My new miniature display!

Hi all,

I received from my patient gf a very nice gift for my birthday: a brand new miniature display... all made by her with her own hands!
As I'm usually not able to glue together a couple of plastic kit components without making a mess, I'm still asking her how she made it...

La mia ragazza mi ha fatto un gran bel regalo di compleanno: una vetrinetta per le miniature fatta da lei! Dato che io faccio fatica anche solo a montare i kit in plastica le sto ancora chiedendo come cavolo abbia fatto...


I had a bad light for taking pictures, I know they're ugly...
la luce era quello che era, le foto non sono granchè..

And that's not all. She gave me another nice "miniatures themed" gift...
What? You'll see on my next post!

Prossimamente posterò anche l'altro regalo in tema miniature che ho ricevuto da lei!

Cheers,
Andrea

Urban Shock troopers

Hi all,

Here comes my first six Augmented Troopers from CMG , in urban camo!
With heavy assault rifles, a couple of shoulder mounted grenade launchers and the ability to face heavy enemy firepower, they are supposed to help my urban Light Recons when in trouble on the battlefield.
The models themselves are great as all the ones coming from the above Company (and I have six left to paint!)

Ecco i primi sei modelli di Augmented Troopers da CMG dipinti in mimetica urbana!
Dotati di fucili di grosso calibro, un paio di lanciagranate montati sull'armatura e la capacità di sopportare un gran volume di fuoco diretto dovrebbero essere in grado di supportare per bene i miei Light recons sul campo di battaglia.
I modelli, come tutti quelli di quest'azienda, sono davvero ben fatti (e ne ho da dipingere altri sei!)

The first one, made to have a preview color scheme.
Modello di prova

The squad at full strength
la squadra al completo

Comparison between Light Recon's size and Power Armor.
Paragone tra i miei Light Recons e le Power Armor.

Cheers,
Andrea

Simple urban ruins

Hello and happy new year!

This very short post to share some simple ruined buildings I’m putting together from old business cards. My intention is to add more and larger buildings and a couple of industrial settlements and to run a “WW2 with some sci fi” scenario using NUTS!

At the moment I populated them with my ARC Fleet Light Recons and Sahadeens to take some pictures!

Buon anno!

Un post piuttosto breve per condividere alcune foto di edifici in rovina -molto semplici- che sto realizzando da vecchi biglietti da visita. L’intenzione è di aggiungerne di più grandi, oltre ad un paio di edifici industriali ed usare il tutto per uno scenario WW2 con un po’ di fantascienza, usando NUTS!

Al momento ho aggiunto qualcuna delle mie miniature in 15mm (ARC Fleet Light Recons e Sahadeens) per fare qualche foto!

I will need to put a couple of roads...

with some minis...

closeups..

Hope to be able to post more soon,
Cheers,

Andrea

We'll be missing you, Rackham

Dear all,

I found very bad news on the internet: Rackham, one of the best miniature manufacturer I was aware of went out of business on fall October 2010.
Their metal models and skirmish rules were really well made and in my opinion set up a new standard.
We will miss your vision, guys.

Ho trovato una pessima notizia on line: Rackham, una delle migliori case produttrici di miniature in 28mm ha definitivamente chiuso i battenti a fine ottobre 2010.
Rackham produceva alcune delle più belle miniature fantasy mai realizzate ed un regolamento di schermaglie davvero buono.
Ci mancherete ragazzi...


Apart from my painting, the minis were wonderful..
a parte che dipingo col cxxo, i modelli erano proprio belli..

Cheers,
Andrea

NUTS in Italiano!

Dear all,

after a long absence I publish this post to announce that Ed Teixeira from THW will soon provide on the THW site an Italian translation of his wonderful WW2 game, NUTS!, which I've been honored to give my small contribution!
While I'm enthusiast for this decision that will hopefully bring Ed's wonderful games to more users, I decided henceforth to post comments in my blog in both English (in white) and Italian (in the below undefined colour -did I say I'm colorblind?).
Hope to be also able to post soon a review/batrep of NUTS (a batrep with probably a Sci-Fi twist -maybe taking advantage from the free zombie supplement?)!

Ciao a tutti,
dopo una lunga assenza pubblico questo post per comunicare che Ed Teixeira della Two Hour Wargames renderà disponibile a breve sul suo sito la traduzione italiana del suo pluripremiato gioco di schermaglie ambientato durante la 2nda Guerra Mondiale, NUTS!, alla quale ho avuto l'onore di dare un piccolo contributo.
Sono entusiasta della scelta di THW di venire incontro al pubblico italiano ed ho deciso che da ora in poi posterò anche nella mia lingua (in questo colore ragguardevole).
Spero di essere in grado di pubblicare presto una recensione di NUTS! ed un battle report (probabilmente con qualche adattamento che farà accapponare la pelle ai giocatori di wargames storici, come il supplemento con gli zombie nazisti disponibile gratuitamente...)

Cheers,
Andrea

Free small paper houses!

Dear all,

I've been busy with what pays for our gaming habits (work) but finally I can post my first small contribute to all the 15mm gamers out there :).
Here are 4 small paper buildings; they're quite homemade and nothing impressive, still they're free from me and can help you to add some last minute terrain pcs to your table!

Hope to be able to post more (and better) soon!

Btw: you are free to use them but for commercial purposes; the papers are a resource from the Two Hour Wargames yahoo group.

A paper place called Home

Hi!

A couple of evenings ago I was playing with my laptop (and incredibly it was not Fallout 3...) and I had the idea of putting together some paper terrain for my 15mm miniatures.
So I created and printed them out: I have been enough lucky to match the scale at first attempt, still my job is nothing incredible but quite nice.

I put together a very small “cottage” style room and a dirty apartment; below are pics showing minis for size comparison:

Please note I mainly used resources from dotcom (I found the textures Googling around and about and the papers scattered on the ground come from the THW yahoo Group files section (Damn, I really can’t find again the exact section where I took them).

I’m currently working on buildings same size/style (the new square roof is now better than the sample above!) but made with my own textures; when done I’ll be glad to share them here... on NNL!

Cheers,

Andrea