28mm Semi-Naked Female Samurai and Sheepdog from my Secret Santa Clause 2015.........

.........but no sheep!

*Not painted by me, a gift from Santa.........

I actually have the female samurai figure but she remains unpainted (Colonel Bill's Wargaming Depot) part of the Belt Fed Gaming range (Tome Gozen Samurai), I received her at the Broadside Wargaming Show 2014 as a prize for a Posties Rejects best in show game. The sheepdog....not a clue?

I think I know the painter but not a hundred percent sure though.........

Very usable figures........

Tomoe Gozen (巴 御前^?) (1157?–1247), pronounced [tomo.e], was a late twelfth-century female samurai warrior (onna bugeisha), known for her bravery and strength.^[1] She is believed to have fought in and survived the Genpei War (1180–1185).

Onna-bugeisha (女武芸者^?) was a type of female warrior belonging to the Japanese nobility. Many women engaged in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war. Significant icons such as Tomoe Gozen, Nakano Takeko, and Hōjō Masako are famous examples of onna bugeisha.

Some SELWG 2013 pictures, brushes from Ian, pimping and some Ronin Samurai metal!

Literally only some pictures as my camera died only an hour in to the show (I could swear I checked it, must be a Clint and his 2014 SELWG pictures moment!), I received my brushes from Ian (what a nice guy) Willey, promote some good bloggers competitions and a purchase fro SELWG 2013 to add to my Samurai forces and to have a game of Ronin.

First the pimping.......

Carl over at Hitting on a Double 1!

Jonathan over at Palouse Wargaming Journal!

SELWG 2013 was a good but wet show, met some fellow bloggers and friends, I thought the trader count was down but hopefully the ones that were there did okay..........

Compulsory aerial view of the main hall..........

Bring and Buy, not a lot on offer but well attended.......

Lovely WW1 1914 game from Crush the Kaiser..........

Compulsory blog whore picture............

Some tables have better drinks and nibbles than others........

Great WW2 game "Attack on Ponyri" from the boys at Loughton Strike Force........

Excellent WW2  game from the boys at Deal Wargames Club, Russian amphibious assault on the Japanese forces on the Kurile island of Shumshu.

Beautiful  participation game from fellow blogger Simon Miller over at BigRedBatCave.............

Ray handed over my brushes from Ian at the show........

Top notch but I thought Rosemary brushes were better:P

A little loot (birthday money) from the show, 28mm ronin from North Star figures.........

....to go with the very good skirmish rules "Ronin" that I picked up a few weeks ago......

Well I do need to start using my Samurai again.............

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 43: 13 Assassins 2010 (4 STARS)

Set in 1844, the sadistic Lord Naritsugu is rising to power and murders and rapes at will, no one can touch him because his brother is the current Shogun, a government official decides something must be done before he rises too far and a  trusted samurai is hired to ambush the Lord on his way home from Edo, 12 samurai are initially gathered with the 13th member (with supposed samurai lineage but I believe really a forest or mountain demon) found in the forests on their trek to a town which has been bought as the point to ambush the Lord and his 70 followers. The problem is he now has 200 followers and the last part of the movie is set for the ambush.

The director of this movie is Takashi Miike (I have only ever seen his Ichi the Killer as a movie and as a manga and it still makes me flinch to this day) but he has toned down his violence and bloodshed a little for this. The movie is a brooding visual marathon for most of the movie, the Lord is a sadist and you will feel too that he needs to go (some of the stuff is quite awful), there is some action in the first three quarters of the movie but it all a set up for the epic action at the end between the 13 and 200 and this is what it could have been called, some of the 13 are stone cold killing machines, while others are barely able to hold their own but sometimes numbers count for nothing in confined areas as the village has been booby trapped and specifically designed to split up the forces of Lord Naritsugu, there is bow, sword, spear, gunpowder and flaming bullocks (strange, very strange) action here.

This is an epic ending and the reason for the 4 STARS (you could basically skip to it every time), my favourite character is Kiga who they enlist  (well free him from a basket suspended from a tree) when they meet in the forest (and is responsible for the best dialogue, rock throwing and geisha/brothel  house destruction and not in the way you might think).

Will have to find the original now and I believe the movie is set on real events which led to the Meiji restoration in the 1860's.

Useful 28mm Samurai Scenery.

Some lovely weapon stands for the Sengoku samurai period, I thought these were from Kingsford Miniatures but couldn't find them on their catalogue, any ideas?

28mm Ladder Bodging?

......thought I dreamed this idea and that it was unique, no such luck, far better people have done this but it's a good idea as I don't like scenery lying on the table as it can get damaged especially when you store it so after the holy trinity of lurker scratchbuilding/bodging (glue, green stuff and anger) I made these, the ladders are GW I believe.

Blogger is still acting up a little.

The bases are 30mm plastic.

May have to add to the lurker trinity of bodging and add swearing as these buggers didn't cooperate very well in standing at this angle

Action shots.

....more action shots.