The IJA Project

I just completed a 1000 point starter army for the IJA for my Godson Natbud. It consists of 4 squads, a medium mortar, a medium machine gun and Type 95 Chi-Ha light tank and HQ. Nat also bought another Chi-Ha to round out his starting force.

There were some weirdnesses in the box, eg: there weren't enough bases for everyone, so I had to use  a few coins and I just couldn't use the correct poses to get what the box said it contains. The box definitely has enough 'bodies' to do the job but several of them would have been in weird poses. Or more likely, I fucked it up somehow and used the wrong figs. But, I tried to make a more flexible force, including possible sniper team and more LMG options. 

So, without further ado:

The whole force.

Medium mortar.

Possible sniper team. (These guys could also fill up any squad or complete the HQ.)

Medium machine gun fires from the kunai.

Oh yeah, these guys come off when they get whacked.

Squad #1.

Squad #2. I am going to brag and point out the hamon on the blade. I like that touch.

Squad #3.

Squad #4, grenadiers. Note the three 'knee' mortars. Many US GI's broke their legs trying to figure out how they worked.

Type 95 Chi-Ha light tanks. Another wierdness: even though it is the same model by the same company, they are not the same size. The one on the left is slightly bigger in almost every aspect. But fun to assemble and paint.

I like this guy even though he looks a little bit like Vincent Price.

The camo pattern is from a book by two Polish guys: Wawrzyniec Markowski and Anderzej Tomcyzk. I include that information solely because I think their names are cool.

Straight out of the manual: jungle camouflage.

The End.