Bolt Action Japanese 1000pts army

Almost finished my 10 man team and finished this LMG displacing and rifleman mini today. On the base of the LMG i have used dried up paint from the lids of Citadel paint pots as leaves for a tropical plant.

Finished my last 4 guys to complete the Jungle Fighters veteran squad of ten.

Need to start building a TON of minis for my huge regular squads. This may end up being a mistake tactically but will plough on anyway. If i have spare minis i will make another LMG and NCO above what I currently have planned, because i feel at some point i will divide the two huge squads into three smaller ones.

Armed with my new Greenstuff World branch punch i dissected a can of Monster and punched out about 55 metal branches for basing. Time again i would probably be able to get 80 or more out of it, but i was very wary  / cautious of opening an aluminium can and it was my first time using the punch.

I found it easier to punch through from the outside of the can inward for some reason. I also found it uncomfortable to push the punch down with the heel of my thumb and palm. I found pressing down hard with one thumb and then adding extra pressure with the other thumb on top was the best technique for me. I also took the precaution of using a work glove for extra grip and avoiding getting cut on some jagged edges made when initially breaking into the can.

I laid down globs of blu tac to stand the branches in for ease of priming. I used Death Guard Green primer spray.

I used Citadel Warpstone Glow green and Ork Flesh contrast paint to detail the plants and stuck them in the turfs of grass i had placed on the bases earlier. I think across the whole force it will be a great unifying theme that will set the army off nicely.

I liked this pose.

Looks like he has freed the bayonet from the scabbard and drawing his rifle close to him ready to fix the bayonet.

I checked my army list and realised i need a lot of riflemen to finish the project, so i have started to batch paint three or so at a time to speed myself up a touch.

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I had some rules questions about my knee mortars teams and the community rallied around to support. The rules for choosing targets wasn’t under shooting, team weapons or mortars, it was under indirect fire rules and was very clear once it was pointed out to me.

The chat was fun and informative.

I am happy to continue my list as planned.

I will probably drive this 18 miniature unit towards the objective or the center of the battle-line generally. The light mortars don’t have a lot of range so I need to get within rifle long range before it starts to get useful. I will have the rifles fire at one target and my mortars shooting at as many other local targets as I can to share out the potential for pins. Or I may just drop all three dice on one target that poses most threat to me at the time.

If I still have enough men late game I can chance a dice or two on smoke and try to banzai attack in true Japanese style.

If a light mortar or two get sniped I might even forget the mortars and let fly with 15 or 16 rifle shots. Even on 6’s that’s still a ton of dice. The biggest worry for a big unit is HE shells killing lots of tightly packed guys, but I will try to plan and mitigate this as best I can.

Type 96 LMG.

Already have one of these with a guy carrying it on the run and only need one for my list, but always loved LMGs and feel eventually those big teams i have with light mortars etc. will prove too big. Good to have the option to split two big squads into 3 squads down the line.

Change of primer on the gent aiming his rifle.

Have been using Army Painter Desert Yellow, but switched to a Dunkelgelb yellow for two minis.

You can tell the difference, but it’s a nice marginal change that adds variety.

And in the pic below the base with lighter tuft is the one that had the Dunkelgelb primer.