Dawi of Karaz Ankor: The bearded one's dwarfs

[The bearded one]

Hello there. Obviously ( looking at my name, avatar and sig and the content of 75% of my posts ) I'm a dwarf fan and player. Time for a painting log.

I am nearly done with painting 2500 points, but it is worth sharing with you, as I have gotten a lot of praise on other fora and in my local GW. I still need to paint 7 miners, 10 or so hammerers, my BSB and my lord on shieldbearers, and I will definately add something more when the dwarfs are rereleased ( please plastic ironbreakers of epicness ).

Anyway, without furher ado. I have a unit of dwarf warriors, and they're not up to my standards anymore, so I decided to touch them up. The skull pass champion has been replaced with a champion I still had lying around from my first regiment of dwarfs ( which is retired, and being picked apart to be reused in regiments everywhere, I can't just abandon them after all ).

Here a picture for reference, this is how it looks/looked before I started repainting.


Here is the new command squad.


And here the first 7 repainted warriors.

[Wicked Dwarf]

Hey, those look familiair, saw them on GWHobby.net.

They are looking very good, more matching the rest of you army now.

[_dandaman_]

Very nice! Would you mind giving me a tutorial on how you do a few of your bear colors (any colors will do) because the only one I can do well is bleached bone + flesh wash.

Thanks;

Dan

[Dino]

Nice work. Jope to see more soon.

[Schmapdi]

wow - they looked pretty sharp before the repaint even. You have a nice, soft touch to them.

I too wouldn't mind seeing some beard recipes.

[The bearded one]

A couple of beard recipes;
Lightbrown

Snakebite leath + scorched brown
snakebite leather highlight on the strands
snakebite leather + skull white as final highlight on the strands ( can be done in multiple stages with varrying amount of skull white, bleached bone could be used instead of skull white as well )

Fiery red
scorched brown + vermin brown
vermin brown
vermin brown + skull white

blonde ( more complicated )
calthan brown
calthan brown + snakebite leather
Calthan brown + snakebite leather + golden yellow
"................................................. ................." + kommando khaki
"................................................. ..........................................." + dheneb stone
"................................................. .................................................. ................" + skull white

and tadaaaaa! Blonde beards.

White
codex grey
fortress grey
fortress grey + skull white
skull white

grey
chaos black + codex grey
codex grey
fortress grey highlight on the strands

Yay, I've finally got one!! I could not resist the lure of the small template anymore!



And I just had an epiphany; A warmachine has a number of wounds. Each wound is a crewmember. When the warmachine loses it's last wound/crewmember, then the warmachine is removed as well. Well then why bother with using a warmachine and 3 seperate crewmembers running around? I'll just use 2 crewmembers and when the last wound is inflicted, remove the warmachine. So I glued a crewmember onto the base with the warmachine

[Asp]

i like them. if you ever do slayers id like to host them in my gallery

[_dandaman_]

Thanks so very much the bearded one! Im definitely going to try out those beards!

Thanks;

Dan

[Seville]

Beautiful! Great work! How do you paint the blonde beards?

[Taahuu]

Great work mate, i have always loved dwarfs and these look so great!

I hope to see more.

[Elfboy]

Some nice looking dwarfs you got there, can't wait to see you get to grips with that grudge thrower. Will you be posting any pics of the rest of your army?

[The bearded one]

I sure will ^^ Most of it's already painted. I've got nearly 2500 pts finished.
And I'll post a pic of the grudge thrower W.I.P. in a few moments.

[The bearded one]

Work in progress:

[Hrokka `Eadsplitter]

Great painting here, keep it up!

[Dino]

Looking very nice man. Keep it up.

[Ancre]

I really like your dwarfs, they look great

[The bearded one]

Some additional highlighting on the metal. It could use some as it was still rather messy and bland.


High five!

[The bearded one]

The crew of the grudge thrower, finished! The engineer with pistol is converted from the BFSP one.


I finished the shields on a few more thunderers

[Ramius4]

Great looking stunties there. It's certainly more effort than I'm putting into my own But then, I'm lazy and undwarf-like

[Dayspringer]

nice, I like the freehand on the shields