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Post by Vermin King on Feb 23, 2018 7:51:03 GMT -9
The theme for this month's HOARD is  Japanese Mythos This can be any sort of miniature figure or model on the above theme or feel free to submit miniatures off theme. If you submit a figure, they must include both front and rear art, have a proper trimming outline, and include instructions for multi-part models. Recolors and figure mods are encouraged, and even uncolored designs are welcome. No nudity or sexuality, but bloody gory and horrifying is encouraged. If you have questions about how to design your entries, like formats, resolution, and stuff like that, see the HOARD GUIDELINES in this forum category. Entries for the Hoard will be accepted until the last day of March, 2018. Such an interesting and awe-inspiring topic. All the kami's of Shinto, Tao and Buddhist traditions. The folklore. The temples and shrines. Priests, monks and followers. This hoard can be great, terrible and beautiful as are the Japanese traditions |
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Post by lightning on Feb 25, 2018 5:38:27 GMT -9
Started working on a wayside shrine ... maybe a mini maker wants to draw a little kami statue for inside?  (mini by PrintableHeroes) |
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 25, 2018 7:57:09 GMT -9
If you do a search for 'kami woodblock print', you might find an old image that you can modify.
I was looking for an oni or kami to do a figure, but I am trying to finish up the Bugatti right now
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Post by lightning on Feb 25, 2018 8:51:38 GMT -9
If you do a search for 'kami woodblock print', you might find an old image that you can modify. I was looking for an oni or kami to do a figure, but I am trying to finish up the Bugatti right now Great idea. Thanks! |
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Post by lightning on Feb 26, 2018 8:02:03 GMT -9
Had some time today, so I went on to complete this. You can turn the moss on the roof off, but I like it!   |
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Feb 26, 2018 18:43:43 GMT -9
Man, I can't give that shrine enough love! It is totally going into my Manchukuo scenery |
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 27, 2018 13:41:29 GMT -9
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Post by cowboyleland on Feb 28, 2018 7:32:55 GMT -9
Vermin King: I am surprised you aren't building this cart already. 
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 28, 2018 7:36:29 GMT -9
Gotta finish Cthulhu. And then work on the February Hoard.
I grabbed some of the old woodblock prints of the Seven Gods of Fortune. If I get them cleaned up and laid out, would you feel like doing backs?
BTW, the Girls Festival is March 3, and on the bottom layer of the Hino doll display, there is usually a goshoguruma. Either that or an ox cart with flowers
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Post by cowboyleland on Feb 28, 2018 8:12:44 GMT -9
Sure, I can probably do backs.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 3, 2018 6:46:57 GMT -9
The goshugorama looks like a pretty straightforward project. Instead of a smooth curve for the roof extensions, I plan on doing them like baseball cap bills that connect under the front and rear roof edges. The rest of this is fairly straight forward. Found an old print of someone exiting one of these, which gives me a back end view. I thought I would pull a madarchitect and go through some old wood prints of the Seven Gods of Fortune and maybe some demons, but this may be more difficult than I thought. At least on the Gods of Fortune. In the different prints, generally there are five of the seven that could be turned into minis, and the styles don't exactly match between prints. I still consider it a worthy project |
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 5, 2018 14:49:30 GMT -9
Here is the template for this month's hoard.  Do we have more ideas working? |
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Mar 5, 2018 21:34:36 GMT -9
Do we have more ideas working? Possibly. We're only a few days into the month |
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 7, 2018 9:43:20 GMT -9
Seven Gods of Fortune are driving me up a wall. The styles between artists do not blend well, and it seems that each vintage woodblock print has three, five, six good images. I can't really find seven that look somewhat unified in style.
As far as ghosts, demons and ogres, the older prints look too cute or poorly executed.
Some of the meaner looking demons are the cat demons. Not sure I want to do a cat head in clouds.
I hope others are having better luck
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 8, 2018 10:17:10 GMT -9
Why is it that the best images to be found are either on beer labels or tattoos?
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Post by cowboyleland on Mar 8, 2018 12:32:49 GMT -9
Who cares? Is this an excuse to drink beer? I will take any excuse to drink beer. Strangely, that has never led to tattoos for me.
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 8, 2018 14:38:53 GMT -9
Sorting through this has been interesting, though. There's a vintage model called 'Dance of the Gods at the Heavenly Gate'. A beautiful model, but I didn't realize that it depicted Shinto Gods dancing to lure Amaterasu the Sun Goddess out of a cave to end an eclipse.
