Mantetsu Campaign

[Ignatieff]

Absolutely splendid Old Boy!  I know what you mean about the lack of Japanese options.  Very much looking forward to how this develops

[marianas_gamer]

Thanks fellas for all the nice comments. James here is a pic of the box the track came in. I got it off of eBay, not cheap but I don't need a lot of it.


I have made some progress painting the Anti-Bandit Company but not enough to put up yet. Instead here are some pictures of how I plan 191?-192? Mantetsu boards to look. I think we can see why the Japanese were eager to snatch the region up.

[OSHIROmodels]

Cheers Lon 

Set up looks great 

[trev]

Looking good. I like the water tower.  Is that a bendy straw as the pipe?

[FramFramson]

Absolutely splendid Old Boy!  I know what you mean about the lack of Japanese options.

A problem I too have bumped up against.

Very eager to see what sort of solutions you've come up with, Lon.

[marianas_gamer]

Thanks again fellas. Trev, yes the pipe is a bendy straw. The tank is a small can and the structure is scratch built from balsa. Oh yeah, the ladder is cut "granny grate" for embroidery.

[scotty]

Great looking set up

[trev]

Thanks again fellas. Trev, yes the pipe is a bendy straw. The tank is a small can and the structure is scratch built from balsa. Oh yeah, the ladder is cut "granny grate" for embroidery.

Very enterprising.  I have a fondness for scratch built stuff.  Kits and 3d printing can look better but don't always and I feel there is art and love in scratch building. 

[WarlordFish]

I recognize a lot of copplestone and pulp Chinamen, but where are those monks from? Same with the red spear society spearmen with the exceptionally long spears?

[marianas_gamer]

Warlord Fish,
The monks are Dixon. I am not sure what make the spearmen are as I got them off eBay. I suspect Foundry. I equiped them with steel spears. They drew blood while painting too 

[marianas_gamer]

A map dump today of maps from a Library of Congress site on Japanese maps in Southern Manchuria. They are the best resolution that I could get. The city maps were cropped from Mantetsu pamphlets.


A 1928 regional map.


An undated map of Dairen from a Mantetsu pamphlet


A 1930 map of Mukden from a Mantetsu pamphlet


A 1926 map of Harbin from a Mantetsu pamphlet


A map of Manchoukou and the Mantetsu rail lines from a 1935 Mantetsu investment pamplet

[trev]

Good finds.  The internet has been great for us wargamers. 

[FramFramson]

Wow! Amazing finds, Lon!