This is a model I bought some thirteen years ago and just sat there waiting to finally be completed.
the Mk I tank is a classic model and it represent the first step in tank development, on top of that, it was a lot of fun to paint.
This week we only have a couple of figures I painted for fantasy RPGs.
These are a few old Esci kits that IlVJ bought in Japan and put together during covid.
During my last visit he gave them to me, so I decided to paint them.
As with all other Esci stuff, they have a very high nostalgic vibe for us, so I could not let them sit unpainted for long.
A semi random bunch of WWII allied troops.
This is all I had to paint in term of WWII allied troops in 1/72 scale.
I am slowly going through my WWII stock, so I'm not really working on any specific project, just adding to my various armies.
These are the latest German vehicles I painted, a piece of artillery and some tank hunters.
This week we have a small selection of semi-random models I painted for use in Warzone and 40K games, mostly Warzone, since I haven't played a "proper" 40K game in years.
The idea was to have some generic troops to boost the numbers in my Warzone armies, but the mutants were more built and painted as generic troops that could be used in a chaos cult, a genestealer cult or some other for of evil/chaotic army or Warzone Dark Legion.
The "marines" can also be used as Coalition troops for a Rifts RPG.
I'm pretty happy how both units turned out, the marines are from RAFM and were given to me by my friend Cristian years ago, the others are rogue trader imperial guard bodies with early 2000 chaos mutations and marauders bits.
These are a few old school figures I painted recently, I had a bit of a historical whim, so I chose a few loose models that were not part of any ongoing project, they will just be added to the appropriate (if existing) army.
I got all of these in a trade for painting, and I mostly don't recognize the manufacturer, but they are nice old metal sculpts that will fit in my existing armies.
These are a few Early war WW2 German vehicles I painted recently.
These received an airbrush base coat last summer in the back yard, so under the direct sun light, they didn't seem so dark, in retrospect, I should have mixed a lighter tone of gray.
The Stugs also suffered from an accident, the enamel wash I used on them failed to reactivate when I needed to clean it up, so I had to heavily drybrush them to try and hide it.
Between the drybrush and the heavy weathering I managed to cover the mistake, I guess they are good enough for the tabletop.
This is a long awaited post, twelve years to be exact.
IlVJ started painting a few Napoleonic models that someone didn't like and gave to him in 2012, never one to shy away from a challenge, he put together and painted a unit of Bavarian line infantry from Hat Industries in 28mm.
At the time, in the club IlVJ was running, the West Tokyo Wargamers, people were getting in Black Powder with Napoleonics in 28mm and, as it always goes, someone would offer some models because they didn't like the faction, because it was an impulse buy, or some other reason.
With the idea of not getting too deep in the period, IlVJ decided to avoid buying anything and just use whatever model was available and instead of building an army, he would have one or two units to play in multi player games.
Rescuing other player's abandoned figures, receiving few gifts and buying literally a handful of figures, just over a decade later, he has almost 500 painted models to show off.
Here are the pictures of the last three units he completed and final shot of the whole collection).
