Many years ago I had loads of Airfix and Matchbox WW2 Japanese infantry. By many years, this little collection started in the mid 60s. Anyway, at some point I started producing artillery on a semi-mass production scale (I think originally based on an Airfix Magazine article). Wheels could be an issue, but ones like the 70mm battalion gun Type 92 simply used spare Tiger/Panther road wheels drilled out - and I simply expanded this to other guns...
Some of these guns
'survived' and I've finally got round to doing something with them. To be fair, I haven't done much with them!
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| I've assumed they won't all be used at once so only did three crews. |
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| 37mm infantry gun and 70mm battalion gun using Tiger wheels - didn't bother drilling out holes on the wheels, just painted them on. |
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| Two 75mm infantry guns, one with Tiger wheels the other with the more normal spoked wheels. These days, of course, I would cast spoked wheels myself - the Rose Napoleonic limber wheels would probably do. |
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| Crew are very crudely done - one isn't even Japanese, he's a British colonial figure. I painted them with Vallejo Japanese Unif. WWII - don't think this is really right, seems too light and too yellow. |
At some stage I fully intend getting metal figures and guns for the Japanese. Meanwhile, I'll probably continue going through my old figures as well.
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