EK Samurai (1 Viewer)

[blaster]

Finally took out these pieces and undercoated them with primer.

 

[Obee]

Victor,

I'm looking froward to seeing your work on these figures, they are very details, so a joy to paint.

I've got a few in my collection, including one of the same figures you are painting.



John

 

[blaster]

Hi John,

Wow! Beautiful work as always.

I had intended to keep the EK figures for body parts (I watched "Coma" when I was a kid) but as you can sense from my other threads, I'm starting to explore Samurais again.

Rgds

Victor

 

[hotel3alpha]

Outstanding John.

John from Texas

 

[blaster]

Hi All,

Finally started to slap some paint on one of these samurais.

 

[blaster]

Ptd the first samurai.

Adding another two samurai. One is an EK casting. The other is an old OOP Italian make [La Fortezza]. I'll need to convert this piece.

 

[blaster]

Ptd this samurai further.

 

[blaster]

Ive added groundwork to the bases. Painted more on the middle samurai. Presumably he will be my prototype for minamoto yoshitsune. The one with a spear will be his companion benkei.

 

[blaster]

Continued to paint them.

 

[blaster]

more ptg on Morimoto yoshitsune.

 

[blaster]

The correct name is Minamoto Yoshitsune. I found the exact illustration upon which this figure was based upon in an Osprey samurai book.
The figure is holding a bow.

Anyway, the EK figure is holding a sword which is thick and rather ugly. I found a spare bow (ex-de Tara Miniatures) and decided to substitute this for the sword.

 

[blaster]

Ive attached the bow to the samurai.

 

[blaster]

I realised that the bow is not a commercial item and was made by me from a cut thick wire bent to the right shape and wound with thin wire at intervals. A thin guitar string was added as a bow string.

Then I added putty to bulk out the kimono sleeves. Also added a small white strip of metal paper to identify a samurai leader. Starting to do final ptg.

 

[theBaron]

Swapping the sword for the bow is a great idea, Vic! It's a better pose. This is coming along nicely!

Prost!
Brad

 

[blaster]

Hi Brad,

Thanks for yr comments. The pose looks like it should be holding a bow anyway.
I'll be repainting the figure based on this illustration.