Painted Japanese Flag Bearers and Buglers

Simon has just finished painting the flag bearers and buglers from set RJ-J08:

 

New Russian and Werdenfelser greens

I'm sorry for the lack of posts and answers here lately! I was a little bit stressed out with exams at uni and job interviews for a new sideline to keep the new miniatures coming. ;-)

Paul has also been busy and here are the greens for the next two Russian sets and also another one for the Werdenfelser. There's one Japanese set in the works but no photo of that one, yet.

The Russians get an additional set of Riflemen in firing/loading pose as a lot of people asked for more variants. (Please note, that there are no plans for additional sets in advancing and charging pose in this uniform.)

The already previewed casualties get some company in form of a medic and a wounded comrad lying on the ground waving the medic to came to aid.

 

The Werdenfelser also get some reinforcements in form of an assault set containing two guys armed with Bergmann MP18 submachineguns and a two man flamethrower team handling a Wex 17. 

PLEASE NOTE: This set is NOT historical correct! The Freikorps Werdenfels was never equipped with these weapons. So, this set is purely for those, who use the miniatures in a non-historical setting (for example in  Pulp games, VBCW and others). 

They are, however, the correct weapons for this time and other Freikorps/'White' units used them in the fightings of 1918/1919 in Germany.

 

 

Here are two photos showing the WEX 17 in use in Berlin 1919:

 

I will post photos of the Japanese set as soon as I get them.

Happy New Year!

A Happy New Year to everyone!!!

I'd like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone, who has supported us over the course of the last year, be it with orders, comments, suggestions or just by having a nice chat!

An equally big THANK YOU to Paul, eBob, Iain, Crouchie and Stewart Griffin and his team for their great work and Simon and Andrew for their stellar brushwork.

As a little sneak peek for what's planned for 2013, here's the first shot of the Russian casualties set: 

Last but not least, I'd like to thank my girlfriend for all her support and patience. Ich liebe Dich!

Regimental numbers of the Japanese (line) infantry

First of all, a belated Merry Christmas to everyone! I hope you had a nice and stress-free time.

As promised, here's a compilation of the regimental numbers of the Japanese (line) infantry. I'm sorry, it took so long! 

The Japanese pattern consisted of (from left to right) two kanjis for term 'regiment', one to three kanjis for the actual regimental number and another three kanjis for 'infantry'.
I've included the numbers for up to the 64th regiment as the 65th was founded in 1906 and thus definitely too late for the Russo-Japanese War.(Although I doubt the last few on the list saw much, if any, action during the RJW.)

I've asked Simon to use the 39th and the 40th regiment as the role models when painting the Japanese standard bearers. These two regiments formed the 8th Infantry Brigade and were part of the 10th Division (The Iron Division). They saw  action during the Battle of Liaoyang (among others), just like the Russian regiments that we used as role models for our painted example.

The kanjis on the list are, of course, computer fonts. The real ones must have look slightly different, so please feel free to use the list just as a general guide line!

Here's an example where one can just make out the kanjis. It is a photo of the 80th infantry regiment flag: 隊聯十八第兵歩

Another example, this time not an actual flag but a commerative sake cup showing the flag of the 4th infantry regiment with the number 隊聯四第兵歩 just beneath it:

(Photo from ebay-seller saintjohn2011.)