Holy Tree 御神木

I'm trying to make a Holy Shinto Tree, but I haven't yet figures out how to make the rope that goes around it yet. The rope will signify that there is a god inhabiting the tree (that the tree is a god?).

注連縄をまだ作っていません。

Bamboo!! ウォーゲーミング用の竹（背景）

Finally I have made my first prototype!!

やっと、初めての試作品を完成させました‼

This is the reason I had not posted in several days :-)

しばらくの間何も載せなかったのは、これを作っていたからです。

I would like to thank Shallow Diver for the original inspiration on how to make this kind of bamboo tree.

このアイデアをくれたシャローダイバーさんに感謝します！！彼のブログはこちらです：

http://shallowdiver.at.webry.info./

Cyberpunk Samurai 6/6

Cyberpunk Samurai

サイバーパンク侍

Progress Report #4

第四進捗状況報告

Using retarding medium I started on his "power sword".

リターディング ミディアムで雷刀を塗り始めました。

Cyberpunk Samurai 6/3

Cyberpunk Samurai

サイバーパンク侍

Progress Report #3

第三進捗状況報告

I'm imagining my samurai dude as if he is in some imperial hall devoted to Eisen (Eisen is a famous sake).

この背景はまるで榮川帝国大広間です。

Sengoku Townswoman

Just a quick post to show off a woman from the town people set from the Perry Miniatures samurai range.

The background is from an empty sake carton. 

The lantern is from Oshiro Model Terrain.

短い記事ですが、このペリー・ミニチュアの村人セットにはいっていた女の人をお見せしたい。

背景は清酒の紙パックです。

灯籠はOshiro Model Terrainから購入した物です。

Book Review: Ikkojin 一個人 No.158

This is my first book review but actually it is a magazine.

I really just want to put some information out there on internet about the resources I use to learn about samurai.

This magazine can be bought at most convenience stores and has themes like "The Truth of the Imperial Household", " The Castles of Sengoku Busho", or "The Mysteries of Japanese Shrines".

They aren't heavy hitting scholarly research but they do have really cool illustrations showing stuff like how castles were built or what a battlefield scene might look like. A lot of the illustrations are CG and show battles in action which I think is really cool.

Here is their website: http://www.ikkojin.net/magazine/monthly/

Cyberpunk Samurai 6/1

Cyberpunk Samurai

サイバーパンク侍

Progress Report #2

第二進捗状況報告

 I'm using these two pictures as inspiration.

手本として、これら二つの写真を使用しています。

I really hope I can paint the red wave pattern like in the above picture :-)

もしできれば上の赤い波を塗りたいなと思います。