Friday, 1 April 2011

Japanese Infantry

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, while sorting out a few Japanese officers to accompany the Kurogane field cars, I ended up painting enough figures for another infantry division.  These lads are all metal figures and are from a number of manufacturers - but I'm not sure which.  There are 22 figures in all - 1 HQ stand, 1 engineer battalion and nine infantry battalions.  I have included photos of a few of the stands below.
HQ stand (left) and the engineers.  The HQ orderly looks bemused while his boss waves his sword around excitedly. 
A pair of infantry battalions - represented here by MMG and LMG teams.  I think there may be FAA figures.   Interestingly (well I thought so) the gunners have their caps on backwards.  Early gangsta rappers perhaps?
Two more inf btls.  The figures on the right stand are particularly nice castings, although one appears to have forgotten his shirt.
Coming soon - Jap artillery.
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15 comments:

  1. Paul´s Bods1 April 2011 at 19:15

    A great set of Japanese...and very well painted.
    Cheers
    paul

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  2. Al1 April 2011 at 20:42

    Nicely painted there Tim, what rules are you using?

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  3. Don M1 April 2011 at 21:41

    They look good enough to shoot...nice job as always Tim!

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  4. Tim Gow1 April 2011 at 22:14

    Paul's Bods
    Thay have turned out rather well. Good old ink wash and drybrushing!

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  5. Tim Gow1 April 2011 at 22:15

    Al
    These guys will be used in Megablitz games. A particularly fine set of rules.....

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  6. Tim Gow1 April 2011 at 22:16

    Don M
    Oh yeah? Come on then!

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  7. Paul1 April 2011 at 22:19

    Dang hot in th jungle...Dang hot!

    Nice all round set of bases. Great work.

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  8. Biff Tanner1 April 2011 at 22:32

    Ditto Don M

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  9. Geordie an Exiled FoG2 April 2011 at 00:45

    Good investment in metals Tim

    :)

    Nice to see that you are giving the Jap formations the same TLC

    Often they seem to get second best from wargamers

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  10. Beccas2 April 2011 at 03:47

    Great looking figures. Good paint work.

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  11. Tim Gow2 April 2011 at 09:11

    Paul
    I gather it is rather warm in the jungle, but I suspect the chap with no shirt is shivering in the wind and rain we have here today.

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  12. Tim Gow2 April 2011 at 09:12

    Biff Tanner
    So you want to shoot them too?

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  13. Tim Gow2 April 2011 at 09:14

    Geordie
    The best bit is that pretty well all these figures were bought cheaply at shows a few years ago. It's worth taking a bit of trouble over Japs 'cos they'll never appear in vast numbers like my Russians do.

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  14. Tim Gow2 April 2011 at 09:16

    Beccas
    Thanks - I wish I could tell you the makers of the figures. Plenty more to follow.

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  15. Anonymous8 July 2011 at 04:52

    The figures are a mixture of FAA and S&A. See here:

    http://afewroundsmore.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/more-dipped-japanese/

    http://afewroundsmore.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/speed-painted-japanese/

    http://afewroundsmore.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/faa-japanese/

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