What I want to know is ...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Jack might.

[Subedai]

# For Japanese softskins you could use captured British stuff from Singapore as they captured shedloads.
# I had the same problem with the three tone camo. Try using a darker colours like ochre instead of a yellow and then give the whole thing a thin wash of the darkest brown you have. It might take a couple of washes but it does bring all the camo colours together.
# Nudes. If memory serves, some of Ancient Brits figures are naked. You might have to deal with the mad hair though.

[fsn]

Cheers Subedai.

[Hertsblue]

I don't think there is any difference between acrylics for metals and plastics. You can buy some primers that are especially for plastics but this is more for 1/72 soft plastics and you still need to wash them before using it

I've always found that the Tamiya plastic acrylics don't take to acrylic undercoat as well as the normal stuff. More importantly, the warning labels that Hobbycraft put on them always gives me pause for thought.

[Orcs]

Genuine questions that I'd hope some of you clever sons of multiple fathers can answer:

* Any suggestions for WWII Japanese softskins?
* Any suggestions for 10mm nude figures? I want them for conversion to superheroes. My attempts with dollies has led to ill formed limbs.
* What's the difference between acrylics for plastics and acrylics for metals? If you undercoat then both are binding to the same surface.
* I'm struggling with three tone camouflage. It seems too stark to me. How do you get a more nuanced effect?
* Someone posted a suggestion for Pendraken figures that can be used for Byzantines, but I can't find it. Could someone point me at it, or re-make the suggestion?


Any help appreciated.   

I genuinely had two Fathers - I was adopted.
First one tried his best.
Adoptive father and family were brilliant

Jap Softskins

Look for early softskins- some of the Russian ones don't look too out of place in 10mm - they have the same general shape

http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt/japanese-wwii-motor-vehicles-trucks.html

The OTHER MANUFACTURER you bought the T35's from, does a Jap truck.  As your a heretic already you might as well get some from them, as you are going to burn anyway 


Camo
I dry brushed three tone camo on my Polish tanks.  I laminated a sheet of A4 paper, cit it into strips and then cust out tiny slits and holes. held them close to the tank and sprayed through it - fiddly but it worked.

I have seen excellebt results using either layer upon layer of very very light drybrushing, and also using very thinned down paint

[Hertsblue]

Re Japanese softskins, pretty well all Japanese camouflage was applied in the field by the vehicle crews. It can therefore be applied fairly unevenly, in any suitable colours, usually in at least three different shades.

The other point to be made is that the Japanese army was relatively non-mechanised, especially in those theatres that were heavily forested (Burma and the Pacific islands, for example). In these areas mules were generally used for transporting food and ammunition. So, having huge numbers of softskins would probably be a mistake.

[fsn]

I was trying for Khalkin Gol, and looking for prime movers rather than infantry transports. I may just use horse drawn.

I think it will needs a lot of Type 97s to bring down a KV1. 

[Hertsblue]

I think it will needs a lot of Type 97s to bring down a KV1. 

If you can find a convenient precipice and drop the Type 97 directly on to the KV1 it might work. Otherwise, the Japanese trick of seating a man in a hole in the road with a naval shell and a hammer is probably your only recourse.

[fsn]

This could explain why the Japanese had no softskins later in the war.

Also, what I'm trying to prevent with a Russo-Japanese 1939 confrontation.

[Matt J]

well..... that was fun 

[toxicpixie]

I can see why the Japanese never considered trying to stick a knife in the Russians back whilst they were engaged with the Germans

[Ithoriel]

I believe there's a separate thread for examples of films with no foundation in reality

[toxicpixie]

"My way" is a true story

[Ithoriel]

... in the same sense that "Fargo" is a true story

[toxicpixie]

Well, it is "inspired by", and the broad thrust is true. And all those terrible Japanese tactics were used in real life at various points, aside from perhaps the trucks but I'm sure if they'd had the petrol for it they'd have tried that as well! Mind, probably not so terrible a tactic when the choice is sanity or suicide bombing a tank, and you can't possibly choose the former as that's just wrong.