100 years ago...Belleau Wood...

Good Morning to All of You... 

It' s a short time I wrote my "I' m back" post, and now I remembered that' s the anniversary of the battle of Belleau Wood.

Several years ago I wrote a series of post on painting and wargaming that battle. 

Here' s the link. I had to update the links to wargame rules and scenarios, since the original website doesn' t exist any longer...

Series of post on the battle...

Wargame rules, not only for WWI...

WWI scenarios, including Belleau Wood...

10mm WWI, FT-17, French and Germans...and buildings...

At Crisis a friend of mine took my order...Pendraken 10mm, all WWI...

Three French tanks, FT-17, some French infantry and German assault troops.

And many bases for these miniatures, for my 28mm ECW and for my two 20mm

armies of the Carthaginian Wars...I want to rebase them...DBA v3 is coming...

More...I need three ruined buildings bases for the  Pz8 rules,  Belleau Wood scenario,

so I scratchbuilt them...

French tanks will be useful for another scenario of  Pz8 rules, 

Le Matz, June 1918. A tanks encounter...Germans assaulting French line

and FT-17 as reinforcements...

Now some pics for our painting guide...

FT-17...by the way...Pendraken model is in 10/12mm scale, so you' ll be able to use it

in some WWI N scale train layout...

Assembled and white primed...

Base colour, light sand...

Medium green camouflage...

Dark brown washing...next time highlights and tracks...

Base colours for French and German infantry...

To scratchbuild my ruined buildings I used 6cm square bases from Warbases.

Walls from artistic hard board and textured. Painted with different effects

and a black washing to simulate burnt structures...

I added an explosion crater...

The Miniatures Page link

Happy Wargaming to All!

A wargaming day with Pz8 and Warfare in the Age of Reason rules...

Here are some pics of our latest wargaming day in Genoa ;-)

We played 5 games using the Pz8 rules, in this case the WWI version, Belleau Wood scenario
and a game with Warfare in the Age of Reason, the battle of Quebec.

Really a good time!


Belleau Wood scenario with Pendraken 10mm.
Lacking of trenches we used stone walls and fences instead...

Our Cioporeporter and the US troops advancing...

and the German stronghold...

Thinking gamers...

Our Cioporeporter and the French line advancing...

The members of the Wargame Club Garibaldi, Genoa :-)

And Happy Wargaming to All!

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The making of a demo game, Belleau Wood, Part V

The final part for the Belleau Wood scenario with 10mm miniatures and Pz8 rules.

The United States Marine Corps in green forest uniforms.

Here are the various steps from the white primer to the final varnish.

Part IV

Part III

Part II

Part I

La parte finale della creazione dello scenario di Belleau Wood
con miniature in scala 10mm e con le regole Pz8.

I Marines nell' uniforme verde foresta.

Qui i vari passi dal primer bianco al protettivo finale.

White primer.

Primer bianco.

Green base colour.

Colore base verde.

Webbings.

Spallacci e buffetterie.

Painting rifles.

Dipingiamo i fucili.

Painting gaiters and helmets.

Dipingiamo le ghette e le fasce mollettiere e quindi gli elmetti.

Brown washing.

Washing marrone.

Another washing, this time black.

Un altro washing, questa volta nero.

Painting flesh tones.

Dipingiamo l' incarnato.

And the boots.

E gli scarponi.

Basing.

Imbasettamento.

Modelling the ground with acrylic filler.

Modelliamo il terreno con pasta acrilica.

Painting ground a sand colour.

Dipingiamo il terreno con un color sabbia.

Flocking and different images of the final result.

Ora il flocking e divers immagini del risultato finale.

 

 Happy Wargaming to All!


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The making of a demo game, Belleau Wood, Part IV

And now...how to make the battleground?

Pz8 rules for WWI want a battleground divided in squares. 

Square side equal to three times the base width, in this case 3cm, so 9cm square side.

Battleground is 6 x 8, so we need 48 squares from a foam sheet.
By the way, we' ll use the same squares for our new project, Gettysburg on 3mm using Polemos rules...

Part III

Part II

Part I

Ed ora...come fare il campo di battaglia?

Le regole Pz8 per la WWI richiedono il campo diviso in quadrati.

Il lato di un quadrato deve essere pari a tre volte l' ampiezza delle basette utilizzate,

in questo caso 3cm, di conseguenza un quadrato di 9cm.

Il campo di battaglia è di 6 x 8, perciò avremo bisogno di 48 quadrati ricavati da una lastra di polistirolo.
A proposito, useremo gli stessi quadrati per il nostro prossimo progetto, Gettysburg in 3mm, 
usando le regole di Polemos...

Painting the square surface with a sand colour.

Dipingiamo la superficie dei quadrati con un color sabbia.

 

Painting a dark brown.

Dipingiamo i lati con un marrone scuro.

 

White glue.

Colla vinilica.

Irregular sand flocking. Remove the excess.

Spargiamo irregolarmente il flocking color sabbia. Rimuovere l' eccesso.

Now we cover with green flocking.

Ora ricopriamo con flocking verde.

Let dry and then remove the green flocking with a soft brush.

Lasciare asciugare e poi rimuovere l' eccesso con un pennello morbido.

 

Some examples.

Alcuni esempi.

German HMG on a small hill...

Mitragliatrice tedesca su una piccola collina...

Portion of the battleground. 

Parte del campo di battaglia.

Germans defending Bouresches.

Tedeschi che difendono Bouresches.

USMC advancing.

USMC in avanzata.

The enemy line...

Le linee nemiche...

 

The German point of view...

Il punto di vista tedesco...

 

The USMC attacking Belleau Wood...

I Marines all' attacco di Belleau Wood...

And Happy Wargaming to All!


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