WWII In The Pacific

 I've recently started acquiring Allied and Japanese naval fleets for 1942 naval battles.  A friend, Rocky, has devised a set of naval rules that resolve battles in around 3 hours with simple methods of calculating firepower at range, chance to hit, and damage effects of hits and with all the various weapon effects from plunging fire, torpedoes and aircraft.

We have been using 1:2400 scale ships along with 1:900 scale aircraft.  Mostly from XP Forge, a 3D Print company. 

Here are pics of recently formed Allied fleet and IJN fleet.

The Allied fleet includes British, Dutch, Australian, and United States ships along with Buffalo fighters and British carrier based aircraft.

The IJN fleet includes battleships, cruisers, and destroyers along with twin-engined bombers and float planes.  

I'll log the detailed order of battle as a separate page off the blog.

Finished Kevin's Japanese Infantry Regiment

These are 15mm Battle Honors/Quality Castings figures based for Command Decision rules.  Photos are a bit dark as boards were too big to fit completely under my bright lights.

Infantry Regiment and 1st Battalion

2nd and 3rd Battalions

Tank Group, Trucks, and Limbers

WWII Japanese Infantry Regiment

Still plugging away on Kevin's Japanese . . .

Several artillery limbers and pack mules

and some heavy infantry weapons, infantry and artillery crews.

Kevin's WWII Japanese

Next project on the table are the first of what will be a reinforced Japanese WWII regimental battlegroup for Kevin L. based for Command Decision rules.  Figures are 19th Century Miniatures/Old Glory 15/Battle Honors/Quality Castings or whatever you want to call them.  In this photo, the black primed figures are getting their uniform base coat, a gold brown and plague brown to provide some variation.

Not very exciting at the moment, but with some highlights and detail they'll soon start to look 'more better.'

Now with the uniform and kit detailed, here is what we have (changed to macro lens for better close-up) . . .

Brown-wash and highlights next, followed by varnish.  Stay tuned.

And the final product. . .

Now just 200+ figures to go and a dozen or so vehicles . . .