Fire Forge Samurai Minis

 

After watching the new vesions of Shogun I was once again hooked in the Feudal Japanese history and the later Sengoku period 1540 -1600.

Ofcourse the FireForge plastic range  The Samurai Wars was the answer to give me my Samurai fix. I always has had a soft spot for the FireForge minis, the last I built was their Almughavars back in 2022.

I got me a few boxes of Samurais and Ashigarus,  I also managed to get hold of a preview sample of the new Samurai/Ashigaru Command Sprue that I thought I should share some pictures of below.

It is a really nice addition to all the other boxes that lack command minis, you probably want to get hold of several of them if you want Ashigaru command minis in all your units, I will try to do the most out of the ones I have and convert the other command minis needed.

The box have 3 sprues, samurais, Ashigarus and Horses that will give you 14 minis, 3 mounted samurai and 11 samurai/ashigaru on foot, including Samurai on a chair and 2 kneel down, as well as a mox of shigaru officers, musicians, ammunition handlers, banners and ofcoures the umbrella holder, a very important man in every Samurai army;) 

The command box are still up for pre-order on the fireforge website untill the end of November.

Now Im of to build me a Samurai force for The Pikemans Lament, more to come.

Samurai Building

As you know I  have been fixing up a couple of old Samurai minis, that made me start to go through some old terrain boxes and I found my Scratch built  Samurai House and Torii that I build exactly 10 years ago, back in 2004...

Samurai Interlude

I have had these 12 minis half painted for years, ever sins my friend Oscar lured me into a Samurai Skirmish project, Genpei War I belice it was called.

As a short painting interlude I decided to finsih them up. The minis are from The Assault Group, 4 Samurai Archers and 8 Followers with Naginatas, might even get me to try out the Osprey Skirmish Samurai rules "Ronin" even thought they are for a later era....

More Samurais

Here are tha rest of the Samurais and there Commander.

They likely be out for sale in the near future if I get a fair bid... ;)

The army are 99 Foot minis and 12 Mounted all 28mm Perry minis based on DBx/FoGr bases ie. 60x30mm for Infantry and 60x50mm for Mounted.


12 Bases of Foot Samurais


6 bases of Mounted Samurais


All the Samurais and a General.

Samurais

At the same time as I have painted my Highlanders I have started to finnishing a old project... my 28mm Perry Samurais.

They are all based on standard DBx, FoGr bases, ie.60x30mm for Infantry and 60x50mm for Cavalry.

Here are some pictures of my Ashigary units...the Samurais will come later this week...


6 bases of Ashigarus with Yari and 4 bases of Ashigarus with Bow.


12 bases of Ashigarus with Teppus.


All the Ashigarus...