Manchuria 1945

A friend of mine and his buddies are playing a game of Manchuria 1945, and he was needing some vehicles. He made a Zis-5 stand in that he wasn't happy with and put out a call for some help.

Here's the Zis-5 in action


He then requested either a Type 94 truck or Type 95 Kurogane for the Japanese side, so I changed the Zis around a bit to do the Type 94



But the Kurogane intrigued me. I did a model of Herbie the Love Bug, and while I was trying to figure out how I wanted to do it, I found a couple easy-build beetles, so Harry, of course, requested one in German brown for his Five Men in Normandy game. He hasn't built it yet, though.

But the easy-build beetle gave me an idea how to do the Kurogane

Collected a lot of images, especially of this restoration


This was my test build





After doing the test build, I was able to do the final tweak of the files before sending them on, but I think it is a fair representation for the first 4X4

I should mention that these are just gaming proxies, not meant to be 100% accurate. Scaled for 28mm gaming, roughly 1/56. I made the Kurogane slightly larger at 1/54. The real thing only had a wheelbase of 74 inches