I reported only something of what happened in the days of Lucca C&G. Too much things to do and to see. And now more than two months are distant from this event. However I hope I showed you what this huge fair means. So you could be here for the 2014 edition. Now it is time to concentrate on our specific area of interests: wargame.
We were inside the Games pavilion, in an area called Miniature Island. Around us there were some miniature related stands, than demonstration tables (where I was), and in the inside the painters area.
This a horse & musket wargame by our room mate in the hotel. I give him a couple of precious earplugs to survive to Andrea snoring.
A simple Napoleonic game by Narciso, now in the Clan Conan, veterans of demonstration games in Lucca.
Their huge playable scenario: Iwo Jima! Inside the Suribachi some tunnels are dug. To simulate the terrain they used huge amounts of coffee grounds! And all was assembled in the small living room of Narciso. That smelled of coffee, indeed.
Unofficial Games Workshop Warhammer 40000 demonstration battle. A nice group of alcoholic chaps ran these trenches and 4 days of fighting.
The magnificent trio: Sartori, Torriani, Sfiligoi. Presently they are the pillars of Italy regarding wargame rules. Their work is recognised outside our national and linguistic borders.
Losi, the martyr of last year Andrea snoring. This year he slept in another hotel. Co-author of the modern version of the Torriani’s wargame engine. In the fair he dressed as a Taleban or a private contractor. No, he is not totally mad. : )
The action in the streets of Iraq.
I feel the need of some concrete walls like these ones for my games…
A complete view of the set.
The new wargame by Torriani’s team is setted in Western period.
The painters area. He is Nano Nefasto (ill-omened dwarf), a professional painter from Brescia. On the left the Ludica team.
Luciano at work, illustrating how to paint miniatures.
Some of the pieces in the painting contest called Trofeo Grog.
Private collection by one of the painters.
The Blood Bowl gladiator squad by Auricchio grow convention after convention, year after year…
Always miniature sculpted by Auricchio: a 15mm Hastings range. Yes, 15mm, not 28mm!!!
Sculpting contest, always for Trofeo Grog: some gladiators.
My left thumb and a WWII US marine by Seven Samurai sculpting team.
1-48 Combat is back as 1-48 Tactic. This is a miniature for the game with his twin in a smaller scale.
We were a very large team in that mess. Some faces were the same of the previous years, some are new. Every evening we took a dinner together in various restaurants, the only moment when we could chat. We are part of a community, we are wargame players.
