Tuesday 26 January 2016

From TeemuL - Hasslefree Dwarfs (25 points)

Aah, the joys of January - the Christmas and Winter beers are in discount
As I mentioned earlier, my Dwarf army was lacking some long distance firepower. I have now added two bolt throwers and couple of halflings with bows as possible allies, but I want to be sure. So I'm adding these dwarfs with crossbows.


I was looking after the old metal crossbow dwarfs from Citadel, but couldn't found any with a quick search. On the other hand, Hasslefree Miniatures had a Christmas Offer: Buy Anything and get Something for free. They had some dwarfs with crossbows which looked suitable for my needs, so I placed an order. I got this Gromli figure as a free extra. For now he will be the leader of the unit, but I might change that Dwarf Officer from one of the Bolt Throwers to this unit, he has similar helmet and striped uniform as some of these.



How can that shield look so messy???


They all come with round bases, but I changed them to square ones. Gromli also had a nice shield, but I changed it to GW shield in order to tie him and his group tightly with the other forces. These guys are slimmer than cartoonish GW dwarfs and their beards are quite dwarf sized as well. Hmm. I mean small. I believe they will look okay with the rest of the dwarfs, they will be in their own unit, so it should help with optical illusion. On the other hand, they might work as a crusader army as well - all that ring mail and those helmets. They are not fat like most of the dwarfs, so these might work like as smallish crusades era men.


I really liked to paint these guys, I liked the sculpts and details, there was basically no flash. They were really a joy. It is just all that ring mail which might be quite painful, it takes some time and eats my brushes. Well. the stripes are not that better, but I still kinda liked to paint them. I have more of these, I hope to paint them during the challenge.


Gromli observing the practice
It's five points a piece, so together they are 25 points. Now I need to work with some defensive terrain to shield my precious dwarfs...


Nice looking Dwarfs! I think I might still have a few of the early 1980s Citadel ones in my collection at my dad's house, but don't remember if there were any crossbowmen among them. This little group will give you 25 points well earned :)

28 comments:

  1. Nice looking Dwarves. You've earned your beer!

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    1. Thanks. And Thanks! There's more to come, both dwarfs and beer. :)

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  2. Lovely old-school looking dwarfs Teemu. The striped jerkins are neat!

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    1. Thank you. The jerkins were quite painful to paint at times, but in the end they came out nice.

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  3. Great stuff Teemu - love the old school look.

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    1. I'm glad you like it, I don't know any other way to paint. :)

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  4. I am still looking at the beer! Nice dwarfs.

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    1. The beer is "Bad Elf" - although I don't think it is necessary to tell dwarfs that elfs are bad...

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  5. Lovely painting. New figures and old school style.

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    1. Thanks! I'm combining these to my old dwarfs, which are of course painted in the old school style, so I need to match them. And I like to bright colors.

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  6. Nice bright colours on these Teemu.

    I love Hasslefree figures and got in on the big Halloween sale. The sale was so good, I even picked up a few resin masters.

    Looking forward to the defensive terrain for these on Sunday!

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    1. Thank you Anne. I need to pay attention to Hasslefree sales in the future, they have some nice dwarfs and other miniatures, which I'd like to get.

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  7. Very nice dwarves, Teemu! My favorite fantasy race too, the crossbow men turned out really well and I look forward to seeing the rest of squad, but my favorite is their temp commander. I like his pose and those colors work well on him too!

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    1. There's a small dwarf inside all of us, right? :) The commander is a nice sculpt and I just don't know how to paint a dwarf without using red paint...

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  8. Great looking fantasy troops. I really like the look of these.

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  9. Nothing like beer as a brush cleaner!

    Awesome old skool dwarfs! Awesome work Teemu. I quite like that shield btw.

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    1. Thanks Curt! The shield is okay, but in the large photos it looked very messy. It's better in small photos and in nature. :)

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    1. Thanks! I managed to get some decent photos this time and the colors pop up nicely. :)

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  11. good to see some different looking dwarves and hasslefree figures are always nice in my experience.

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    1. I don't have much experience outside GW metals, but at least these were very nice. A joy to paint.

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  12. What a good looking bunch

    Ian

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  13. I like these figures. These Dwarves are obviously on the Atkins diet.

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