I bought Toshiro on sale at Wet Coast earlier this year and haven’t had time to put any paint to him. I bought him originally to try a new Mei Feng list that involves her, him and Komainu, but I couldn’t find any Komainu proxies that made me happy so I wasn’t certain where that plan was going. One day while setting up to play a 4-way game against some friends, I noted that they’d all declared Ressers (filthy Ressers…) but I’d declared Arcanists. I had an epiphany — I could declare Ressers with Tara and Toshiro and summon Ashigaru!
That was fun, so now I’m building up some models to play Tara as Resser. I picked up the Masters of the Path box for the Ashigaru and Chiaki (and as a bonus it comes with Yan Lo…).
These are the first models I’ve painted in months (since well before the summer painting contest) that didn’t have a deadline attached to them. It’s freeing and fun. I’m putting paint on models and I don’t even care what colours I pick. So Toshiro is ending up in a Resser green. The Crooligans are getting the leftover paint — I’m not focused on them right now, but thought I’d based coat them since they were getting many of the same colours as Toshiro.
His clothing is Warpstone Green, an absolutely love colour. Blazing Orange for the shirt under his robes. Some P3 colour called Rylth Flesh (or something like that) because I didn’t have a GW flesh colour light enough. Ushapti Bone on the bamboo, Mithril Silver on the sword, Codex grey on the clothes of the Crooligan in the back.
Also, I’m playing with using Stegadon Green as a base layer for the stone. I’m wondering if it will give it a different hue, to separate one set of stones (front) from another (back). We’ll see!
