Here's another illustration that I created for the 'Soldiers of Empires' project. This was the first major battle between the Japanese 33rd Division's Infantry and the British 2Bn Border Regiment. This painting represented a number of challenges for me. First off, I’d never painted a night scene and secondly there was a lot more figures to compose than in any of my previous paintings. I knew that it would be easy to become overwhelmed with the sheer amount of details and elements involved so I just broke everything down into smaller projects and here’s the finished result. Here’s a link If anyone’s interested in reading more about it: www.imphal.co.uk