WWI/RCW Japanese. Any suggestions on manufacturers?

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

Thinking of playing Japanese in RCW games. Any suggestions on figures? Have only seen Russo-Japanese figures which was over 10 years earlier.

Cheers
Fuzzy

[commissarmoody]

Check out tsuba miniatures, they do RJW in 28mm.

[juergen c. olk]

Ditto! Tsuba miniatures look awesome,also Oshiro model terrain makes infantry and naval personnel.I just c hecked theirwebsite (oshiro),he is temporarily on medical hiatus.Also thru Brigade Games,Paroom miniatures,Victoriana,has Japanese,infantry,mg's,command and cavalry.

[Hammers]

Pulp Figures makes Japanese Marines

[Ignatieff]

Although the Tsuba figures are from ten years before, someone who knows about these things assured me they were still accurate for WWI/RCW

[Fuzzywuzzieswiflasers]

Thanks guys,

Tsuba Miniatures look the goods. Yes I have done some digging and the uniform largely remained the same as RJW.

Cheers

Fuzzy.

[carlos marighela]

RJW war figures are not really suitable for the RCW or the limited Japanese involvement in the Great War, the uniforms changed noticeably in the intervening period. The two most obvious differences are the caps and the use of puttees instead of canvas gaiters. Your milage may vary but to me, these are fairly significant differences that really define the look of the troops.

That said, there are no figures for the Japanese for either the Great War or RCW, so you may end up proxying them either with the aforementioned RJW ranges or Copplestones Chinese Regulars, which actually look closer to the real thing than the RJW figures. If you have the patience you could take the Tsuba figures file down the gaiters and carve/sculpt puttees and give them new crowns to their caps with green stuff. That would cover the most noticeable differences in this scale but it would be a lot of work if you were doing a platoon's worth.

[Patrice]

It's sad that nobody makes Japanese soldiers as those on the picture page 39 of Osprey's "The RCW (2), White armies".

[Ignatieff]

RJW war figures are not really suitable for the RCW or the limited Japanese involvement in the Great War, the uniforms changed noticeably in the intervening period. The two most obvious differences are the caps and the use of puttees instead of canvas gaiters. Your milage may vary but to me, these are fairly significant differences that really define the look of the troops.

That said, there are no figures for the Japanese for either the Great War or RCW, so you may end up proxying them either with the aforementioned RJW ranges or Copplestones Chinese Regulars, which actually look closer to the real thing than the RJW figures. If you have the patience you could take the Tsuba figures file down the gaiters and carve/sculpt puttees and give them new crowns to their caps with green stuff. That would cover the most noticeable differences in this scale but it would be a lot of work if you were doing a platoon's worth.

Having had a quick squint at some of the photos (I love the grinning Japanese over the dead Cheka body) I bow to your analysis.  Argh...

[moonshado]

With the speed Mr Hicks produces figures, persuade him to forgo one tea break and he'll have a complete and comprehensive Japanese force complete with character packs ready and available to take on assorted russian communists, chinese warlords and any other interwar riff raff in the vicinity.

[Hammers]

Although the Tsuba figures are from ten years before, someone who knows about these things assured me they were still accurate for WWI/RCW

I forget the source but I read that this uniform (the 1904? with the 'long spats') was still in for certain troops during WWI.

[Beast of Bukhara]

I took this snap at lunchtime to provide a medley of figures to show what they look like on the table top so to speak
Despite the poor picture (I’ve not been to the pub beforehand ....honest )
 
You should be able to make out Copplestone, Warlord, Redoubt, Pulp and the Sniper is " Parrot Maroon" ? (Maybe I should have gone to the pub)  

If memory serves the 1909 regulations stayed in force until 1930

Once I sober up I’ll try and post something a little more helpful  

Whoops missed the Tsuba medic 

[huevans]

Although the Tsuba figures are from ten years before, someone who knows about these things assured me they were still accurate for WWI/RCW

Or.... you may wish to set your "Back of Beyond" game 10 years earlier. That way, you can use Tsuba's Russians and Japanese and even some of Paul's Mutton Chop Tommies and Germans too. You need some Edwardian civilians and some Chinese characters and you're set.

Instead of renegade Whites, you can have shady Russian speculators in the Trans-Manchurian Rlwy that the Tsar wanted to set up, so he could have his own Pacific empire. Plus, the usual assortment of archaeologists, pukka officials, conniving agents and so on.

[fastolfrus]

I got some 15mm ones from Peter Pig last autumn.
They are not on their catalogue, and just basic infantry, but nice enough figures for my purpose (and eyesight:~})