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

Chaos troops and an ogre

 This week I have a small addition to my Khorne thugs bowmen from Battlemaster.

I needed to expand the unit for some games, so I used a bunch of historical figures that had no specific use and just gave them an appropriate colour schemes.

The figures are quite a bit smaller and of a different style, but overall on the table they don't look too bad in a unit.

The new members of the unit, some old Citadel historical figure repurposed for Warhammer. 28mm, Citadel, Old Glory and RAFM, painted by Ginzio

The complete 16 men (twice the number of Khorne) unit, ready for the battlefield.

The next figure is a very odd ogre from RAFM that Garner gifted me a while ago, it is a very characterful model with an odd WWII German helmet and decorations, it was a ton of fun to paint and I'm looking forward to field it.

WWII German ogre. 28mm, RAFM, painted by Ginzio

Just a tiny post this week

 I did paint a few models in the past week, but I didn't have a chance to take pictures, so I'm only able to post a single picture of a couple of goblins that I primed more than a year ago, but will be part of a unit that is still not ready to paint yet.

Instead of keep waiting, I just went ahead and painted them, the rest of the unit will come in the future, but for now here they are.

Goblin archers. 28mm, Ral Partha, painted by Ginzio

Cool dwarves

This week we have the first part of a small project I'm working on, it is a small group of about 15-20 dwarves I collected in the last few years.

My dwarf army is already huge, but these are more one off or cool models I collected just out of sheer dwarven passion.

All them can be considered Oldhammer models, even if for my Oldhammer ends in 1992, when Rick Priestley sold away the company.

Anyway, here you are a bunch of nice and unusual old dwarf models.

Drinking and drunk dwarves. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Dwarf champion from the Grudge of Drong Warhammer campaign. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Dwarf miner. 28mm, citadel, painted by Ginzio

Plastic monopose dwarf warrior from Warhammer 4th edition. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

The "seven" dwarves.

The Badab war project part 2

 This is the (very small) contingent of renegade space marines I painted for my Badab war project, more will come in the future, but for now this is all there is.

Executionners space marines captain. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Executionners space marines tactical combat squad. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

The whole Executionners contingent so far.

Captain of the Lamenters chapter. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

The Badab War project

 As I had announced a long time ago, I decided to slowly paint the remainder of my space marines to represent the various chapters involved in the Badab War.

I am moving through this project on both 40K stuff and Epic, I'm sticking to the background and colour schemes as presented in the Warhammer 40,000 Compendiuim from the Rogue Trader era, that is when I first got interested in this conflict, so it makes sense that the original Gary Chalk representation of the various chapters of Space marines be my guide in the development of the project.

In this post I'm showing what I painted in the past year as part of the loyalist chapters. Since there are only four renegade chapters, and a ton of loyalist ones and I want to have at least a single model of each of the uniform options, it makes sense that the loyalist have the lion's share of the models, but I'll try to get more renegades done as well in the future.

Captain of the Exorcists chapter. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Flamer specialist of the Fire hawks. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Scout squad of the Marines Errant. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Devastator squad of the Novamarines. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Terminator with Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield of the Raptors Legion. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Captain of the Salamanders. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Scout squad of the Sons of Medusa (Desert World Support squad). 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

Back from Italy

 I just got back from a quick (way to quick) trip to Italy, I was there for a couple of weeks to see the family and friends I left behind when I moved to Canada.

It was very nice, I ate a lot of pizza and did a bit of tidying up in the pile of stored miniatures, I still had a few primed models left behind from 2016 and I took some with me to paint, but there are more there waiting.

While packing my stuff for the trip, I remembered that I had some 1/72 Hat romans I painted years ago with plain white shields, so I made sure to pack a sheet of decals to fix the problem.

These ate those models

Republican roman triarii with decorated shields. 1/72, Hat industries, painted bv Ginzio

Since I got back I have not painted anything, but I hope to do something this weekend, I am one figure away from being able to post the first part of my new addition to the Badab War project, the loyalist marines I painted in the last year, after those there will be the very very small part of renegades.

As you might have noticed, I decided to drop the double language and just write in English, I feel it doesn't really make any more sense to keep the Italian part, let me know in the comments if you think I should keep it.