The largest diorama/war game I have ever seen

Some 45 years ago a group of modellers set up a wargame club in Milano and rend a flat where they started playing huge games. As you may see from the pic the game occupied the floor of the whole flat and included sea,canals, rivers, villages and countryside of course. 

The pics were shown in an article of a weekly magazine published in Milano. The club was domiciliated in the same place, nearby the State University. I was 12 at the time and these pictures ignited my passion for modelling and war game. Although we are in the very early days of accurate models you may notice some fairly interesting stuff, not just too simple products.

Some of these seem the very wellknown Airfix produts, ie Sherman, Quad, M3, but the others seem well detailed and I have struggled since then to find out who were the manufacturer(s).

It is noticeable the almost total absence of figures, apart from very few, like the couple of Aifix soldiers (ex 8th Army box) looking for mines.

I also thought some vehicles could be 1:87 by Roco but they go along too well with the Airfix ones as there is not hardly any difference in terms of scale...

Probably some of the stuff, like the Landing Crafts  must have been scratch built.

They also used some tools, like the compass pictured here above, to calculate distances and the span of vehicles' hops.

Interestingly the leader or one of the leaders of the team of passionate people that realized all this wrote a book in Italian with their wargame rules. I still have a copy of the book which was probably published somethimes in the early 70s