Here Come The Dwarves!

Hi!

Well the last day of my holiday looms and I find myself wishing I had a couple more days of free time to get some more painting done!

Still, I have managed to get another Dwarf finished, this time a crossbowman!

 Dwarven Crossbowman

He's another Heartbreaker sculpt, this time from a multi pack of crossbowmen and is actually a replacement for an identical sculpt I picked up years ago at Macs Models  in Edinburgh. He's got tons of character and paints up really nicely. I must admit I do like how the metallics on his helmet turned out as its a lot more successful than the previous Dwarves.

Speaking of which, heres a quick group shot of the Dwarves I have finished thus far:

Dwarven Warband

A bit of an eclectic mix, they look excellent together and I have a few more around the place to beef up their numbers. In fact, looking at what I have, theres enough for a small Warhammer army but many of them are the Imperial Dwarves I picked up at Claymore a couple of years back and badly in need of stripping. Hopefully I will get chance to strip the little blighters sooner rather than later as they will really round out the force nicely.

In other news, I also managed to paint up an Imperial Guardsman yesterday. I fancied a bit of a change from the fantasy fare so primed a Catachan Jungle Fighter and quickly painted him up on a whim.

Imperial Guardsman

Its been great to get him painted up as I have a fair number kicking around the bits box and he got me to thinking about painting up a small Imperial Guard patrol.

I've been thinking of setting myself a challenge for a while now and quite like the idea of using a Necromunda/Rogue Trader hybrid to field some forces of the Imperium and its assorted foes. Possibly a little controversially I also plan on picking up a few of the new Orks and converting them to the various clans. As much as I love the old Citadel Orks, they are becoming a tad expensive on ebay and I must admit I am really not a fan of the skinny little plastic arms that come with them.

Goffs

I am going to be using the new priming, drybrushing technique on them as I want to get a more vibrant skin tone than the dull olive green that my Goffs have at present. They are all going to be painted in 2nd edition colour schemes too so I will have plenty of opportunity to go for some truly outlandish designs.

I am also going to have a bit of a trawl through ebay and the various forums for some cheap Marines, Chaos and Genestealer plastics. As the project only calls for about a dozen or so figures a side, it shouldn't cost too much either!

As mentioned on a previous post, I am also going to be working on livening up the bases. Looking at the Orks above, I can't help but feel the bases let them down and with the addition of some small terrain elements, be they rocks, mushrooms or foliage, they would look miles better.

Theres still lots of stuff to be painted from my lead pile both from GW and other manufacturers and I am fairly sure I will be able to find quite a few nice bits and bobs to add to the project as I go!

All the best!