The most famous of all dwarves

 This week we have a special model, it is one of the White Dwarf versions one could get with the magazine subscriptions.

IlVJ gave it to me years ago (I don't recall which year it was given out). It it a finecast model, so not great to work with, but it didn't have too many imperfections.

Since it was just standing on a treasure chest, I decided to do something a little more interesting with it, and gave him a boar to ride on, more pirate-y in my opinion.

He would be a nice table decoration if I ever get a chunk of sea on a board.

Pirate Grombrindal. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

The last units for DBA

 This post celebrates a big goal, these are the last DBA models in 1/72 scale I own, with this lot all the ancient stuff I ever had is done, some of them (the Samnite cavalry) go back to probably 2005 or 2006.

Now the collection of ancient models in 1/72 totals 737 models and allows us (mostly me, IlVJ lost interest in DBA long ago) to cover the most common Ellenistic and Classical period armies with Greeks, Macedonians, Tracians, Carthaginians, Gauls, Romans, Hispanics and few more.

I can consider this period covered in this scale and move forward with colonial, Napoleonic and modern era troops.

Gallic noble and light cavalry. 1/72, Italeri, painted by Ginzio

Roman late republican legionaries. 1/72, Italeri, painted by Ginzio

Samnite cavalry. 1/72, Hat Industries, painted by Ginzio

A pile of garbage

 This week I have a very weird and ugly model.

In the current developments of the Chaos warbands campaign I'm playing with a small group of friends, Cyrus' champion of Khorne (currently a human/troglodyte hybrid) received a juggernout of Khorne to ride into battle.

Sourcing one up is actually a problem, the currently available one from GW is huge, very expensive ($70 in Canada) and would not fit with the general look of our games (this is a minor concern, Finecast and exorbitant cost are the real concerns).

I went raiding in my bits box and after some digging started building one from scrap. The result is one of the ugliest things I've ever put together, but with a decent paint job it is acceptable (barely).

The person who will be using ig had a good laugh when he saw it and said it was actually pretty good, considering it was made with the very end of my available bits, but I'll let you be judges and see what you thing about it.

Mutated champion of Khorne on Juggernout. 28mm, bits from Citadel, Fujimi, Trumpeter, Heartbreaker, Mantic, Iron Wind Metals, Old Glory, converted and painted by Ginzio

Joseph Bugman, a very important dwarf

 This week we have more special dwarves, specifically two versions of the Joseph Bugman's miniature available at the pub at Games Workshop HQ in Nottingham.

I got these from a friend who visited the pub in two different occasions and was so kind to gift them to me, it took me ages to paint them, but I'm happy with the results.

Appropriately enough, I also have some dwarven casualties, but most of them look like they actually succumbed to alcohol rather than battle wounds. 

Dwarf casualties, the left one is part to the mid 80s Bugman Rangers, the right hand one is part of King Ulther's Imperial Dwarfs. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Jopseph Bugman, as far as I know this was the first version available at the pub. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Joseph Bugman, this should be the second version available, it had an optional axe instead of the stool, but in my opinion he looks much cooler and menacing swinging a stool. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio