They came from the Dark Lands...(Chaos Dwarf project)

[Elbows]

A misery in two parts unfolded this weekend...the fledgling Chaos Dwarf warband is now 0-2.  One game was very close..the other not so much.  The second game was a comedy of failed charges, awful rolls and just poor luck.  It could have been much closer...  Sadly I only snapped pictures of the second game (more on the blog).

[blacksoilbill]

They may have failed, but they look mightily handsome doing it!

I agree with beefcake: the white beard and moustache look fantastic on your general.

[Pattus Magnus]

That’s a magnificent looking game! It’s never a loss, when the armies look that good.

[Elbows]

The current status of the army...with a lot more to go.  The initial hype has worn off, so I'm not painting at the break-neck speed I have been, but this was planned to be a pretty lengthy project.

[Elbows]

Not my favourite mini, so I wanted to get him out of the way.  A half-finished sculpt of Astrogath from Fabelzel.  I likely won't use him often (he'd be 'Legendary Hero'), I'll have him serve as a sorcerer until I get some other ones painted.

[Pattus Magnus]

He may not be your favorite figures, but you did an excellent job painting him! The banner turned out well, very tidy.

[Minus]

He may not be your favorite figures, but you did an excellent job painting him! The banner turned out well, very tidy.

Aye, my thoughts exactly. What's not to like, he looks great with the work he received!

[Frugalmax]

Great work, and the battle pictures look really fun (sorry the Chaos Dwarfs didn't do so well)!

I feel like your playing surface and terrain look a lot like how one might imagine "the Dark Lands" of WFB. I always thought GW could have done more to flesh out how the Chaos Dwarfs lived, what their objectives were, how their society worked, and its relationship to the already established Chaos, but then again, maybe it's more fun to take the seed of an idea and make your own stuff- that's what we've been doing on the other side of the Old World (mostly Albion) and it's provided years of fun campaigning.

Thanks for sharing!

[Elbows]

Yeah, I'm more of a fan of "tease, don't tell", .  I think the scraps of the old Chaos Dwarf book are suitable enough for me.  Also they're one of the armies that has a simple goal: slaves for work and sacrifices, so they're dead easy to put into any conflict/fight.

I have a nice 'normal' table full of greenery, but I wanted to have a separate biome of sorts for the dead lands.  Not in love with the mats I received (Deep Cut website showed these more desaturated and closer to the rocks that I have), but I did pick up some tar pools, and tar rivers and silly stuff like that.  Just enough to make it a different place to play.

I gave in and ordered some Black Orcs from the same sculptor, so I'll have a unit of those to add to the mix eventually (they'll likely be last).

[Elbows]

Got in a larger 2v2 game over the weekend...

[warburton]

Great project - very cool indeed.

[Elbows]

Thanks.  We had an amusing realization about 3/4s of the way through the game.  Of the four players and four armies...three of the armies were entirely 3D printed.  That was a bit eye-opening for me, realizing how significantly it had impacted our army builds.

[beefcake]

Very nice. Love the terrain too. Looks authentically like an open ground area just outside the woods.

[fred]

Good looking game.

How had 3D printing impacted the army builds? Had it limited your unit choices based on what STLs where available, or freed up what size units you do as you can print more figures so cheaply?

[Elbows]

I worded it poorly, it didn't impact how the armies were constructed...simply that we're now in the age of 3D printing.  The quality and cost of good 3D prints has easily surpassed GW quality/prices, though I'd still prefer to work with plastic.

I wouldn't be running Chaos Dwarfs at all if I had to buy old used metal minis off eBay for $13 a mini, etc.  My buddy wouldn't be running a large Dwarf army nor Bretonnians if he had to buy the few GW kits available, etc.