Cohors Auxiliaria Arcana: Gun Team

A Gun Team join the pulp alley league "Cohors Auxiliaria Arcana":

[PA League] Cohors Auxiliaria Arcana

The pulp alley league is finally complete, here the last three legionaries.

ROMA VICTRIX!

 

Imperium Romanum
Legio II Traiana Fortis
Cohors Auxiliaria Arcana  14 slots
Perks (2): Companions (1), Garage (1)

Leader (0): Custodes Centurio
H d10 B 4d10 S 3d10 D 2d10 M 3d8 F 2d8 C 3d10
Abilities: Commander, Fierce, Armored
Weapon kit: Shotgun

Ally (2): Custodes Cataphractus
H d6 B 2d6 S 2d6 D 1d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 1d6
Ability: Armored
Weapon kits: Heavy and Submachine

Ally (2): Custodes Optio
H d6 B 3d6 S 2d6 D 1d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 1d6
Ability: Fierce, Armored
Weapon kit: Shotgun

Ally (2): Custodes Legionarius
H d6 B 2d6 S 3d6 D 1d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 1d6
Ability: Marksman, Armored
Weapon kit: Shotgun

Ally (2): Custodes Legionarius
H d6 B 2d6 S 3d6 D 1d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 1d6
Ability: Marksman, Armored
Weapon kit: Shotgun

Ally (2): Custodes Legionarius
H d6 B 2d6 S 3d6 D 1d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 1d6
Ability: Marksman, Armored
Weapon kit: Shotgun

Ally (2): Custodes Legionarius
H d6 B 2d6 S 3d6 D 1d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 1d6
Ability: Marksman, Armored
Weapon kit: Shotgun

Models: 7 figures

Custodes Cataphractus

The Custodes Cataphractus join the pulp alley league, now I must paint three more legionaries and maybe a legionary Gun Team:

Custodes Optio

A Custodes Optio (in the left) and a Custodes Legionarius (yet painted many months ago) join the Custodes Centurio. The Pulp Alley league is growing.

Custodes Centurio

Finally, I'm painting the other miniatures of the 193X Pulp Alley league "Cohors Auxiliaria Arcana". Here the leader, the "Custodes Centurio":

Corazza Zaino-Razzo Caproni Campini N.0 NC4848

Capitan Littorio and his RS33 Secret weapon: Corazza Zaino-Razzo Caproni Campini N.0 NC4848 (Italian Para Drop Armour Caproni Campini N.0 NC4848 Jet Pack)

  

It is Ispired by the real italian thermojet Caproni Campini N.1 (1940) ;)

[PA League] LEGIO PROMETHEUS Gabinetto RS/33

Here my third PA league I've painted last year.

It's a 193X Weird Wars league of italians, to search for unknown and mysterious artifacts from alien, occult or ancient origin.

Background:
The GABINETTO Ricerche Speciali anno 1933 (Cabinet Special Researches 1933 year), in charge of collecting, investigating and suppressing UFO data, was founded in 1933 on orders from Il Duce Mussolini, after a crashed disc aircraft of unknown origin was recovered from Lombardia. Gabinetto RS/33 have links with the Fascist secret police OVRA and with "Agenzia Stefani," the regime's news agency in charge of disseminating Fascist propaganda. Italys most famous scientist and inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, is the director of the Cabinet, which also include several other prominent Italian astronomers, scientists and aeronautical engineers. Marconi believe that alien life existe on Mars and that contact with the “Martians” would be possible from powerful radio transmissions. Some of the most important researches are about the Death Ray, flying saucers, flying Wing and first Jet aicraft Campini-Caproni C.C.2.
One of the best field agents of Gabinetto RS/33 is the loyal ex "Moschettiere del Duce" Benito Littorio Volpe that formed a special team the LEGIO PROMETHEUS in 1937, the same year when suddendly Marconi died.

more informations here:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/MUSSOLINI%20FIAT%20RIVA%20DEL%20GARDA%20DISC.htm

I enjoyed to do some research about italian interwar secret weapons. I was sure that Italy had some urban legends too, and Gabinetto RS/33 seem an excellent base for any weird wars ideas. There are many strange secrets in Italy, not just from alien or secret weapons, but from occult or mysterious sources too.

here some informations about italian secret weapons:
http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php/12015-Italian-secret-weapons-Marconi-s-death-ray-and-Belluzzo-s-flying-saucer

Captain Dante Littorio Volpe nickname "Capitan Littorio" and his bodyguard of paratroopers with power armor, painted with the paint scheme of the elite italian paratroopers in Africa:

Capitan Littorio and his sidekick lieutenant Giulietta Bellucci nickname "Belladonna"

 Sergeant Galeazzo Musolesi

 I used an Artizan miniature, including a new helmet and a little conversion on the jacket.
He is based on the character of Galeazzo Musolesi, from the italian "Sturmtruppen" comic
Here the original character:

The Ascari Eritrei (eritrean colonial soldiers)

