Hello there

I guess its only good sport to say hello.

So, hi, I’m the new one. Im from germany. Started to play 1999 with 40k and later whfb. Back then I urgendtly wanted to play the Dawi Zharr but there were only this tiny flapsy rulebook called ravening hordes which I’ve got two of, because the Dawi kept calling me in my dreams and I forgot about the first one over some years. In the end I builded a big orc army, an 1000 points ogre projekt as slaves and a dawi army but no Chaos dwarfs.

But now with ToW Chaos dwarfs got something more official, also the prices for 3d printers got very affordable and im in child mode and happy to dive into the hobby again since i paused since whfb got canceled by gw. Also the time geht’s less and less while ppl growing up, its a mess.

Well, however, hat bei g said I am very happy that this place here exists and am interested to get involved with it myself.

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Hello and herzlich Willkommen! You’re in exactly the right place :smile:

Did you already decide which of the many beautiful Chaos Dwarfs models available you’ll be printing?

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Welcome to the most niche of niches army, and that makes us the cool kids hehehe.

Enjoy the forum!

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Guten Tag.

I will go for the ones from Fabelzel. Hes the one hat I think, is supposed for most of US to come back to it or getting into CD.
I allready found the Google drive, but unfortunately had always Terror (well error, bus its fitting so I leave it) massages with downloading them.

My Plan is to twist it a bit, because I love the old 90s look, but the Lamasu ist quiet cool but tiny, also there is no iron deamon for hat I know. So thats hat, the Bug hat with big beast. I like the MoM lamasu and hope I can combine them with a fabelzel dwarf. About the deamon idk jet.

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Welcome! I went through a lot of what’s undoubtedly in store for you on your big hat journey. I heartily recommend mixing in some originals and brawniac models with your Fabelzel guys to really up the variety without losing coherency in expression.

Check out my blog for inspiration:
TOW Fire Dwarfs / Blanchitsu

I have a solution for a big hat iron daemon, and tackled the Lamassu and Bale Taurus to my own liking.

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Welcome welcome!

If you have a standard bearer in your future we have a contest running right now! Would be happy to have you enter! There’s still time left.

I’ve seen this fabelzel adjacent iron daemon shared by @Max152 which might be up your alley!

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Hey @Vacationist. Nice army you got there. I strumbled above it before and sure will look it up again. The Choochoo train is kinda interesting. Im not sure right now where to go. I guess the main idea should be visible, so the demon sits inside the beast and look angry and evil, in pain or in the mood to share it or like something more with a soul, something that should live and not be part of a train and is unwilling to be there but forced by dark magic.

@Reaver Thanks, it might be possible for me to get something done just in time. I have still to wait for the printer, and then have to learn how to use it. But there is time, so if Hashut wants, I’ll be there.
The Deamon is nice as well, but a bit too trainlike and the head is idk… it looks like a toy from He-Man, which is definetly cool but not in my army. Maybe without the Skelletor face…

For the beginning I gonna do a standard bearer. Thats faster to do.

I bought the Elegoo Mars 4 MAX now and the 4 kilos resin just arrived. The printer should be here on monday and then… well. Lets see.

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A list of stuff I plan to get into a list. Thats round about 2000pts. Magma Cannon and Black Orcs are on the edge, as well as an Earthshaker Mortar and Hobgoblin Spearthrowers. I like them all but there isnt enough space. So its propably a thing I will see when playing.

Sorcerer on Lamasu
Seneschal AST
Wolfgobbo
Black Orc

10-20 Infernal Guard
20 Back Orcs
2x 10 Hobgobbos

Iron Daemon
Magma Cannon

5 Wolfriders

The Wolfgoblin comes into the 5 zoning Wolfrider and has ofc. a ring to do stuff. But also, and I dont know if its still possible, but in the time of Season 8, goblin players played a sacrifice Gobbo. A suicide bomb which I want to do again. So i give him the Hellshard to, to run into stuff and call a challenge to charge a charakter and explode in his face with 1d6 s5 hits wtih ap-1.
Orcboss gets into the Orcs, the AST get into the dwarf unit.
Thats how i think it will look cool, has backlground with lots of slaves and is working as far I look at the lists posts here.

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So, my printer arrived and I finally got time to use it. After fiddling arround and trying out, this is what I got now.

11 Blunderbusses with comand (and 3 Blunderbusses without a dwarf, also shields)
1 Mage on Lamasu
2 Mages on foot
1 Wolfrider Khan without bow
A full comand of dwarfs
A meele Charakter that can ride instead of the mage
An earthshacer cannon without ogre
A big bull-demon for style which needs two additional arms
5 bullcentaurs with comand

What I found out in the process is that I need a fine saw for trimming the hats. The resin gets harder then I thought and now I struggle to cut them off.
Also I think the Bullcentaurs have a HUGE base size and the minis i printed are to small. I thought they belong on a 40x40 base. How do you play them? In the worst case I need to print them again and scale them up to like 150% or so.

For the Iron Daemon I thought about using parts of the fiends modell from chaos and kidbash it with bits and stuff.

Im also looking for a standard bearer hero. There isnt actually one i could find to download.

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Check in the Fabelzel drive folders, there are some remixed standard bearers in there. Alternatively, consider that all Chorf heroes have resplendent banner poles and could all function as BSB if you just say so.

I also considered using the forgefiend (well, for a K’daai destroyer, when that was a thing), but I think it’s way too grimdark for the big hat aesthetic.

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Well seeing the images side by side I assume you are right. I found several trains. We will see what it will get. A Thomas Train just doesnt represent the daemonic obsession imo. Maybe I’ll go with the He-Man style thing mentioned above.

I never did use the Thomas the tank engine face, tbf :sweat_smile: Ended up with a Daemonic skull with fiery eyes. Can’t really tell from the angle, and the eye sockets are deep, but they are fiery, I promise.

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:sweat_smile:

Okay, thats better.

I forgot to mention, that right now I’m printing some base stuff to decide how i will do them. Not sure right now, all I know is that I dont want lava on my bases. It looks cool, kinda snow bases, but the problem i have with theese is, that they always look out of place when standing on a board.

Also im thinking about the colors. Maybe the german flag will do, but I want to paint them in a cool blue/green. At least the robes/hats and the red black gold isnt fitting for that.

F*ck, I never realized I’m painting my stuff in colors of the German flag :astonished: I don’t know how to feel about that :sweat_smile:

Nothing special… Chaos does that all the time and the combo is great actually.

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