[Archive] Astragoth's growing army

astragoth:

The unit is looking good. I just remembered what the skull faces remind me of though. They look like this guy's face:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ywfUIjQQs0/SxL3vEELIoI/AAAAAAAAAmA/sBRTXMy8XSw/s1600/medievil-front.jpg

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astragoth:

Ok, updates wasn�?Tt coming so soon after all, it has been several months. There are mainly two reasons: I�?Tve had less time for Warhammer, and when I had, I has been working mostly on my Mordheim warband (http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8874) and my goblin army:



But I have done some chaos dwarfs at least. First, I have converted some chaos dwarfs with great weapons, pretty similar to the rest of my army:





And here is a close up of the test model:



And here are some half- painted warriors, a little different from the rest of my models (they have bare arms and their armour trim is red):



(sorry if the pictures are blurry)

And I have also decided HOW I WILL MAKE ASTRAGOTH, the great chaos dwarf lord, the high priest of Hashut and the most potent sorcerer in Zharr Naggrund. Instead of making him from something like a space marine dreadnought, or the old model, I found something that fit much better! I came across a model called Karchev the terrible, in a game called warmachine. He looks almost exactly as I imagine Astragoth, so with a little conversion, he will be a perfect choice! A picture can be found here: http://battlecollege.wikispaces.com/mkiiKarchev

Here comes some random bonus material: a monkey



Bye to next time :hat off

OMG I can hardly wait until Warhammer Forge release the first chaos dwarfs!

nitroglysarine:

That would be an EPIC astragoth, he’d be huge!

I’m considering a similar idea for my inferno golems, some kind of ‘Hi-tek Prosthesis’.

Hazkar:

that a nice looking force so far

that mini will make a huge astragoth

oh and btw:what an awesome monkey!

Alfract:

Fast Progress is Great Progress… looks good

tjub:

Great update, dont leave us waiting as long for the next… :slight_smile:

Astragoth would be huge, but its a really cool idea!

Joshmohr:

Fantastic conversion work and great painting. Love the army- cant wait to see more.

astragoth:

Update!

Here are pictures of the now painted troll:





And this is how he looks inside a unit:



I also took a character I made a long time ago and based him:



Then, when everything was painted, I decided to make one more unit, so I made this test- dwarf:



More updates comming soon…

:hat off

Zanko:

Great army so far! :hat off

Like the painting of your Troll a lot! :cheers

The troopers are very well converted and painted - kudos - go on! :wink:

                     :hashut

Vash:

i really like the masks you used for the warrior units, they work really well.

and i also like the flail idea for great weapons… there’s a large chance i’m going to try something simulair.