Pulp Japanese

 Here are fourteen Japanese infantry from the recently acquired batch of Tsuba Russo Japanese War figures. In truth, they may be a bit too early but hey, its Pulp, so I can make up my own rules! (just like I will do when I paint the remainder up as a couple of different Chinese Warlord forces!).

These are really nice castings and were pretty simple to paint - I must say, I really do find painting khaki uniforms very therapeutic compared with most earlier era's!

Junior Officer

Senior Officer

Bugler

Ensign

Senior NCO

Rifleman

Rifleman

Junior NCO

Rifleman

Rifleman

Rifleman

Rifleman

Rifleman

Rifleman

Now, under the tenuous excuse that I had to do some research to come up with ideas for Japanese character figures, here are some gratuitous images I will be using as inspiration when the time comes - I feel some conversion (head swapping) may be resorted to.......!

These images are all from Chinese war movies - there seems to be an entire sub genre of Chinese films involving Chinese heroines defeating nasty bur beautiful Japanese officers - You Tube example attached!

A rare battle! Japanese female samurai challenges Chinese strongest female Kung Fu master - YouTube

Its all done in the best POSSIBLE taste of course, as Kenny Everett would have said!