Battle of Ceresole 1544Massimo

Massimo has just informed me that this book is now available  to buy ; if it's anything like his book on the battle of Anghiari it'll be well worth the money. It's available in Italian and French but with google translate that's no real problem  the book can be purchased here

:http://www.historic-one.com/

For more info and more pics please take a look at Massimo's website http://stemmieimprese.it/ cheers Pete 

Perry Swiss

Oswald von Thierstein Swiss captain at the Battle of Nancy. Perry plastic with a metal head ; I painted this figure as a break from painting my War of 1812  Canadians and he's destined for ebay so I can buy some more of them. cheers Pete

Ebay link now added cheers :  http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261136874762?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

petesflags web shop

Hi, I've had a couple off days of work and took my first tentative steps in opening a web store. It's early days and there's not much in it other than the 28mm  fabric condottieri flags at the moment. However I plan to place the Italian Wars and the 15mm flags on there in the next couple of weeks. If the shop proves successful I'll have a go at designing a decent logo and a more individual website rather than a free template from the internet. At the moment the shop only accepts payment via papal. Here's the link:

http://www.freewebstore.org/Petesflags

Several years ago I decided to paint a Venetian army using Front Rank figures however I wanted to make the pike  look more Italian  so I had a go at sculpting my own. I'd forgotten all about these until James Roach placed pictures of a unit that I'd given him at the time up on his blog . Looking at the pictures below  I think he's made a really good job of my sculpting efforts; here's the link to James' excellent blog:  http://olicanalad.blogspot.co.uk/

I've got to admit I didn't find my experience of sculpting very rewarding and my hat goes off to anyone who has the skills and the patience to produce wargames figures; I'm just too cack handed. Above a picture of  my own sculpts (the one's with the Mick Jagger lips) and Front rank command figures; below two pictures of the figures painted by  James Roach, cheers Pete 

More Neapolitan, Aragonese Flags; the first one is the flag of  Sicilly and the other two are  taken from a picture depicting Neapolitan troops besieging  Piombino  in 1448; the painting was probably completed in the 1480's. I've no idea who the central flag represents however it looks the part, cheers ~Pete 

Hi , this is my first Neapolitan flag ; the flag is printed onto cloth and the figure is  Perry miniatures.

Milanese Standard bearers

Milanese standards 15th to early 16th century

Milanese standards from the battle of Anghiari