Tuesday, 28 February 2023

From MartinC: The Dwarven Hills (720pts)

 All tales of fantasy, well those that count, contain tales of dwarfs and their mountainous kingdoms. As I teased last week I have some dwarfs to paint to complete a 35 year old army.


These are Oathmark plastic dwarf spearmen, I have more to make. Simple Saxon style shields

Next a command section, Northstar

Mad dynamic berzerkers from CP models

Original Citadel dwarfs, had these 37 years.

much more recent 2nd hand rifleman

On the diet of dwarfs. There is no scale creep in dwarfs, it's massive leaps for dwarfkind. Why!! Couple of pistoliers, raided the bits box, and a Hasslefree dwarf

A dwarf general on a wolf. I hand cast the body and legs and added arms and head from Oathmark kit. Then gave him milliput chainmail armour

The wolf was old school in the 1980s and used to pull a goblin chariot

Time for a change of pace with some 3D printed machinery

these will be used for gangster and modern games, probably Nam -obviously

Gangsters need mass transit so

a file box is perfect for....

a subway station

the train is from earlier in the challenge

you need a newspaper stand to to get pushed into and a set of stairs to recreate the end of The Untouchables, or the Battleship Potempkin. This one is 14.5 x 10 x 3 inches = 2 cubes

I did mention hills and I built a really big one earlier in the challenge for massive games of Nam, or anything else

this one is much bigger, using 1,2 and 3 inch insulation board. Painted with spray cans and an obscene number of tuft curtesy of Dave

Cover it with Jungle and we are in business

A very lost Turkish WW1 officer wondering how to get down. So this is 2ft wide by 6ft long and a max of 9 inches high. pile it all together and it is 24x24x10 = 26 cubes

Scores on the doors

26 dwarfs on foot = 130

1 mounted dwarf = 10

5 machines = probable 2 each = 10

1 station = 40

1 massive hill = 520  530

gives 720 pts



Well, today is already looking to be a bumper points day for the Tuesday Terrors, maybe even making up for the shortfalls from some of the other crews!

Those Dwarves look like great additions to your collection - is it now complete? Great work on the terrain as well - that filing drawer subway station is a brilliant idea and the machinery looks great - do you remember where you got it from? As for the hill, your maths is slightly off - I make it 26.5 cubes; however, that still keeps your total as 720 points as your maths was also off when you totaled up the scores!

Tamsin


33 comments:

  1. My god what is with you Northerners and your need to go big! Those hills are great but I just love the subway station! You nailed the tiles. All dwarves great, but especially like those Oathmark guys.

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    1. Cheers, do like the dwarfs. As for the hill, go big or go home

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  2. That is a very big hill indeed. Well done. The subway station is amazing and looks like a fun environment for gaming.

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  3. Massive aircrafts, massive hills, what's next for Tuesday?
    The file box terrain looks handy and those dwarfs are ace!

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  4. Tamsin the machines are from anyscale games

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  5. Fantastic submission and points bomb. The Dwarves host caught my eye indeed

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  6. And he says I am insane ! Nice job Martin - hill could be a bit bigger 😂😂

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    1. ta, I have more layers. I actually need more kingspan, I've had a thought

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  7. Love the subway station in a file box, very efficient, great looking dwarves and an insane hill!
    Best Iain

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  8. Dwarfs rule, as a fellow Dwarf player I couldn't agree more with your statement. The subwaystation is awesome too

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  9. Tremendous work, Martin! The dwarfs are awesome (esp the miliput chainmail chap). I also really like the looks of that subway/train station - very atmospheric for your 1930's games.

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    1. cheers, love dwarfs and proud of the general.

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  10. Fabulous Martin, the dwarfs are fantastic

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  11. Nice work, Martin! I like the reinforcements for the dwarfs, but that subway station is really cool. Can't wait to see where and what the factory will be for those machines....who gave the officer a map and compass!? ;)

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    1. thanks, me too. I already have the factory, just deciding if I blow it up or not. It's really big

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  12. Great work Martin, clever work on the dwarven general

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  13. Excellent stuff, Martin. The tube station is very nice indeed, and I like those old Citadel dwarves!

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  14. That subway station in a box is a great idea!

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