"BANZAI – Japanese Onslaught" Topic

The Allied forces in the Pacific were devastatingly unprepared for the onslaught of the Japanese Army (1941-42), which by this time had been fighting for ten years on the Manchurian front.

The Allies were defeated time and time again as the seasoned Japanese forces swept through the Pacific colonies. The Allies paid dearly for their lack of planning and found themselves in an attrition war that swept vast amounts of men, until the ultimate defeat of Japan in 1945.

The minis below are from Pendraken WW2 Japanese range, and I personally considered them the best cast Japanese minis items in 10/12mm. They were based and painted by our well known  master J Peixoto (with the exception of the HQ base), and for me they are simply awesome.

by JMM

Many more Japanese army pics:
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Ah, the WW2 fight that must be fought – BANZAI!

Hugely interesting period and your work is of interest to me, this being the year of the 70th anniversary of the Fall of Singapore. Thanks.

As aye,

Captain D'Ewell

Your figures look excellent.

Manchurian front? Ahem, but apart from the short rough episode with the Russians, Manchuria and northern China were pretty quiet areas (granted, there were bandits that required mopping up every now and again).

Other than that, I can only concur with what others have said, they do look excellent! What flocks/tufts did you use for the bases?

I´ve asked JPeixoto about your question and is reply was "The flocking is a mixture of static grass with stone (cork) of the miniature train.
Then small pieces were cut from a carpet of greenery from Faller (darker shrubs) and soaked with super glue.
In the end, because it is such a small scale, a lighter was passed very quickly in the last flakes to eliminate the excess of the synthetic material."