Hi all!

After a really long time i'm back with new projects and models to show.

During those years I collected and developed a lot of different miniatures and models mainly referred to the universe of Star Wars, from FFG X-wing and Armada to Lego Star Wars, searching various ways to play them differently.

But lately I felt the necessity to go back to origins, and not just to say it!

Starting from my early days, I had always liked the pre-historical times: cavemen, wild horses, mammoths and woolly rhinos.

Wildlife in all regards!

So last year, when I found a rulebook about it, all was to start again.

The rules I found are fascinating, getting me involved immediately.

PALAEO DIET, "eat or be eaten", is a booklet of simple, fast and intriguing rules, published by Ganesha Games, and supplied me the fertile terrain onto which develop my project.

Pleistocene, about 40.000 years ago is the set time when Neanderthals struggled against the odds to survive every single day, feeding them on wildlife and hoping not to be feed to beasts!

I started to collect miniatures (already owed a bunch of Neanderthals , and also two Yetis, good for wild men or "sasquatch"!) from various manufacturers, but the best thing of all is that I could realize new terrain pieces, the best I could do!

That's a long list and started with a couple of hills (or three), several rocky terrain bits, pine woods, flat grass plains, swamps and so on.

During the lockdown period I had a lot of free time to go on and the results start showing now.

 

Actually this is the state of most of the terrain bits, but the rocky terrain bits (4) are ready and the first hill is at 95%.

Here just a tease of it!

More next time.

Bye.

Hi all people!
After a long time I'm back again.
One year ago me and a friend of mine started a new project I never tryed before, but a fascinating one!
We decided to play a Peninsular campaign and I will lead the Anglo-Portuguese side.
Actually my two infantry brigades and cavarly support aro going on, slowly but steady, so I started creating the terrain and buidings to use with.
This is still a work in progress, with a lot of bits to do, but hopefully i think they will be ready for next spring, if all goes on the right way.
I mostly used light cardboard and plastic foils, adeguately reinforced, for walls, doors and windows.
Roofs are in resin, but I have now started to use "papier maché" to create them, it is extremely light, easy to cut and  sufficiently hard for that use.
Walls of buildings are covered with white artistic plaster to give them the stucco finish, doors and windows are made with wood stripes glued on cardboard.
Actually they are only basically painted, I will start to give them life once all buildings are realized.
I have one more big house to do, a ruined church (quite done) and a small chapel that need only to be roofed (no pics at the moment).

This is the only building not entirely self-made, originally a north italian country house from Italeri (actually sadly out of production).
I covered entirely the walls with plaster and also heighted it with plasticard, put on the roof a new chimney more suitable for a spanish house.

A barn/store-house, a smaller store and a stable.

Two single store country houses (they can be paired or kept separately).

This is a possible layout for a small village or "hacienda" farm, I still have to decide how to use them.
Hope you enjoy my efforts.
Sincerely, Silvius.

Heavy Gear "Big Brothers"

Here again! I had some troubles with my internet connection the last 10 days, so I got time to keep some shots of other heavy gear stuff.
Big ones too!
They come all from Japan, some from Kotobukiya, some from Square Enix (the smaller ones).
All are out of production pieces from two main video games : Front Mission 3 and 4 and the Armored Core series.
I' ve put some figures from AT-43 for comparison as these are non scale Mechs. But I think they can be used successfully with 28 mm and the smaller ones with 15 mm too.

I bought the big ones several years ago after I played Front Mission 3 on Playstation 2.
I liked so much these mechs (called Wanzers in the game, i.e. wandering panzers) that when discovered they were sold by Kotobukiya, a Japanese company, I had to owe one, or two, or more!
Here are the first two, same model with different colors, named Grilex or Grille Sechs on the game (actually the ones I prefer).

Second is the Meredin M1 type, with a blue/sand color and third ... sorry, I don't remember the name, with green camo look.

The next two are smaller so I added a third picture with a big one and a 28 mm figure so you can compare them and see the difference (btw the two are the same type of wanzer, the smaller one an updated version of Grilex from Front Mission 4).
First is the Zenith Rev, the wanzer of the hero from Front Mission 3, the second is the updated Grilex, from FM 4.

The last one is from Armored Core game (sorry no name here), the weapon is not one of their, I unfortunately lost them, but it has a look i really like in this pose.

And finally a "family" picture :  the "big brothers" toghether, with their interchangeable gear.
See you soon!

Back from the future?

About two years ago I was asked to create a desertic futuristic terrain, to play with 28 mmm figs.
After a lot of hard work I finally realized the boards to compose it as a modular one : 3 60x60 cm, 3 60x30 cm and 2 30x30 cm.
I also made some buildings, plants, small rock piles and found suitable authentic rocks, with an "alien" feel, i think.
But in the end, apart the buildings, all remained to me, unused.
Quite at the same time I found, trough the web, some interesting mechs, nominally indicated as 1/100 scale, so useful for any rule you use, as full heigh mech or robotic support.
More about them later, just an insight ... Front Mission 3 and 4 from Square Enix for Playstation, anyone knows?
Some shots about the desertic terrain, miniatures are from AT-43 and Heavy Gear (thanks to Matt of the Closet Gamer for his splendid job), here to show the true dimensions of the terrain.

The terrain boards are in thick plywood (2 cm) to prevent warping, covered of glued cork foils added with sand to cover the areas where cork don't join.
The only negative effect is weight ! Next time I will use blue foam, the insulating one, strong, light and not so expensive.
Plants are mainly plastic ones, from a garden center, but I used also natural ones, dryed and paint (the bottle like ones) also based with cork. Stone piles the same.
Two boxes of ready terrain pieces (2 more not shown) and some more material for the next ones!

As said before, who knows these wonderful pieces of technology ?
There are a lot more of these two, 12 different ones in total, but ... this is the bad new, they are actually absolutely out of production.
As always stuff fron Japan is produced in a fixed amount, when sold out you have to wait for a new batch of production, naturally if they decide to do it!
Next time I  will show more of them, stay on alert!
Bye.