I’m a pretty awful photographer, and I’ve been told I shake like a drug addict, so it’s tricky to get better pictures. I will take quite a few when I finish their paint jobs though, so rest assured you haven’t seen the last of them. I unfortunately had to attend a yearly festivity last night (day after St Patty’s is Boondock Saints day!) and tonight is a friend’s going-away party (moving to the other side of the states) so once again I am falling behind. Almost there though! I can see the light on the other side.
A unit of 21 more or less completed. And magnetized! Smiley face.
Here are some mostly painted bull centaurs. A little better quality on the photography this time I think.
Didn’t take any from the side this time, but I’ll get some of those when I complete tomorrow’s work.
Also, here’s a fire wizard. It’s tricky to get my camera to like single models, and this is the result of about twenty minutes of trying to get the right conditions. Oh well, c’est la vie.
On the agenda tomorrow I’m going to convert a flame cannon in to an earthshaker, prime it and the crew, and build the faceplates for my bolt throwers. Also, I need to shave down and prepare for green stuff the last of my dwarfy core: the other unit of warriors, and quite possibly the other unit of blunderbusses. I’m test driving the painted folk on Sunday, so I’ll post how that went.
And you all thought I wasn’t updated because I was slacking off. Fat chance! A bunch of updates of “oh look at me, I’m doing core” is pretty boring, so I’ve spared you. In fact, if a picture is worth a thousand words, than the following ought to be worth about 5000.
Setting up camp. The USPS envelope over my laptop keyboard is to keep little bits of flying plastic out of the keys. It’s also from Wilmark. I’ll be rockin’ a CDO shirt at the tournament.
After much, much too much clipping, cutting, shaving, and filing. I just fitted the heads in this picture. No green stuff.
Now they can take some arrows without dying. Good ol’ green stuff armor.
Some “finished” dwarfs getting ready to punch some orderly dwarfs in the mouth.
Be warned. This following image is enormous, but you can see the entire army as it currently stands. Some notes though:
The bolt throwers in the back, the wolf riders on the left, and the flame cannon looking thing on the right, are not yet converted. As for the wolf riders, NO IDEA what I’m going to do to them to make them look a little difference from the standard bums. I like them small, because it makes sense that the smaller, weaker, or possibly just plain younger slaves would be the ones riding around on wolves. When was the last time you saw a 6’1" jockey win the Kentucky Derby? The bolt throwers I’m going to make some face plates for, shamelessly using Ishkur’s pretty awesome idea of making it look almost like a trap from an Indiana Jones movie. And the flame cannon I’m torn between festooning with bizarre electronic looking stuff and a tesla coil, or having tentacles coming out of the barrel with a creepy Cthulhuesque thing in a cage next to one of the crew.
That really is quite impressive :o
It would take me an eternity to get that much done.
The greenstuff work looks nice too from what I can make out in the picture.
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Thanks! I may not be the finest sculpter, converter, or painter, but I bet I can do it faster than most. :)
I'm hellbent on continuing onward to about 4200 points. Everything I've done thus far comes out to be just shy of 3000, so I'm not far off. I've got another 20 Blunderbuss guys waiting for beards, and enough torsos and night goblin heads to equip another 14 naked ones and 25 archer hobs.
I do want to convert up a Great Taurus and a Lammasu as well, but those are definitely projects that I will push aside until April as they never did fit in my tournament list. Ultimately, what I'm hoping for is the 4200 points of legit army, plus 800 points or so worth of Counts-As war mammoth, exalted champion, and marauder to be my Zeppelin and its captain and crew, respectively. I'm planning on playing a 5000 point legendary battles game at the end of May.
Thanks for the praise! Hopefully I’m about to earn some more. :)
First things first, here is a photo of my second game with Chaos Dwarfs ever. It’s blurry, but you can sort of get the gist of it. This is a 2250 game against Vampire Counts. I won by massacre.
The shimmy the black orcs are doing over on the left is the result of murderifying a corpse cart and crumbling an entire unit on the charge. It was delicious.
Here’s a picture of what’s left to be painted, in the next two days or so to meet my deadline:
The green stuff is included as I have not yet sculpted the front of the bolt throwers.
I HAVE, however, painted their crew:
And some wolf riders to go with them.
Some painted naked hobbos, for your enjoyment. 18+ only!
