Cyprus trees terrain 34

 If your going to do the Great Italian wars , you could really do with cyprus trees, finally Ive finished making some.

Ive used some of  the artificial christmas tree branches Ive used before for my winter evergreens. Ive added pva and sawdust, which I had to do twice, then coated them with black emulsion , followed by two different greens to give some variety then I flocked them , finished the basing and flocked with a different flock. Bit late for summer of scenery but galvanised by that, so thanks Dave!

Next up , a few AARs, more Napoleonics , Great Italian wars and dark ages on the tray.

All the best

Iain

Italian pike block Great Italian wars 61

 Just to keep Alexie and Jonathan happy, here's a Great Italian wars post. We had a game of Agdanello 1509 in April 2024 and I thought I needed another Italian pike block, so two and a half years later here they are!

These are mainly from the Perry plastic mercenaries set with additional Perry metal 16th century heads and a couple of their  Swiss heads for variety, there are also some of the armoured knights plastic box set to give me a bit of variety in the first rank, including one of the command sets. The bases are warbases 45mm x 45mm and the flags are from Petes flags.

All the best 

Iain

Archers Late Roman 6

 Here is the last unit for my small  Late Roman army, a unit of Gripping Beast plastic archers, nice simple figures with enough detail, individualy mounted in 1ps and then on a 120mm sabot base from Warbases.

Pretty straightforward, I wouldn't mind doing some more, I might expand this or do another force?

Here's a little parade as the army as  its technically complete...yeah right! Actually, I'd like to do some unarmoured spearmen too. Originally for Dux Bellorum, the basing suits it for Midgard, although I'll need some heroes/champions and generals but I can pinch from other collections for that, I'm thinking of this as Coel Hen, the last Dux Britanniarum or old king Cole's army, it does remind me ,I could do with pimping my old airfix fort?

Great Italian wars, Napoleonics and dark ages fighting it out on the painting desk at the moment, plus a few AARs, not sure what will be done first!

All the best

 Iain

Battle of Cerignola 1503 AAR , Valour and Fortitude Great Italian Wars 60

 We had another go at a Great Italian wars battle with the new V4 version of Valour and Fortitude. We went for Cerignola this time and Des put it into chatgbt to get a scenario for V&F v4 on a 6' x 4' board

Surprisingly good and a much greater improvement on the last AI generated V&F scenario.

The objectives for the French were all on the other side of the ditch and the French had no option but to attack and get shot to pieces in the ditch, one unit managed to clear the ditch but were dispatched by a fresh landscknecht pike block, the Spanish cavalry were defeated when they eventually activated, the palazzo in an incomplete form also made its first appearance. An historical result which I was much happier with, in spite of being the French!

Another good, fast and brutal V&F game.

Next up? Dark ages, more Italian wars or possibly Napoleonic?

All the best 

Iain