Redvers and Son Get Into Bushido

Akuba is one of the four sisters who were offered power by Yurei but with the caveat that all four had to agree. Three did but Hikari didn’t, so the other three killed Hikari (who I painted up earlier and posted up here). Akuba shares common abilities with the other sisters and they have a common ability card where all of their Ki tokens go, giving some good flexibility on who gets to use them (if you take more than one of the sisters). She also has a ranged attack that if it deals wounds, generates healing for one of the sisters.

Her special abilities are very useful if you are taking skeletons. Every skeleton on the board gets regenerate 1 while she is alive (meaning they heal a wound at the start of every turn). She can also summon a skeleton once per game. While this is quite a big Ki token cost, you can add a new model to the table! Very handy.

Painting wise, I wanted the four sisters to add a bit of colour to the battlefield. With this in mind, I opted for a yellow paint scheme and started with a base of scruffulous brown. This is already a yellowish brown and hopefully a good base. Yellow has always been my bogey colour to paint, so I’ve invested in some other brands of yellow to try to help out, so I’ve used a Golden Fluid Acrylic cadmium yellow (don’t lick the brush with this one!), Pro Acrylic golden yellow and a Vallejo ice yellow. To get the final yellow colour on the model (that I’m quite pleased with!) I mixed the cadmium yellow into the brown (with some glaze medium) to create the first highlight, then added progressively more golden yellow, adding each lighter tone to the raised areas. Finally, I’ve added ice yellow to the highest points.

The white was a light grey with a luftwaffe grey glaze applied to the deeper areas. The higher areas received an off white/light grey mix and then just off white.

For the skin tones, I’ve used Light Skin and Pale Skin from Scale 75 with a darker wash. 

The bones started as light brown, received a bleached bone highlight, a wash and then another highlight. 

The purple areas (to tie the model into my faction colour), strapping and other bits I’ve probably described before.