I wanted another FB army and since 8th ed screwed up Wood Elves, I went for Chaos Dwarfs instead. They are just as evil as my Skaven, but I don’t have to paint 150+ models and I can stand still and let the enemy come to me for once.
So I’ve built a few CD warriors so far with the help of Xander’s youtube videos. Thanks Xander!
C&C for the base + anything else? I’m about to finish the first CDs I sculpted, so the mail + masks are lacking a bit, but at least I have a few minis done soon.
Ten more CD incoming! A couple of these have custom made masks so I could experiment a bit and break the monotony of only using the three helmet moulds I have so far.
I’d go with the dark base, or at least give the light base some darker sides (Bestial Brown, Chaos Black or the like). I really like your converted Chaos Dwarfs, quite simple but effective! Marauder arms are perfect for CDs. Also, the colour scheme (with white shield emblems) work well.
Thanks for the input guys! I agree on the base color and will go for the dark ones from now on.
Now I just need to finish these guys then I’m of to to sculpt some great weapon armed guys from another set of models than the BfSP-dwarves. I tried one so far and I wasn’t quite happy with the result, but at least I learned a few lessons. If I get stuck I’ll build some warmachine instead
The leftmost one is “highlighting” white+yellow / yellow / yellow+orange / orange. (I’ll have to have the first layer cover more I think you can see some of the deneb stone under). I wanted to “highlight” all the way to red and black at the end for a real “lava” look, but I thought this was hard enough without laying at least two more layers on and I realized I don’t have a good red paint
The second one is how I painted my warpstone. Yellow + thraka green wash. Its a lot easier and it complements the dark red according to http://colorschemedesigner.com/ but it doesn’t look like its “glowing hot” so to speak, it kinda looks more undead-y. I just added the wash so its a lot more glazed looking than it will be.
Here is a picture of all the guys I’ve built so far
In other news! I haven’t gotten the Tamurkhan book, but I heard the golems got nerfed to heck and back so I thought I’d make some bull centaurs instead.
I like Bolg’s slayer centaurs and Avatars of War has an entire unit of them. I already have a bunch of marauder horses I can use. I think they look more bad ass than elven mounts.
I’ve almost finished painting a Hellcannon, but I haven’t done much lately (curse you, Skyrim!). But I got a box of Avatars of War’s dwarf berserkers whom I wanted to combine with some marauder horses for Bull Centaurs.
This is the first model so far. I’m going to add a chainmail or scalemail bib under his belt, but I’m wondering what I should cover the saddle with after I cut it of. Fur? Cloth? More armour?
Yeah, I’ve tried to make some plate mail on one of them, but I need to finish it before I decide if I want to go for that, scale mail or fur. Probably will do a mix since I have parts for several but will probably field no more than 4 at most times.
i think that you should cover up the saddle with some fur, which would blend in well with the rest of the centaur. have you tried using a smaller horsey thing, such as chaos warhounds, because otherwise it looks a tiny bit out of proportion.
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