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Author Topic: The First Sino Japanese War 1894 its gaming possibilities?  (Read 1868 times)

Offline Shipka

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Has anyone looked at gaming the above war in 28mm, I know there was a demo game at a show in the past couple of years, but with the re-interest in the Boxer rebellion amongst other Eastern based ranges has led me to look at what suitable figures are out there.

Old Glory, Castaway Arts, Oshiro Miniatures, Victorious Miniatures, EMP, Redoubt, Gringo40 to name a few

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Offline traveller

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Re: The First Sino Japanese War 1894 its gaming possibilities?
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2019, 01:55:33 PM »
I started a small project for the Japanese invasion of Taiwan in 1895 based on the movie ”Warriors of the Rainbow”. I used Oshiro and OG for Japanese but it eas impossible to find anything resembling the Taiwanese warriors so I had to convert a bit:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=51247.0
« Last Edit: May 20, 2019, 02:02:31 PM by traveller »

Offline Shipka

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Re: The First Sino Japanese War 1894 its gaming possibilities?
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2019, 02:06:54 PM »
I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING YOUR COLLECTION

CHEERS,

GEOFF

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Re: The First Sino Japanese War 1894 its gaming possibilities?
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2019, 02:13:24 PM »
I have a similar problem in 15mm, finding figures for Warlord Chinese and Japanese interventionists for the period 1900-1920 - there is limited potential visually since outwardly their uniforms were so close. I would have ended up using more or less the same figures for both sides, so my Japanese interventionists were shelved...
Warriors dreams, summer grasses, all that remains

Offline traveller

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Re: The First Sino Japanese War 1894 its gaming possibilities?
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2019, 11:16:48 AM »
I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING YOUR COLLECTION

CHEERS,

GEOFF

It is more or less what you see in the link above. I have more that are not yet painted but the project is on the shelf currently. I am a butterfly  ;)

Offline Shipka

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Re: The First Sino Japanese War 1894 its gaming possibilities?
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2019, 06:46:02 PM »
There is a good little book called " An Epitome of the Chino-Japanese War 1894-95" by Captain Boulay, which is worth getting

Offline Shipka

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Re: The First Sino Japanese War 1894 its gaming possibilities?
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2019, 01:32:45 PM »
Suitable 28mm figures for Japanese can be found from;

Old Glory, Redoubt, Stan Johanssen, Oshiro, EMP and Tsuba
« Last Edit: August 03, 2019, 07:22:13 PM by Shipka »

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Re: The First Sino Japanese War 1894 its gaming possibilities?
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2019, 04:44:30 AM »
GRINGOS40 Black flags painted as Chinese regulars, colour scheme taken from Japanese Woodblock prints of the war