Camicie Nere (Blackshirts) with colonial uniforms

 Gun Team of Blackshirts

modified CV/35 tankette

The LEGIO PROMETHEUS of Capitan Littorio 

Perk (3): Bastion of Scienze, Garage

Leader (0): Centurione (Captain) Dante Littorio Volpe nickname "Capitan Littorio"
H d10 B 3d10 S 4d10 D 3d10 M 2d8 F 2d8 C 4d10
Abilities: Commander, Clever, Marksman

Sidekick (3): Capo Manipolo (Liutenant) Giulietta Bellucci nickname "BellaDonna"
H d8 B 3d6 S 3d8 D 3d8 M 2d8 F 2d6 C 2d6
Abilities: Quick Shot, Sharp

x2 Allies (4): Camicie Nere Scelte (Corporals) (Paride Lupo, Vittorio Re)
H d8 B 1d6 S 2d6 D - M 2d8 F - C 1d6
Ability: Big

x5 Gang (2): Camicie Nere (Blackshirts)
Capo Squadra (Sergeant) Filippo Bongioanni
Legionari (Soldiers) (Antonio Fortunato, Giuseppe Berardo, Giovanni Guerzoni, Filippo Tecchio)
H - B 3d6 S 3d6 D 1d6 M 3d6 F 1d6 C 1d6
Ability: Armed

x5 Gang (2): Ascari Eritrei
H - B 3d6 S 3d6 D 1d6 M 3d6 F 1d6 C 1d6
Ability: Loyal

Models: 14 figures

[PA League] Red Ribbon Army

My second Pulp Alley league I painted last year. The first idea was to have an anonymous force of DAK germans trying to stop the good guys from my Baker Expeditions. Then later I chose to paint them as the Red Ribbons from the old Dragonball anime.

Maybe a korp of interwar germans searching to mysterious artifacts (not the dragon balls however ) or maybe initially a german group but now a worldwide organization that want to conquest the world, much like the Hydra during IIWW

Red Ribbon Army, Blue Korp 14 slots
Perk (3): Eagle Eyed Troopers

Leader (0): Captain Ranka Schiffer
H d10 B 3d10 S 4d10 D 3d10 M 3d10 F 2d8 C 2d8
Abilities: Commander, Marksman, Quick Shot

Sidekick (3): Liutenant Klaus Adonis Schiffer
H d8 B 3d8 S 3d6 D 3d8 M 2d8 F 2d6 C 2d6
Abilities: Hardened Veteran, Muscle of Steel

x2 Allies (4): Soldat
H d6 B 2d6 S 1d6 D 2d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 1d6
Ability: Burst Fire

x2 Allies (4): Soldat
H d6 B 1d6 S 3d6 D 2d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 1d6
Ability: Marksman

Models: 6 figures

"Cohors Auxiliaria Arcana" Eastern Roman Empire League

I was yet planning to create a 193X alternative history Eastern Roman Empire Pulp Alley league and now I should finally begin:

193X borders of the Empire.

West Roman Empire fell in V century, however East Roman Empire (byzantines) survived and didn't fall from the turks in XV century, the East Roman Empire survived with about the size of the middle XI century until the 1918. During the WWI the Empire joined the Allied powers and finally reconquested the ottoman remains, recovering all its lost provinces. In 193X, the Empire is a powerful and advanced nation, and the new Emperor think it could be finally the time for the Empire to reconquest ALL the lost provinces of the West. After the victories of the WWI the official language is latin again (but most citizen speak their native languages: greek, arab, turkish, slavic etc), and the imperial forces and citizen use a style of ancient roman look but with modern western style.
The Cohors Auxiliaria Arcana is a special legion with the target to investigate and solve all the mysteries from alien, ancient or magical origins outside and inside the Empire.

Imperium Romanum Cohors Auxiliaria Arcana  14 slots
Perks (2): Companions (1), Garage (1)

Leader (0): Custodes Centurio
H d10 B 4d10 S 3d10 D 2d10 M 3d8 F 2d8 C 3d10
Abilities: Commander, Fierce, Brute

Ally (2): Custodes cataphractus
H d8 B 2d6 S 1d6 D - M 2d8 F - C 1d6
Ability: Burst Fire, Big

Ally (2): Custodes Optio
H d6 B 3d6 S 2d6 D 1d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 2d6
Ability: Fierce, Brute

Ally (2): Custodes Legionarius
H d6 B 2d6 S 3d6 D 1d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 2d6
Ability: Marksman, Sharp

Ally (2): Custodes Legionarius
H d6 B 2d6 S 3d6 D 1d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 2d6
Ability: Marksman, Sharp

Ally (2): Custodes Legionarius
H d6 B 2d6 S 3d6 D 1d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 2d6
Ability: Marksman, Sharp

Ally (2): Custodes Legionarius
H d6 B 2d6 S 3d6 D 1d6 M 1d6 F 1d6 C 2d6
Ability: Marksman, Sharp

I will use the Urban War Junkers miniatures.

Here the first Legionary I painted: