Pretty in pink, Palazzo Lucia and bits and bobsterrain 33

 So just squeezing into the summer of scenery, here is an mdf TT Combat Palazzo Lucia that I got at Salute a long time ago, I think they still sell it? I have assembled and painted it up for the Great Italian wars primarily, I thought it might work well for the villa of Bicocca  as we seem to be working our way through the  various historical battles.

Clamped together while drying and sorting the scrap into useful components, some of it went into ox carts! Waste not want not, there is after all a war on! I gave it a wash of stone colour, then tried to match something like the buildings from the Ursula cycle which are from the end of the 15th century, begining of the 16th, so good for the Italian wars, black wash, terracotta wash, pink wash then picked out with a lighter stone colour all emulsion paints ,mostly tester pots or left overs, the stone colour I mixed for the front of the house!

Little bit of flock around and about but really a primarily urban build I guess, pretty happy with this handsome little villa, as I have been with almost all the TT Combat stuff. As you can see, some 100 years war figures being worked on for Agincourt and sneaking in, hopefully I'll finish my 25mm Crecy/Poitiers project started in the 1970's before them!

Theres also a work in progress of some stone walls Ive been meaning to do for a while.

Here they are finished! They're inspired by some I saw ages ago on Olicanalads blog, individual stones glued with pva, althoughI used gorrilla glue woodworking pva so the drying time was a bit more rapid. Emulsion ,black wash,brown wash, wet brush with a lighter stone colour, flock.

I also took the opportunity to do a bit more work on my stone circle, in my haste to complete them I'd finished them a la 1980s GW,eg monolithic dark grey for stone, which was always meant to be a base, so I've wet brushed them with some stone colour and then  did a black wash followed by a brown wash followed by moss on the stones.

I think they're better for it, what do you think?

That's it for terrain Tuesday and the end of summer

Next up? Maybe Napoleonics, dark ages or Great Italian wars?

All the best 

Iain

War carts for Ravenna Great Italian Wars 58

 At the battle of Ravenna Pedro Navarro a Spanish commander came up with the idea of war carts, multiple guns on wheels with shields and spears to defend them, to add a bit additional strength to the infantry. Ive always been interested in them and as there arent any historical images of them I've tried to invent something that would suffice, made out of bits and bods I had lying around. I had some duplicate pieces from a hinchcliffe organ gun, a number of mdf wheels that I picked up from warbases, some aluminium and plastic tube,mdf offcuts, balsa wood, Perry plastic pavisses and some polearms from the same source, some old glory polearms, a couple of 15mm chariot bodies and some GW muskets which together with some old glory Swiss artillery crew( together with a few Foundry Swiss) gave me these war carts.

I used the late medieval ribauldquin as some form of inspiration, wrought barrels would be relatively easy to fabricate I thought? Outside of Ravenna, I'll just use them as light artillery.

A fun bit of scratch building, I went for red and yellow as Spanish colours but I still think they're generic enough.

Next up,I've got an Italian pike block, some archer cavalry on the go, a Napoleonic unit and some dark age units unfortunately no terrain which I'd hoped to add to my pontoon bridges for the summer of scenery, maybe next year?

All the best

Iain