Korean Buntai for Ronin

OK, thirteen years is a perfectly normal amount of time to take to paint up a skirmish force of ten figures, right?

So way back in 2013 when Ronin came out I got excited and bought the rules. I also bought some Perry Miniatures Koreans. In fact getting Tonin was the excuse to buy them as I'd wanted them since they first came out.

Anyway in that first flush of excitement I painted three of them - you can find the post here

Things happened,mistakes were made and here we are

A finished Buntai of Perry Miniatures Koreans for games of Ronin:

And here are the individual models

A leader, waving his sword in a very leadery fashion

Three of the super cool swordsmen with the demon shields that are surely the main reason anyone wants a Korean army

Three spearmen, two of them with the funky tridents - another reason to collect Koreans

Three archers

The eagle-eyed amongst you will notice that the spearmen are *not* the same models from October 2013 - I have in fact painted three more, so I *could field six if I wanted to, exciting stuff.

I also have the other half of the archers and the swordsmen packs still in their Perry jewellery boxes as well as the other five models from the command pack.

So I guess we should expect to see those sometime around 2039.

Anyway, General B. has Samurai, so expect some Far Eastern warfare, ahem,  Imjin-ently.

Perry Koreans for Ronin

I've wanted to get some of the Perry Koreans ever since they first came out.
Cool and unusual and with their usual high standard of sculpting.
However knowing next to nothing about the period and with no intention of collecting an entire army of them, my interest remained notional.
Until Ronin came out. Simple Samurai era skirmish rules needing only a few models and with a Korean list in the book! Huzzah!
So I bought the book and got me a few packs of Koreans.
Here are the first three from pack KOR6:

As a change and challenge I went with a layering technique on most of the model, just to make a break with my usual wash style of painting, and also to see if it gave the miniatures a more vibrant look.
It's a long time since I've painted an entire model like this and its (even) more time consuming than my usual method. But I have to say I'm pretty pleased with then end results, even if I'm clearly a bit rusty.
However it's proving tricky to get decent pictures of them - I think the bright white clothing is playing havoc with the white balance.
There's another three of these to go, then some command models before I get to some of the funky armoured dudes with intricate shields. Then I'll need to buy some archers (they didn't have any in stock at Partizan). At this rate I'll be ready for a game by about 2020.