Look for the photos from the campaign in the Pacific. Bob Card did a dio with some Japanese figures in it. I would love to do some, but the figures are not readily available or are fairly high priced. Maybe with Dragon's recent shift to Japanese armor subjects, more figures will follow.

Look for the photos from the campaign in the Pacific. Bob Card did a dio with some Japanese figures in it. I would love to do some, but the figures are not readily available or are fairly high priced. Maybe with Dragon's recent shift to Japanese armor subjects, more figures will follow.

They were called marines too, and also japanese special naval landing forces, part of IJN. They wore naval ground force uniforms. with shoulder straps (at least on first 2 patterns).
The maritime maneuver brigades (4 of them) were IJA units, only fought in the pacific, and wore army uniforms.

There's an osprey book with detail illustrations of the japanese marines.

I do confirm Jeremy, the hornet asian heads are quite good, and the only offering on the market. The masterbox heads are really not comparable (I guess Finemold are the same). You can also use the Dragon one, they are nice.

Best,
Julien

Ya, the marine uniform (1st and 2nd pattern) was olive green like the japanese paratrooper uniform . The IJA then was wearing the 1930 pattern, vary from grass green to yellow green.

These are year 40? uniform, almost a field gray color, left one is second lieutenant and right one enlisted.


the light color IJA used in the pacific are year 40 pattern but tan color.