The unit is slowly coming along, I hope to finish it this week, for now this is one more knight I completed, with the remaining three well on their way to be done.
There is also a partial unit picture.
This week I only have a single knight for the unit I posted last week.
There are another 4 on the go, one being painted by my fiancée, the other three I just started, but I was then distracted by other stuff and some real life events.
This one is the standard bearer, same model as one of the previous post, but with an added flag to lead the unit into charges.
This week we have a small and late post, I'm working on a new unit, a small cavalry unit made up of old Ral Partha knights with the addition of a couple of extra pieces that I got in a trade, they are crusader like knights of some unknown manufacturers, but they fit with the Ral Partha ones.
The unit will be used in my Warhammer Bretonnian army 3rd edition "Noblesse d'epèe", basic human knights. There are a total of eight models in the unit, but I might be able to add a couple of older Grenadier models that should fit in as well.
These are the first three I completed so far, they are surprisingly long to finish, so I'm taking my time.
Hello everybody, as usual, on the last day of the year I like to post about the year and tally up how many figures I painted.
I'll start by saying that this was kind of a strange one, after 9 years spent in Canada, I decided to move back to Italy, mostly to help my aging parents.
This meant a move across the Atlantic, an experience I would not wish to anyone.
I moved at the beginning of August, which meant I stopped painting figures of my own few months before that, since it is much easier to move unpainted models, I tried not to add any more to the ones I already had.
So the total of painted miniatures for myself in 2025, is quite a bit lower than that of the last few years.
I painted a lot of stuff for friends before leaving Canada, so that brought the grand total up quite a bit, but as usual, I am more concerned about my own stuff.
After all these considerations, it is time to get to the numbers:
Things that I painted for myself:
- 28mm fantasy RPG large creatures: 3
- 28mm fantasy Warhammer infantry models: 36
- 28mm fantasy Warhammer mounted models: 3
- 28mm fantasy Warhammer large creatures: 2
- 28mm historical infantry models: 11
- 28mm Sci-fi Warhammer 40,000/Warzone infantry models: 5
- 28mm Sci-fi Warhammer 40,000/Warzone large creatures: 5
- 28mm Sci-fi RPG infantry models: 5
- Epic scale 40,000 infantry stands: 51
- 1/285 Battletech mechs: 12
- 1/285 Battletech vehicles: 3
- 1/72 historical infantry models: 50
- 1/72 WWII vehicles: 2
- 1/72 WWII guns: 2
- 1/35 WWII infantry: 6
- 75mm historical figurines: 1
- various scales terrain pieces: 21
This adds up to a total of 218 models, about half of what I managed last year. Compared to the production of the last few years if is a vary small number, but given the situation I guess it's still decent.
For other people I painted the following models:
- 28mm fantasy RPG infantry models: 69
- 28mm fantasy RPG large creatures: 10
- 28mm fantasy RPG small creatures: 4
- 28mm fantasy RPG mounted models: 3
- 28mm fantasy Warmachines/Hordes infantry models: 6
- 28mm historical infantry models: 42
- 28mm sci-fi/40K large models: 3
- 15mm WWII infantry stands: 6
- 15mm WWII guns: 30
- 15mm WWII tanks: 161
- no scale Warhammer Man'O'War ships: 6
- 28mm fantasy historical Silver Bayonet infantry: 19
- 1/285 Battletech mechs: 12
This adds up to a total of 371 models, about 15 more than last year.
The grand total for 2025 is then 589 models, roughly 25% less than last year, overall an acceptable loss due to months of inactivity due to the move.
Let's see what 2026 will bring.
A very happy new year to all my readers and I'll see you in January with new posts of painted miniatures.
Cheers!
This is a couple of figures I just finished refurbishing from Tsuchiya San collection.
These had been disassembled and I had to put them back together, fill the joints and touch up the paint.
The salamander crew had already been touched up and posted in a previous post, now the team is complete. I had to repaint the salamander completely because the paint was very damaged, that's why it took so long to complete.
This is the latest addition to my small Byzantine army, something that started with a couple of random old Citadel packs that Dave gave me years ago.
Last year he found a whole box of sealed old packs and gave them all to me for painting.
Now I found myself working on a small Byzantine army composed of almost exclusively old Citadel models.
Over the time I also collected some Ral Partha infantry and a decent amount of Price August Vikings to use as Varangian guard, so I should end up with a decent sized (for WAB or other small-ish size game) army.
This is a unit of slingers I prepared in Canada before the move and managed to get painted only recently. I have another 12 slingers to paint, but at the moment I only found 10 of them and will have to wait until I finish unpacking everything from the shipment from Canada to find the remaining 2 models, then I'll finish painting them all.
The remainder of the army will include two units of heavy infantry, more skirmishers, a decent unit fo heavy cavalry, one of cataphracts and few light horse.
I'm looking forward to painting more of these figures, I'll keep you posted with the progress in 2026.
Hello everyone, this week we have the first part of a mini project I started before leaving Canada and that I will hopefully manage not to drag too long.
Painting for my friend Dave, I traded a lot of old miniatures over the years, amongst others, a batch of 49 Ral Partha orcs sculpted by Tom Meyer in 25mm.
They are very small for modern standard, but they are great figures and a unit of 49 will look spectacular.
For gaming purposes I can also split it into two smaller 24 model units that will be more manageable on the table.
This is the first batch of 9, I have 6 more painted somewhere, but I'm still working my way through the pallet of stuff I shipped from Canada and I haven't found them yet.
This is what I have based and ready, the rest will come soon.
This week I have something unusual, a 75mm historical figure.
Once in a while it is fun to do something different from the usual. This is a XV century jousting knight (minus the horse).
It is from Amati Models, a good friend of mine used to work there as a sculptor and designer and got a whole bunch of old models as samples and examples for future works.
I ended up with a few of them and when I feel I need a palate cleanser I can paint one.
This was relatively simple, but the striped lance was very challenging. I took it as an exercise to practice straight lines, the result is not the best, but good enough for what I'm concerned, looking at the model from a few feet distance it looks good.
Hello everyone, this is the third and last post about the stuff I got from my friend Luca.
It is a beautiful selection of dungeon furniture from Metal Magic. I remember looking at this collection on the catalogue in the 90s and thinking I didn't have enough money for dungeon furniture, what little I had had to go into "soldiers" to build armies.
Now I was lucky enough to receive all this as a gift, so I gave everything a quick touch up and I'm going to use if in my next D&D session.
This is the second batch of models that I received from Luca and that I restored.
These are a few D&D models, old Ral Partha and Citadel pre-slotta pieces that I really enjoyed fixing up. The two Three-Kreen I would not have painted green, but that's how they came and I wanted to keep the models in the colours they were originally painted in.
