US Marines - Pacific Theatre

[kaboom4]

Albert Einstein was never born, so the Nuclear Bomb was never created to stop the Japanese. So the U.S. invaded Japan...

This little vig is about US Marines storming a Japanese outpost set up in a geisha house. Most of the Japanese Army has been wiped out. So an elderly Japanese WWI veteran guards the front entrance to the outpost.

[Asuka]

Oh, an alternative time line story, now that

[kill will]

*y* Cool! I like the japanese guard best.... And Asuka, I think the gate is from the passage of Jun-Chi. ;-)

Edited March 9, 2008 by kill will

[kaboom4]

Thanks guys! Yes, the arch looked the most "Asian" of all so I decided to use that. But everything else, including the modded musket, is my idea.

[zouave]

Nice Moc. How exactly did you get that gun like that?

[kaboom4]

Nice Moc. How exactly did you get that gun like that?

I cut the hand guard off the cutlass and I superglued it on.

[highlandcattle]

Japs didn't wear those helmets you should give him a imperial officer hat, that looks more japaneesy.

Also the japs didn't participate in WWI. So a WWI veteran would be weird. You could say a veteran from the Japan-China War.

[Lt. Col. Thok]

Very nice alternative universe, I like it!!! And, btw, the japs did participate in WWI, on the side of the Brits, the French and the Italians.

EDIT: Ohhh, my sigfig is a machine-gunner! *y*

Edited March 11, 2008 by Lt. Col. Thok

[Cardinal Brick]

It

[kaboom4]

*y* Thanks for the nice comments guys! I don't own a Japanese Officer Hat (I don't know what TLC item would match it)

[Joey Lock]

Sweet, Nice Guard.

Why has the US Troop got a M1A1 Thompson with a extra Cartridge?

[MatthewUSA]

Very well done *y* , a unique twist to history. I really like the set-up and the realistic look to the scene. So what year would you have set for this scene? I would have to say my educated guess for your scene would be about early-to-mid 1946.

Model On!!

[kaboom4]

Matthew, thanks! You guesed perfectly, I based it to be in 1946.

[ChrisF2006]

The Japanese did wear pith helmets in WW2, although I believe they were only standard issue for officers.

http://www.diggerhistory.info/images/jap-m...n_hat_front.jpg

The German Afrika Korps and the Italian military routinely wore the pith helmet/sun helmet into combat. Although I have seen pictures of British Army cavalry and infantry wearing pith helmets in the early part of the war I am not sure if they were worn in combat in North Africa or the Middle East. I also believe the Royal Dutch Army forces in Indonesia wore the pith helmet as well but I am not sure.

[kaboom4]

Sweet, Nice Guard.

Why has the US Troop got a M1A1 Thompson with a extra Cartridge?

Actually, that is a forward grip for my M1A1 Thompson.

[Johnny 5]

Sweet, Nice Guard.

Why has the US Troop got a M1A1 Thompson with a extra Cartridge?

Thats not an extra cartridge, thats a front handgrip.