Painting progress

Hi All,
since a while ago I thought I would share some pictures of my paint jobs as they are in progress. Of course other members are also encouraged to send me their painted miniatures pictures so I can upload them.
Well I have tried to stay away from them, but seeing how popular they are at the club I decided in my own fashion to put my hands on some Napoleonics. If I like them I will continue buying more, but if I do not, then I can make a meaningful donation to the club.

Bavarian line troops ready to be dipped! (first experiment ever!)

To boost up my Napoleonic gaming experience I also received from a friend some Prince August's Prussian infantry with which I am hopefully going to make a battalion.

I love the Toy Soldier look of those miniatures.

My recent excitement beside the other 300 projects I have ongoing, like everybody else, is African exploration (aka Colonial wargaming). I got interested in the period due to a couple of articles on the period in Wargamers Illustrated 292, written by Chris Peers one of the guru's of the subject.
I happened to have some RAFM miniatures 1890 Colonial British and I promptly bought a box of Warlord Games Zulus topped by some metal Zulu's from Brian (thanks mate!). Those latter I cannot recognize, I thought they were Wargames Foundry but they seem to be from another manufacturer, and to those I added spare plastic weapons and shields from the afore mentioned box.

Warlord Games Zulus and the unknown manufacturer's Zulus.

I also have as you can see from my painting desk, some 28MM World War 2 Italians. Lovely figures, though they are super well equipped and their kit is immaculate, perhaps too smart for the battlefield. Never the less great miniatures that I will paint to use with Don Featherstone's Skirmish Wargaming (another fairly recent purchase).

My painting desk, the miniatures in white are the Bavarians, the sand colored miniatures are the Italians.

That's about it from my painting desk, I should perhaps game more as I couldn't take part in the last 2 sessions.
By the way I also finished my DBR Tartar army in 15MM, although I already have bought some extra figures to start morphing them into Ottomans! what to say the leopard never loses his spots. Soon I will post some photos.

Thank you all for reading and see you at the next games day! (information on the right hand side of the page!)

Giovanni

８月ゲームの日（日本語版）

皆さん　こんにちは！

私はイタリアでの休日から、心を癒されてやっと帰ってきました。

フィギュアをペイントしたりゲームを遊んだり、私にとっての「ゲーム新年」を楽しみにしています。

ふるさとのトリノ市でイタリア語版のField of Gloryを買いましたよ。

全部のルールを読んで理解できるようになって良かった！

ロバートさん、ロッドさん、ピートさん、そしておそらくマットさんは

最近買ったフランス軍の援軍でかなり大きなNapoleonics(ブラックパウダー)ゲームをする予定です。

本当に素敵なゲームになりそうですよ。

もともと、西東京ウォーゲーマーズは歴史的なゲーム中心に集まってゲームをしていましたが、

これからは遊ぶゲームの範囲を広げたいです。

武雷安さんとゲストの方は一緒にWarhammer Fantasyのゲームをするようです。

（初心者向けのゲームになります）

興味がある方は是非連絡ください！！！

【直近のゲームの日】

８月１９日（日）８階　第１学習室　午前１０時～午後６時頃

！京王線が午前１０時まで一部運休しています！

新宿方面から京王線を利用される方はご注意下さい。

http://www.keio.co.jp/news/update/news_release/nr120523v02/index.html

武雷安さんのおかげで9月と10月は創作室でゲームを行うことができます。

（創作室は結構広いので遊ぶ場所に充分余裕があります。

創作室は７階のワークショップルームの隣の大きな部屋です）

もしかしたら、創作室をよく使っている生け花のおばあさんたちは、

次は自分達が創作室を予約しようと復讐を企んでいるかもしれませんね？？！

【秋のゲームの日（予定）】

９月２３日（日）７階　創作室

１０月１４日（日）７階　創作室

ではメンバーの皆さん、ゲストの方々、会えるのを楽しみにしてます。また再来週！

ジョバンニ　（翻訳：武雷安とその妻）

Game Days on the horizon

Hi All,

I am finally back from my Italian holidays that have been my spiritual medicine. So I am back for a new year of gaming and painting. I came back from my local (in Turin) game shop with Field Of Glory in Italian! it is nice to read and understand everything.

To celebrate that I plan to play my first game with my newly finished 15mm tartar army, I will play with Takeo, who knows the rules, I am sure it will be a nice training game.

Robert, Rod, Pete, and probably Matt, will play a fairly large Napoleonics game using the newly acquired french units, it is going to look amazing!

Brian is also going to play a Warhammer Fantasy game with a guest of the club, if anyone is interested to join in, please contact us.

These games will be set on the 19th of August.

Thanks to Brian, we managed to book the Sousaku Shitsu (the large room next to the kitchen) for September and October, so we should be able to organize larger games. I would like to thank Brian, because thanks to your speed in booking the rooms, we are definitely going to be at our ease and will have enough space to host a lot of gamers. The flower arrangements ladies are probably planning their revenge!

Next sessions are going to be on:

September 23rd (Sunday) Sosaku Shitsu

October 14th (Sunday) Sosaku Shitsu

Jolly Good! looking forward to see all the members soon and anybody else who wants to visit us.

See you soon

Giovanni