Weird Japan

[Hawkeye]

Excellent car! The colour scheme and weathering are spot on, and the crew look great - TAG head and weapon swaps you say? Very nicely done. The gun through the window is very cool!

It's always great to see a new installment for this project!

[gamer Mac]

Lovely model
Very good paint job.
Keep up the good work

[aircav]

love the little car, i especialy like the open windscreen with the mg poking through 


 Keith 

[white knight]

A little piece of jungle scenery I made using a cheap toy planekit, a plastic bonsai tree and lots of aquarium plants. I learned a lot from this, mistakes were made (for instance, I've left the foamboard base too thich around the edges) and the next one will be better (I hope).

The plane is actually 1/72 but it looks big enough to be a one-man prototype. It got wrecked somewhat and a Wargames Factory plastic zombiehead was added for the deceased pilot. The tree is a cheap multipart plastic aquarium scenery item. I glued it together (some variation is possible in attaching the branches), puttied the joins and painted it to get rid of the shiny plastic look. This can serve as a decorative terrain piece or as an objective (crashed plane in enemy territory, important intelligence info on board, need to retrieve it before the enemy finds it, that sort of thing).

Front:


Back:


Oh no, the Japanese found it first! 


Some close-ups:




As you can see, it's hard to make out the plane from above.

[DFlynSqrl]

Looks great White Knight.

[Phil_McCrackin]

White Knight - in your weird wwii universe, did the USAF get split off from the US Army (where in the real world, it existed as the US Army Air Force from 1941-1947, at which point it was split off, and became the US Air Force)

[white knight]

Yes, I know about that issue. Now, I more or less put this force in the SOTR universe, where the year is 1949, so the split could have happened there.

But the truth is, the letters were on the original plane (which is atually a 1951 design, but I figured a one-man prototype could exist two years earlier) and when I repainted it to match my colourscheme, I left them. 

[Commander Vyper]

Yes, I know about that issue. Now, I more or less put this force in the SOTR universe, where the year is 1949, so the split could have happened there.

But the truth is, the letters were on the original plane (which is atually a 1951 design, but I figured a one-man prototype could exist two years earlier) and when I repainted it to match my colourscheme, I left them. 

How dare you be alternatively historically ambigiously inaccurate young man!

Next you'll be telling me that there are zombies and vampires in this 'world' of yours....

oh......

[white knight]

More support for the grunts: a TAG mortar team

[Commander Vyper]

As I said in the other place:

Nice, though you could have added the obligatory mexican moustache onto 'old hear no evil' in the middle you know!

Still applies!

So what's next after the next vehicle then? Gonna get that plane done?

The Commander

[white knight]

I wouldn't know. Some more grunts might slip in before the vehicle too, because I haven't got that many painted yet.

[white knight]

And I'm not quite getting your reference with the moustache... 

[gamer Mac]

Very nice stuff.
Must be a fair size of army now?
Have you got an opponent or are you going to be building the opposition as well?

[white knight]

Well, the Americans I need to complete some day will double as opposition for them and I'm planning a small force of Chinese to ally with the Americans against the Japanese.

[Hawkeye]

Excellent mortar team - the consistency between the models in this force is great, and not something that's easy to do with models from different ranges, various conversions, and of course painting models at different times. Great job.

Love the terrain piece as well - it will get lots of use! I know you thought the base was an issue - as an alternative 6mm MDF is great for basing terrain, as it won't warp (usually...), it's strong (so the terrain can take some punishment), and it's only 6mm thick (that's sort of given away in the name, but it's important nonetheless). Only problem - you need a jigsaw or a circular saw to cut it, and you need to do it outdoors. Avoid breathing in the dust when you cut MDF, as it's simply not good for you.

Looking forward to more - and to your Americans!