Monsters behind the masks

03/12/2024

Hello, folks!
The Monsters are back in full force to invite you to our (already!) annual Christmas Painting Challenge! Joining us today is the amazing Jon, one of the most talented painters in our community. Inspired by his article recently published on TTCommunity, Jon is launching this fun, friendly challenge.

You'll find all the details in this episode (yes, we’re making you listen to our senseless ramblings—bwahaha!), but here’s a quick recap of the important deadlines:

15th January 2025: Last day to enter the challenge. Send three pictures of your painted miniatures to [email protected].

27th January to 2nd February: Public poll on the Carnevale Facebook group to select the winner from Jon's top three picks.

Enjoy the show, and happy painting!

https://open.spotify.com/show/6izth854oSdEJLKSADaQC3

28/11/2024

Wednesday games night at .
.it

26/11/2024

Since my good friend bought a starter set and decided to play Bioficers (basically, evil sci-fi ChatGPT after he gave it his bank account details!), I swooped in to help Gian get rid of the UCM part of the box.

I wanted to try something new and something old too, so I built a Moskva... sorry, Vilnius-class heavy cruiser (to keep all kinds of space bugs at bay) and a couple of glorious Glasgow-class cruisers. Because if you can't secure that dropsite, BOMB IT OUT OF EXISTENCE! 😈😈😈

Right now, they're just under a layer of grey primer, but soon they'll proudly join my fleet. Clearly, I MUST paint some white and blue details on the pair of Glasgows. . 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿


.it

24/11/2024

The sheer number of games and gaming clubs demoing always astonishes me! ❤️❤️❤️

24/11/2024

I didn't show anything about my completed Rialto Bridge before today because I felt I hadn't the setting to show it off properly. My friends from provided exactly that: an immersive, huge and utterly stunning place where to put the bridge on. I'm feeling so proud of this setting! Even if we leave more than 2 and half hours away, we managed to make a Carnevale board that is going to be remembered! They've been able to run 3 to 4 demos at the same time on that board 😱

Thanks guys!
See you soon!
paints .it .it

The question now is.... where's the bridge going to go? 😉😉😉

15/11/2024

My Maladum painting commission is finally complete! Maladum: Dungeons of Enveron is the starter box for the Maladum game system by Battle Systems. This game takes players into a fantasy world where exploration, epic battles, and legendary deeds are the bread and butter of heroic adventurers!

Lead a party of heroes and explore this amazing universe! The box includes 7 characters (who can also be used as NPCs, true to the best RPG traditions!) ready to face the evil Malagaunt and his vile undead. But beware: the dungeons aren’t just home to Malagaunt’s creations! Many other creatures lurk and hunt in the underground depths.

I hope Andrea from (my commissioner) is happy with how these models turned out ❤️. VEA Editori is the Italian distributor for products, and these miniatures will be showcased at Milano Wargames 2024. See you there!

09/11/2024

Painting is relaxing, ISN'T IT?!? 🤯🤯🤯

This is a painting commission for my friend from . This little big company specializes in translation and distribution of wargames into the Italian market. I contributed to Andrea's projects helping him with the revision of and now Maladum from .
This game continues their previous one (Core Space), being set in the same universe but with some fantasy vibes. It's a dungeon crawler with an emphasis on exploration and character development. You can even recruit bystander characters! It's a sort of glorified heroquest!

My deadline is at the end of November, just in time to have a demo box available for Milano Wargames 2024!

