1/72 Sci-Fi small conversions

Hi,

I noted I never posted anything about my small forces of soft plastic 1/72 (20mm) figures I was using some time ago. They're all from the very inexpansive plastic sets made by Caesar, Rewell, Italeri and are all modern troopers (USA soldiers/German police) converted just a minimum to give them a bit of a Sci-Fi feeling.
If anyone is interested I will post more -have something here and there...-

Ho notato che non ho mai pubblicato nulla della mie miniature in scala 1/72: i molli ed economicissimi omini in plastica morbida prodotti da Caesar, Rewell ed Italeri. Si tratta di fanteria moderna (soldati USA e polizia tedesca) che ho convertito un pochino per dargli un che di futuristico. Se qualcuno ha interesse posterò altro materiale in 1/72 -ho qualcosa in giro...-

A squad of red guys
Una squadra di tizi in rosso

A red guy with a Sniper Rifle, on a fake bonsai (...)
un tizio vestito di rosso, con un fucile da cecchino, posizionato su un bonsai finto.

Other red guys (have to find the others) against some robots
altri tizi in rosso (devo trovare gli altri!) contro alcuni robot

guys with some armor
tizi con un pò d'armatura

Cheers,
Andrea

Neverending Dilemma

Hi,

I'm into the average nerdy wargamer dilemma: what is the best scale to play with?
Ok- there's no one scale which is better than another... still, I'm promising myself to follow these guidelines that should allow me to use the TON of minis I collected in 28mm, 15mm and even 20mm:

-I will use the nice, inexpensive and space saving 15mm minis for large battles in "open" environments involving vehicles and buildings
-maybe I will sometimes use 20mm instead of 15mm (just for the pleasure of changing something!)
-My 28mm minis will be used for a slightly better personal feeling to adventures, and will be employed for dungeon crawlings as well as scenarios involving detailed characters instead of squads of grunts.

There are simply too many minis in the market -and in my house...- to give up with a scale.
Then, I found that CR3 system is perfectly able to manage all the level of details I'd like to try.
Add some features to grunts and Stars and you have a lite rpg.
Use more generic pieces and the game will run fast with more combatants involved.
Wow!

As I started my little blog with the idea of reducing posts without pictures to the lest possible (pictures are what I'm usually looking at on other's blog... and all the blogs I follow have plenty of VERY nice photos or images!) and in relation to what I said above about playing "detailed characters when in mood for 28mm", I post here a pic of the party I prepared some years ago for Inquisitor game (GW specialist game).

From left: Blood Angel Sgt, Space Wolf veteran, Inquisitor, Imperial Guard Sniper.

I played "Inquisitor" once but the rules were uber detailed for my/my friends taste... guess what ruleset I'm going to use, now? :)))

Cheers,
Andrea