Oh yes there will be lava (chaos dwarfs)

[samael]

I've been busy painting skaven for the last 1,5 years and I really need a break from them before I take the plunge and finish up the remaining "couple" of models (75+ )

So, since I got the Tamurkhan book and I discoverd after some quick calculations about 3600 points worth of old school (big hat) chaos dwarfs lying around here doing nothing I figured it was time to drop them all in the paintremover and start something new.

This will not be a weekly updated log (I'm so slow) and I can't vouch for the quality of the pictures (I'm so mediocre) but I'll try to update it everytime I finish something.

So,for my first installment I present to you my version of a K'daai Destroyer based on the Ogre Stonehorn, bulked out with lots and lots of greenstuff and decked with plasticard armour, pointy bits kindly provided by Ogre swords and iron fists that I had lying around.

[Aedes]

I love this conversion and the base!

[Rob and Roll]

Good luck on your Chaos Dwarfs. I'm curious how your thread will evolve.
Feel free to check my version of chaos dwarfs on lava

[Karak Norn Clansman]

That's a great K'daai Destroyer! The armour is nifty.

[samael]

Thanks Aedes and thanks Rob, I will check out your lava, and the rest, I'm always interested in other peoples ideas.
Like I said the thread will most likely be slow, tournaments are coming up and summer is just around the corner (grumble, heat....in the netherlands.....that means damp and sweat, not a good combination to paint, but you are no stranger to that seeing your location ) .

[Rob and Roll]

Thanks Aedes and thanks Rob, I will check out your lava, and the rest, I'm always interested in other peoples ideas.
Like I said the thread will most likely be slow, tournaments are coming up and summer is just around the corner (grumble, heat....in the netherlands.....that means damp and sweat, not a good combination to paint, but you are no stranger to that seeing your location ) .

I'm actually in Delft as well.
Who would have thought to find so many big hats in 1 town

[Demortu]

I love your K'daai Destroyer conversion. The stonehorn's a fantastic model and it work's really well here.

I look forward to seeing more!

[samael]

First batch of 10 blunderbussess, 20 more to go

[samael]

Iron daemon finished apart from some smoke which I will add at a later date.

That thing is a hazard.
He looks heavy, so any unsuspecting person trying to pick it up will do his back in when they us some power to lift it and they find themselves getting launched into the air.

[Tuttivillus]

Nice work here. K'daii is awesome conversion. congrats on that one. Keep up the good work!!!

[zippy77]

one thing you might want to do is to apply the red glaze or baal red wash (well really paint it on) to get less yellow in your lava ... I found that made everything look better on my Lava trolls: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showth...-robot-zombies, but thats mainly just my personal opinion. The dwarves look great btw!

[samael]

one thing you might want to do is to apply the red glaze or baal red wash (well really paint it on) to get less yellow in your lava ... I found that made everything look better on my Lava trolls: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showth...-robot-zombies, but thats mainly just my personal opinion. The dwarves look great btw!

Thanks for the compliment.
I'll check out your suggestion, should be easy enough since the daemon isn't attached to the base.

[samael]

Well it's been a while but I got some work done and since it's a balmy 30 degrees up at the attick I decided to take some piccies there while waiting for the airco to kick in.

It's the army standard bearer the finished Iron daemon and the magma cannon.

[Tuttivillus]

Very nice update! What have You used for smoke and flame effects, if You don't mind me asking? It looks awesome!!!

[samael]

Oh thats easy.
Form some Woodlands Scenics foliage Clusters (or another brand) around a piece of iron wire (of the apropriate length and thickness) use superglue for this part.
Next: saturate the whole thing with thinned down pve glue (the white stuf) and let it dry thoroughly (it closes the foliage making it harder and easy to paint).

For smoke: spraypaint the whole thing black and then go over it again with normal black paint to make it realy dark (and to get at those spots you allways miss) and then work upwaarts with greys to white., then you can put some "firespots"in there with some yellow working up to reds .

For fire: spraypaint the whole thing white and then go over it again with normal white paint, then build the flame up starting with yellow through reds and then scorched brown (don't know the new name) and end wit a bit of black for the final "highlight"

[Tuttivillus]

Thanks a lot for the tip!!!

[Toshiro]

Very nice looking start to the plog

[samael]

Thanks I'll try to update it a bit more regularly but it all depends on time and inspiration

[thrawn]

looking great! love that magma cannon.

you should post it on chaos-dwarfs online. i have my army there on the blog page.

[samael]

Thanks!, done it already , under the same name.