British in Burma

[marcusluis]

want to do Brita in Burma. 44-45 will Perry 8 th do with some warlord plastics thrown in??
comments and suggestions !!

[grant]

Go for it!

[Poiter50]

If you use figures in trousers, yes. Shorts were mostly done away with as they started to realise that short sleeves and shorts meant more exposed skin for the bugs to bite.

Slightly OTT, WG do 2 Burmese scouts in their Chindit range, does anyone know of any others? I want to make a recce/scout section for CoC and I only know of the 2 WG 28mm figs.

[marcusluis]

So the warlord british in european battledress are ok for british in the far east then ??

[rumacara]

Hello

If i recall right, Brigade games also have some burmese.
Chindits and japanese also available.
Gothicline makes japanese infantry too.

Cheers

Rui

[westwaller]

The Assault Group do British in the far east . Wargames foundry do a couple of Burma packs too. Maybe mix a few Brits in battle dress in too say from Artizan or Crusader?

[marcusluis]

This guy is wearing shorts..
http://www.spiritofmalaysia.co.uk/photo/ww2-malaya-1st-manchester-iwm?context=latest

[Plynkes]

He's in Malaya in 1941, not Burma in 1944.

Shorts or trousers is one of those quibbling details that you just have to figure out whether you care about it or not. Sometimes you want to be a button-counter and get things totally right, other times you just say "bugger it, that's near enough."


There is a photo of the King's African Rifles in Burma in 1945 and they are all in khaki shorts. So some folks on the British side were still in short trousers at least. There are however also photos of them from that time in jungle green long trousers, so there you go...

[marcusluis]

Do the perry plastic brits and warlord brit match up size wise if i want to mix and match them??

[Poiter50]

He is also wearing old style webbing if I'm not mistaken and a solar topee.

He's in Malaya in 1941, not Burma in 1944.

Shorts or trousers is one of those quibbling details that you just have to figure out whether you care about it or not. Sometimes you want to be a button-counter and get things totally right, other times you just say "bugger it, that's near enough."


There is a photo of the King's African Rifles in Burma in 1945 and they are all in khaki shorts. So some folks on the British side were still in short trousers at least. There are however also photos of them from that time in jungle green long trousers, so there you go...

[grant]

Do the perry plastic brits and warlord brit match up size wise if i want to mix and match them??

Somewhat. The Perry are slightly finer sculpts - hands and heads are much truer to scale.

[Poiter50]

Link please rumacara? I can't finf them on the Brigade site.

Hello

If i recall right, Brigade games also have some burmese.
Chindits and japanese also available.
Gothicline makes japanese infantry too.

Cheers

Rui

[Valerik]

He is also wearing old style webbing if I'm not mistaken and a solar topee.

Actually, No, he's not.

Topee certainly, but he's wearing P37 webbing.
Those are Cartridge Carriers, aka "Patrol pouches"



They hold 2 5 round .303 chargers in each pouch, with an inner divider, 10 per pouch, 20 per pair, 40 per set.



They incorporate a brace adaptor in their design, & twin studs to close properly when 1 charger is gone.





There's also a 3 pouch variant, likely South African or Indian or both



As the table indicate these were issued to ALL rifle armed troops, EXCEPT infantrymen.

Like most other P37 kit these used to be plentiful, and cheap...  Most I've seen seem unissued.

They are a light handy way to carry ammo enough to get you INTO trouble, but not out of it!!

I concur, shorts in frontline service in British Asia is early war, or very late & of limited utility in jungles.

Valerik

[Atheling]

I'm certainly no expert when it comes to WWII but I think these packs from the Perry's can be used for Burma (in the early stages(?):

Are there any experts out there can put me right?

BTW, I think that the Twins plan of doing some Japanese though this is a rumour that I have heard and is not from the horses mouth.

Darrell.

[westwaller]

The Perry website says that that the above are suitable for Burma.

Probably best to paint the trousers khaki drill rather than English Uniform colour although the heavy wool trousers were worn sometimes with the khaki drill shirt, as they were harder wearing than the others. Certainly this was the case in North Africa and the Med.

A quick google of 'British army in Burma' shows many styles of dress including full 'European' Battledress  Desert style shorts and shirt and and the jungle green kit with slouch hat, worn by the 14th Army.