Japaneses uniform 1938

[Lord of Jerwood]

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     

[carlos marighela]

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.

[Johnnytodd]

Using this as my guide:

I worked out some color suggestions here:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=8702.0

[Lord of Jerwood]

thank you very much gentlemen 

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

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

[Johnnytodd]

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.

[carlos marighela]

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.

[Johnnytodd]

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.