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Compressional inversion of former extensional sedimentary basins is a particularly common phenomenon, given that passive margins share the same destiny of being subsequently incorporated into fold-and-thrust belts. During basin inversion pre-existing faults may concentrate stress and localise future thrust ramps, or may be reactivated recording reversal of movement from extension to reverse. This process has attracted attention largely because of its economic implications related to petroleum and ore deposit prospects, and seismic hazard assessment. Since more than two decades, analogue modelling has been used to indentify and/or test a number of parameters relevant for the inversion process. This paper aims therefore to offer a reasoned review of the analogue modelling work done on the subject, coupling such previous results with those of a new experimental series inspired to the Northern Apennines …