My first serious scratch building attempt. The basis was the MMM samurai by Otto, the helmet was an alternative option from the SK Takeda Shingen bust by Ramon Rux.

My contribution was to extend the Jnbaori at the back and add arms and a sword. I made some antler kuwagata and the kabuto badge on the helmet using magic sculpt.
I struggled a bit with the mail sleeves as you can probably see but I am reasonably happy with how they turned out. I added the bottom plates to the shoulder guards with green stuff and modified the bottom of the throat guard so it covered the armpit guards which were altered to go under the jinbaori, they just hang in mid-air as supplied.

Painted with a combination of oils acrylics and enamels.




Thanks for looking, comments and criticism welcome.

Bill

Very nice work on your additions and amendments.
I like your colour choices and neat painting.
Very well done.

Cheers,
Andrew

Nice scratch build and conversion.
Looks like the arms and katana are converted from Ron Hinote's Little General Samurai warrior figure.

Thanks for your encouraging words Andrew

Cheers

Bill

Thanks Felix,
I haven't seen the figure you refer to. Do you have an image?
I made up the arm armour with putty and sheet lead using various images in my samurai books. The katana was cut from a sheet of aluminium.

Cheers

Bill

Here are the images. The position of the arms are similar and the katana looks exactly the same.

Cheers

looking great and well painted

Mobo

That's a nice looking kit, I've not seen it before. What scale is it?

Cheers

Bill

Thank you Mobo

150mm in white metal

Wow, a lovely piece, I bet it looks great painted up. I bet it's as rare as hens teeth.

Bill

Hi Kev,

The lace was undercoated in acrylic then given a wash with citadel nuln oil in the recesses. I then picked out the detail with
W & N permanent green and paynes grey. So a combination of both really.

Cheers

Bill

bill

Marvelous work Bill! Great modifications and painting.

Cheers,
Ken

Thanks Ken.
If only I could reach your standard.

Cheers

Bill

Very nice, good conversion and lovely painting. It urges me to get on with my own conversion project of Verlinden's "Arnhem" paras... so many projects, so little time..

Thank you Henk,

It's very satisfying to have a unique piece and a bit of putty work makes a nice break from painting.

So get that project on the go.

Cheers
Bill