Hi, I've finally managed to finish my first elements for my Imperial Japanese Army! Normally I start with the ordinary infantry first but now I've started with some artillery support in the form of two type 92 battalion guns which can both be used for direct and indirect fire! The guns and their crews are made by Waterloo 1815 and were a joy to assemble and paint. The box with the guns also comes with other support weaponry such as AT rifles, bomb sticks and grenade rifles, these will be shown in later posts about the project. Now enough talking some pictures!
Both guns in action, as with most of my light guns I only added three crewmembers as it's easier to fit them on the base and easier to finish. For the guns paintjob I only used two paints, humbrol matt 86 (not sure on the number) and the GW wash ogryn flesh. The paintjob looks really good and was done in less than 10 minutes for both guns without the drying time of course. The infantry was painted using the same basecoat but was washed with Devlan Mud, A bit too dark but it doesn't bother me too much.
As I had some miniatures left and some horses I decided to make two tow teams for the guns are they were designed for that purpose. Normally one horse would be able to pull the light gun but in the theatre of war, two or three were mostly used. I went for the one horse tow team as I had only two spare horses from the "Esci" russian set. The tow teams will be attached to the guns when they are moving and so can't fire.
And as the last picture a close up of the battery, ready to counter a marine beach assault or support the Japanese assault on the island of Singapore. The next post will include some infantry support in the form of mortars and machineguns!
Greets,
4 comments:
Very nice, I like the idea of having the horses teams on the bases as well, sometimes you forget, that they were still in use during WWII.
Very nice work. The basing looks very effective.
Yes, it seems so old to use horses to tow equipment but still the germans had still tens of thousands of horses to tow their supplies. I really love these supply elements and will probably built some when the main battle forces are finished!
greets and thanks for commenting!
The basing was done by using some filler to smooth out the figures base and add some texture. Then I added some pva and fine white sand, followed by 2 basecoated of brown, drybrushed with a cream color. After that I've added some static grass and foliage. Really easy butit really enchances the models.
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