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Title: Japaneses uniform 1938
Post by: Lord of Jerwood on December 27, 2012, 10:23:26 PM

Hi everyone

can anyone recommend colored pictures of Japaneses army and navy uniforms and miniatures to use. am looking to have a VBCW Japaneses invasion of New Zealand.  :)

all the best Jerwood     

Title: Re: Japaneses uniform 1938
Post by: carlos marighela on December 28, 2012, 01:12:03 AM

The US War Department Handbook on Japanese Military Forces has a selection of colour plates showing the various uniform types, including the pre-war temperate uniforms you are after. You can usually pick up the softback reprint quite cheaply secondhand.

If you are good I'll look at scanning the relevant plates for you.

Title: Re: Japaneses uniform 1938
Post by: Johnnytodd on December 28, 2012, 02:06:44 PM

Using this as my guide:
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac297/grendels_father/japd12.jpg)
I worked out some color suggestions here:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=8702.0

Title: Re: Japaneses uniform 1938
Post by: Lord of Jerwood on December 30, 2012, 09:20:33 PM

thank you very much gentlemen  :)

regard to figures I was looking at theses but are they a bit early ???

http://tsuba-miniatures.blogspot.de/

Title: Re: Japaneses uniform 1938
Post by: Johnnytodd on December 30, 2012, 09:24:19 PM

I'm sure others will chime in with opinions but my favorite 28mm Japanese sculpts are from Brigade Games - and they will be accurate for your late '30s scenario.

Title: Re: Japaneses uniform 1938
Post by: carlos marighela on December 30, 2012, 09:38:33 PM

The only 28mm pre-war Japanese in temperate uniform that I can think of are the Harbour Designs (?) figures from Company B.

Oh and those ones someone on here commissioned with the ridiculously oversized weapons, can't recall the name sorry.

Title: Re: Japaneses uniform 1938
Post by: Johnnytodd on December 30, 2012, 10:56:44 PM

As far as temperate climate uniforms - I'm pretty sure the japanese wool uniform (not winter or arctic) was same cut as the tropical cotton type - so only the color would be different from that in the illustration above.  The wool color would be more khaki brown.