Nice work. It’s amazing no-one has done pacific infantry for the pacific. Meanwhile there’s literally hundreds of Germans.

@c3aloha

2 жыл бұрын

IKR. And they were losers!!!!

FYI. The US Army units on Guadalcanal were armed with the M1 Garand rifle and the Marines the M1903 Springfield rifle. At some point Marines we’re acquiring the M1 Garand from the deceased/wounded US Army soldiers or by other means.

@the98themperoroftheholybri33

3 ай бұрын

There's also that marines would "find misplaced logistics" from the army, this is shown in the Pacific TV series where one guy even takes the army General's moccasins

Nice build 👍 side note on the rifle at 1:37 while yes the Garand became the standard issue rifle, the Springfield wasn’t phased out. It was the most common rifle for snipers and marksman throughout the war.

@scalehistoryslc819

5 ай бұрын

You are correct! I found this out a bit after I made this video, I have two or three springfields in my army now, which is sweet cause they are cool looking rifles! Nice to have some variety haha

Great video!

I can’t tell you how long I’ve searched for a video or anything about this. Thanks so much for inspiration!

@scalehistoryslc819

8 ай бұрын

Glad you found it!! I’ve actually turned this into an entire army, it’s almost complete!

Fantastic conversions!

That is awesome thanks for the share!

I like your ideas! Kitbashing is a lot of fun. You should check out Studio Historia’s upcoming kickstarter for pacific theatre. They have already made the Japanese force, amazing models.

@scalehistoryslc819

Жыл бұрын

Their models look very nice!!

Awesome video!

Wonderful painting and scenery, well done!👍👍

The non bloused pants make a huge difference!

@scalehistoryslc819

Жыл бұрын

I think so too! And it’s really not that much work!

try to add extra canteens since in the pacific they mostly had 2 canteens due to dehydration

Have you thought of adding unit patches on them? That's one of the unique differences between the Army uniform and Marine uniform

@scalehistoryslc819

2 жыл бұрын

Ooo that’s a great idea! I wonder if anyone makes decals for those

@PJA264

Жыл бұрын

@@scalehistoryslc819 One thing I'd point out is that Army unit patches were fairly uncommon in the PTO. Generally, those were only on their M41 field jackets, which they only used if it ever got cool enough to wear one, so basically only on the Philippines and Okinawa. You don't see unit patches much on HBT shirts.

@scalehistoryslc819

Жыл бұрын

@@PJA264 thats both relieving because i don't want to put patches on each soldier and a little bit of a bummer because they would have been a very cool addition haha!

Great video

I finally got around to trying this out myself and I gotta say I'm pretty chuffed with the results. Wish I had a way to show you!

@scalehistoryslc819

Жыл бұрын

You can email me some photos @scalehistoryslc@gmail.com! I would LOVE to see them!!

these are amazing!

@scalehistoryslc819

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I hope to take the project further in the near future!

Great work! Too bad I didn't know about you back when I lived in Provo.

@scalehistoryslc819

Жыл бұрын

Bummer! The community here in salt lake is fantastic!

Excellent job my man, keep it up. An idea, winter german for the bodies and US infantry kit for arms, weapons, equipment but for the Aleutian Islands campaign instead of the more common Bastogne .

@scalehistoryslc819

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a good idea! I’d have to look into the differences in kit, were they still using Springfield rifles in that campaign?

@276tank

2 жыл бұрын

@@scalehistoryslc819 Good question, dont know the answer though. Will look into it.

@williamstewart4620

2 жыл бұрын

@@scalehistoryslc819 I believe the US Army reported that they had re-equipped all infantry units with M-1s by the end of 1941 (including Army units in the Philippines).

@scalehistoryslc819

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamstewart4620 ooo good to know, thank you!

@williamstewart4620

2 жыл бұрын

@@scalehistoryslc819 You mentioned that the Army models and the Marine models were slightly different in size. Equipment and details aside, would a down and dirty conversion of using Army heads on Marine bodies work, size wise?

I’ve used various German arms to get rolled up sleeves.

@scalehistoryslc819

10 ай бұрын

Me too! I’ve also grabbed some 8th Army arms

Any additional things you can thinn of doing to get them as aurhentic as possible? Ill be doing the same thing

@scalehistoryslc819

Жыл бұрын

I would recommend picking up the book “The US Army in World War II (1): The Pacific”. It has a lot of great illustrations and examples of how you can further tweak your miniatures to match the army in various points of the pacific war

@JF-xm6tu

Жыл бұрын

@@scalehistoryslc819 thanks man

@scalehistoryslc819

Жыл бұрын

@@JF-xm6tu you bet! You gotta let me know how your conversions go!

what book is that you are using as reference?

@scalehistoryslc819

2 жыл бұрын

It’s the Osprey Men-at-Arms series on the US army in World War 2 (1)