Redvers and Son Get Into Bushido

Shojo is another of the four sisters like Akuba and Hikari below. In game, she gets to pool her Ki tokens with the other sisters giving some good flexibility on what to focus on each turn. She also comes with a short range attack (as do the other sisters) that if it hits, allows any of the sister’s to heal a wound.

She also has some interesting Ki Feats. Her first creates a 6” aura around her that, should any enemy model spend a Ki token while within it, that enemy model gains a control marker at the end of their activation. That would allow me to take control of that enemy model and take an activation with it as if it were part of my warband. So this could really put a dampener on the enemy within the aura, especially if they are heavy Ki users (like my son’s Temple of RoKan).

Her second Ki feat allows her to attempt to steal an activation from an opposing model and give it to a friendly model within 6”. As every model gets 2 Activations per turn, losing one is quite a blow but then having a friendly model gain it is doubly so. There are certain Cult of Yurei models that become a real problem with 3 Activations in a turn!

She also allows all models with the Burakumin key word heal a wound at the end of every turn, so useful for keeping them alive.

Painting wise, like the other witches, I wanted to bring some colour to the table, so red was the main choice here. I’m still experimenting with how to get a good red and I’ve been thinking that a dark base and highlight up is perhaps the way to go. I’ve started with a maroon mixed with a bit of dark brown as the base, applied only to the lower parts or areas in shadow. Over that, I’ve applied a thin maroon. I’ve then worked up using glazes of maroon/scarlet, just scarlet, scarlet/orange and finally a very fine orange over the top. Then, in an attempt to blend this together, I’ve used a maroon glaze for the recessed/shadow areas and scarlet for the lighter areas – a couple of applications of both. The white ‘petals’ along the hem of the dress are a decal I purchased from Mastercrafted.co.uk.

The purple ‘ghost’ was an imperial purple to start given a deep purple wash. I’ve then reapplied the imperial purple to raised areas and then through gradually adding in off-white into the purple, highlighted up. A couple of imperial purple glazes over at the end helps blend it together. 

White areas where a light grey base, thin luftwaffe grey glaze into the recessed areas and then Off-white highlights. The instrument was scrofulous brown with a wash. Skin was a Scale 75 light skin tone with a wash, then back in again with the light skin tone to highlight and finally a pale skin tone to pick out the raised areas. 

The rest of the ornaments and jewellery were a shiny bronze with a wash, interspersed with some other metallic colours to break things up.