Painting Evil Dwarfs

I’m going to put this project on hold for a bit. I’m going to struggle to get out for many games before the new year and my planned opponents aren’t likely to be available either. I don’t want to do much more till I’ve got a few games in.

I have one more figure to build and paint. But it’s a large figure that will need a fair bit of prep and other projects are pressing. For now I’ll say thanks for following along and hopefully this will pick up again in the new year.

It took me a while to finish this figure ‘cos honestly I wasn’t sure what to do with it. I’m happy with how it turned out though. I could’ve mucked about with it a bit more but you need to know when to call it done.

SAGA Age of Magic’s Masters of the Underearth have a special character called the Alchemist. This character carries incendiary bombs and other deadly concoctions.

Problem is I couldn’t see any obvious figure in Scibor’s range that suited it. I grabbed a couple of figures and decided to go with this one:
https://www.sciborminiatures.com/en_,shop.php?art=3099

I used a couple of glass beads I use as agitators to act as some kind of glass container filled with an explosive liquid with a bit of a strap. I greenstuffed some flames on the top of the staff.

Most colours have been detailed already. Some colours not detailed:

Explosive vial: glazes of ScaleColor Blood Red, Mars Orange and Sol Yellow.

Purple / Pink flame: blends of Game Colour Hexed Lichen and Game Air Squid Pink. Added some washes with Druchi Violet and highlights up to white.

I finished a couple more bulltaurs. I’ve detailed them before so I’ll leave off the details. Scibor have been adding different poses in little by little and I’ve picked them up as they arrived.

Considering this was another quick job I like how it turned out. I added a couple of dwarven cannoneers to the base with blu tack. Their bases don’t match but I can live with that for now.

Even evil dwarves don’t seem right without a cannon. I struggled a bit to find something till stumbling across Scotia Grendel’s siege kit.

I based it with a 3D printed base and magnetised it before adding some Vallejo Earth Texture, leaving a couple of squares clear to add a couple of dwarf cannon team members. A few extra rocks added a bit more texture.

I did the usual preshade then undid much of it after deciding to go back to a black barrel.

Barrel And Dark Metallics

1, Basecoat with black.
2, Drybrushed a layer of SC-57 Scale Colour Petroleum Grey on the barrel.
3, Drybrushed a thinner line of Vallejo Metal Colour Burnt Iron.
4, Some decorations were basecoated with Vallejo Brassy Brass and blended to Vallejo Metal Colour Gold at a thin point at the top.
5, Other decoratons and rivets were painted with Vallejo Metal Colour Silver and washed with Nuln Oil.

Wooden Carriage

1, Base coated with ScaleColour SC-29 Walnut.
2, Highlighted the upper areas with a mix of SC-26 Sandalwood and SC-29 Walnut.
3, Washed lower areas with a thin mix of SC-32 Black Leather.
4, Highlighted with SC-26 Sandalwood.

The Base

1, Wash the base with GW Agrax Earthshade and Contrast Aggaros Dunes.
2, Basecoated rocks with Vallejo Cold Grey. Washed with Nuln Oil and drybrushed white.
3, Basecoated sandbags with Vallejo Leather Brown. Washed with Agrax Earthshade.

The warriors are done. They were done a bit quickly and the matt spray left them looking a bit duller than I expected. Otherwise they’ll do.

Grey

1, Basecoat using Vallejo Cold Grey.
2, Highlight with Vallejo Game Air Dead White. It’s quite thin so will still have a grey appearance.
3, Wash with nuln oil to restore any lost crevices. Final highlight with Vallejo Game Air Dead White again. This’ll get to whitish notes for an older looking dwarf.

Black

1, Basecoat in ScaleColour SC-57 Petroleum Grey.
2, Highlight with Vallejo Cold Grey.
3, Restore any crevices with Nuln Oil and and add final highlights with Game Air Dead White. Again Game Air White is a bit thinner than normal so the white will fade a little. Too white and the dwarf will start to look old.