For the Forge! Demon powered purple chaos dwarfs hailing from the desecrated Forge Anathema. Everyone seemed a bit taken aback by the purple/green colors in the helsmiths reveal and I guess I understand it was a bit of a departure from the typical blazing red, but I was gonna paint mine purple and green anyway! One thing I can agree with though is the lack of vibrancy with the default Forge Anathema scheme, and I wanted to give it some extra oomph.
These infernal cohort about halfway through I thought started to resemble bismuth crystal formations and I tried to play more and more into that idea with the metallic blue on their shields and the color shifts on the designs. I wanted them to be glorious, flaunting their wealth and status, resplendent in their sinister colors. To bring in more of that forge anathema “obsessed with demonsmithing” green glow I painted 2 rings on their hats, one on the very top edge and the other connecting the notches on the brass armor plate so that it mimics the multi tiered mesopatamian style hats of old.
I gave them all different beard colors, not only because I never wanted to shy away from more colors in this scheme, but also because in the new lore these Zharrdron are the inheritors of the old Khazalid Empire. Let it be known, while the cowardly ancestor whelps fled to the skies or abandoned their people, we endured. All the long lost clans that prospered before the age of chaos are found here in our smog-clouded domain, and I see no reason why we should leave blondes, browns, oranges, reds to our weak and dying dispossessed cousins. These thick ringlet rows are excellent opportunities to add in salt and pepper effects, or possibly dyed multi colored beards as well in the future. If only they were larger, bah. The old grumbler in me is definitely bothered by the distinct lack of ground dragging facial hair. I’m a big fan of the warhammer fantasy sweeping beards that dominated the whole model, and it looks like I’ll have to settle for only having them on heroes, or centaurs. Woe.
Not mentioned above is the weakling hobgrot, toiling away carrying his heavy gong destined to be clonked by a demon infused mallet that slays him. He’s not quite done yet. I kinda love this miniature. I love his grimace, I love the way he’s bent over and miserable and in a visual demonstration of his wretched oppression I painted his burden the primary color of his superiors. Bringing that medieval peasant vibe, all the hobgoblins in the army will share the tan yellow/bright red quartered tunic look, heavily smeared in agrax earthshade to show their lowly filth. The gobbo was the last one of the bunch to get painted and it was like a nice cherry on top of what I thought was a spectacular kit. I hope when the full army releases the other gobbos are half as fun to paint as this guy here.
Anyway that’s it for now. If you took the time to read and see my guys thanks a lot, very happy to finally join this community for real with my very own chaos dwarf army. I’m sure all the old school guys are grumbling as is their dwarfy right that these new sculpts aren’t exactly what they’re looking for but I think they’re perfect for me and where I’m at in my hobby journey if that makes any sense. Coming up next is a bright yellow war despot to garishly contrast the rank and file. Let me know if anyone has any cool basing ideas, I was thinking kind of a yellowish sand? Some kind of savannah maybe? I dunno nothing really seems to be hooking me.
Until next time kinsman.
