Indians

By WWII the people of India had been trying to gain independence from Britain for a long time.

When the Japanese captured large numbers of Indians and took over areas were many Indians lived they recruited Indians to fight the British.

They used a variety of British and Japanese uniforms and equipment.

 These troops are mostly Atlantic Indian Army that have had their heads  replaced in most cases.

I also added some Atlantic Japanese with new heads.
 

They use a mixture of Vickers and Nambu machine guns.

Indian National Army

Sometimes I do figure conversions and have bits left over.

I save the bits and recently when through them all and figured out a way to return over 200 partial figures back into service.

Most of these original figures donated heads to other figures.  

Most of these were British Indian Army troops and a few Japanese and various British troops.

I managed to find new heads for them so they could be returned to service as Japanese allies, Indian National Army troops.
 

One of the figures is even an elephant Mahout.  

Same figures after a bit of primer.

Kamikaze Submarine

This is a Japanese Kamikazi mini submarine.

Submarines not unlike this one were designed to help repel the expected American invasion of the Japanese home islands.

I built this model out of scrap bits from the spares box.

The main hull is a piece of sprue.  The trolly is also mostly sprue.

The periscope is wire, and the fins and propeller are left over from some long forgotten model.

It got an overall painting of primer gray and the wheels are flat black.

Afterwards it got a heavy coating of rust paint.

Subs like this were kept at water's edge and when the invasion landing ships approached they would be launched.

They only needed a short range and a shallow maximum depth, they were not going far and they did not have to come back.

Japanese at Waterloo?

Waterloo 1815 has a new Japanese WWII set out in soft plastic.

You get two sprues like this with one small 70mm gun. The plastic does not accept glue but the part of the gun fit together perfectly without glue.

Gun and crew of two. There is a third officer figure with binoculars you can add to the crew.

Five parts to make up the gun go together without glue about as fast as you can get the bits off the sprue.

A rifle grenade launcher, a lunge mine and the observer. Lunge mines were shaped charge on a pole. To use one you have to be very dedicated to your work, empathise the dead part. This set will seriously upgrade your Japanese infantry who until now greatly suffered from a lack of heavy weapons.