The Iron Crows Are Bringing Classic Dwarves To Kickstarter This Spring

January 9, 2017 by deltagamegirl22

For all those fantasy gamers that love their dwarves (ahem! Ben!), you need to keep your eye out for The Iron Crows Kickstarter from Durgin Paint Forge that will launch this March.

They plan to have a range of sixteen different, classic dwarves in a 30mm scale, perfect to expand your collection. These guys are looking awesome - so full of character and details! Have a look at their Facebook page and read through the descriptions for the dwarves.

It's impossible not to smile and feel the strong shiny syndrome urge beckoning you to mark the launch date on your calendar.

The Iron Claw will launch on Kickstarter on March 20th, which smartly gives everyone a chance to recover from their Christmas shopping.

Will you be adding these characters to your collection?

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teddymademedoit

9 years ago

Yep! Love everything about these, now just got to wait until March….

angora

So cool!

beardragon14

Oh these are magnificent…………….Wants so bad ……………………Look at them they are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Dwarfy …(a ne’er an, emaciated, androgynous, pointed eared freak in sight) … I’m in …***please let this get up * *please let this get up. I’m crossing every thing …..I’d send photos but some of it would be seriously distrubing

emptynessisform

why o why is there so much cool stuff, these guys are awesome.

fancybearzod

not sure what I’ll be using these guys for yet, but definitely going to get in on this.

lancorz

@brennon ‘s gonna cream his pants when he sees these.

sapbubblor

Not sure if this has been pointed out at their Kickstarter, but I’m quite curious as to where the line is drawn between inspiration and design theft. The iron masked fellow has too much of a similarity with Paul Bonners dwarven armour designs for it to simply be an coincidence.

buzzforce

Reply to sapbubblor

Hello, I’m Matteo from Durgin Paint Forge 🙂
You’re right, there is a clear inspiration in our work, for these dwarves we have worked with artists like Justin Gerard, for example, so I think it’s more appropriate to suggest Gerard as the main inspiration of our dwarves. I do love Paul Bonner, and Bonner himself asked us to save a copy of our dwarves for him, so I think he just doesn’t feel himself “robbed” u_u
The masked one is my personal tribute to Trudvang’s art: I played their games since years, and I wanted to make a miniature with a detail that I always loved. Even here, I had a sincere speech with one of Trudvang’s author, and he seemed to understand my purpose.
Sorry if my answer seems to you “rude” or aggressive (unfortunately my english isn’t so good, so for me is hard to communicate my thoughts!), but I think you have pointed out an important fact about our work and I felt the duty to give you a honest answer 🙂

Reply to buzzforce

I didn’t find your answer rude at all. Justin Gerard is a new name for me and one I’ll be sure to look up as I do like the look of your models. I was mainly referring to the dwarf in the mask. But seeing that you both sought out one of the Trudvang authors and got in contact with Bonner I can’t really complain 🙂 Good luck with your upcoming Kickstarter!

Yes, I admit that for us having the appreciation of mr. Bonner was such a great honor, I’m really proud of it cause I think he understood the “nature” of our style. This project has started some years ago, when I wanted only to make some great dwarves for my followers. I planned just few characters, and I wanted only to realize the miniatures I always wanted (I started collecting miniatures when I was 12, principally warhammer and confrontation dwarves!). Dwarves are my passion, and of course when I thought about “my dwarves”, I couldn’t help but inserting in them all the artistic influences that burned the love for them in all my past years: the big noses and the old school style (Bonner of course, but also Gibbons), the general “fairy” look of the old fantasy, some humour in details etc. After 2 years, this project has grown so fast that even for me is hard to explain: people just started to sincerely love our sculpts, and step by step the “few dwarves” have become a whole range, and this range has become the first step of a whole fantasy collection that I want to realize from now on! I understand that what for me is a genuine and enthusiastic (and often, unconscious!) mention, for an external point of view may seems a “theft”, and as you can see looking at our sculpt, the newer characters has slightly take a more personal design, to be “Durgin Paint Forge dwarves”.
When I showed the dwarf with that mask, an author from Riotminds kindly (in fact he was very polite and understanding with us) let us note the similar design between our mask and theirs, and I confess I was a bit ‘ashamed for my naivety: I suddenly realize that..well..I was making a commercial things! After that speech we focused on our style, trying to evolve it and making it our own design. The fact that you (and others) point out this ethic (and legit) question made me think about very hard in last days, and I confess that I don’t want to appear like I’m stealing the hard work of others. For this reason, while there are still 3 months for the start of our kickstarter, I want to clarify this detail (the mask) once for all, assume all my responsibilities and, if requested, change its design as well.
Sorry for this wall of text XD but I think it’s very interesting having a sincere debate with people, and this kind of issues are a perfect way to grow up as creative and professional, so thank you for having point out the question constructively 🙂
Matteo

That’s a good response. I know it’s difficult to avoid being inspired inadvertently.
Your Dwarves are fantastic and I am really looking forward to your Kickstarter!

Maybe it was wrong of me to imply that any theft could have occurred before getting the full picture of the situation as well. Were I to contact you directly (instead of just asking a question on the BoW-forum) I certainly would’ve toned down anything that could be regarded as an accusation.
And as you explained I can imagine that designing a large number of unique models while having a wide spectra of inspirational sources makes it hard to not (at least on occasion) lean on established designs, even if that never was the intention.
But since none of the involved parties seems to have taken offence (and some even gave you their blessings) then no harm has been done.
And again, I never meant to imply any wrong-doings on your part. I guess it just goes to show that you never know who could be on the receiving end of what you write on the internet.