Do Tsuba Miniatures work for Japanese army circa 1895?

[Irishrover13]

(This is a repost from IHMN sub forum, figured this would catch anyone who might know )

I was thinking of throwing together a Japan's imperial army circa 1895 for a IHMN Campaign I am working on. I honestly know very little about turn of the century Japanese uniforms and I am wondering if Tsuba Miniatures would work for them?
http://tsuba-miniatures.blogspot.ca/

The price seem right and baring a few weird science peices I could get the entire thing for € 35 roughly 2.50 per miniature in my Canadian money.

[argsilverson]

the answer is yes!
but the uniform should be in blue (with yellow piping) since they changed to khaki somewhere around 1904!

[Plynkes]

Well there's plenty of folks on this forum who know far more about it than me, but I do know that in the 1890s the Japanese were in dark blue uniforms, rather than the khaki ones of the Russian war.

Whether a 'paint conversion' would suffice to cover up the differences or not I really couldn't say.

[Svennn]

The Tsuba Japanese are wearing the summer uniform introduced 1904/05 during the RJW as a result of the earlier, slightly more French styled, uniforms being too conspicuous.  For the most part you could get away with painting them dark blue apart from the neck covers most have attached to their caps. There are other differences but personally I think too minor to worry in 28mm.

These would probably be better http://www.oshiromodelterrain.co.uk/boxerfigures.html and there are others from Redoubt, Old Glory etc. but they are not as nice in my opinion.

For IHMN though  - why not?

Now you have got me thinking that some Tsuba bodies with Oshiro heads might make a great project.

[Irishrover13]

I looked at the Oshiro they are very marchy and I am looking for something a bit more dynamic. In Her Majesties Name is a dynamic small scale game and I will only have 10-15 models so I want them to be Dynamic as well.

[Svennn]

Just go for it, the officers and nco's would pretty much work historically but for IHMN there is no need to get hung up by button counting.  You could paint the neck guards a contrasting colour and perhaps add symbols to denote them as a specialist team?