The lighting was all screwy, but you can get a pretty good idea of what they look like. Very cell shading, I actually really like how they came out.
This last photo bears some introduction. When I think of an Earthshaker, I try to picture what a cannon that causes earthquakes must actually look like. A boring concept would be a cannon with a really big shell. Yawn! I wanted something a bit more creative. I figured it either shot some sort of burrowing critter, or had some sort of crazy Tesla-coil-like design all steampunktastic. As I couldn’t quite make up my mind, I decided to just use both.
The valves and switches festooning the standard dwarf cannon make it a perfect choice to start the earthshaker with. I raided a friend’s bitz box to find some parts that would work for some sort of critter crawling its way out of the barrel, and found some 40k Possessed parts (I think) to use. The little box is actually my third crewman, figuring it would be amusing to have to fight the ammunition when you charge it.
I will take some different angles and fiddle with the lighting a bit later on this week. As you can see I have some intense amounts of painting to do in the next two days, and working 8-5 every day really cuts in to painting time! :cheers
The demonic Earth shaker is pretty cool. The ammo chest with demonic tentacles coming out is a nice touch and makes me chuckle! Always a plus in my book.
I am a fan of that style of Hobgob (using the Flagellant bodies), so that looks really cool too.
This post is going to contain a LOT, and I do mean a LOT, of pictures. However, I finally finished my 2250 list and within the boundries of my challenge.
Where to begin? From last I wrote, I painted a full unit of warriors and some change, in addition to the two crewman for my Earthshaker, and the four Bolt Throwers. I had to sculpt the faceplates, which at first I thought was going poorly, then I thought it went well, then I thought it went poorly, and now I’ve settled on the idea they came out fairly well considering it’s my first freehand sculpting, erm, ever.
This is my prototype, on some wax paper.
After finishing all four, letting them harden, and gluing them on.
I thought it seemed off.
…But I’m strangely comfortable with it this way:
I mean really, look at that grin!
Here are some warriors as painted as I could get them last night.
And a basecoated bolt thrower.
Continued on post two, where I show pictures of things from angles that aren’t the front!
Continued! Here are some more photos. First off, hobgoblin slaves.
Here are some wolf riders.
And the unit of black orcs I’m fielding.
And this BSB is always popular.
Some alternate views of my two units of blunderbussers…
And of the Bull Centaurs…
Here’s my voodoo priest looking a little more comfortable around the camera.
Random shot of the lore of fire guy from behind.
Lore of METAL!!! \m/
The two units of 19 warriors:
The bolt throwers I just finished.
Alternate views of burrowing creature earthshaker:
And the Death Rocket.
Before I show the image of the final finished product, I’d like to thank the two things that made cramming an entire converted army in a month possible.
Beer! Beer! Beer!
This fluffy monstrosity I have named “The B”. It sits around and purrs all day. And does pretty much nothing else. Best cat ever.
And, in all its glory.
This is my first ever completely painted army, by the way. Woot!
Back from the dead! I don’t have a whole lot of time to write this as I’m at work, but here’s the gist - I’m expanding to 5000 points.
I painted this little fellow yesterday.
My photography skills are still sadly lacking, but I actually really like how he came out. I tried to go with non metallic metallics for the first time, um, ever. And while it didn’t come out exactly the way I imagined, it still came out much better than the pictures would indicate.
I also shamelessly stole someone’s idea for a lammasu conversion, and took the head off the giant sprue to use on a spare bretonnian pegasus of mine. The pictures are even worse from here until the last one, because these were taken with a cell phone camera…
The lammasu’s saddle is actually magnetized so I can throw the wizards on there quick and painlessly.
Next up is the Great Taurus, which I have begun working on. Total cost of parts thus far is about a dollar, as I purchased a farm-land playset at the dollar store to use as a base. The little plastic cow has thus far been structurally reinforced with some white glue (hollow cows just won’t do.) and had some much more gnarly intimidating horns added. The wings I plan to use are en route now, and they should be big enough that the model will be more than half citadel when I’m done. I just need to put the wings on, figure out a saddle, and get a long enough acrylic rod that he looks a little more dynamic. Pictures will go up once I’ve made some legitimate progress.
I unfortunately had to attend a yearly festivity last night (day after St Patty’s is Boondock Saints day!) and tonight is a friend’s going-away party (moving to the other side of the states) so once again I am falling behind. Almost there though! I can see the light on the other side.
