Japanese Type 98 Tank

 This just about completes my Interwar Japanese tank 'needs', though haven't got any of one I want - my first Japanese 'tank' was a converted Type 92 tankette following the Airfix magazine article of long ago (must dig that out sometime - still got it!

Must admit I prefer this colour scheme with strictly limited amounts of yellow. Still not very good on the flag insignia.

As with all Frontline tanks, basic and the odd bit snaps off, but they are fine for wargaming, easy to put together and cost half as much as many other companies!

Currently working on the second EWM infantry squad. I've got one more but it has separate heads - not liked by me! For the future, I've put in what might be my last 'big' order for a while - German WW1 infantry to act as Interwar Freikorps, few other infantry supports and artillery, plus the Frontline bridge - wanted something like that for a while, both for WW2 type battles and Newhaven.

Vickers Medium MkII

 As part of my latest Frontline order I included 3 Vickers Medium Mk11s. These are now part of my not-really Interwar Lovecraftian style army - most of the 20mm buildings I'm collected are from Germany, so the obvious thing is to 'base' things in an Interwar Germany partially occupied by the Alllied Powers.

I've followed my previous tactic of giving them fictitious markings that are nominally for a Guards Armoured Division.

The idea being that all the pictures of these things I can find seem to have no markings at all which is pretty boring.

This is an interesting picture. A Vickers Medium next to an Independent of the same Division. The impression you get is that these tanks are not to the same scale, that in fact the Idependent should be a lot bigger. It's just not tall enough. Until you look up the specification and find that, in reality, the Independent is a couple of inches lower that the Vickers!