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Offline Super_Gibbon

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



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.

Offline El Grego

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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #1 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   ;)


Offline Vanvlak

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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #2 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  :-*

Offline Doomhippie

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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #3 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?"
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Offline Danny the Chimp

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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #4 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
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Offline Argonor

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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #5 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
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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #6 on: 10 September 2008, 09:05:23 AM »
Nice painting :)
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Offline Super_Gibbon

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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #7 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.

Offline Doomhippie

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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #8 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


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Offline once

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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #9 on: 10 June 2012, 10:47:32 PM »
dwarfs without beards, what is going wrong here??????
i fear of them...

Offline fourcolorfigs

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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #10 on: 11 June 2012, 12:30:01 PM »
They look splendidly evil!  They'd make great Chaos Dwarves!
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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #11 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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Offline Lowtardog

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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #12 on: 11 June 2012, 06:08:32 PM »
They look great :-*

Offline Tacgnol

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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #13 on: 11 June 2012, 09:59:51 PM »
Great paintwork on some lovely, characterful sculpts!

Offline Pil

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Re: Ugly Dwarves!
« Reply #14 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.
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