raised by the cult.
"Have you forgotten? Aku Soku Zan... To Slay evil immediately was the justice shared by the Shinsengumi and the Manslayer. I cannot stand seeing you like this anymore… "