3d-printable terrain for all your samurai wargaming needs
We have a new print partner to announce this week - FROM SCRATCH 3D, our very first retailer from France. They are now selling print versions of our sci-fi Taui and Eldari models, plus our samurai terrain on their store!
We were invited recently to collaborate on a tie-in with TabletopSimulator, to include some of our samurai terrain models in the video game system. They'd seen our new Temple Outer Gate model, and asked if we could shoot a simple 360-degree spin video. 
Please excuse the blurry photo - obviously we couldn't use the best camera to take the pic, because it's already IN the pic!
The video is then loaded into clever software, which pulls out all of the relevant detail and removes the background - leaving a full 3D version of the painted model, to be added into TabletopSimulator as a terrain asset.
This was a first draft, just to test some lighting settings, but you can see it should look pretty great once fully-rendered. Hopefully you should be able to fight your away in and around these models very soon, so watch this space!
As promised, we have a little mini-release for you today! For the ninja fans amongst you, here are some cool little rooftop-themed bases.....
£ Yes, in this picture you have to wonder exactly who the ninja is, right? Is it the flashy git standing on the rooftop next to the dragon fish, or is it the musician monk standing innocently nearby?
£ There's a great variety of square and rounds bases, in 3 different sizes: 25mm, 40mm and 60mm (group) bases. There are several designs for each size, so your ninja models can have a wide range of action poses!
The Ninja Rooftop Bases are available for download from today!
An upcoming mini-release to show you today ... a set of rooftop bases, designed for ninja assassins!
Have you ever wanted to show just how awesome ninja warriors can be? Why base them on boring old grass, when you can have them jumping across the rooftops of old Japan?!
£ This is a set of rooftop bases, in various sizes to suit a variety of games and miniatures. The rooftops themselves are taken from our temple and castle models, and feature authentic and highly detailed roof designs.
£ Let's start with the largest of the bases. These three designs are 60mm group bases, with three 25mm bases embedded in each. These can be removed during play as a unit takes casualties, and is specifically designed for Test of Honour players.
The middle design, by the way, is probably the only base for which you might want to consider print supports. All the other designs should print fine without supports.
£ The 25mm bases can, of course, be used separately for individual miniatures.
£ The medium sized prints are 40mm bases, with 4 square designs and 4 round designs included. The first design is perhaps the most complicated, and requires you to print each half flat to the print bed.
The photo above shows a 40mm square base printed at 0.1mm layers, prior to assembly.
£ The first design (on the left) can also be fitted with an optional dragon fish sculpture, and is perfect for your hero models to pose atop.
£ Lastly, we have the smallest set of bases - four round 25mm bases and four square 25mm bases. If you add these four round bases to the nine from the group bases, you actually have 13 round bases to choose from.
In the photo above, you can see the first design (on the left, with the dragonfish) has been printed at 120% scale, and fitted into a 40mm round lip base - this is designed for Bushido players, and you can fit a variety of the round designs into the 30mm, 40mm and 50mm lip bases, by tweaking the scale:
* For 30mm round lip bases, resize the round 25mm base by 82% to fit inside.
* For 40mm round lip bases, resize the round 25mm base by 120%, or the 40mm base by 76% to fit inside.
* For 50mm round lip bases, resize the round 40mm base by 103% to fit inside.
These rooftop bases will be hitting the paintdesk today, and should be ready for release by the weekend!
Apologies for the gap in blog posts - I've been busy painting houses, but not at 28mm scale - just an actual house! Painted it blood red, too! haha
Today I thought you might like to see some photos of a recent gaming table we played over last month! Although the big castle was finished last winter, it's taken 6 months before we've actually had a chance to play over it! So it seemed worth putting together a double-size layout, and going MAD with the terrain.....
£ This was the sight that greeted my guest players! Some of them had never seen a real gaming table before, and their reaction was awesome!
£ This is two 3x3 mats placed together, on two separate levels.
£ Such a great view, looking up through the little town to the castle at the top.
£ This is the lower half of the table - the village outside the castle gates.
£ Here you can see Mori-clan troops attacking the defenders up the main road.
£ What better time to play some cool jazz-flute, than in the middle of the battle?! Pochi the dog likes it, anyway...
£ Defenders surge out of the gatehouse to push the attackers back.
£ Musketmen on the rooftops lay down a hail of fire on the castle walls.
£ Archers on the left flank shoot from the relative safety of a stone bridge.
£ But you have to consider, what do they hope to gain by attacking such strong fortifications.....?
£ .... well, the efforts of the defenders are focused on the front wall, so maybe there's something else going on?
£ Let's take a look behind the walls....
£ Aha! It's all a diversion! Ninja assassins have infiltrated from the rear, and have their real target sighted, as he strolls out of the castle doors!
£ Only one defender seems to have spotted the intruders so far, as he shoots at them from the ornamental pond!
£ Do you think their sneak attack will work?
£ That was a fun table to put together. Maybe next time the temple models will be making an appearance....
Hope you enjoyed these pics - let us know what you'd like to see next!
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