Wings of War Miniatures available (1/144)

[Angiolillo]

Hello!

Yesterday I rushed with my scooter to the Nexus Editrice shop in Rome where the first two displays of miniatures appeared for the joy of local gamers (and authors):
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/196350

I stealed one - sort of. On the evening, little celebration dinner on the hills south of the City with my co-author Pier Giorgio and Dario Calì, our landscape artist. Kempf and Olieslager roared over our pasta dishes and around the red wine bottle, astonishing waiters and families at the tables nearby. The air parade went with no accident, apart that I was too eager to squeeze Rickenbacker's SPAD out of the box and I accidentally separated the undercarriage from the fuselage. Nothing that a few little drops of a good glue can't fix, anyway please be more careful than me.

So now I have the minis on my table, here at home. Pretty happy of the final production result, indeed. Little wheels even move over the tablecloth like real ones... Almost. Release of miniatures has been delayed, but I think that it was worth: the level of detail is far better than the one of the first prototypes I got, and the delay allowed for more accurate color schemes. You can even notice the stars on the little wheels of Rickenbacker's SPAD and you can read "Nemo me impune lacessit" at the back of Olieslager's seat (you can read it - I can't, I am a bit too astigmatic). The matt finishing all over the model gives a far better result than the first production trials with glossy decals. Well, they are an industrial product and the scale does not allow too much perfection, but I personally love these little creatures.

But that's obvious. As they say in Neaples, "every cockroach is beautiful to the eyes of his mum".

Anyway, I hope that you like them too. After all, the cover of the little boxes are transparent so you can evaluate them before buying (and on Internet you can find quite several pictures of the little planes).

Happy flights!

Andrea

[Rinahe]

Nice birds, Angiolillo.

I wonder if you are also going to release observation balloons for WoW.



Grazie!

Rinahe

[Angiolillo]

Originally Posted by Rinahe

Nice birds, Angiolillo.
I wonder if you are also going to release observation balloons for WoW.
Rinahe

Thank you!

I'd love too. And some ground stuff like aa guns too. But not in th near future: more fighters and some two-seaters will come earlier.

[Der Grüne Flieger]

Angiolillo,

Originally Posted by Angiolillo

As they say in Neaples, "every cockroach is beautiful to the eyes of his mum".

I laughed out loud when I read it, I love that phrase!

How big are these planes. I went to the site you referenced, but didn't see anything on their size.

Phil

[Angiolillo]

Originally Posted by Der Grüne Flieger

I laughed out loud when I read it, I love that phrase!

They have very colorful sentence in Neaples. They are expecially goods in insults. A way to say that a person is stupid is "He has an head just to keep his ears separated". I think that they are fully even in Italian or English, even if in their local dialects they are even more effective.

In Rome we are somehow colorful too... even if at the moment I have no easily translated example.

Originally Posted by Der Grüne Flieger

How big are these planes. I went to the site you referenced, but didn't see anything on their size.

TYhey are 1/144 in scale. This makes a Fokker Dr.I long about 40 mm, a SPAD XIII about 43 mm.

All the best!

Andrea

[Der Grüne Flieger]

Andrea,

Originally Posted by Angiolillo

"He has an head just to keep his ears separated".

That is just too good!

Thanks for the info.

Regards,
Phil

[Mr_Flibble]

Wonderful news!

Looking forward to getting my hands on them!

[pezzatini3@hotmail.com]

I bought 4 yesterday in Firenze, well done and well paint, they look very historical. I'll look forward for some reco aircraft and I hope in some new entry, expecially heavy bombers and multi engines like Gotha and Caproni.
What do you think?

Claudio.

[Angiolillo]

Originally Posted by pezzatini3@hotmail.com

I hope in some new entry, expecially heavy bombers and multi engines like Gotha and Caproni.

Thanks a lot for taking them! Did you take them at the Stratagemma shop near the Duomo?

A second set will be released around september. It will include three Roland C.II and three DH.4, so you will have recon planes. They will have different paintings and weapon combinations. Together with them, three D.VII and three Snipes.

Capronis and other heavy bombers have been playtested but they will need time to enter the "flat" game... Much more time to become miniatures, alas!

[pezzatini3@hotmail.com]

Yes I bought them at "Stratagemma" .
Goods news about the recon aircrafts and I'm happy for the bombers in project too.

Claudio.