Project WW2 Pacific Part 6

Finished painting the Japanese. I'm not that happy with how they turned out, but they'll do. I found them a bit cumbersome to paint (quite soft detail) and struggled finding the "right" color scheme. Apparently Japanese uniform colors varied considerably. In the end I chose a really faded green look for jungle fighters that have been in field a long time.

The entire platoon plus support

MMG support

Grenade discharger squad

Rifle squad plus LMG squad

Engineer team

Chui and Gunso

Specialists

Infantry gun support

Spider holes

Everything in a box

Project WW2 Pacific Part 5

 Even more Japanese:

Senior leaders and guy with flag (probably to be used as a marker):

Tank killer team:

Third squad:

Infantry gun:

Sniper and extras for the MMG. The sniper is actually a figure from the WW2 Italian range, but he'll be partly covered with foliage to obscure this.

More support options and an additional marker figure (the bugler). The rifle grenade is from the WW2 French infantry box. The historically accurate type 100 Japanese rifle grenade looked too flimsy to scratchbuild myself. The Japanese made ample use of material left behind by retreating or overrun allied forces so who's to say that they didn't pick up some French VB launchers in Indochina.

Spider holes:

And the multi-role engineer team:

Plus one final addition to the Australians: the fuzzy wuzzy angels.

All of the minis are now in my painting queue. Let's hope the Chain of Command Pacific handbook is also forthcoming!

Project WW2 Pacific Part 4

More Japanese!

Second squad:

Grenade discharger squad:

Junior leader for the grenade discharger squad:

And junior leaders for the regular squads:

Project WW2 Pacific Part 3

 The third squad of Australians:

I will be using the bren gunner from the Independant Commando box for this squad. But the bren crew figure has an Owen gun and I want to use the figures for both mid and late (pacific) war scenarios. So I built 2 extra crew.

For the same reason (and because it allows the Australians to be used as Chindits in a game if you're not a rivet counter) I added leaders with Thompsons and rifles.

And to complete the Australian force (for now): 3 engineer figures.

There are still some gaps to fill with green stuff, but I think I'll finish the Japanese force first and do them all in one go.

First Japanese squad: