Saturday, 22 July 2023
Japanese 70mm Infantry Guns
These tiny guns were widely used by Japanese forces for fire support. Being too mean to buy an expensive and fragile plastic kit and too impatient to order a 3D print I decided that scratchbuilding was the way to go. In the end I built three of them and gave one to PHW. The crew for this one were adapted from the Tamiya Japanese Infantry set - often to be found startlingly cheap at under £1 a figure!
The pre-paint photos give you a better idea of the construction. Wheels were an issue but I had a (20mm) metal kit of a WW2 German 15cm field howitzer. The gun wheels are wider then those of the limber but I can live with that. (The third gun had wheels from another such gun). Barrels are plastic tube, trail legs bambo skewers, everything else random bits of plastic card.
Wow Tim, very impressive scratch builds indeed! Beautiful job start to finish!
ReplyDeleteVery nicely completed, Tim. I did something similar, constructing a Type 92 gun for my 54mm collection, also using converted Airfix figures.
ReplyDeleteMichael
Very good Tim. I thought those wheels looked familiar!
ReplyDeleteGreat bit of kitbashing there Tim.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Pete.
Nice looking figures. Japanese guns were always easy to make for wargames purposes. Drilled out Tiger road wheels were quite useful as I recall.
ReplyDeleteHello there Tim,
ReplyDeleteI see the Black belt in Bodgitsu has come in handy once again! Lovely looking and effective model,
All the best,
DC
Big certainly has a certain beauty to it!
ReplyDeleteBrad De Santis
ReplyDeleteThanks - I'm absurdly pleased with them!
MGB
ReplyDeleteI shall scour your blog for photos!
Martin Rapier
ReplyDeleteTaking into account the scale difference, 70mm in 1/32 is 157mm in 1/72, so they're basically doing to same work!
Pete
ReplyDeleteThanks - mostly bashing and very little kit!
Rob Young
ReplyDeleteI'll keep that in mind for next time!
David Crook
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Geordie
ReplyDeleteYou know it makes sense!