A New Space Dwarf Army.

[LouieN]

Nice work on those

[Inso]

Cheers .

They're all finished now :

[Inso]

The penultimate unit:



Just the command squad and a few "characters" to go now .

(EDIT - The guy, front left, now has the black parts of his ID disks painted ).

[Freddy]

They look nice painted!

[Inso]

They look nice painted!

Cheers .

Here's the last of the standard troop units for the army; the command squad for the third platoon:



... and this is the view of the army box (everything is painted ):



Now I just need the six miniatures to be created to complete the army... so I will be fettling until they are sorted .

[Inso]

The army fettling has begun...

... currently, I am converting a pair of advisers (air-force and artillery) in order to replace the two that have been overly converted with patches and ranks on their sleeves (these ones):





I have also decided to put together another platoon in order to use up some of the spare miniatures that I have accumulated. This platoon will be assembled like this:

Command - Officer, Medic, Comms, Sgt and Heavy Flamer.
Infantry Squad - Sgt, Comms, Flamer and 7x Lasgun.
Infantry Squad - Sgt, Comms, Flamer and 7x Lasgun.
Infantry Squad - Sgt, Comms, Flamer and 7x Lasgun.
Heavy Weapons Squad - 3x Autocannon and 3x Lasgun.

So far, I have selected the units and have put them into their own bags. Any conversion/painting work for this platoon will take second place to the existing army plans... and it won't form part of the army display that I'm planning to build (unless I change my mind).

Lots to do .

[Freddy]

Nice, I really like the ,,nicotine made my grey beard yellow" guy 

[Inso]

Nice, I really like the ,,nicotine made my grey beard yellow" guy 

That one is a sort of a "self portrait" of me as a Dwarf... and when my beard grows, it is a mix of blonde/ginger and bright white... so I'm glad you like him but there's no nicotine !

In other news... Artillery Advisor:



Airforce Advisor:



These will be primed and painted for my army and WON'T be going for casting.

[Basementboy]

No huge beard? This must be sacrilege! (really nice work, love the sculpts)

[snitcythedog]

No huge beard? This must be sacrilege! (really nice work, love the sculpts)

The Oxygen-mask won't create a seal on a beard. 

[Inso]

The Oxygen-mask won't create a seal on a beard.

THAT... plus the Royal Air Force never allowed beards until a few years ago (I was never allowed one while I served ... but I've made up for it since I left ) and I wanted the Airforce advisor to reflect that ethos.

[Inso]

The new Advisors have now been finished:





Now I'm just waiting for some Astropaths to finish the two Advisor units .

[Orctrader]

Brilliant stuff.

Two questions:

1.  Are these ever for sale?

2.  The crackle effect on the bases.  What are you using for that?

[Inso]

In answer to your questions...

1. The 2 newest advisors are one-off conversions for my army. However,  most of these sculpts are available from Macrocosm Miniatures:

https://www.macrocosm.co.uk/product-category/macrocosm/space-dwarves-macrocosm/

2. The crackle paint (texture for the bases) is Games Workshop's  Martian Ironearth "technical paint". I HEAVILY paint it on the base and when it's dry, I wash it with Agrax Earthshade and Nuln Oil. Once that's dry, I then dry brush with Tuskgor Fur.

[Orctrader]

Thanks.