The ancient Japanese have an interesting perspective. Instead of showing demons and evil spirits in their power, they usually show the mighty warrior defeating them. Demons in their death-throws does not make for a good mini. They also like showing them in mortal guise doing normal things, like sitting around drinking. So, guys sitting around drinking doesn't seem like it would make for good minis either. One shouldn't have to explain that this is a deity disguised as a human.
And then there are the airborne creatures. I really wasn't planning on doing something that needs to sit on a clear plastic cup
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 9, 2018 12:20:22 GMT -9
Well, Amaterasu, a Kirin, a Komainu (foo dog lion), a warrior monk apparition, Kayo-fujin (the nine-tailed fox woman) and a few other images that I've been working on  |
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 9, 2018 14:08:13 GMT -9
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Post by wyvern on Mar 9, 2018 14:20:48 GMT -9
Well, with immaculate timing, Eddnic has just (March 7) released a fresh batch of minis - wait for it! - Paper Miniatures inspired by Eastern myths and legends! Nineteen minis, no less (if I've counted correctly, at least!)  [Edit: After downloading and checking the files, there are also variants within the set, so I think there are 25 minis in total!] |
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 10, 2018 10:16:00 GMT -9
Well, with lightning's shrines, I am moving forward on Priests, Monks and Acolytes I may come back and turn some of these into minis  |
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Post by okumarts on Mar 10, 2018 12:46:32 GMT -9
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Post by mesper on Mar 10, 2018 13:08:44 GMT -9
River Demon - first attempt Demon is hidden in coastal reeds and bulrush, waiting for careless wanderers! A little different figurine than typical - this mini will not have a full black border, and the B-side will be quite simple So it's rather kinda props or element of scenery than playable figurine? Dunno if such mini will be suitable? Worth working on this further?  And oh... bulrush, water textures and effects are temporary, just for preview here. |
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 10, 2018 13:19:16 GMT -9
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Post by lightning on Mar 10, 2018 22:27:28 GMT -9
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Post by cowboyleland on Mar 11, 2018 7:06:57 GMT -9
River Demon - first attempt Demon is hidden in coastal reeds and bulrush, waiting for careless wanderers! A little different figurine than typical - this mini will not have a full black border, and the B-side will be quite simple So it's rather kinda props or element of scenery than playable figurine? Dunno if such mini will be suitable? Worth working on this further? And oh... bulrush, water textures and effects are temporary, just for preview here. I think this is a great idea! Could the demon be one piece and the bullrushes separate? Maybe on a watery base? I also think it would be fun to make each arm and head separate pieces and large so the encounter would be fighting a mostly submerged giant. |
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Post by Vermin King on Mar 11, 2018 14:49:49 GMT -9
These take a bit longer than the beasties. The beasties were generally shown by themselves or in very simple scenes to delete. These guys are mostly coming from one of the three panels of a triptych. I haven't found a good system for pulling them out, adding borders and cleaning up artifacts. EDIT  Well, I was losing track of what I was thinking might make good minis, so the last four (two still need fixed, but they are at least squared up) are from a tatebanko (old Japanese paper model called Assassination of the Shogun. Going through my images alphabetically. I've thrown the illustration of what the finished model should look like under the two in-process guys. There are some guys going down the stairs which I might want to do for lightning's Shrine. If it has enough steps ... but having the guy with the train, holding the rod, with an attendant holding the back of the train would be cool to have coming down the steps of the shrine ... maybe The last I saw, you can still pick up the original tatebanko for around $850 ... a bargain |
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Post by mesper on Mar 12, 2018 13:21:02 GMT -9
<...> Could the demon be one piece and the bullrushes separate? Maybe on a watery base? I also think it would be fun to make each arm and head separate pieces and large so the encounter would be fighting a mostly submerged giant. Yep why not - but... then it would become a whole mini-set as these components will make up 2-3 pages - and it was supposed to be one simple and quick "joke" mini. Well I'll consider the idea of such a MOD-KIT or rather more complex DIY set, but for now maybe it may be better to leave it as it is. |
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Post by cowboyleland on Mar 12, 2018 18:01:34 GMT -9
If it is OK mesper, I will try to do a mod for this hoard. |
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Post by mesper on Mar 13, 2018 10:19:43 GMT -9
If it is OK mesper , I will try to do a mod for this hoard. OK |
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Japanese Mythos 
