Imperial/Shogunate troops greens

Bac Ninh Miniatures extends its catalog with two new references, once again brilliantly sculpted by Paul Hicks. 

These new packs have separate heads in order to achieve a greater number of variations. Each of the references represent a side, but they have been designed so that the can be used for both sides, as there was not such a big difference regarding uniforms between both, except for some cases as the battle of Toba–Fushimi where some troops follower of Shogun wear armors or the Shinsengumi, who wore traditional clothes. 

The figures with battle hat (nirayamagasa) represent the Imperial troops. Whereas those which wear headband represent the Shogun side, take into account that they wear a pair of swords (daisho) typical of the most traditional pro shogunate clans. It's possible to swap heads from one reference to the other without any problems. In this sense Paul, besides the sculptures, has done a great job. 

The greens have been sent to the caster, so they will be available in a few weeks if there's no problem.

Chosu Officer

Andrés Amián aka Einar Olafson has make a superb work painting this guy. Painted as Chosu officer with his white wig (Haguma).
You can see more pics and other great works on Andrés Amián's blog.

Many thanks Andrés!

Ronin, the rulebook

Ronin is a skirmish wargame set in late 16th century feudal Japan. Although the focus is on the Sendoku Jidai, there is an appendix that has rules on other periods, including the Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion and lists for Shinsengumi, Imperialist Troops and Shogunate Troops. 
By the way, you can see inside the book a nice picture of Bac Ninh Miniatures. ;-) 

I want to give a big thanks to Craig the author of the rulebook and Phil of Osprey Publishing for count on Bac Ninh Miniatures for this great rulebook.

News and WIP

I have a lot of people asking to me about the next releases, so I'm going to try clarify this matter. We are currently working on new packs, but I don't have a release date because Paul has stopped at the moment the production of figures due to he and his wife are expecting a baby, but he will be getting back very soon.      
I can advance that these new packs will have separate heads and this way so many variations can be done.  

Meanwhile, here you can see any pics of the started work by Paul, please note that they are WIP. ;-)