A few years ago Mike Owen from Artizan sent me an e-mail saying that he was maybe going to do a Great Italian Wars range. After a year or two I pretty much gave up on the idea ……

A few weeks back I heard on the ‘painters grapevine’ (whatever that is)  that these were going to be released soon and typically got very excited. I’ve got a unit deal on order so in a day or so I’ll be able to play around with the poses, you know, what figure will go where in the pike block, that kind of stuff and will have a better impression of what they are like. I hear that there are definate plans afoot to extend the range. Personally, to start off,  I’m hoping for pike at 30 and 60 degrees so that my blocks look like they mean business!! I’m sure time will tell…..

In the meantime, here are a few snaps that Nick from Northstar kindly sent me: