Decals for 6mm Samurai
Since I started selling my range of Samurai decals I’ve been asked a few times if I could make them for 6mm, notably those for the lovely models from Baccus...
Category: Samurai
Ten New Samurai Decals
Ten new patterns of samurai decal are now available for sale in the Derek’s Wee Decals store. That makes 80 different patterns available for use by Samurai wargamers and modellers....
Heraldry for Samurai Skirmish Wargames
Having got my range of samurai decals on sale I thought I’d write a brief article about different ways they can be used to make interesting forces for Samurai Skirmish...
Samurai Heraldry Resources
I’ve been doing a lot of reading about Samurai heraldry as part of the process of designing the waterslide decals I have on sale here and I thought I’d share...
Undead Samurai
As a wargamer who has hundreds of undead figures for fantasy armies and likes samurai for historical games I have always been attracted by the Undead Samurai range Zenit Miniatures...
Test of Honour Forces
I’ve owned a fairly large collection of Dixon Miniatures Samurai for almost thirty years now and it would be fair to say that I’ve not used them as much as...
Finishing off my Sarissa Mountain Village models
I wanted to personalise my Sarissa Mountain Village and make it look a bit more interesting, so I did some research on the Japanese architecture on Intertubes. Among the articles...
Mountain Village for Test of Honour– Farmhouse & Rice Store
Here’s the Mountain Village Farmhouse, built as per instructions in the packet. I went to work with the strip-wood to add some beams, this took a couple of hours, there’s...
Mountain Village for Test of Honour – Hovel & Animal Shelters
Another Japanese scenery kit from Sarissa Precision. This time the Mountain Village Hovel & Animal Shelter Set. This is how the hovel looks built as per instructions in the pack. ...
My Sanada for Test of Honour
I’ve had all these Dixon Samurai for at least 20 years and have played various games with them. Having discovered the Test of Honour skirmish game I took them all...
Sarissa Scenery for Test of Honour – the Shrine
I’ve been having a lot of fun playing Test of Honour at the club and a few weeks back I decided I needed to invest in some scenery. Looking around...
Back from a break
I was off on holiday for the whole of July, visiting the Netherlands, Belgium and France. I got to spend time visiting battlefields at Arnhem, Waterloo and Normandy (the Bluecoat...