Dwarf Runelord

I woke up early again today and tackled another dwarf model. 

Last night I cut and cleaned up the Runelord from the Dwarf battleline. 

I decided to not glue any of these pieces together before painting. 

A friend of my recommended doing a purple cloak, which turned out very well. 

I spent about 2.5-3 hours total on this model. I think it might be one of the best models I have ever painted. 

I recently ordered a few models from Avatar of War and was feeling a little worried that I wouldn't be able to paint them very well. But after painting this model, I feel confident that I will do a good job on them when they arrive. 

Dwarfs (Warriors and Thunderers)

I received a Dwarf battleline last week. It contains 59 models. Battle forces and big boxes of models have a tendency to discourage me from painting. This weekend, however, I decided to tackle the box. 

I started by assembling the 20 warriors. 

Tons and tons of bits. I also realized that if I were to put the arms on, that it would be nearly impossible to paint their faces. This added a bit more time to the job. 

I then decided to put together 20 thunderers as well. The intention was to get them primed all at once. 

Then the priming started. 

Messy stuff. 

But it didn't take too long with the airbrush. 

I then applied Leadbelcher and Dwarf Bronze to a few pieces. 

The next step was a brown wash. 

This was the end of night one. 

The next day I started with a silver dry brushing. 

This is where I had intended to paint them 5 or 10 at a time. 

But once I got started on their beards, I just couldn't help but continuing. 

After I painted on the beards and skin, I decided to glue them all up. 

The next step was getting to the fabric and details. 

After a bit more work on Sunday and Monday morning, this was the final result. 

It was a long long long weekend of painting, but I am pretty happy with the results. 

These models are definitely not as clean or detailed as some of my other dwarfs, but the fact that I got 40 done in one weekend makes me very happy. These are just core units, so I don't think I have to invest too much effort into them. 

My next project will be finishing off the battleline. 

Longbeards (first 10)

I continued to work on my dwarfs this week. I am quite determined to get up to about 1,500 points with them as many new players at the shop in Seoul have recently picked up WHF. It will be nice to learn with them. 

Since I am in Korea, it can be difficult to get miniatures. It is even more difficult to get Gamesworkshop miniatures because of their online retailer policies. 

I said that I wanted to be quite selective about which units I buy this time. However, that may not be possible. My choices are limited. However, I made another decision recently. I decided to use models as proxies. I never liked doing that in the past. Ideally, I would love to have a uniform platoon. Dwarfs, however, look so similar. Longbeards, warriors and ironbreakers are all pretty much the same. 

So, I decided to just make sure my front rank or two are the models I intend to use and the models behind them should just look somewhat similar. 

So even though I am not planning in using Longbeards, here are 10 Longbeards. 

They will most likely fill in spots behind warriors and ironbreakers. Or I may choose to use them in the future and have warriors fill in behind. Either way, these 10 are done and they will find some place in my army. 

I think they turned out well. They are very shiny and metallic. I have really been enjoying the use of metallics when painting.