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WW2 Japan Type 1/Type 2 SUBMACHINE GUNS 1:35/1:72

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Publication date 2024-03-23 at 10:08
Design number 1874037

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You can obtain four weapon designs, two of which are extensions of their respective models! Due to limited data, I have tried my best to make their sizes closer to reality

Including:
Type 1 SMG
Type 1 SMG (1930)
Type 2 SMG
Type 2a SMG

The Nambu Type 1, sometimes called the Experimental Type 1 Submachine Gun (試製一型機関短銃, Shisei Ichi-gata Kikan Tanjū), was a Japanese submachine gun that was produced by the Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company.
The Type 1 was designed by Maj. Gen. Shikanosuke Tokunaga in late 1934, but the patents were held by Kijirō Nambu, who took up the production of the design at his Tokyo factory. It was trialed and rejected by the Imperial Japanese Army, but was issued in very limited numbers to the Japanese Navy Marines in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, despite never being formally adopted. The Type 1 was also offered for international export, and was briefly investigated by the British Army in 1938 as a personal defense weapon for tank crews, but was ultimately rejected for this role. After 1938, international sales of the weapon were retracted, and it was not exported to any other countries.

The Type 1 was succeeded by the Type 2, which retained the method of operation but offered a more conventional magazine feed.
The Type 2 was a development of the earlier Type 1 submachine gun, designed in response to criticisms of the Type 1's awkward ergonomics. The Type 2 offered a more conventional magazine feed and stock, but wholly retained the Type 1's method of operation and was essentially the same gun in a different body. It was initially produced in the mid-1930s and was tested by the Imperial Japanese Army, but rejected. During World War II, an urgent demand for automatic infantry weapons saw the revival of several experimental weapon projects, including the Type 2 submachine gun. Blueprints of the weapon were sent to the Mukden Arsenal in Manchukuo in 1944 for use in development of cheap submachine guns. Instead, those blueprints were used by the Chinese communists to produce submachine guns to be used in the Chinese Civil War following the end of the war with Japan and communist control over Mukden. These weapons were operationally identical but chambered in .45 ACP rather than 8×22mm Nambu.[1] The British and US armies studied examples of the earlier Japanese prototypes obtained in Singapore and Japan after the surrender of Japan.[3]

I have set them to a 1:35/1:72 ratio for easy printing, and the size comes from the data provided by the encyclopedia. You can adjust its size to any place by yourself.

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