Oldhammer Elves

 This week another small unit from IlVJ, some Marauder sea elves he painted quite a while ago, but never got around to take pictures of.

He will proceed with the re-painting of his old elves army, with some new additions. The plan is to paint the models in colours that will allow most of them to be used as wood, high or sea elves.

This is the first group of 6, some were released as sea elf wardancers, others as sea elf warriors, he is grouping them all together since the sculpting and details are common and work well together.

Sea elf warriors. 28mm, Marauder Miniatures, painted by IlVJ

A couple of old school RPG miniatures

 Today we have a couple of figures that IlVJ started probably two years ago and he finally got around to complete.

They are both pretty old miniatures, one from Ral Partha, the other from the Conan TSR range.

The TSR miniatures are famously ugly, but they have some kind of old school charm.

Alchemist. 28mm Ral Partha, painged by IlVJ.

Thoth Amon, evil sorcerer and enemy of Conan. 25mm, TSR, painted by IlVJ

Another Battletech post

 I just finished a couple of lances in a livery that I always wanted to try, the St. Ives Janissaries.

It is a fascinating unit that, depending on the era, can be fielded with or against the Capellan Cinfederation, and it has a very striking colour ombination.

Overall this couple of lances turned out quite well, the only thing I'm not very satisfied with is the decal on the Awesome shoulder, it was too thick and it didn't conform to the panel lines, so it looks a bit too flat.

St. Ives Janissaries: Cyclops, Awesome, Atlas, Cataphract, Zeus, Assassin, Axeman and Archer. 1/285, Ral Partha, painted by Ginzio

Awesome shoulder detail.

Bettletech mercenary lance

 This is my latest mercenary lance. Many years ago I painted a Warhammer 40,000 Howling Griffons army. I was recently thinking how that same paint scheme would look on battlemechs, so I gave it a try and I'm pretty happy with the result.

It still takes ages to paint and yellow is still a very hard colour to paint properly, so a single lance is more than enough, I won't be painting more in this scheme.

Stinger LAM, Cyclops, King Crab and Assassin mercenary mechs. 1/285, Ral Partha, painted by Ginzio
 

Bretonnian retainers

 This week we have a new infantry unit of retainers for my Bretonnian army. The unit is composed of old (1977) Ral Partha spearmen with a Old Glory command group.

The miniatures are very rough, the spearmen practically don't have hay face detail and the Old Glory command group have quite soft details themselves, but they were very quick to paint and as a unit they look pretty good.

I'm looking forward to using them in a game.

Bretonnian retainers with spears. 28mm, Ral Partha and Old Glory, painted by Ginzio

A warband for IlVJ

 It looks like IlVJ will be playing some Realms of Chaos warbands games in Japan, so he put together a warband of Khorne to fight it out.

Here are pictures of the first version of the warband, since the game brings new followers at almost every game, it will surely grow in the future.

The warband of Khorne in all its glory.

A human champion of Khorne, he was a citizen of the Empire before he was corrupted and pledged alliance to the Throne of Skulls. 28mm, Ral Partha, painted by IlVJ.

A group of beastmen joined the champion on his adventures, one of them suddenly turning into a spawn of chaos with the semblance of a fly. 28mm, Grenadier and Ral Partha, painted by IlVJ

A group of undead (they count as skeletons in the game) has been awarded to the champion by Khorne himself. 28mm, Grenadier, Ral Partha and Metal Magic, painted by IlVJ

One more Warzone post

 These are the last Warzone miniatures I had in Canada, there are still about 20 in Italy, so they'll have to wait until I go back.

These are the Templars Tribe of the Earth, I really enjoyed painting them. The whole idea of the tribes of abandoned mutant humans on polluted Earth is really cool and I'm very happy I found some of these models to paint and possibly play with.

Unfortunately the shit of these guys turned out a bit chalky, I had run out of white so I tried to use a craft paint instead, which turned out not to be a great idea, but they are still ok for the tabletop.

