News from the front Covid-19: my club mates creations

This is not a very happy period and the forced quarantine does not help but I must admit that this situation is not able to to stop my mates' imagination

Maurizio is working on new Capt America tank

Ezio ... waiting for the end of this quarantine ... is working on new fleets ready to test the new Warlord's game: "Victory at sea"

Flavio and Luca work on the scenic elements

Antonio and Aurelian work on their Japan inspirations

Each of us is facing this pandemic in a different way and I'm sure that ... when it will be over ... we will be able to play new battles on our club but all of us cannot forget other club mates, as Enzo, that are still working in the hospital 

News from the front Covid-19: Black powder Anglo-Spanish vs French troops

In these periods when we are forced to the isolation, I hope you will allow me to abandon myself to some memories

Below there are some pictures of a game played before Covid 19 in my association (La Piccola Armata) 

Miniatures are in 28mm and painted (100% Anglo-Spanish) by Flavio while French are (99%) painted by Flavio ...  and few units by me.

The game is an hypothetical battle in Spain during the peninsular wars (1809) ... some details of the Spanish troops

... now some French troops 

and some moments of the fighting ...

... waiting for new battles to play together again

News from the front Covid-19: Aurelian's SAGA new army

A lot of my club mates are using these days of quarantine to complete their armies ... as for example Aurelian. 

He is a professional  painter of miniatures and generally he work by commission for his customers but ... this time he completed his own army.

The army he painted to play is a Polish one for SAGA ... He painted a new war wagon and all the shields are hand made but ... A special mention for one of this shield

He decided to "remember" this scourge and these hard times every times he played with his army. The inscriptions on the shield is: year domini 2020 COVID while in the strip, in the middle of the piece, there are some dancing deaths (to remember the plague as was represented in the past).

The effect for his troops is this one

He painted also a new war wagon 

I'm waiting to see this new pieces "working" on a SAGA scenario

News from the front Covid-19... some pics of Bolt Action miniatures

Also this week our club is closed and ... unfortunately .. the number of infected in Italy is increasing but I decided to post every week some pics of miniatures painted by my friends.

This time the photos I post are related to one of the latest game played in my club using Bolt Action ... I hope that someone would appreciate them.

Some pics of the winter Germans painted by Maurizio

Some English soldiers and their vehicles painted by Nevio

The sniper team painted by Antonio

... and some pics of Giancarlo's Commonwealth troops involved in a strange scenario ...

... Serg ... are you sure we are in the right place? ... I trust my Officer!

... it is cold ... Are you sure we are in Birmania?

... Who want a wolf skin??

News from the front Covid -19 - A wargame club during a quarantine period

In the last weeks my club is closed for the Covid-19 pandemic. 

It is a strange period and very hard for all. During week ends ... the days in which usually I'm with my mates ... we are forced to keep at home ... but my club is not only a group of enthusiastic wargamers ... is bunch of friends and so we are preparing for the future

Some week ago I posted some pics of our painter Aurelian about some knights  ...

... his work it was a kind of inspiration for some of other club members this week end ...
for example this is the Maurizio's version for the Crusades

 ... with his commander Baliano of Ibelin

Aurelian's miniatures inspired also Andrea, one of our latest club member, with a new Teutonic army

But every army must have his enemies and Antonio prepared them

War Wagon and 3rd Crusader Knights - The corner of the painter

Due to coronavirus, last week our club was closed so some of my club mates used these days to paint new miniatures. One of them is Aurelian that prepared a new war wagon and some knights for 3^rd Crusader in these days. He is a professional painter (#aurelianpaintingstudio) and seeing the pics below it is easy to understand his skills

The war wagon was a one of early fighting vehicle that involved a wagon ... like a kind of primitive tank. This kind of military vehicles was developed by the rebelling forces in Bohemia during the Hussite war around 1450
It was a heavy wagon given protective sides with firing slits and heavy firepower from either a cannon or a force of hand-gunners, archers and crossbowmen, supported by infantry using spears, pikes and flails.

My friends decided a crew of an archer and a infantry man with pike

After the Hussite wars, they stayed in usage as the special tactical weapon of Bohemian mercenaries which prevailed against knights or foot soldiers. Its successful history came to an end, at least for large scale engagements, with the development of field-piece artillery.

After preparing the wagon he continued with some knights. The level of details he reached is one of the best I saw in the last times.

The heraldry for each knights is studied and historically accurate. If you someone would interested to try to paint these soldier below there is a very interesting link:  

http://www.earlyblazon.com