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

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.