domenica 17 marzo 2024

Battletech is back

In my effort to finish painting all the Battletech miniatures I accumulated over the past few years, here are 2 more mechs I just finished.

They will complete a lance of Draconis Combine 4th Arkab Legion I started a couple of years back (or more). I think these might be the very last Draconis Combine mechs I had to paint, the force is pretty huge by now and I doubt I will ever need more mechs for the DCMS.




Commando and Wasp of the 4yh Arkab Legion, in service to the dragon. 1/285, Ral Partha, painted by Ginzio


Lance of the 4th Arkab Legion


domenica 10 marzo 2024

Warhammer 40,000 Blood Angels chaplain

 This is a model I have owned for over 20 years, I figured it was time to paint it. 

It is a very simple model, but I really enjoyed painting it, it brought back memories of 40K second edition, the one I played the most and the one I have the best memories of.


Blood Angels chaplain. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio


domenica 3 marzo 2024

RPG animals

This week I only have a few little animals I painted for RPG and maybe wargames.

These are the kind of models I keep on the side of my painting area and when I have leftover of colours on the palette I paint parts of them, at some point I find they are done and I have extra bits and bobs to use in games with little to no effort, they might not be the best, but they get the job done on the table top.



Hounds. 25mm, Prince August, cast bu IlVJ, painted by Ginzio




Mountain lions. 28mm, Mantic games, painted by Ginzio
 

sabato 24 febbraio 2024

A few poieces of sci-fi terrain

These are a few pieces of sci-fi terrain I recently finished.

The Battletech buildings are made with orange juice bottle caps, I saw some similar ones online somewhere and it seemed such good idea, they took very little work and are very nice.

The pallets are from some note pads that a freight company gave us at work as promotional material, I just stuck some pipes and crates on them and gave them a quick paint job, pretty nice result.




Buildings for Battletech. 1/285, scratch built and painted by Ginzio




Pallets with crates. 28mm, scratch built and painted by Ginzio
 

domenica 18 febbraio 2024

More Warzone goodies

 These are a few more Warzone figures I finished recently.

The Cybertronic Chemiman was disappeared as a unit between the first and second edition of the game, I don't know if it was re-introduced in later editions, but I figured I could make up some rules for it or just use it as a Cuirassier, it is big and intimidating enough to pass for one.

The Sons of Rasputin are a nice faction from the Earth tribes, but I only have 5 models for them, let's hope I can find more in the future.


Cybertronic Chemiman. 28mm Heartbreaker, painted by Ginzio



Sons of Rasputin Shock Soldat. 28mm, Heartbreaker, painted by Ginzio



Sons of Rasputin Soldat Kommandant. 28mm, Heartbreaker, painted by Ginzio


Family picture


domenica 11 febbraio 2024

French Foreign Legion in 1/72 scale

 This is another set from Esci from those that my friend Felé gave me some years ago, it is not complete, but I still got two decent units in different styles of uniform.

These were a lot of fun and gave me an excuse to ready the Osprey book about this famous unit of the French army.


French Foreign Legion in Morocco (1908). 1/72, Esci, painted by Ginzio

 
French Foreign Legion in Madagascar (1900). 1/72, Esci, painted by Ginzio


domenica 4 febbraio 2024

Another project completed

 This is another project I am glad to have completed, it is not big in size, but it was a lot of work.

Samurai are, in my opinion, one of the most time consuming thing to paint, even if these guys are done with quickshade, they still took a long time to paint, and in a bigger scale they would be even worse.

Anyway, I'm happy to have completed them and now I have two small forces to play One Hour Wargame with.


RED ARMY

The army arrayed for battle

Samurai infantry with Daymio. 1/72, Zvezda and Caesar, painted by Ginzio

Samurai infantry. 1/72, Zvezda and Caesar, painted by Ginzio


Samurai cavalry. 1/72, Zvezda and Caesar, painted by Ginzio
 

Samurai cavalry. 1/72, Zvezda, painted by Ginzio

Hashigaru handgunners led by samurai.  1/72, Zvezda, painted by Ginzio


BLUE ARMY

The army arrayed for battle


Samurai infantry. 1/72, Zvezda and Caesar, painted by Ginzio


Samurai archers. 1/72, Zvezda and Caesar, painted by Ginzio


Samurai cavalry. 1/72, Zvezda, painted by Ginzio


Hashigaru with pikes. 1/72, Zvezda, painted by Ginzio

Ninjas. Samurai cavalry. 1/72, Caesar, painted by Ginzio

Civilians. 1/72, Caesar, painted by Ginzio


The two forces meet on the field of battle





domenica 28 gennaio 2024

A couple more characters of Slaanesh

 This week I have two more models for the forces of Slaanesh for Warhammer. Our Warhammer warbands campaign just concluded, these were the last two models I needed for the final game, so they skipped the line and got painted.



Mounted thug of Slaanesh. 28mm, Dixon Miniatures (almost certainly), paitned by Ginzio



Chaos sorcerer of Slaanesh. 28mm, Citadel miniatures, painted by Ginzio


domenica 21 gennaio 2024

Another Warzone figure

 This week another small step forward  in the Warzone project. I'm starting with the few loose models I got in my last trip to Sentry box in Calgary. I picked up all the models I didn't previously have that I could find, some of them, like the Lutheran of last Warzone post and the Imperial Head hunter of this post, were the only models I found of that specific faction, so I'm getting them "out of the way", before I start painting the units I will actually be able to use.

I happened to previously have traded a lone head hunter, so the model in this post will be part of the same squad, if I ever find more to add.


Imperial Head hunter chieftain. 28mm, Heartbreaker, painted by Ginzio



Imperial Head hunters. 28mm, Heartbreaker, painted by Ginzio


domenica 14 gennaio 2024

Reinforcements for Slaanesh

 I recently painted a few more models for my Slaanesh force to use in our Realms of Chaos campaign.

Last year IlVJ was given a few sprues of Mantic figures that he passed to me, the elves I found really ugly, so I tried to give them to someone to paint, but that person returned them to me since he didn't feel like painting them.

After leaving them in a box for a while, I decided I could use some dark elves for Slaanesh, to add more troops to the forces assaulting the city of Praag in our recent games, so the idea of painting these guys in the simplest possible way struck me and I thought that dark elves in black armour with brightly coloured shields would take no time to paint and look decent as Slaaneshi followers, so I forced myself and got these knocked out as quickly as possible.

The result is decent, as a couple of units they don't look too bad and, considering the very low effort required to get them on the table, they were worth a few nights of painting.








Dark Elves of Slaanesh, 28mm, Mantic games, painted by Ginzio


The other entry for this post is a special beastman or mutant of Slaanesh, a mix of spare parts found in my bits box in true old school Chaos style.



Slaangor, beastman of Slaanesh. 28mm, Citadel, converted and painted by Ginzio