First of all! Sorry for possible mistakes as english is not my native language.
The idea of making a chaos dwarf army came to my mind…
Well, let’s start it another way.
The idea of making a chaos dwarf came to my mind when I bought a White Dwarf magazine with 1 night goblin and 1 dwarf model glued onto it. Yes it was long time ago. I found a night goblin rather usefull as an ammo runt for my WH40k orks army but a single dwarf model appeared to be totally useless. It looked like that untill I’ve been asked to do some comission work. It was painting chaos warriors. The customer wanted “something”- impressive, but cheap and fast at the same time. So the only way of making it impressive that I could find was finding an impressive color scheme. A dwarf now looked as a good crush test dummy- a useless model that has heavy armor and leather parts on it. In order to get more similarity with a chaos warriors I decided to convert the dwarf into chaos dwarf. The only 2 things I used to know about chaos dwarves were
1. They exist.
2. They wear tall hats and have black beards.
I’ve never seen any CD art or model before, so I didn’t even know the propper shape of the hat.
Anyway, It took me sometime to make that simple conversion and I painted Chaos Warriors without testing color scheme on a newborn chaos dwarf, but the process of creating it, and a fresh feeling of painting chaos models brought me to a thought of making a CD army. It is interesting to have an army that noone actually has.
A year later (as I prefer playing 40k and doing many other things) I got my first dwarven part o BFSP set. Another year later I started my army.
Now I’m planning to show what I’ve got so far and share the ideas of further army development.
And the first models I shot with a camera are heroes.
A CD hero. I think he looks more like a lord, as he’s HUGE, but I haven’t got a 2000 pt army yet, which prevents him from making a brilliant military career, leaving on a level of a mere CD hero.
This is a model I bought long before I made my first chaos dwarf. Long time ago Rackham “Confrontation” tabletop game was extremely popular in a local gaming community. This model is one of the leftovers of that time. It is originally called Hirh Karn, and looks quite different from this CD officer
Another evil commander is a CD mage. A lore of shadows. He is converted out of a BFSP tunelers’ champion. He is a scroll caddy, as u can all see on a shot of his back =)))
The pics are bit blurry, I’ll make another ones as I paint him.
I decided not to tak any more unpainted pics of those two heroes. And now, while I’m painting them, I’ll better present some more dwarfs, who are already painted.
A fire mage. BFSP model of course. Pics quality is limited by my camera macroshot ability. So they don’t look good enough.
And some blunderbussers. The beginning of a unit and a test of a color scheme. At such large scale the paintjob doesn’t look neat at all, but in reality they look better because they are actually smaller =)))
Neat ! How did you do the hat of the blunderbussier dwarf at the left ? The one with the lantern. I want to do hats in a similar fashion but I have yet to find a way to do them …
Neat ! How did you do the hat of the blunderbussier dwarf at the left ? The one with the lantern. I want to do hats in a similar fashion but I have yet to find a way to do them ...
Ancre
All hats and guns are made using the very same technique. I think I should make a tutorial on making them, that might help. Basicly BB barels and hats are screws, smoothed by greenstuff.
And thanks for your comments everyone =))) I'm really glad you like it =) More pics is comming soon. And that Rackham dwarf is almost finished by now :mad
Wow! hadn´t seen this blog before. Really like your version of your chaos dwarfs. Very simple if you think about it, but i don´t think I have seen anything similar before. Please, continue posing your minis!
I might do that for the guns of my blunderbuss.
