Obsidian Golems (with a twist)

Still waiting on an answer to my question about the competition unit entry size and whether some Golum handlers would be OK.

I decided to plough on regardless and kitbash those guys up.

So I dived into my trusty Fantasy bits box again. I have used a few Dwarves as broken statues for Frostgrave terrain because part of this eBay bought bits box has been badly assembled minis. Too much super glue, the wrong torsos and leg sections smooshed together with sprue gates keeping important pieces apart… A real mess. The two I chose are the best of a bad bunch. The bases for some reason have big cuts into them, but this helps with the ruins feel I was aiming for any way.

The guy with the built-in shield has cuts to his upper back where the last owner was trying to put the legs and torso together. Rather than filling and repairing I am just covering the unsightly join with a cloak (I believe from a Brock Rider). The hand was empty so I took an axe handle (I think) and put it at the bottom of a pike. The pike (cut from a Warlord Games Pike and Shotte sprue) on its own was going to look too slender in his gaping wide hand so the handle was employed. This would need to be wielded two handed by a human, but this dwarf manages the length and weight with ease, as he prods a golem from behind no less. The shield should give me a fun excuse for more freehand work.

The second guy also has an ugly gape under his left armpit that might actually need attention, but I will see how I get on. The mini had no arms. The left pointing arm is from a Oathmark Heavy Infantry Dwarf sprue and I cut away a part pauldron on the arm that wouldn’t gel with the Mantic dwarves armour properly. The right arm (the same Oathmark sprue) is meant to be holding a double handed battle hammer. I cut the head of the hammer off (now on the base at his feet) and also a lower length of the handle. The whip is made from a piece of sprue melted over a candle and pulled thin and then a kink worked into it before it cooled. I attached a spare off cut from a spear (I think) as a new handle for the hammerhead on the base.

The paint scheme will be the same as some of the few Mantic Games Dwarf minis I have ever painted. I believe I used an Army Painter paint set made especially for Mantic Dwarves. I may use the similar colour GW paints I have readily at hand to do the job, but may dig out the actual paints used if the difference is too glaring.

Martin and Ronnie from Mantic Games helped me confirm that the unit will be accepted without the extra handlers.

I will complete the handlers to finish off this project but for the competition I will just be submitting the pics in the gallery below.

Wish me luck.

Not needed for the competition, but a fun addition any way. They help with the theme of the unit and can be nerve dice guards when buckets of attack dice are being chucked down.

I enjoyed the mix of freehand and space wolf transfers on the shield. The same symbol transfers were used on Sparky’s flag and the freehand red symbol is repeated on Borscht’s shield on his shoulder.

Thanks go to OnTableTop for the shoutout on their Facebook page. Very cool.