This is my 54mm, 13th century Samurai warrior from Andrea miniatures. This is one that you can really go all out in the Kimono, especially when you see the one in the cover.
The Kimono as you can see was done simply with orange as the main colour, a bit of brown ink for the recess for the shadows, lighter orange for highlights on the raised areas and finally a few stripes to make some sort of pattern.
I wanted to keep it simple, not only because i am not very good at free hand painting but also the fact that not all Japanese Kimonos were intricate in their designs. I think the outcome looks good.
The Armour was done by giving it a black undercoat to start with and then having the whole thing drybrushed with gold. I always thought that black and gold form a very good partnership.
The ribbons behind were drybrushed very carefully with red. Any mistakes like a bit of red going on the gold could be simply covered up with drybrushing that area with gold again.
The Japanese liked to use colour in their Kimonos and that also included their socks so i decided to give him some purple coloured socks with white polka dots to match. The dots were done with a toothpick. Dipping it first in pure white and kind of stamping it once in the desired area.
The sword scabbard was done with pure red and then glazed with gloss varnish to give it that same shiny look that the Japanese sword masters used to give their swords when finished.
Since the base was small i simply used PVA glue all over the base and used static grass to finish him off. There you go, one Samurai warrior ready for battle.
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