ToH - Perry Miniatures Samurai.

With my current focus on Samurai and Test of Honour, I splurged a little and bought some models from Perry Miniatures.

The Perry Twins are fantastic sculptors, many older gamers will remember them from Games Workshop of yore.

They sell an entire range of models for the Sengoku Jidai period, during which Test of Honour is meant to be set.
As the Wargames Factory Samurai models are truly awful to build, I decided to pick up a pack of Samurai Warriors and one of Warrior Monks.

Packed in these nice sturdy presentation boxes, you get six miniatures in each. The SAM24 coded box is my Samurai Warriors and the SAM54 box is the Warrior Monks.

Six Samurai warriors fighting with Katana. these are really nice models, I must admit, true there is some flashing and mould lines to deal with, but that is true of nearly all miniatures (some more the others, Forge World). They just needed their swords straightening a little, about five minutes with a file on each one and they were ready to be based and hit the paint station.

Similarly with the Warrior Monks, the difference here is that although the Sashimono flags in the Samurai pack were separate, they just glued into a lug on each models back. The Warrior monks require their Naginata pole arms to be threaded through their hands. A little more challenging, but that is part of the hobby after all, where would we be without assembling and painting out miniatures.

With god awful prepainted miniatures like Dungeons & Dragons miniatures *shudders*.

The plan here is to use these in my Test of Honour warbands, the Samurai as, well, Samurai (obviously), and the Warrior monks are going to count as "Masked Men" as it will add some variation to that warband and they will fit the aesthetic.

A band of Sohei (Warrior Monks) and their followers travelling around stopping the Samurai clans mistreating the townspeople.

I am looking forward to getting them built.

Until next time.



 - Lewis