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

IlVJ is back on track

 It looks like IlVJ is back painting again, here are some more figures I recently finished.

He is still working on the Africa Pulp/Call of Cthulhu project, we will hopefully be able to field these figures in some game soon.

A witch doctor, a Svelte woman warrior and an unmarried Zulu. 28mm, Ral Partha and Wargames Foundry

The lost tribe, cavemen. 28mm, Copplestone castings and Wargames Foundry. 

IlVJ paints again

 This week a special post, my brother finished painting something after almost two years.

Time for great celebrations. He has not been completely inactive on the hobby side of things, but he didn't get much done in terms of painting, but it looks like he finally found his motivation again and completed a set of Wargames Foundry Pygmies he started over two years ago.

These will be used of his African skirmish/RPG project, last summer he had a game of the call of Cthulhu that involved a miniatures scenario with our friend Luca as a GM.

The tribe chieftain, his wife and bodyguard. 28mm, Wargames Foundry, painted by IlVJ.

The main fighting force of the tribe consisting exclusively of stealthy archers. 28mm, Wargames Foundry, painted by IlVJ.

A few RPG miniatures

 This week we have a small post, but with some good miniatures.

First a group of antmen, they are old models from Ral Partha that I got in a trade for some painting, I pdinted them purple to make them a bit more interesting and gave them zebra shields for the same reason.

They re pretty small, but would make for an interesting encounter.

The second one is a cleric of chaos from Citadel Miniatures, it is a pre-slotta model from the early 80s, I really enjoyed painting it and I look forward to use him as an adversary in my D&D campaign.

Ant men hunting party. 25mm, Ral Partha, painted by Ginzio

Cleric of Chaos. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Warhammer Bretonnian war altar and guards

In Warhammer 3rd edition the army of Bretonnia could include a war altar.

I always had a soft spot or war altars, as a kid, playing Warhammer 3rd edition, I tried to scratch build a Nurgle altar, inspired by the amazing one by Ivan Bartleet (you can see it here), but my 16 years old skill level didn't allow for a great result.

Roll forward 32 years, I decided to try again, this time with a Bretonnian one.

The army list entry allows for a wagon to carry the altar, as well as a maximum of 5 altar guards with heavy armour and halberds, so that's what I aimed for. I realized later that I should have given it a big banner as one with magical properties can also be added, but the model was compete, so it will have to do without.

The guards are from Grenadier models, I recently acquired them in a trade, they are quite chunky, but I like the models quite a bit.

Bretonnian war altar on wagon with altar guards. 28mm, scratch built with Old Glory horses and Grenadier miniatures guards, painted by Ginzio

WWII 8ty army British armour

 These are the last two 1/48 models that IlVJ gifted me a couple of years ago.

They are part of my (very slowly) ongoing Bolt Action project to give my Afrika Korp an opponent.

So far I have collected 3 Tamiya 1é48 models and I will, at some point, add a box of plastic Warlord or Perry miniatures infantry.

I wouuld prefer the Perry figures, my Germans are Perry and I think it would be nice to have the Brits in the same style, but we'll see.

Here are a recce unit and a tank to support my still non existent infantry platoon.

Daimler Dingo scout car. 1/48, Tamiya, painted by Ginzio.

Infantry tank Matilda Mk II. 1/48, Tamiya, painted by Ginzio.

Few new recruits for my Oldhammer Khorne army

 I just finished half a dozen Chaos dwarfs of Khorne, these are WOTC models released for their Chainmail game of the early 2000, they looked mean enough that I decided to paint them as chaos dwarfs, to use in my warbands games and eventually add them to my Warhammer Khorne army, I will need to add 2 to the unit and I'll use them as either crossbowmen, or I'll house rule something for chaotic thunderers, it makes sense that Khorne would use gun powder weapons.

Chaos dwarfs of Khorne with gunpowder weapons. 28mm, WOTC, painted by Ginzio

A couple of Mordhaim Middenhaimer

 A small post while I try to take photos of other stuff I recently finished.

This week I have a couple of Middenhaim mercenaries for Mordhaim, nothing crazy, but they are nice figures that I will be able to use for multiple games.

Middenhaim mercenaries with wolf pelts. 28mm Citadel Miniatures, painted by Ginzio

Warhammer Orcs and goblins baggage "wagons"

 These are two resin reptiles from the I-kore game Void that a friend of mine casted in plaster.

I had them kicking around for quite a while and I finally decided to turn them into orcs and goblins baggage "wagons", or more correctly: beasts of burden.

One mainly carries construction lumber and some weapons, the second one is loaded with all sort of munitions and weapons looted from the opposition.

I like these models a lot, they have a good amount of orciness and will definitely see some use on the table.

Orcs and goblins baggage train beasts of burden. 28mm, I-Kore, converted and painted by Ginzio

New mini project started

 These are the first few models of a kind of mini project I have started working on.

I always like the idea introduced in Warhammer 3rd edition, to have a baggage train for my armies and always had in mind to collect of build some wagons and baggage followers as described in the rulebooks.

I finally decided it was time to build some, so with a few leftover horses and random figures I started working on the wagons. 

At the same time IlVJ sent me some figures he had cast with Prince August molds and I also have a few of the train followers I wanted.

These first models are all humans, so they could be used for both Bretonnia and Empire armies.

In this post we have a wizard wagon, I imagine carrying all the spell components and summoning supplies the army might need and pulled by some exotic creature the wizard has bound to his will. The other 2 models are the Prince August I mentioned above, they are supposedly dungeon hirelings, but I think they fit well in the baggage train carrying around bags of supplies or unloading wagons.

Wizard wagon pulled by a carnivorous bird. 25mm, Ral Partha, RAFM and Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Baggage train porters. 25mm, Prince August, painted by Ginzio

PS: I will be on holiday for the next three weeks and I'll go back to visit the family in Italy, so there won't be any posting for that period, I'll be back blogging as soon as I get back.