KoW dwarf army

I’ve finished my first cannon (hopefully the first of many given it’s a dwarf army). The carriage was painted Black Templar for the ‘iron’ and Nazdreg Yellow for the gold/brass bits. The barrel was Basilicanum Grey. The crew were painted in the same way as the Ironguard in the last post.

I’m a little bit worried that the force is starting to look a little monochrome so I’ll have to think about how to counter that.

I’ve finished batch painting the first two units. They’re entirely done with contrast paints. I’ve not used any metallics so the ‘gold’ is Nazdreg Yellow, the gun barrels are Basilicanum Grey and the armour is Black Templar. The way the contrast paints work gives a very rough approximation of NMM, and save a lot of time compared to using thin coats of metallic paints and a wash.

For the beards I have used a variety of shades and then used a shade darker contrast paint in the recesses to give them some extra variation.

I’m really pleased with how they have turned out given the time input. I’ll move onto a cannon next.

I generally paint from the ground up. I’ve gone for snakebite leather (I love the retro goodiness of that name) for the boots. Knee armour and chainmail in Black Templar. Belts etc are done wyldwood. I’ve picked Terradon Turquoise as the main colour for my force. Mostly just because I love the richness of the colour and how well it works in the folds in the fabric.

So I’ve finally put paint to model. Starting with the bases I’ve used a single coat of Basilicanum Grey contrast paint from GW. It means there is no need for wash or dry brush. They edges of the bases don’t look great but that’s not too serious if they are ranked up. I’ll put some grass tufts on afterwards to give them some variety and interest.

The movement bases are MDF. They’ve been given a coat of PVA to seal them, then sand on the edges and painted the same as the model bases.

I was asked in a previous posts’ comment about the comparison between the three different Dwarf models I’m using for my army. There are Mantic models for Kings of War. There are some very old metal models from GW for WHFB, I’m going to guess they were cast in the mid nineties. Finally there are some models I got from Kickstarter, I believe they were cast by Ral Partha but I may be mistaken. Firstly there is a clear difference in height. The mantic dwarfs are the tallest with GW and Ral Partha much the same, as seen below.

More subtle than that is a difference in proportion. The Mantic dwarfs are narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, the GW seem more circular and the Ral Partha are narrower at the top.

Finally there are differences in style. The GW weapons are much larger compared to the model, with Mantic being in the middle and Ral Partha being the most naturalistic. The heads for Mantic are also larger.

I’m hopeing that a unifying paint scheme will minimise the difference within my army.

Hopefully this is helpful.

The magnitude of the painting task in front of me is starting to look a little daunting. Neither of the following two photos contain the entire force so far…

So now they are all primed the next job is to start the painting. Wish me luck.

I dug around in all my old models, and things I’d bought and not painted, and came up with some stuff that could be added to my growing Dwarf Army. Proxying is fine in KoW so I put together two more units.