07/11/2024

If I go insane, you’ll know why. After what feels like a mountain of PLA dust, the sanding is finally done! Now I'm adding details like masegni (the flat stones that pave Venice’s streets), adding texture here and there with wall plaster, and sealing everything with PVA glue. The model’s design is clever, but of course, it was intended to be assembled at a scale one-third smaller. This has led to some serious challenges in keeping everything stable and making sure it can be disassembled and carried. Alignment has also been an issue; the tolerances between joints and parts—especially those I had to cut to make printing possible—are really putting up a fight. I'm actually considering making the whole model into just two parts, permanently attaching the central section to one of the bridge’s wings. This should allow me to carry everything within a reasonable amount of space (ha!) while keeping it sturdy.
Updates will follow, if I'm not brought to San Servolo 🤪🤪🤪

MilanoWargames I'm getting ready for you 💪💪


.paints .it

05/11/2024

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/monstersbtm/episodes/Venezia--la-carte-MAMMA-LI-TURCHI-e2qjt9p

Ragazzi siamo fuori con un nuovo podcast. E non si parla solo di carnevale 😎😎😎

edit: ho riuploadato tutto: nella precedente versione l'editing era andato a farsi benedire (misteri di riverside!). ora dovrebbe andare meglio. grazie per il feedback!!!

31/10/2024

Yesterday night at the mighty UCM fleet had been engaged by a raiding Bioficer Flotilla. We played just a handful of rounds (I didn't have much time, working on the night shift after!) but they were enough to give the right Dropfleet vibes to my opponent Michele. Bioficers confirmed to be extremely hard hitting but hard to master (those F/N arcs don't allow much room for mistakes) but UCM on the other hand proved to be very resilient. Even more if I don't roll below 4+ 🤣🤣
May I be proud of my fully painted fleets, on my new gaming mat and complementary wrecks and asteroids? ❤️❤️❤️

.it

30/10/2024

Monsters behind the Masks is not just ! These classic trolls are some of the best models ever made, imho. Extremely iconic and fun to paint. One of those recently won a Golden Demon too! Such endless sculpts ❤️
Now, what do you think about them? Are they going to join or fight my Gnome Army? 🤔🤔🤔



.paints

30/10/2024

May I say that imho this is an amazing ks?
Old school vibes? ✔️
Affordable terrain? ✔️
Tabletop ready? ✔️ ✔️ ✔️

(Ok, technically you still need to build all of that but.. come on! It's gorgeous!) 🤩🤩

26/10/2024

My friend Korhyl Miniatures is involved in a MASSIVE project! Big names of the industry like Tuomas Pirinen, Mike Franchina and many more are creating an exciting game (Trench Crusade, of course) that's going to be launched soon!
Best luck guys and congratulations to Marco to be onboard of this amazing project!

25/10/2024

In my last battle I committed a serious crime: I played with some unpainted models. Let's fix the mistakes of the past. I'm here to introduce you to two of the most talented Mascareri that you can find in Venice. Here there are Francisco De Lorne and Artisan Elena. Fear not the price of their masks: they worth every single ducat spent!

I bought these models like in May (omg) when together with and .it we organised a nice Ttcombat games themed day. Today is the day I painted them! (To be honest, there are still 3 left to be painted since I split the box with the excellent .paints: let's see what he's going to do with his Vatican Mascarer!)

24/10/2024

Yesterday night we had our Carnevale fix at Ultima Alleanza Wargame Padova ! My Gifted faced a Masquerade of Patricians led by my friend Alessandro in the mission "Chase them down" from the Patricians themed campaign, in the wake of a recently released episode of Guerre a Venezia -a little experiment in the Italian version of Monsters behind the Masks podcast. I wanted to try something different and get some experience in using the Mascareri and they weren't disappointing. Unfortunately my poor Gifted were steamrolled by the Patricians (I'm especially looking at you, Venetian Noble!🤬🤬) and so further gaming and testing is now required 😅

See you soon!

.it .it

24/10/2024

Can i say that I'm incredibly happy ttcommunity is back? Just the sheer *space* to write down good lord articles is invaluable. Social medias are fine, blogs and forums are better 😎😎 call me millennial pls

Enjoy this short story which expands our lore… We Will Have Order! Baris strode confidently across the deck of his ship as it docked in Le Arsenale. Checking that his … Continue reading "We Will Have Order – A Short Carnevale Story"