The end of the year has come

 Hello everyone, here we are again, the last post of the year with the tallying up of what I painted in 2023.

It has been a very productive year, mostly due to the fact that I decided to work on a lot of 1/72 models that, since I use the Quick Shade from Army Painter, get done very quickly.

Let's get on with the count:

Things that I painted for myself:

- 28mm fantasy RPG infantry models: 4

- 28mm fantasy RPG large creatures: 2

- 28mm fantasy RPG mounted models: 2

- 28mm fantasy Warhammer infantry models: 73

- 28mm fantasy Warhammer mounted models: 8

- 28mm fantasy Warhammer large creatures: 5

- 28mm fantasy Warhammer war machines: 1

- 28mm historical infantry models: 63

- 28mm historical mounted models: 25

- 28mm historical chariot: 1

- 28mm Sci-fi Warhammer 40,000/Warzone infantry models: 31

- 28mm Sci-fi Warhammer 40,000/Warzone large creatures: 2

- 28mm Sci-fi RPG infantry models: 10

- 28mm Sci-fi RPG vehicles and robots: 4

- no scale Sci-fi starships and star fighters: 16

- 1/285 Battletech mechs: 13

- 1/285 Battletech vehicles: 2

- 1/72 historical infantry models: 293

- 1/72 historical mounted models: 44

- 1/72 WWII infantry models: 63

- 1/35 WWII infantry models: 2

- various scales terrain pieces: 10

This adds up to a total of 674 models, again, big numbers thanks to a very simple painting method, but I am very satisfied.

For other people I painted the following models:

- 28mm fantasy RPG infantry models: 11

- 28mm fantasy RPG large creatures: 6

- 28mm fantasy RPG small creatures: 9

- 28mm fantasy Warhammer infantry models: 21

- 28mm fantasy Warhammer mounted models: 4

- 28mm fantasy Warhammer large creatures: 7

- 28mm fantasy Warmachines/Hordes infantry models: 6

- 28mm fantasy Warmachines/Hordes: 6

- 28mm historical infantry models: 4

- 28mm WWII infantry models: 57

- 28mm WWII vehicles: 3

- 15mm WWII vehicles: 22

- 15mm WWII guns: 4

- 32mm Star Wars legion infantry models: 4

- 32mm Star Wars legion vehicles: 3

- various scale terrain pieces: 27

This adds up to a total of 194 models, which, added to my personal total is a grand total of 868 models painted in 2023, my absolute record, which I will probably struggle to even match in 2024, but I will definitely try.

Finally, I will leave you with a teaser of things to come, I will start working on some 1/72 napoleonics in 2024, wish me luck.

French Polish lancer. 1/72, Esci, painted by Ginzio

Warhammer thugs of Slaanesh

 This is a small unit of thugs of Slaanesh I recently painted, they are for my Warhammer 3rd edition campaign of Realm of Chaos and, following the trend in it, it is made of leftover figures from all over the place.

Some of the figures (especially the gladiator) are really ugly, but this idea of using whatever I have on hand is still appealing a fun, the models overall look pretty cool and sufficiently Slaaneshi.

Thugs of Slaanesh. 28mm, Citadel, Old Glory, RAFM and Garrison miniatures, painted by Ginzio

Dwarf all-stars

These are the last of my special dwarves, I was very lucky to get one of these qhen my Brother was working for Games Workshop in Japan, it is the crown jewel of my dwarf collection.

Gotrek Gurnisson and Joseph Bugman carrying the White Dwarf on a shield. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

 

One more giant and an unicorn

 This week I have two very nice old models from Ral Partha, they are from the early series by Tom Meyer, in the typical small scale with very nice details, they are both from the late 70s and they ware a blast to paint.

Hill giant. 25mm, Ral Partha, painted by Ginzio

Unicorn. 25mm, Ral Partha, painted by Ginzio
 

One more dwarf

 This is a model I bought many many years ago and was stripped of paints around 20 years ago when I decided to repaint all my dwarves.

It took me a very long time, but he is finally back and ready for the tabletop.

Dwarf ranger riding giant bat. 28mm, Grenadier Models, painted by Ginzio

Limited edition Dwarf Daemon Slayer

 I am close to completion of my "special" dwarves project, I finished this splendid limited edition Dwarf Slayer and I only have one model left after this. 

These models are taking a long time to paint, they are very nice and I try to do a good job on them, but I'm happy I finally decided to paint them, they had been sitting around unpainted for way too long.

Limited edition Dwarf Daemon Slayer on daemon's head. 28mm, Citadel, painted by Ginzio

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