KoW dwarf army

So I wanted to add some more impressive models as a centre piece for my army. I really like the idea of the earth elementals that Dwarfs can take, and the big steel behemoth. However I’m not really a fan of the Mantic sculpts so I had a look around for alternatives. I finally settled on these from MoM miniatures, a small company in Spain.

I love the Steam Tank. It’s a great looking piece of Dwarf engineering and the amount of stowage on the model is enough to keep any tread head happy. It is two pieces of solid resin, so it feels reassuringly hefty. The base is the perfect size to stand in for the steel behemoth

I really like the idea that the dwarfs would conjure up Earth elementals in their own image.

These models are great sculpts. Minimal clean up was required, they were very reasonably priced and came very quickly considering the current situation.

I’m going to try and paint up the earth elementals first.

It’s so great to finally be taking some time and focussing on a single character model. I started by using contrast paints and then tried to push the use of them with highlights etc.

The armour was highlighted up to try and give a more NMM style. With the chainmail it was initially painted using contrast grey and then the recesses were done in contrast black, followed by a dry brush of white on the upper surfaces.

The metal areas were given an edge highlight to make them pop a bit more. The jewels were done in the classic GW style.

I’m really happy with how he turned out.

Something a little bit different coming up next…

I’ve now finished the unit of old GW models that I put together. They are old (maybe 90s) dwarf Hammerers with modern shields. These old metal minis take contrast paints really well as they are packed with bold detail and don’t tend to have large smooth surfaces. I have decided to use these as elite troops in my force and therefore have used a more blue/grey for the armour to give the impression of polished steel as you would expect from this sort of unit.

The musician and standard bearer are troll slayers but they don’t look too out of place.

And we’re back to some serious batch painting with 20 of the standard Dwarf Warriors. As you may notice I have learnt from my more recent units and painted the weapons with Gryf charger grey to break up the colours a bit. These units still look a little dour compared to the rest but I suppose that’s ok for the bog standard troops. It does mean that I’m going to have to go back and redo the weapons on the earlier unit of these that I completed, but at least there are only ten of them.

As the eagle eyed may have noticed in the last full army shot, there has been a recent addition to the force. My FLGS has been made mantic premium store, and so I couldn’t resist buying an addition to swell the gun line. They are the sharpshooter troop. I suddenly realised why mixed metal and plastic isn’t great, especially in these older mantic units.

Having a troop made up of effectively five models really helps with the rate of progress, and the shields in front create a nice change of look compared to the other units.

Sorry for the delayed updates. Here’s the second unit of Brock riders. Just as much fun to paint as the first!

These were great fun to paint. The contrast paints work really well on heavily textured surfaces like fur. You can even mix them on the model for some lovely effects.

Next up some more Brock riders.