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One of the armies I've always liked the idea of playing with in various systems but never got around to collecting was dwarves. Last year, I decided to rectify that. I picked up the em4 ex-Grenadier dwarves, 150 of each and a load of bases... and promptly put them in the cupboard promising myself I'd do something with them later, but never got around to it.
I've got some free time now and decided that now is the time to finally get these little buggers cleaned up and on the table, and that's what I've been doing this last week, as well as adding some more miniatures to the army.
Here's as far as i got last year. Just a test to see if the idea was going to work; and it was. I've been becoming more and more in love with monopose miniatures over the last year; they just have this character to them and an aesthetic appeal that makes me smile inside.
However now things are speeding up a bit more.
This is where I was at about a week ago; I've ordered some new primer as my old stuff has expired, same for the paints as well. I'll try refreshing them later, but I can't be bothered to spend hours trying to turn that hardened gunk in the old paint pots into something usable at the moment.
At this stage I was going to just paint it up as you see here, but the primer needed ordering and I thought I might as well crack on with the rest. Then some other thoughts came to mind. A quick jump on ebay and a few days later...
I originally was going to use one of the Foundry medieval bombards and convert some of the dwarves to artillery crew, but seeing these giant crossbow miniatures made me pause. It's also a nice change from the whole dwarves=guns thing so many companies do. As you can probably tell, Nick Lund's work is going to be a rather prominent feature with this army.
A brief word on the basing system I'm using. I don't know what I want to use these miniatures for, by and large, but I do know I want to have them useable for as many systems as possible, while also getting rid of some of the hassle; sure, movement trays could also be a thing, but this system should be a nice compromise (and cheap, and I also like the way it looks. The dwarves will mostly be based on these 40mm MDF bases, but I know there's a few systems out there where you need precise basing sizes (KoW comes to mind), so with that, I also bought a load of these 20x40mm MDF bases too; these will have some characterful things on them; maybe some old miniatures, items, terrain pieces, etc when I'm done to bring the ranks up when I need precisely 5 in a rank.
And here's yesterday's work added to the growing pile of lead and plastic; Grenadier sculpted axe dwarves and a command stand. Perhaps not the most original addition, but the price was good and the miniatures will add a little character to the front rank of the axe dwarves.
My biggest problem at the moment is dealing with the enthusiasm I'm feeling for the hobby again. I've already bought some terrain supplies to make up some forests and other terrain and I've been tempted to expand an old Mantic force I have to reach the Lichmaster campaign force. Just forcing myself right now to not bUy the em4 plastic orcs (at least until I'm done with these dwarves...)
I've got some free time now and decided that now is the time to finally get these little buggers cleaned up and on the table, and that's what I've been doing this last week, as well as adding some more miniatures to the army.
Here's as far as i got last year. Just a test to see if the idea was going to work; and it was. I've been becoming more and more in love with monopose miniatures over the last year; they just have this character to them and an aesthetic appeal that makes me smile inside.
However now things are speeding up a bit more.
This is where I was at about a week ago; I've ordered some new primer as my old stuff has expired, same for the paints as well. I'll try refreshing them later, but I can't be bothered to spend hours trying to turn that hardened gunk in the old paint pots into something usable at the moment.
At this stage I was going to just paint it up as you see here, but the primer needed ordering and I thought I might as well crack on with the rest. Then some other thoughts came to mind. A quick jump on ebay and a few days later...
I originally was going to use one of the Foundry medieval bombards and convert some of the dwarves to artillery crew, but seeing these giant crossbow miniatures made me pause. It's also a nice change from the whole dwarves=guns thing so many companies do. As you can probably tell, Nick Lund's work is going to be a rather prominent feature with this army.
A brief word on the basing system I'm using. I don't know what I want to use these miniatures for, by and large, but I do know I want to have them useable for as many systems as possible, while also getting rid of some of the hassle; sure, movement trays could also be a thing, but this system should be a nice compromise (and cheap, and I also like the way it looks. The dwarves will mostly be based on these 40mm MDF bases, but I know there's a few systems out there where you need precise basing sizes (KoW comes to mind), so with that, I also bought a load of these 20x40mm MDF bases too; these will have some characterful things on them; maybe some old miniatures, items, terrain pieces, etc when I'm done to bring the ranks up when I need precisely 5 in a rank.
And here's yesterday's work added to the growing pile of lead and plastic; Grenadier sculpted axe dwarves and a command stand. Perhaps not the most original addition, but the price was good and the miniatures will add a little character to the front rank of the axe dwarves.
My biggest problem at the moment is dealing with the enthusiasm I'm feeling for the hobby again. I've already bought some terrain supplies to make up some forests and other terrain and I've been tempted to expand an old Mantic force I have to reach the Lichmaster campaign force. Just forcing myself right now to not bUy the em4 plastic orcs (at least until I'm done with these dwarves...)