Dwarves, HOOOOOOOOOO!

I've come up with my army list for me Dwarves. I've used 7th edition rules since I don't yet own the 8th.

750 Point Dwarven Throng

1 Thane. Shield and rune of fury: 92 Points

15 Warriors. Shields, Veteran, Standard bearer, Musician. 160

10 Thunderers. 140

14 Hammerers. Shields, Gate Keeper, Standard Bearer, Musician. 198

Cannon 90

70 Points left over for bits and bobs and that.

I've went with 750 points because I reckon that's probably a do-able figure for the end of the year.
My intention with this army is to keep the number of GW models to a minimum, I've given those vultures quite enough of my money over the years.
I'm going to collect the Warrior unit first, then move onto the more interesting stuff. To that end I've earmarked some Dwarves from Foundry Miniatures fantasy line
http://foundryarchive.co.uk/fantasy_ranges/single_packs/fantasy/dwarf/
I'll paint these guys up first then purchase the rest of the unit.
I finished the tester Dwarf.
Happy with how he's turned out. Even happy with the way the bronze (eventually) went.

I'll probably use him as the Vet for the warriors.

One down, ~42 to go.

Stay frosty people.

Dwarves and Panthers

Snow White and the...one Dwarf


Well progress has been made, which is a nice change.

I hate metallics. Hate them. Why the hell did I choose Dwarves. Oh right, hairy and stunty. Check.

He was probably not the best mini to test out my Dwarf painting skills since he's mostly covered with his ruddy great axe. However I'm mostly happy with how he's turned out. Mostly. (Aliens reference #1)

So colour scheme is pretty much decided now. Bronze, steel, green and white I reckon.
I have another Dwarf on order from the excellent Scibor miniatures that I can't wait to get my greasy mitts on. [url]http://www.sciborminiatures.com/)[/url]
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Flames of Why the Hell Did I Choose This Camo Scheme?


I went to the Bovington Tank Museum a few months ago and when I bought my Panther Platoon I thought it would be a great idea to paint them the same scheme as the Panther that I took pictures of.
Fucking idiot.
I painted it with a dunkelgelb basecoat, highlighted it, then masked off the sections I didn't want the camo to go on. Which itself took ages. Then I applied the camo which was also a pain since it took me yonks just to get the right colour. Too purple, too red, too brown, too much of an arse to paint.
Well I eventually got to the point where I could peel of the tape and it DIDNT F-ING WORK PROPERLY!It didnt take me long to neaten things up but I was pretty pissed off. (Which is my base state anyway, so meh)
Did it work? Yeeeeeaaaah...? :/

I'm a perfectionist beyond my ability to paint perfection. It's going OK, although noticing the barrel is bent from taking a picture is fucking annoying. It'll all come good in the wash.

4 more to go....Christ...

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Next up in Sports


More Dwarves, probably paint the StuG III I've finally built to complete my minimal Assault Gun Platoon since that's an easy prospect, then maybe a dredge through my bits box to see of there are any more Dwarves suffocating in there.

Peace out.

Addicted to Lead

have faced it. I have lead in my blood. Although technically these days that should really read "white metal" in the blood but that doesn't have the same ring to it.

The seed was planted in 1989 with the release of Heroquest.

But it all REALLY began with Space Crusade in 1990. God the time me and my mates spent playing that game, making up our own rules, cannibalising the minis for parts. Aces.

In the 20 years I've been wargaming I've played dozens of systems and bought far FAR too many minis. Too many.
In that time I've completed three armies; Space Orks, Space Marines and Protectorate of Menoth, as well as two Necromunda gangs and a gorkamorka mob. I'm also so, sooooo damn close to completing a German panzer army for Flames of War.
So.Damn.Close...
My problem is I get distracted very easily, I like to be doing three or four things at once and that include when I'm collecting armies. I promised myself I wouldn't buy any new platoons for my FoW Germans until I had concluded the last one. Then I found myself with 3/5 Panzer IV's painted and a Panther Platoon and a Konigstiger that had suddenly materialised out of thin air. (Or my debit card as it's normally known.)
So now I'm going to embark on a project.

I'm going to try to collect, build and paint a Dwarf army for the new edition of Warhammer PIECE BY PIECE!
*stifle laughter*
My first task is to paint the single GW Dwarf I own as a tester.
My second is to figure out an army list Third to get a schedule going
and fourth to buy and paint it all, piece by piece.

We'll see...
Along the way I’ll probably be continuing to paint my FoW Germans, the super secret Projekt Eins (more on that later), bits and bobs of other minis that distract...uh interest me and ranting vociferously on whatever subjects take my fancy.

Introducing stage 1:
I've made a start on his skin and general features, including a pure strawberry-pished nose.

Stay frosty.