Tuesday 10 January 2017

From JohnSh - Freddy's Revenge Chronopia Dwarves (65 points)

One of my favourite figure ranges of all time was Chronopia from Heartbreaker Hobbies/Target games. This fantasy game is long defunct but I managed to accumulate a large stockpile of miniatures and have been hoarding them in my lead mountain for years.
Dragon Rampant has given me the opportunity to field a lot of these chaps again so I need to build up a couple of units for our upcoming DR campaign. My Dwarven force could do with a bit more crazy close combat so these Vulture Claws are just the ticket.


My reasoning on the paint scheme is that as mastersmiths, Dwarves would make everything they could from metal. To show off their skills the metals wouldn't just be "shiny silver" but would be alloyed and coloured.

Umm, Freddy, are you sure that swinging around these bladefingers is a good idea?

Hence the variety of metallic paints chosen here. I have used paints from just about anywhere that I could find, GW, Army Painter, Vallejo and especially craft paints. These are particularly tricky to get right when using on miniatures requiring careful mixing with a flow medium, and several coats, to get the desired effect. They are finished with army Painter Dark Tone ink to make the metallics pop a bit more but maintain that slightly grubby look that I imagine anyone living among forges would have . Basing has been kept simple with a sandy ground with "veins of minerals" (granite dust) for contrast.

I will find you in your dreams!

Thirteen 28mm miniatures here so 65 points I believe.

Alan and Paul: Two entries of Chronopia Dwarves on the same day! These look great - the blue tone to the steel Wolverine claws is very effective, and I like the thought that has gone in to giving reasons for the colours you have chosen. Top stuff!

15 comments:

  1. Nice work John. Always fun to see more Dwarves.

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  2. Thirteen dwarves to give you nightmares - lovely work John :)

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  3. Nice, good metallic blues and purples.

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  4. Excellent submission, great work with the metallic paints.

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  5. nice colour scheme well executed

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  6. One of the best things about Dragon Rampant is that it has encouraged people to get vintage figures like these on the table. These guys are lovely, especially the rather cringing ones watching the blades lofted about. Nice work.

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  7. I really like the alloy approach - very unique!

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  8. Why do I get a mental image of a Dwarf Corporal Jones exclaiming "Ohhh, they don't like it up 'em Sah!"! Nice job mate, looking forward to seeing these guys on the table soon.

    Looks like we will have quite the Dwarven Alliance in our Dragon Rampant campaign!

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  9. The colour mix really works, good work

    Ian

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  10. Great work John! I like the addition of the granite dust as well, a neat trick.

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  11. While I know of Chronopia, I have never seen these miniatures. You've done them up very well!

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  12. I like the figures and the painting and the chosen rules (Dragon Rampant). That's Win win win as far as I am concerned.

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