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Fencig
Vassal
the Dwarves are wonderful, the miners and Priests are my favorite along with the flying machines and war engines.
That is excellent work on the machines. I couldn't figure out how the balloon was help up as the commercial Dwarf Ornithopter models are metal (didn't know you DIY these) but I'm guessing you used paper here and string?
Eric
Administrator
Love that unit filler - were are those dwarves carrying the keg from? Every time I see this thread I want to rebase everything on icy bases even though I have no ice terrain! They do look very cool (no pun intended).
Have moved the TapaTalk side quest over here: https://forum.oldhammer.org/threads/tapatalk.39868/ so we can continue to admire the lovely dwarves without distraction!
Kallstrom
Vassal
Thanks everybody, I am glad that others enjoy seeing these old dwarfs painted up as much as me!
To reply to some questions, the dwarfs from my latest post are only slightly converted. The standard of the miner is made up out of parts from old Games Workshop dwarf plastic bits. The Ironbreaker had her axe head replaced since the original part had some sort of mishap. The keg carrying dwarfs are originally intended to carry another dwarf aloft on top a shield, but I thought they looked a bit unarmored for fighting on the front lines so they were delegated to brewer duty instead.
Almost all of the dwarfs in my collection were acquired a long time ago (mostly around 2010-2015), so my memory might fail me regarding their origin. The ones from my latest post are mostly made up of old Warhammer and Black Tree Design miniatures, with some other brands sprinkled in (like D&D Chainmail, Old School MIniatures, Alternative Armies, Black Hat Miniatures). Some smaller companies that I bought my miniatures from has gone out of business since then or been absorbed into another company, so trying to google for an answer to identify a sculpt has proved difficult. The keg bearers for example I believe are from Black Hat Miniatures if I remember correctly, but since they have gone out of business I cannot confirm it. I wish I had cataloged all my purchases better, but alas that was not the case.
Regarding the balloon model that I built the balloon itself is made out of a plastic christmas tree ornament (turned upside down, with its "hook" acting as the holder for a small flame that fuels the balloon with hot air). The round and hollow ball was then wrapped in a piece of net that came with a bunch of oranges. Lastly I wrapped some rope around it to give it a more rustic look, and I placed a small dwarf icon (think it is the top from a standard of some sort) on the front. Even though the whole balloon is very lightweight the whole thing is held up by a some metal strings that I twisted to give them a sort of rope'y look. So the whole thing is actually very durable and steady!
The icy bases is actually the element I get the most positive respons on when people see my army, and I think they contrast very well with the dwarfs both in theme and visually with the lighter color complementing the dark tones of the miniatures. Since they are so easy to make it feels like the right choice for this army, too.
I actually have a lot of snow-based terrain, and I totally get wanting to base one's army with a matching theme to one's terrain. Over the years I have collected various armies and smaller forces that all go on different bases (snow, ice, summer grass, autumn leaves, desert, space ship, etc), and trying to keep that up with matching terrain would be both very expensive and require that I live in a big castle! So I decided recently that some overlap was required. Snow and ice is similar enough, and the same goes with leaves and grass even though they are of different hues. I have too few miniatures with a desert theme so I skip matching terrain altogether for them. All sci-fi miniatures go on metallic "interior of a space ship" bases to match the terrain I have. If one wants to make a small project with a handful of miniatures (or even a whole army) with a theme that does not fit one's current terrain collection one could always make a mental note that those miniatures are for fighting on other fields (like tournaments or at a friend's house, where matching will be difficult anyway). Or maybe just make some smaller pieces of matching terrain and place them with the army on the shelf so that when displayed they at least look like they have some fitting set pieces to go with them (this is what I do with my Lord of the Rings miniatures, with some scattered pieces of ruins that are enough to cover a shelf but not a whole gaming table).
To reply to some questions, the dwarfs from my latest post are only slightly converted. The standard of the miner is made up out of parts from old Games Workshop dwarf plastic bits. The Ironbreaker had her axe head replaced since the original part had some sort of mishap. The keg carrying dwarfs are originally intended to carry another dwarf aloft on top a shield, but I thought they looked a bit unarmored for fighting on the front lines so they were delegated to brewer duty instead.
Almost all of the dwarfs in my collection were acquired a long time ago (mostly around 2010-2015), so my memory might fail me regarding their origin. The ones from my latest post are mostly made up of old Warhammer and Black Tree Design miniatures, with some other brands sprinkled in (like D&D Chainmail, Old School MIniatures, Alternative Armies, Black Hat Miniatures). Some smaller companies that I bought my miniatures from has gone out of business since then or been absorbed into another company, so trying to google for an answer to identify a sculpt has proved difficult. The keg bearers for example I believe are from Black Hat Miniatures if I remember correctly, but since they have gone out of business I cannot confirm it. I wish I had cataloged all my purchases better, but alas that was not the case.
Regarding the balloon model that I built the balloon itself is made out of a plastic christmas tree ornament (turned upside down, with its "hook" acting as the holder for a small flame that fuels the balloon with hot air). The round and hollow ball was then wrapped in a piece of net that came with a bunch of oranges. Lastly I wrapped some rope around it to give it a more rustic look, and I placed a small dwarf icon (think it is the top from a standard of some sort) on the front. Even though the whole balloon is very lightweight the whole thing is held up by a some metal strings that I twisted to give them a sort of rope'y look. So the whole thing is actually very durable and steady!
The icy bases is actually the element I get the most positive respons on when people see my army, and I think they contrast very well with the dwarfs both in theme and visually with the lighter color complementing the dark tones of the miniatures. Since they are so easy to make it feels like the right choice for this army, too.
I actually have a lot of snow-based terrain, and I totally get wanting to base one's army with a matching theme to one's terrain. Over the years I have collected various armies and smaller forces that all go on different bases (snow, ice, summer grass, autumn leaves, desert, space ship, etc), and trying to keep that up with matching terrain would be both very expensive and require that I live in a big castle! So I decided recently that some overlap was required. Snow and ice is similar enough, and the same goes with leaves and grass even though they are of different hues. I have too few miniatures with a desert theme so I skip matching terrain altogether for them. All sci-fi miniatures go on metallic "interior of a space ship" bases to match the terrain I have. If one wants to make a small project with a handful of miniatures (or even a whole army) with a theme that does not fit one's current terrain collection one could always make a mental note that those miniatures are for fighting on other fields (like tournaments or at a friend's house, where matching will be difficult anyway). Or maybe just make some smaller pieces of matching terrain and place them with the army on the shelf so that when displayed they at least look like they have some fitting set pieces to go with them (this is what I do with my Lord of the Rings miniatures, with some scattered pieces of ruins that are enough to cover a shelf but not a whole gaming table).
