@cminke:
@Most:
I checked with Allwork earlier if it was OK to post the pics here, he’s a tremendous influence on all of us that paint these, I can’t wait to see his German infantry. I’m painting the Italians now. I have them almost done I just have to paint the bases. I’m going with the three gun flag for mine, I hate painting circles :wink:
there not guns their called fascists. and it’s a bundle of sticks w/ a ax in the middle.
It’s “fasces”, actually…. during the Roman Empire they were a symbol of office carried into the Roman Senate to indicate that the Senate was in session. Mussolini adopted them as an emblem to represent his “reestablishment” of Italian authority and the new Roman Empire. The word “fascist” came fom the use of the emblem.
(Dang… the things that stick in your head 40+ years after Latin classses! :roll: )
Still easier to paint than that roundel, however. :-D