Just back after a few days away - Sara and I have spent this week in Bath - Somerset's answer to Perth. As a result, you will have noticed that new posts have been a bit thin. Anyway, I am now back and what passes for normal service is hereby resumed.
As well as the 'normal' tanks and APCs mentioned in earlier posts, I made sure that my Japs were tooled up with various bits of kit which go 'bang' or 'whoosh' quite loudly. Most of this is in fact US-produced and even better, I already had much of it 'in stock'.
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| SP artillery - M-109 and M-110A2, together with a pair of Type 73 trucks. All Scotia models. And yes I kmow that Japan didn't use M-109 - it is standing in for a Type 75 155mm SP gun (they look pretty similar to me). |
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| Type 81 Tan-SAM with it's fire control system. Both are mounted on Isuzu trucks. |
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| Hawk AA missile (model by Heroics & Ros). I'm not sure if Japan actually used the tracked version, but model-wise it's the only game in town until I scratchbuild the wheeled launcher... |
That's it for ground forces (for the moment at least) - next time we take to the air - with a few surprises!
Admirable stuff...how you do it I don´t know...the dry brushing alone would do my head in at that scale.
ReplyDeleteCheers
paul
Paul
ReplyDeleteI keep telling you - if I can paint them it must be easy!
Yeah, it's nice to see this stuff, quite different
ReplyDeleteAl
ReplyDeleteThanks - I do like to have something a bit different.
Diversity is the spice of life, and I like this spice!
ReplyDeleteI think the M109 looks like a Type 75 as well, so good call there.
Keep them coming.
Paul
ReplyDeleteThanks - rather than thinking 'Oh bu**er, there's no model of whatever so I can't do it', my attitude is 'what can I use that'll look OK to me, 3 feet away and in less than perfect light.'