Il Castello di Ferrara |
Francia, Spagna, Imperiali, Svizzeri, Lanzichenecchi, e gli Stati Italiani, da quello Pontificio alla Repubblica Veneziana, dagli Sforza ai Gonzaga, agli Estensi, e così via, impegnati a scannarsi per quasi cent'anni, cambiando alleanze e partito più e più volte. Cavallerie pesanti, picchieri, le prime artiglierie, archibugieri, balestrieri, spadaccini, alabardieri, cavallerie leggere balcaniche... insomma non c'è che l'imbarazzo della scelta tra truppe coloratissime, forse le più colorate della storia. Scudi, palvesi, bandiere... la gioia del modellista oltre che quella del wargamer!
Affresco dell'Oratorio di S. Giovanni Battista, | Urbino |
Having dealt with, even here in a network with other blogs, projects more "exotic", such as the Great Northern War or the Napoleonic Campaign in Russia, I want to move further back in time but closer in space. Two recent trips, to Urbino and Ferrara, I have whetted the desire to resume a project that I started a few years ago and then left halfway through, among other things in a different scale. The wars that involved the entire Italian peninsula between the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century and known as the "Italian Wars".
France, Spain, Imperial, Swiss, Landsknecht, and the Italians states, from the Papal States to the Republic of Venice, the Sforza to Gonzaga, the Este, and so on, committed to each other's throats for almost a hundred years, changing alliances and party more and more times. Heavy cavalry, pikemen, the first artillery, musketeers, archers, swordsmen, halberdiers, light cavalry from Balkan ... in short, there is plenty of choice of colored troops, perhaps the most colorful history. Shields, palvesi, flags ... the joy of modeller as well as that of the wargamer!
The other time I started with the 15 mm, but the recent release on the market of cheap plastic parts in 28 mm of Perry Miniatures (so beautiful) (in addition to an incipient decline in age-related vision ) made me decide to larger scale. And so on, a new project ... and everything from scratch ...
Urbino, il Palazzo Ducale |
AUGURI.............
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