Redvers and Son Get Into Bushido

For some reason I have two of these models, not sure why as you’re only allowed one. Satou Hatchi is the first of my Gashadokuro (meaning starving skeleton) and decided to paint all of my skeletons together to get a similar bone colour.

In game, he’s a high value model. He comes with 4 melee dice which is very unusual for Cult of Yurei models but also very handy. He does not have an special Ki abilities and does not generate Ki either. His strength lies in combat, where he can use either his Katana that provides a reroll to his opponents defence dice (handy for getting rid of any 6’s that were rolled) or he can use his Yari that gives him Reach (attack first) and gains a +1 on his defence roll.

In addition to his combat abilities, he comes with Armour (reduces the damage roll) and Fear. Like all skeletons in the game, he’s immune to just about all states (like blind, disease, poison etc). He has Prowess in Melee, so he can re-roll one dice of his choosing.

He only comes with 4 wounds, which is normally a problem but like all skeletons, he is Durable, meaning that he can only ever take 1 wound at a time, regardless of how many wounds are dealt. He also regenerates 1 wound at the start of every turn and an extra wound if you win the tactical roll at the start of the turn.

I painted all of the bones first (not just here but on all of the skeletons I have). Base cost of German Black brown followed by a wet brush of light brown with the idea of just leaving the very deepest recesses with the black brown. Once dry, I then applied a light dry brush of bleached bone followed by Iraq Sand on the highest points. I’m quite happy with the effect that it has created.

I spent some time looking at pictures of Japanese samurai armour. I really like the black/red effect, so opted for that. The black was firstly a dark grey given a couple of washes of nuln oil. I’ve then picked out the higher points with dark grey, dark grey/light grey and then and then just light grey. The red was a crimson then highlighted up using scarlet and orange to finish. I picked out the cord with scruffulous brown.

The purple smoke was a base of imperial purple followed by a wash of purple/off white mix (smoke is lighter in the thinner areas and darker in the thicker areas). I’ve then glazed the thicker areas with a dark purple glaze to get the contrast. Final step was to apply a mid purple glaze over everything to tie this together.

The rest of the model was made up of some gold, light brown with a wash for the Yari shaft and gun metal with nuln oil for the steel areas.