Templar Gendarmes. 28mm, Heartbreaker, painted by Ginzio

Templar horde standard bearer. 28mm, Heartbreaker, painted by Ginzio

Templars horde troopers. 28mm, Heartbreaker, painted by Ginzio

A group photo

Final post of 2024 with tally of painted figures.

 Here we are again, another year is ending and it's time to do some math and see how much stuff has been painted in 2024.

It was overall a good year for painting, I completed a few projects, I started a couple new ones and I got a step closer to painting all I have, even though I did acquire some new stuff through trades and painting, but I did not buy any new model, which is a good thing.

Let's get on with the count:

Things that I painted for myself:

- 28mm fantasy RPG infantry models: 8

- 28mm fantasy RPG small creatures: 2

- 28mm fantasy Warhammer infantry models: 89

- 28mm fantasy Warhammer mounted models: 2

- 28mm fantasy Warhammer large creatures: 1

- 28mm fantasy Warhammer chariots and wagons: 4

- 28mm historical infantry models: 1

- 28mm historical mounted models: 3

- 28mm Sci-fi Warhammer 40,000/Warzone infantry models: 80

- 28mm Sci-fi Warhammer 40,000/Warzone large creatures: 3

- Epic scale 40,000 infantry stands: 6

- Epic scale 40,000 vehicles: 6

- 1/285 Battletech mechs: 6

- 1/72 historical infantry models: 168

- 1/72 historical mounted models: 10

- 1/72 WWII infantry models: 65

- 1/72 WWII vehicles: 17

- 1/72 WWII guns: 1

- 1/48 WWII vehicles: 3

- 1/35 WWII vehicles: 1

- 1/72 Cold war era vehicles: 3

- 1/48 modern vehicles: 1

- various scales terrain pieces: 5

- non scale Japanese character: 1

This adds up to a total of 485 models, this is quite a bit less than last year, but since I decided to move back to Italy in the summer on 2025, I decided I could paint more for my friends and less for myself, that will help make the move less traumatic, I hope...

For other people I painted the following models:

- 28mm fantasy RPG infantry models: 100

- 28mm fantasy RPG large creatures: 29

- 28mm fantasy RPG small creatures: 8

- 28mm fantasy RPG mounted models: 1

- 28mm fantasy Warhammer infantry models: 5

- 28mm fantasy Warmachines/Hordes infantry models: 6

- 28mm fantasy Warmachines/Hordes large models: 12

- 28mm historical infantry models: 60

- 28mm historical mounted models: 30

- 28mm WWII infantry models: 10

- 15mm WWII infantry stands: 76

- 15mm WWII guns: 6

- 32mm Star Wars legion infantry models: 2

- various scale terrain pieces: 11

This adds up to a total of 356 models, which, added to my personal total is a grand total of 841 models painted in 2024, this is about 20 less than last year, so I'd consider it the same, it is less than a 3% difference, so I still consider it a very good year.

2025, with an intercontinental move will probably be less productive, but we will see. All in all I'm happy about this year's production, I put another big dent in the collection and the idea of painting everything I own within the next 10-15 years appears plausible, wish me luck.

Warzone Dark Legion troops

 This weed a few more Dark Legion troops for Warzone.

These are a unit of Destroyers and a loose Destroyer leader for a future unit of Sacristans for which I only have an HMG trooper at the moment.

Dark Legion Destroyers. 28mm, Heartbreaker, painted by Ginzio

Dark Legion Destroyer commander. 28mm, Heartbreaker, painted by Ginzio

Old School Warhammer 40,000

 Last year I got some Rogue Trader era imperial guard models as a trade for painting. They were mostly assembled, some had bits missing and others had goofy "conversions" made by the original owner, I tried to fix them as best I could and painted them in my planned desert yellow colour.

Since the equipment was kind of random (LOTS of lascannons), I could not make a complete squad, but I gave them markings so that I'll be able to complete them in 3 units with the lot I have in Italy once I go back.

For now I have the beginning of three squads, here they are:

Two members of first squad (blue and red), tactical squad. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Two members of second squad (blue and yellow), tactical squad. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Eight members of third squad (blue and green), support squad. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio