Hello everyone,
(As a note, I already posted some of this in the CDO Facebook page, but it’s relevant to the story, so I’m repeating it here).
A short while ago I picked up a good sized lot of 90’s Warhammer figures, mostly for the orcs and undead. Here’s all of it.
The lot also included a bunch of cardboard buildings (multiples of the buildings from the 4th and 5th ed boxes), some trees, a complete set of cards from the 4th ed Battle Magic, Arcane Magic and Chaos supplements (no books though), a couple of Skaven characters, a small Chaos army and some other bit and bobs.
Lastly, but most importantly for this subject, it included a smallish Chaos Dwarf army. Here it is (except for a couple of the plastics and blunderbusses, which I already had in my collection):
So that’s very cool.
Anyway, I’d never considered collecting a Chaos Dwarf army. When they were originally released, I really didn’t like the aesthetic, and when I eventually came around to liking them, they’d become impossibly expensive to buy.
Now I actually had the beginnings of an army, but I also already had a 3rd ed Dwarf army, a 6th Ed Undead army (the “Kemmler’s army of the barrows”) and a heap of other projects lined op, so I figured I’d get to it “eventually”.
I’m not sure how well known it is, but “Warhammer Renaissance” (WHR) is an update and remake of 90’s Warhammer Fantasy (4th/5th edition). It originates in Denmark (where I’m from), but it’s gotten some fans in the wider “Herohammer” community (there are even a bunch of fairly well-produced battle reports on youtube - some featuring Chaos Dwarfs).
I have personally never played WHR, but I recently saw an invitation to a local “bring and battle” event on April 13th. It’s usually 1000 points and you have to use painted figures.
This seems like a good way to get some hobbying done, so I’m determined to go. For the same reason, I decided to pick an army I haven’t started painting yet, and what better choice than my newly acquired Chaos Dwarfs?
So that’s the mission. Clean, ready and paint 1000 points of Chaos Dwarfs by April 13th. How hard can that be?