Purplebeard's Dwarf & WHQ Log

[Purplebeard]

Hello all. Welcome to my WHQ & Dwarf log. A few months ago, I looked through my figure collection and realised just how little of it was painted. Over the last few months, I have been trying to remedy the situation. This log will hold pics of my WFB Dwarves and Warhammer Quest stuff.

Firstly, WHQ Heroes - please note that I have many more of these, but these were all I could sensibly fit into the picture!

[Purplebeard]

Barbarian



Elf



Dwarf



Wizard



Trollslayer



Warrior Priest

[Purplebeard]

More Heroes!

Imperial Noble



Halfling



Witch Hunter



Sorceress (Use as a Wizard or even as a Vampire)



Astronomer / Mentalist

There is a lot more WHQ and Dwarf goodness to follow shortly - more WHQ Heroes & 'Lair of The Orc Lord' figures, plus lots of Warhammer Dwarves (80s / C series, etc). Bye for now!

[Wicked Dwarf]

Wow, really nice models and very well painted!

I really love the colours and how you did the faces.

[mrtn]

Nice painting, you're making those old plastics look much better.

[Purplebeard]

Thanks for the comments. I'll add more at the weekend. Next on the WHQ list are the Elf Ranger and a Battlemasters Ogre, plus Dwarves to come too!

[Welf VIII.]

These look great and that is a lot as I really think that most of the miniatures GW produced in the early 90s are really crap.

Now please explain the colour of your Dwarf's beard (and your nick name)!

[Purplebeard]

I think you'll prefer my Dwarves (as opposed to my WHQ stuff) - I have plenty of these to follow - lots of random 80s stuff in there - Gnomes, Bugman's Rangers, and Warriors (a mix of metal Imp/Norse and both plastic psychostyrene types) and several of the King's Court figures, plus more fun stuff I think that perhaps my mind has been slightly warped by the influence of Chaos, hence my love for such deeply heretical things as Dwarven cavalry, Wizards, all-female units, and purple beards!

[Purplebeard]

I finally managed to get camera to figures, and so I bring you more pictures today. Firstly, Dwarves:

Bugman's Rangers (2nd Edition):


Bugman's Rangers (2nd Edition) - I'm planning on building up a 2nd unit too.
I'm planning on building up a 2nd unit too.

Dwarven Characters - including a Shieldmaiden, Gnome Illusionist and Wizard, amongst others:




More to follow....

[Purplebeard]

A Dwarf King & Queen from the Dwarf King's Court set from the 1980s, plus C series figures - a female rogue, Shieldmaiden, and Sage - the group shot hasn't turned out well, but the close-ups are better:








To add to my heresy, I have another Dwarven Wizard, and a Dwarf King on Horseback (!) - sculpts by Essex Miniatures:





The Essex figures are huge next to Citadel miniatures, so you could not reasonably mix the infantry, but I think that you can just about get away with Essex cavalry next to Citadel foot figures. The horses are perfectly sized for Warhammer Dwarves, and I have attempted converting riders, but haven't yet found suitable base models, so, atm, am stuck with Essex Dwarves.

[Purplebeard]

Last of the Dwarves for now:

Classic Marauder Wizard (with luscious purple beard!) first:

Dwarf Wizard




Slayers

I'm not keen on the way that they have turned out. I went for blonde hair because I haven't yet found a satisfactory way to paint red hair and retain shading/detail, etc. I am thinking of fudging it and mixing up the hair colours, including natural colours plus a few crazies with pink/purple/green/electric blue beards, and maybe bodypaint for some - unsure as yet - suggestions are welcome :S

[Purplebeard]

Warhammer Quest stuff now - more heroes:

Salty Seadog, Gnome, Druid, High Priest/Liche Priest, Goldhunter, Kislevite Shaman


Dwarf Wizard, Bounty Hunter, Amazon (from 80s Talisman - a nod to Welf there), Wizard, and Brewmaster (with his trusty beer barrel!)



