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Title: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: Super_Gibbon on 09 September 2008, 01:45:12 PM
I like these old school Chronopia dwarves. They are wierd!

(http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a189/nil112073/dwaves.jpg)

I have to work on my photo skills. These pics are maybe too bright, seems like my mid-tones and the blending on the flesh are not there in the pic. Oh well. Taking the pictures is harder than painting the little guys.
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: El Grego on 09 September 2008, 03:46:01 PM
Very Nice!  I had forgotten about those Chronopia minis - rather business-like, no frills as a proper dwarf should be   ;)

Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: Vanvlak on 09 September 2008, 05:25:09 PM
That's a very nice flavour of ugly  8) 8) 8)
Those checks on the shield are particularly grand  :-*
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: Doomhippie on 09 September 2008, 08:44:10 PM
I used to collect Chronopia a long time ago but honestly, their sense of design just wasn'T mine...

Weren't there these dwars around called the Horned Ones? Hehe, "hey, guys, while you're here fighting what are your wives doing at home?"
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: Danny the Chimp on 10 September 2008, 12:33:51 AM
Awww.

The poor little old men, they're just fighting for the right to Toffee and Slippers.   lol
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: Argonor on 10 September 2008, 08:58:14 AM
Weren't there these dwars around called the Horned Ones? Hehe, "hey, guys, while you're here fighting what are your wives doing at home?"

These ARE the wives  >:D
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: Malamute on 10 September 2008, 09:05:23 AM
Nice painting :)
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: Super_Gibbon on 10 September 2008, 01:59:48 PM
I thought opinion would be split on these guys! I can understand people not liking the design. For me they have a really strange sinister quality. I could almost see them scuttling about in the back of a Bosch painting.
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: Doomhippie on 10 September 2008, 02:00:20 PM
Weren't there these dwars around called the Horned Ones? Hehe, "hey, guys, while you're here fighting what are your wives doing at home?"

These ARE the wives  >:D


Ooops...  :o
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: once on 10 June 2012, 10:47:32 PM
dwarfs without beards, what is going wrong here??????
i fear of them...
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: fourcolorfigs on 11 June 2012, 12:30:01 PM
They look splendidly evil!  They'd make great Chaos Dwarves!
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: DeafNala on 11 June 2012, 01:10:26 PM
I think the Vertically Challenged Ones are rather charming; they certainly have LOVELY paint jobs & bases. VERY WELL DONE!
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Post by: Lowtardog on 11 June 2012, 06:08:32 PM
They look great :-*
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: Tacgnol on 11 June 2012, 09:59:51 PM
Great paintwork on some lovely, characterful sculpts!
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: Pil on 12 June 2012, 12:20:29 PM
Very cool paint jobs! I collected some of these Chronopia Dwarves but they never really grabbed me as models. Part of what I don't like about them I guess is the lack of parts that are not armour. Of course me painting all the armour in metal colours back then didn't help. You did a good job distinguishing the chainmail from the plate armour and the shields look great as well.
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: M.P. on 12 June 2012, 04:11:30 PM
Great painting:), I particularly like the middle one.
Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: Vinlander on 14 June 2012, 08:49:14 PM
I loved the Chronopia game and the Dwarves were my fave. Finally a range where they didn't look like four-foot vikings with no knees.  lol  I still have my Dark Tusk clan army (FYI; the lad on the right with the large morning star is a DT)...

Brilliant work! they look spectacular!  :-*

Title: Re: Ugly Dwarves!
Post by: mweaver on 16 June 2012, 02:13:49 PM
I have a goodly number of them.  We use them as duergar in our D&D campaign.  It works well since they are clearly dwarves but have a markedly different aesthetic than the GW/Reaper/Red Box/Hasslefree/etc. dwarves in our collection.   You did a very nice job on these fellows.

-Michael