Banzai Tuesday Airfix Japanese

The second post of the night deals with what Rich found with Vallejo's Japanese uniform colour paint and his take on it being too yellow http://westmodelsandfigures.blogspot.com/2011/01/esci-wwii-japanese-infantry-172-pt-i.html .I decided I had better have a look as I had just brought a bottle of it a week ago.
Although I have a set of the very awesome Matchbox Japanese figures in the loft I decided to use the more numerous Airfix figures as a test. I plan to carry out major Japanese painting in the depths of winter this year.

I used the uniform colour after a black primer and to be honest if I block painted it the result was much the same of Rich's. However simple light drybrushing achieved better results.

I then added a black wash and the whole look of these animated troops of the empire seemed too dark. Taking advice then from Paul at http://wargamerblue.blogspot.com/ I carried out another drybrush which looked much more correct.

I am happy with the results, these little dudes painted up quite well in my opinion and although the foot legging detail is a little worn to the rear of some of these poses, overall they were flash free and will do the job intended. Cheers Rich and Paul for the advice and Tim from http://megablitzandmore.blogspot.com/ for some inspiration about WW2 Japanese of late.