Evil Heroes/ Anti-heroes (?)


Vampiress, Chaos Warrior, Assassin, Chaos Sorceror, Witch Elf, & Necromancer

I'm off now to prepare more goodies (or should that be baddies?)

[Welf VIII.]

These look great. nice paintjobs.

I really fancy those old miniatures from the 80s and (surprise, surprise) especially the dwarfs.

Nice to see you also have that pretty dwarf lady from Hasslefree.

Is there a reason why you replaced the original Bugman musician with his Norse counterpart? And where is the Champion?

Looking forward to see more pictures.

[Daniel36]

YES! Warhammer Quest equals awesome!!

Good to see so much Quest love going around these days.

[Mr. Ultra]

Yay! The Dread King! I always loved that model, is very characterful! It seems to be shouting "Release the Kraken!!"

[Purplebeard]

@Daniel36 & Mr.Ultra - Hi. Thanks for the positive comments. I'll try and keep it updated reguarly and put lots of interesting stuff on here (hopefully!).

@Welf VIII - Yes, I have the musician (not sure about the Champion :? ), I'm planning on getting a 2nd unit of Bugman's Rangers and putting him in there, but that plan may change. I like the Hasslefree figures, I'd like to get Grimdalf. I may get some more HF minis in the far-off future.

My plan is/was to go for a more Viking/Norse/Dark Age look - I find that GW mixes the clothing on the Dwarves a lot (they have individual figs for every period from Sub-Roman British to ACW), so I am aiming for a tighter theme - anything with a Renaissance, Medieval or later appearance is out - so virtually no Imperial Dwarves, and no Marauder Dwarves except for Slayers and a few select warriors and command figures.

What is in, therefore, is the following:
Norse Dwarves - CCMwiki page

C08 Northern Dwarves - CCMwiki page

C06 Dwarf Adventurers - CCMwiki page

ME33 Dwarves - CCMwiki page - if I can get them.

In addition, Bugman's 2nd edition are in, possibly 3rd edition (I have 24 of those undercoated), and possibly 1st edition, plus various characters and a few of the older plastic dwarves (both psychosytrene types and a very few of the 4th ed plastics.

[Purplebeard]

I would like to have a couple of units with spears to keep up the Dark Age theme - anything with a Viking, Anglo-Saxon or Rus 'look' is going in the army. The Queen is going to get a unit of 24 Shield Maidens (mix of Norse and C6/C8 figs). I am going to use the scale-mail figures from the two ranges to create an Ironbreaker unit - possibly with green 'dragonplate' armour (eg. C8 figs 02 and 16, Norse Sigveld and 030207), and for Hammerers, I am planning to make a mixed unit of veterans, mostly the 'Huscarl'-type figures (eg. Norse Thorm).

All of this though, is to come after the core of the army, the warriors!

[ThankGoodness4Ebay]

Wow, talk about reminiscing. Love the models, and your painting skills, respect to you!

[LarryLimerick]

Wow lots of really interesting models here! And they are all painted very nicely! Looking forward to more updates!

[Purplebeard]

Hi everyone. It has been a busy week. My last paintbrush 'died' on me this week - so I have lots of incomplete figures - firstly, some 3/4 done Warriors:




I used a mix of both types of Psychostyrene Dwarves (including the rare multi-part ones), a few 4th Ed plastics (because I already had them painted :S), and a smattering of Norse, Northern and other Dwarves. The Musician (not shown) is currently an Imperial Dwarf drummer, but I may replace him later. I like how the lion shields and the red beards turned out.

This leads me on to Slayers - I previously gave them blonde hair, as I couldn't find a scheme for red hair that made me happy. I don't think it works that well, so I am going to repaint the beard on one of the Dragonslayers this week.




I am unsure as yet whether to give them all the characteristic red hair or to do a mix of hair colours (natural colours + crazy ones like purple, electric blue, green, etc). What do you guys think?