Hello everyone,
after lurking for a while I decided that it’s finally time to join the forum and be part of the community. While working on a different army I discovered the old chaos dwarf radio and newer brazen broadcast podcasts and listened to all the episodes, becoming very impressed with what I learned about this community.
I knew of CDO but never commited as I wasn’t that interested into chaos dwarves directly up until recently.
My hobby journey startet with warhammer fantasy 4th edition, where I played lizardmen against my brother’s bretonians. I think at that time chaos dwarfs where those funny fellows with the big hats. I liked the minis and background but couldn’t really afford an army. Later came beastmen and chaos warriors until my interest in fantasy was replaced by 40k which lasted up until a year ago, I’d say.
I’m part of a gaming club where peoply mostly played 40K and a little bit of AoS until a year ago. Then some folks who played the ninth age since it’s inception won me and some others over to start as well. I built a undying dynasties army and played a while with it but wasn’t very interested in painting them most of the time. Which is a ‘problem’ because painting is my main interest in the hobby in general and I mostly paint what I want to at any given time – which results in painted miniatures but doesn’t get you any finished armies.
I thoroughly enjoyed that you can use any miniature you like in T9A, as long as it’s on an appropriatly sized base. And I remembered CDO and took another look. The forum helped immensly with a sort of first round of orientation concearning what options there are to collect a chaos dwarf army. And I couldn’t help but spend much time exploring many of the posts I saw. I was commited.
So what miniatures to collect and base a chaos dwarf army on?
Fabelzels minis really blew my mind and I played with the idea to base a collection on his range, because I fondly remembered the big hats of my youth. But then I stumbled upon warp miniatures and, well, that’s where I stuck. I fell in love with the work of warp miniatures as I saw a 3d-printed and lovingly painted gnome army of a friend. They range from not taking themselves too seriously to funny as hell. Up until now nearly all of my miniatures are from warp miniatures (https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-dark-dwarf-army-mega-bundle-197766). They also were very new for me in a way because they’re closer to the earliest chaos dwarf miniatures design-wise I believe and predate my starting point in the hobby in a way. In my youth I didn’t know about the earlier designs of evil little chaos marauders.
I didn’t play warhammer fantasy anymore when the legion of azgorh was released by I noticed them and I liked them as well, exspecially the more grimdark look. But for now I’m sticking with the funny little marauders. I intend so supplement WM with miniatures from other ranges that are funny and fit in or use the vast knowledge datebase of the forum to make stuff myself and fill gaps in the army.
The current project aims at a fully playable infernal dwarfs ninth age army at 4.000 points and I’ve only just started a few weeks ago. But the project is planned and so far I enjoy painting those fellows immensly!
Thanks for sticking with me, let’s finally show off some miniatures, shall we? 
The first one is my vizier, the battle standard bearer for my army, a sort of second tier hero but often critical.
The paint scheme is quite simple as it’s basic level, placing the miniatures in a frozen tundra environment to create a warm-cold-contrast between base and miniature and make them pop on the tabletop.
The second one is called a gunnery team equipped with a mortar. The mortar is from raging heroes (Iron Empire Heavy Weapons Team #01 (IE) - Raging Heroes), the chaos dwarfs are from warp miniatures. All three models fitted nicely on a 40mm square base. I’m not entirely sure about the mortar as it looks very high tech but I like it enough to keep it for now. There’s a second one, which will be painted in the future with a very funny and different approach…
That’s where I’m at now. The very beginning. There’s more to come, I’m sure.
Next on the workbench: the core of the army, infernal warriors with blunderbusses.
Cheers!
