Redvers and Son Get Into Bushido

To get into Bushido, we initially picked up the starter set. This came with 10 models listed as Ronin. Ronin can fight for any faction listed on their card, so whichever faction you decide to opt for, there’s at least a couple of the starter box models that you can draft into your warband. The starter box also has a Romes and Juliet love story between the two factions.

I’ve painted up three of the models but the rest had sat unpainted since. Time to correct this travesty and get the painted. And an opportunity to try some speed paints out to see if I can figure out how to get the best out of them.

I’ve really taken the quickest approach to painting these with a white undercoat and then just a quick speed paint over the top. I’ve picked out the smaller details with ordinary paints and then given the model a quick dry brush, but otherwise these were finished in a couple of evenings. The basing took almost as long!

Annoyingly, I had a paint accident while they were sat on my painting table. A pot of paint splattered while I was squeezing some into a palette and some of the splatter went over the models. I could clean these up but I’m not sure that these models are going to be used enough to warrant the time.

First up, we have the Hozumi Family. The first three models I had painted previously and aren’t speed paints.

And then we have the Kiyozumi family

I’m still not sure about the speed paints. The green worked quite well, as did the hardened leather I used. Some of the others not so well. I can’t decide whether it is my application or my expectations being too high. Jury is still out for me.