Gaming Boards

Hi!

in the past weeks I tried to put together some terrain elements and some different gaming boards, mostly focusing on 15mm stuff.
My main goal was to create some nice looking enviroments using only leftover materials.
This is the board I made out of some foamcore and polystyrene, adding wall plaster, sand and few rocks:

The board is made from A3 foamcore sheets. I finished 2 out of 4 planned; in the next pics you can see the new ones together with the finalized/painted ones

And here you can see the final effect with some 15mm minis, all from Ground Zero Games:

Hills can host some important game objectives...

Even if at the moment I only have 2xA3 they still have proven themselves enough for few nice 15mm games :)

At the moment I'm thinking about creating other boards with different materials... stay tuned!

Cheers

Andrea

Toys of War

Hi,

after being at Nuremberg Toy Fair I came up with more ideas of making re-use of toys for wargaming.
In particular I decided to give a very quick and rough metal brushing to a couple of T-1 I had and use them as HUGE warmachines for my 15mm figures.

From these two I started thinking to a game in which an attacking force will have to sabotage a well defended military outpost... so I added some minis I already had ready and painted a very nice Comm vehicle from GZG I ordered an year ago.
Below is the current Defenders faction:

the two Titan Mechas: they lack of fine details, still love how they stand tall close to 15mm figures and vehicles!

 

They are HUGE!!!!

Below is the nice GZG Communication vehicle next to my mostly beloved ARC Fleet from CMG:

And below is the Defender Faction at full streight:
-2x Titan Mechas
-Light Recons Veteran Squad
-Anti-tank gun
-Anti-personnel gun
-Comm Vehicle
-APC with Power Armor assault squad

Cheers,
Andrea

End of 2011 battle

Happy new year!

I have had a very nice dinner with Dani and my friends Greg and Cleo during tthe last evening of 2011, and after that we put together a game using THW mechanics (a mix of NUTS and 5150sa).
The game itself was not bad, but I'm starting to think that THW rules are awesome... when at least half of the players knows them!
It is kind of hard to keep tracks of all reactions and characters attributes when you are the only one who knows them -and you play very rarely-, so next "party game" I'll have I think I will use something easier to explain (but always chosen between the very good stuff: Dani likes a lot Fubar and I'm starting to feel interested in in Ganesha Games  stuff...).

Then, it's a lifelong time I don't play anything fantasy themed, so something alike might be one of my next games... I'm thinking to a gameplay in the direction of Heroquest or Mordheim, with rules to be found.

Btw, I don't have many pictures of the game I mentioned above, just the few below: the goal was to find a kidnapped contractor in a zone of wasteland owned by crusties or Sahadeens -it was randomly determinded-: 3 very small task forces of ARC Fleet with their leader had to explore the tabletop, search in the structures and get back home with the prisoner... if he was still there.
In the end, the soldiers faced some crusties and fought Bugs, found the contractor... but were forced to left at least one casualty per squad. -Dani's star, in example.

Here are a couple of pics of the newly painted crusties I used:

Cheers,
Andrea

15mm GZG Bots

Hello!

still waiting to play 5150... but I finally have been able to put my brushes on some of the 15mm minis I had to paint! I'm still working on GZG Crusties, but I managed to finalize some of their awesome robots!

Spider bots are fantastic sculpts and a joy to paint; I had no idea how to base them (euro cents were too small!), then I found out some metal washers  which are just perfect and make them look powerful:

I decided to paint them blue, kind of "police/security bots"... I quite like the way they look:

Next are a couple of "Johnny 5"style robots I painted with the green color scheme I used for some of my Critical Mass ARC Fleet:

I still have few minis from GZG, then I'll probably need to refill with some more 15mm... and probably will be ZOMBIES!!

Cheers,
Andrea

Supports

Hello!

I ordered some time ago some very nice minis from GZG, unfortunately I've been able to put my brushes on some of them just in the last days..

Here's my urban camo APC (same camo as some of my Urban Shock Troopers), complete with its gatling gun turret!

 

Below is a pic "in action"

Abd here's a gun turret! I like a lot this little model, still I have to add its front shield, missed somewhere in my boxes... ^_^'

Can't resist to post a couple of pics of the turret "in action", supported by an ARC Fleet sniper!
Still I don't know if I prefer to give the model a base or to leave it on its feet... any suggestion?
A base would protect a bit the model and make it looks better... still, no base means I can position the gun turret almost anywhere, like the pics below... that's an hard decision to take!

Cheers,
Andrea

More and more support...

Hi,

some more things to come for the big battle... an APC and a tech-vehicle from GZG (I'm really enthusiast of their quality) with Rebel Mini for comparison....

altra roba per la battaglia... un APC ed un veicolo "tecnico" da GZG (davvero di ottima fattura) con una miniatura di Rebel Mini per fare una stima delle dimensioni


... again from the same manufacturer, an artillery platform...
ancora da GZG, una piattaforma di artiglieria...


A GW Tau as a big Battle Armor...
Un Tau della GW come grossa Armatura da battaglia...


A couple of MechWarrior:Darkage mechs....
un paio di Mech di MechWarrior:Darkage...

... and a couple of "things" to use as objective markers
... ed un paio di indicatori di obiettivo

More to come soon,
cheers,

Andrea