"What are those strange looking, smallish men, clad in metal and wearing axes? They are a bit bigger than the very small one with a sword, before the encounter with a huge spider, and they seem calm, not poking with their weapons", thinks Shellington while his brains tried to figure out what was happening. As far as he could tell, they were professional warriors, probably hand picked to better fit these underground hallways. Axes seemed a bit old fashioned though, he was quite sure that the Great War in Europe was fought with firearms and such like. "May be this is some kind of honor guard, something related to the history of the Miskatonic University, some detail, which has slipped my mind?", he continued his silent thoughts while he moved across the room, six eyes closely following his movement, but nothing else. He reached the doorway and continued, relieved to leave this stressing room behind.
For the Armoury I present three Khazad Guard, proudly wearing Mithril armor and couple of axes. There's no better armor than Mithril, correct? I think this is the start of my Dwarven army for Lord of the Rings/Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game.
These are painted mostly with Contrast, metal parts are GW metal paints of course, but in general Contrasts. They are not super neat, but quite neat, especially for Contrast job. The base is simple sand with dark brown wash and brown drybrush. I don't like dwarfs to be too uniformed, they are too proud to change their family heritage, personal achievements and stuff like that in order to be better identified on the field of battle - the enemies are most likely a head or two taller anyway and would it be an internal fight, they sure would know who are on their side and who is not. So I varied the colors a lot, but tried to keep a limited palette and paint all the helmets with blue to unify them. The regular warriors (later) might have different colors in their helmets.
Next stop will be the "The Gallery of Ancestors", what kind of ancestors will Uggla find - and whose?
15 points for 3 28mm miniatures
20 poins for room
Total 35 points, 15 to GW side challenge, 0 skulls, hanging in the TOP-50
Nice work on these Dwarves - I don't think anything they're guarding is going to go walkabouts.
Tamsin
Nice trio of well armoured dwarves, like he blue helmets.
ReplyDeleteThanks Peter, the blue shines nicely. Their face is covered, so may be the helmet then draws the eyes nicely?
DeleteNicely done, Teemu. Very colourful, which is how I think dwarves should be!
ReplyDeleteI agree on that, I'm planning the army to look something like the early bright WHFB armies, but not on green bases and probably not with red shafts...
DeleteLovely looking trio of dwarves!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
They look up quite nice, the bright colors work ok.
DeleteThose dwarves are great, but I've found the axe heads can be fragile.
ReplyDeleteYes, they were a bit bendy, at least.
DeleteYep, great figures and fragile axe heads. Lovely work Teemu!
ReplyDeleteThanks, I need to be careful with the axes.
Deletelove the icy blue on these stouty Dwarfs Teemu, Arthur approves as well ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, the colors are quite Arthurian, I must admit.
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