State of the Union -- Warhammer

So, my last attempt at blogging seems to have fallen by the wayside, it's been about 21 months since my last post, so what's been going on since then?

This post and the ones following will mostly be a 'state of the union' - letting everyone know where i'm up to and things occuring in the future, hopefully i'll be updating it more often in the future, thanks to #secretstuff

Well, the previous few posts were about my Samurai Empire army and I'm happy to say i've nearly finished it :)

I've assembled and painted about 2k of them, I've still got a few things left to finish off, but as always it's been overtaken by other projects, anyway - here's some pics of things as they currently stand.

Empire General on Griffon

More Pics after the jump:

Bases!

Woo - delivery from Sarrisa Precision:

Movement trays for all my units, plus some bases for my cannons - what size bases do people normally put their war machines on - I have a feeling the ones i've got are a little large :s

Also - laser cut wood smells awesome.

Nippon test colour scheme

First quick tester for colour scheme:

Each of the units will have different coloured armour I think - and different coloured back banners with different markings as wel.

Warhammer Nipponese

L33T First Post.

Welcome to my wargaming blog, you'll find lots of stuff here - hopefully some will be interesting.

First thing I'm going to post about is my new Warhammer Fantasy army, the army of Nippon.

When I heard the Empire book was being re-done it tempted me into starting Warhammer again, coupled with the fact I've just moved to a new area where fantasy is played a bit more than the skirmish games I've recently been playing. I wanted something a bit different to the standard Fantasy races - as I always like to be awkward (my other fantasy armies are Chaos Dwarves and Orcs) - and whilst browsing the web I came across war games factories new Samurai models and the inspiration demon hit.

Despite the hate for war games factory models out there on the internet I was surprised at the quality, granted the samurai themselves are a bit basic and with only a few poses if you want them all armed the same the Ashigaru are pretty great and when ranked up look awesome, so I ordered a few boxes from Maelstrom and started to plan the army.

Long story short after a flurry of knives and glue this is what I ended up with:

Pike regiment finished - it's like an angry warhammer hedgehog:

More pics after the jump: