Which of these two units looks more Japanese?

W.i.n.t.e.r · Sep 20, 2004

A simple poll to help me chose the gear for my next unit about to roll out:

WWI Japanese Infantry as seen during the siege of Kiatschou.

Mobilize · Sep 20, 2004

I recollect usually seeing the brown bootstrap footgear. I think it looks better anyways.

Dease · Sep 20, 2004

I voted for the white but not because it's historically accurate (i have no clue if it's accurate) but because I think it looks good, it adds a bit of variety to the colour scheme, and kinda makes it look more "unique"

RedAlert · Sep 20, 2004

I agree with Dease. Although both versions look nice, the one with the white adds more variety, and again, makes it more unique looking. So I second the white version. Although I wouldn't be able to say which is more historically acurate either.

Dom Pedro II · Sep 20, 2004

Isn't the white standard for the Infantry unit?? If it is, I say no way to white. Go with the brown. If not, then go with it.

Officer D · Sep 20, 2004

Brown looks better on the unit IMO.

Mobilize · Sep 20, 2004

White doesn't match.

ShiroKobbure · Sep 20, 2004

i would give him a larger rifle, and no helmet. Japanese didnt have helmets until after ww1. As for the color of the feet I think white. and he needs a bayonet
here are photos of uniforms from russo-japanese war to ww1.

ShiroKobbure · Sep 20, 2004

maybe give him a western sword as well.
here is a photo from the russo-japanese war

W.i.n.t.e.r · Sep 21, 2004

Ah cool !!!! Perfect pictures there

Thank you Shiro !!!

In fact my unit is not wearing a helmet, but a cloth cap like the one depicted in your pics. I may well add a bayonet though (on the rifle itself, not as in the last pic dangling from the soldiers' belts)

W.i.n.t.e.r · Sep 21, 2004

I could also do with a few Japanese wave files for the fidget, fortify and victory (hint hint)

W.i.n.t.e.r · Sep 21, 2004

It is done, yet I need some Japanese sound files for it...

ShiroKobbure · Sep 21, 2004

it looks like a ww1 british helmet. it shouldnt be round all the way. make the front black, and give him white cloth in the back on his neck.

W.i.n.t.e.r · Sep 21, 2004

???

I really don't know where you see British helmets...

ShiroKobbure · Sep 21, 2004

its the same shape only different colour

W.i.n.t.e.r · Sep 21, 2004

It is the exact same round cloth hat that came with BeBro's WWI Japanese :| you are obviously blind

ShiroKobbure · Sep 21, 2004

here is my edit

W.i.n.t.e.r · Sep 21, 2004

hmm, lemme take a look at that

edit: nice edit for a Japanese trooper for later

ShiroKobbure · Sep 21, 2004

take a look at what? my edit is the type of uniform worn in the russo-japanese war. but i think will work for ww1 as well, because we didnt change that much until after ww1. i would maybe give him a american civil war look alike sword, but only higher japanese would have carried it.

W.i.n.t.e.r · Sep 21, 2004

For starters, the blade you see in your pictures is not a sword (saber in case of the civil war) but the bayonet. I would like to make your version, however I would need the headgear in several directions.

Which of these two units looks more Japanese?

Which better represents a Japanese Infantry of the Great War?

The "white cloth footwear" is historically accurate

The "brown bootstrap footwear" is historically accurate

I don't really know or cannot decide which to chose

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