KoW dwarf army

I’ve started the first unit of Brock riders. Feeling a bit more confident with the contrast paints, I have done a selective second coat in the recesses to bring out the shapes of the Badgers.

My FLGS was just made a Mantic premium store. This means it now stocks the vast majority of the KoW product line. I couldn’t resist popping in and picking up something. At least I was vaguely sensible and got a unit that was not too big.

The sharpshooters are a troop despite just having five men. Much easier to add to the painting pile than a twenty man bulwarker regiment.

I hadn’t taken in to account the hell that is a mixture of old plastic models and bits in metal that apparently weren’t designed to fit with said bits of plastic.

Makes you really appreciate certain other manufacturers cad/cam products.

Having finished the Shieldbreakers unit I’ve done the third war machine. I’m trying to alternate the little units with the big blocks of troops to keep the motivation up.

As you can probably see the last big gun is the organ gun. I’ve painted it using lessons learned from my experiments with the Shieldbreakers unit. Hence the greater use of the turquoise in the figures and the blue/grey barrel of the weapon. I think it works in making the models more vibrant and I may have to go back and adapt the first two to fit in a bit better.

I’ve pretty much finished the Shieldbreakers. The tweaks to the colour scheme have really come together. The blue/grey weapons help make the models pop, and the red adds some variety.

The keen eyed among you may have spotted a stumpy chap with a beer in one hand and nothing in the other. I’m hoping to create a banner pole and then I’ll get to paint a banner. Any recommendations for size and material of banner pole would be greatly appreciated.

I was overwhelmed to get the button for this project. Thank you everyone for the the kind words.

Moving on with the next unit, I’m doing some Shieldbreakers. To try and combat the concerns I’ve had about the slightly monochrome look of the force so far I’ve made a coupe of changes.

I’ve tried to put a bit more turquoise in on shoulder pads etc, hopefully this will break up some of the black/grey sections.

There is now some red in as a spot colour. I’m using fleshtearer red on the shafts of the hammers for the grip section.

Finally I’ve changed the grey I’m using for the weapons. Swapping to Gryf Charger Grey will hopefully bring a different tone in as it is much more blue grey than the Basilicanum Grey I was using previously.

I’ve finished the second cannon. It’s painted exactly the same as the first one. I’m still not convinced I’ve got the colour balance right. The greys and blacks are all just a bit to similar for my liking. Hey ho, I’m sure I’ll think of something.

So I went ahead and tried the shields in contrast paint so that the colour matched perfectly. They haven’t come out too badly but I think they might benefit from a free hand symbol of some sort. Time to get my thinking hat on.

The bulldog was great fun to do and I think he came out looking grand.

I’ve made some progress on the next unit, ten ironguard. They’ve been painted up in exactly the same way as the ironwatch units. The only bits I’m not sure about are the shields and the bulldog.

I don’t know how the contrast paint will react to the flat surface of the shields and there isn’t an equivalent colour in non-contrast paints.

I’m going to have to do some research into bulldog markings and colours before I start the canine. There’s always something new to learn when painting.