IlVJ has finished few more figures for his Realm of Chaos Khorne warband, a few goblins with bows, led by a chieftain with mustache.
Very nice oldhammd models sculpted by Bob Olley, Tom Meyer and Kev Adams, all classic and excellent sculpts.
I painted the last two miniatures I'll do in Canada before the move. I won't call these the last Canadian miniatures ever because one can never know, but they are the last for now.
I acquired these two guys in a lot I traded for some painting and, since I had a unit of 23 spearmen, adding these two to make it 25 strong seemed just the right thing to do.
They are orcs from the Fantasy Warriors boxed game, a Warhammer like game produced by Grenadier Models in the mid 90s, a pretty good game, but it could never (for obvious reasons) compete with the heavy weight of fantasy wargaming.
I painted orange and will use them as hobgoblin mercenaries.
There were 7 or 8 more in the lot, but I sent them to my brother, I don't think I need to paint more of these guys.
As hoped, IlVJ finished another long time coming small project.
He finished the Nightmare Legion, a Warhammer third edition Regiment of Renown that beloged to our friend Cesku when we were teenagers.
He added a similar looking champion to bring the unit to 25 models, a nice large block of skeleton spearmen to fend off the enemy.
He went for a classic red and black colour scheme that looks really striking.
The time has finally come for me to move back to Italy.
I am currently packing all my stuff and getting ready to fly back in august. For this reason I'm not going to be painting any more of my stuff, it is much easier to move unpainted models than painted ones, so I'll still be painting for my friends, but not for myself.
If IlVJ finishes something I will surely post it, but on my end there will probably be nothing until September.
I hopepeople won't loose interest and still come to visit the Owl Bear's Lair when I get back to posting.
Cheers everyone, see you soon
This is another 80s Esci set that I was given by my friend Felè that I finally got around to paint and base for use with One hour Wargames rules.
I had previously painted the Muslim warriors set from Esci and now I can finally play games using these figures.
They will be small affairs, but it is all about the nostalgia e having a game that we could only dream of when we were kids in the 80s.
These are the first actual figures I completed for my long announced 1/35 scale skirmish project.
It took me quite a while to paint these guys and then I realized that the style I use for smaller scale gives a very cartoony result on a bigger scale.
But I don't think that's a bad thing, after all I want to use these models for gaming, not for display, so it does not really bother me.
I'll see if with future models I'll decide to go another direction or stick to this style.
To give a better idea of what I envision for this project here is a little bit of explanation.
My main WW2 scale will remain 1/72, to play bigger scale games, such as Blitzkrieg Commander or Rapid Fire Reload.
For smaller action games IlVJ and I both have small forces of 28mm figures (which will slowly be expanded) for games such Bolt Action.
The final piece of the puzzle, to play squad level games, is the 1/35 scale that I started with these figures.
My idea is to use "One hour skirmish wargames" and have games to represent actions more "behind the enemy lines", imagine a raid to steal supplies, or free some prisoners, etc
In my mind these games won't involve tanks or other big front line units, but transports, gun emplacements or even livestock or rear guard encampments for more narrative games.
Having figures in three different scales for the same historical period might seem redundant, but I'll try to have different style of games with the different sizes.
I'm also more of a painter than a gamer, so having the opportunity to try my hand at different things is always good.
Anyway, the models I'm posting today are some 1/35 scale very old Esci models, they are really big for the scale, looking almost like 1/32 scale, but they have a huge nostalgic element for me, me and my brother grew up with Esci and even if the quality is not up to more modern stuff, I'd still chose this kind of models and have fun with the process of building and painting them.
These are the last two 1/72 WWII kits I had built and ready to paint, there are not going to be more before I move back to Italy.
It has been quite a while since I did anything for my European theater British, I have some infantry (para) in the works, but it will be a while before they are ready.
These are the last Epic Imperial Guard units I completed, I now have no more Epic miniatures in Canada, so this never ending slow project will continue once I've moved back to Italy.
