It is a Japanese army infantry set of Tamiya. Ancient kit… The soul of the Japanese from the days of ancient times. The item number is 90. There is a stamp of 1976 on the runner parts. In the meantime, I just made a truck of the IJA, so make figures and arrange them next to it. It is an ancient kit, so I wonder if I can make this well.
There are explanations of insignia and equipment illustrations. They deepen our understanding of the Japanese army.
As two caps with covers are included, you can exchange them with your helmet soldier.
These figures are connected to the neck and face and become one part. It is hard to change the head. There is not a good quality head of Asian people, so I will try to cover it somehow by painting.
(02-October-2018)
A commander with a military sword. Only the pistol is armed.
If you wear the caps with sunshade cover on these heads, attach the helmet to the back.
(04-October-2018)
The illustration shows well the color of the Imperial Army’s accessories.
There is also a graphic sample of the equipment. I took a picture for reference, as I’ll throw away the box after assembly.
I painted undercoating with Creos khaki. I think that this khaki does not match the uniform of Japanese soldiers. However, if it blows instead of a surfacer because it is matte, it will be easy to paint with brush paint later.
Lightly paint skin color with Tamiya’s flat fresh.
Vallejo’s Japan uniform color, etc. I’m painting various.
A soldier holding a rifle, this time I tried to make a rifle strap with a small piece of paper impregnated with instant adhesive. The hardness comes out on paper, making it easier to handle. Since painting the face is complex, the painting is roughly completed from the neck down.
(06-October-2018)
Well, Tamiya’s Japanese soldier figures have been completed. Probably it is a soldier on the Southern Front. Since it ranges from Burma to the Philippines, Indonesia, Guadalcanal Island, and so on, it is a soldier in the tropical zone anyway.
It’s hard to see the insignia in detail; this one is a lieutenant or lieutenant officer, corporal, first-class private, and private. I used a decal attached to the kit of Fine Molds.
There are various color tones of summer shirts of IJA. The military uniform of the Imperial Army is difficult. It seems to be almost whitish beige or deck tan or buff. Regarding the color of this shirt, it was written in the Tamiya box that it would mix buff and green. Since the mixing ratio is not written, it is probably the favorite for each modeler. If I think about the uniform colors, the German Afrika Korps’s dark yellow and the German army’s field gray are all different shades.
The 38-type infantry rifle was used during the Greater East Asia War in the IJA, and its caliber is 6.5 mm in diameter and has five shots. Generally, one soldier carried 120 shots, two ammunition pouches with 30 entries in Front, and one ammo pouch of 60 shots behind.
He is a soldier to assault with the 38-type infantry rifle with a bayonet.
The helmet has a star, and I painted the star with light brass color.
The charge pose of this figure is dynamic, and it is the most favorite.
Soldiers with Type 89 grenade dischargers are equipped with two ammunition sacs with four rounds around the waist. The grenade dischargers caliber is 50 mm, and the weight is 4.7 kg.
Type 89 grenade discharger was helpful as a supporting weapon in jungles and deep forests where cannons cannot be pulled. However, there was no sighting device, the shooter had to rely on intuition, and the shooting precision was not very good. Frequent accidents occurred when the ammunition exploded in the cylinder at the time of the shooting, and the reliability as a weapon was low. The current grenade launcher seems to be much better.
The photo is out of focus. Battlefield photographer style?
I have heard a story that a US soldier who captured this weapon tried to fix it on the knee and shoot it and got seriously injured. Initially, it is the right way to stand on the ground and tilt and shoot.
I tried combining these soldiers with a truck, with the image of fighting when the transport truck was attacked.
I did not fix it on the table. I pinched it with a clip and painted it. As you can see, painting after fixing it to the base one by one is less troubling. I felt the necessity of fixation every time I tried to draw small details.
There are a lot of dynamic poses, and the balance is terrible; some figures are installed the metal wires in the feet and bases.
When I read the Burma war chronicle, the image got bigger, and I took many photos. I suppose this feeling is essential for building motivation.
(08-October-2018)
