Oriental Figures and Models

[lightning]

love this thread!

[hackbarth]

Edo Era Rural Houses.

www.eonet.ne.jp/~sanda-sakamoto/sisetu.html

[Vermin King]

The Sakamoto models are N-scale, but scale up pretty well. It's a site you have to visit often, because most of the models are only up for a very short time.

[Vermin King]

Okay, not all that useful in rpg's but I think it is really cool

In Japan, the Boys Festival is coming up, and with that they put up a samurai armor display. There are a number of these available on the net.

Niku-mansei did something different


You can either do the display (with a table knife instead of sword) or you can dress up your GIJoe's. The red armor and black armor come in both 1/6 and 1/12 scale, so you can have the clash of the Samurai Joes


www.niku-mansei.com/contents/05club/papercraft/paper_yoroikabuto.html

And, since they are a beef company, the optional horns are bull horns ...

[Vermin King]

cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/CNT-0023736/index.html

Kaminarimon Gate of Senso-ji Temple and it's a pop-up card!

Those pop-up cards are amazing. There is one with cranes. Other subjects are a Chinese dragon, a phoenix and a santa sleigh.

Just checked and counting the tatebanko, I've got five Kaminarimon gate models. I believe this will be the first one I build

[Vermin King]

Odd, I thought I'd already posted the temple posted on PaperMau today, papermau.blogspot.com/2018/04/kuwana-besshon-hondoji-temple-paper.html



Not sure why they didn't make the color more like the real building and do four posts and two sets of stairs on the front. It's the most identifiable feature of this temple. Eh





EDIT-- I guess I should have translated the page. The building still on the site is not the Main Hall, which the model represents. The building that is now a school is one of the ancillary buildings from the complex

[Toman]

A little inspiration I found while browsing. Might have to make up a few more torii's now.

[Toman]

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here is a mod I did of Vermin King's torii bridge mod. didn't do a test build yet, but I noticed after I printed two of the main gate that it's not symmetrical and I didn't make a flipped version before I printed so I went back and did that. now my hands are tired and sore from work so I probably wont get it made tonight. 

[Vermin King]

www.iodata.jp/ilovedesk/papercraft/

[Vermin King]

www.pref.yamanashi.jp/maizou-bnk/siryou-fukyu/maibun-kurafuto.html

[Vermin King]

www.pref.nara.jp/miryoku/ikasu-nara/narafuto/index.html

[Vermin King]

Bensui boat




plaza.rakuten.co.jp/xatnep/diary/201810100000/

Nice catch, wyvern

EDIT --

Holy Smokes, there is a lot of good stuff on this site. Thomas the Tank Engine, parade floats and vendor carts, more ships, architecture, toys and art. A true renaissance designer.

plaza.rakuten.co.jp/xatnep/diary/?ctgy=1

[Toman]

papermau.blogspot.com/2019/07/chinese-diorama-papercraft-for-chinese.html cool looking set if you haven't already seen it.

[Vermin King]

It's really sad how many models I lost that aren't available anymore. web.archive.org/web/20160414112742/http://kids.gakken.co.jp/craft/papercraft/sekai_top.html

I had all these for years, Most of them were enlarged enough to be used for gaming, though I never built the enlarged models. And can't get to the top left one...

Canon has a version of it, but I liked the relative simplicity of these

[marcpasquin]

I used to own a AD&D (1st edition ?) fantasy setting called Kara-tur which was a rule supplement for oriental inspired fantasy RPG adventures (at least, a westerner perception of oriental fantasy). It feels like it could be a good fodder for oriental inspired monsters.

[Vermin King]

ninjatoes.blogspot.com/2020/12/free-mt-fuji-walker-tourism-papercrafts.html

[Vermin King]

Not the greatest guardian lions, but I think that if they were reduced to 28mm scale, they would be more than adequate.


tokyo-shinsei.jp/papercraft.html

[greypilgrim]

Dave Okum (Okumarts) did some oriental stuff, including a tea House and an Elder House.
Papierschnitzel has some nice stuff, too - including a Chinese Courtyard House and handcart.

[Vermin King]

ninjatoes.blogspot.com/2021/07/free-papercraft-hachioji-float.html

[Vermin King]

Robert Tauxe (papermodelfan at PaperModelers.com) donated his collection of tatebanko to the Asian Museum of the Smithsonian.

And they are now online for download!

asia.si.edu/search/Robert+Tauxe

[mesper]

Regarding Oriental FIGURES:





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Then also the latest Samurai set:



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