Painting Dwarf Warriors, Final Update

Howdy !

At last my biggest unit is almost done. Thirtyfive Dwarf Warriors with Thane Battle Standard Bearer. I tried to make them look like more common dwarves than elite. To complete the unit, I have to paint a filler. Here are some photos !

Painting Dwarf Warriors, Update 5

Hello, hello !

Tomorrow we have a fantasy battle session of 8000 points. Order versus Destruction. An alliance between Dwarves and High Elves against a pact between Orcs & Goblings and Dark Elves. Like so many times before, it will be a bloody massacre.

I've been painting my fingers off almost every night for two weeks to get the Dwarven warrior unit in playable state. Yesterday night my impatiense drove me to end the remediel painting and move to the dipping phase. Here are the photos.

Before the dip

After dip

 

The Warrior unit with BSB Thane

Painting Dwarf warriors, update 1

I started to paint my horde of Dwarf warriors which also include the BSB Thane and two times two unit filler. The progress is slow but consistent. At the moment I have painted the skin and beards of the Dwarves. For a month I have been wondering, how will I paint these warriors to look less elite than the Hammerer unit ? Yesterday I made a decision and it will reveal itself when time comes :) ..Here is the first photo.

Dwarf warrior unit with BSB Thane assembled

Finally got my warriors assembled and modified. I've earlier modified the same GW battalion warriors to Hammerers, so I somehow have to make these warriors look lower rank. Maybe I'll use bronze paint instead of gold etc. I also had to do a unit filler and use one unordinary figure to get the unit size to 39. I had little trouble with Thane's standard and topped my skills by drilling and pinning the standard to Thane's fist. I was fairly sure that I would ruin the whole model :). Here's some photos !

Some Scibors, AoW and Battalion

The last minis that I've planned for 2400 point army arrived today. Runelord from Avatars of War, Anvil Guards and BSB Thane from Scibor miniatures and GW Dwarf battalion box. The Scibors were my first resin minis so I didn't have any experience of them. When I started cutting the Anvil Guard axe off from the resin mold it exploded to thousand pieces. Nice ! After that I took the cutting little bit gentler. Maybe the resin models are more detailed, but working with it sucks, IMHO ! I intend to make dwarf warriors with great weapons from the battalion box, but have to do little conversions because I converted my earlier battalion dwarves to Hammerers. So here are the first assemblies :)