AdamH’s OWAC VI May Post – The Big Boys

Month five, my “leader” month.

I know what you are here for, where in the world was Adam this month? Well, the answer was San Francisco last week and then glorious Birmingham next week!

Therefore, this was always in my plan as my leader month, I needed a month where I didn’t really have to think about paint schemes, and had limited models to actually do.

First up we have the Halfling’s Treeman, I used the standard 4/5^th Edition treeman because I wasn’t a big fan of the Bloodbowl model of the time. I’m not sure how well it matches with the rest of the team but I always liked the model and wanted to have a reason to paint one.

Next is the Minotaur for the Chaos team. Again I used a 4/5^th Edition model rather than the official Bloodbowl one for the same reason, not a massive fan of the original. That said with this one I did do a little conversion, I lopped off his axe and added knuckledusters to both hands. Simple but keeps it on brand for Bloodbowl I think:

Bull Centaurs! Official models this time and painted to match the rest of the Chaos Dwarf scheme. Nothing much to say about these chaps other than I enjoyed painting them.

Finally, we have a Rat Ogre for my as of yet unpainted Skaven team. He is painted in the same scheme as my Skaven army because I see the team being my warlord’s official team.

So there we have it, this post officially marks my completion of the minimum required months in this OWAC! I am not going to lie, this one has been the hardest challenge for me yet, but I am happy with what I managed to get done. I am not stopping there though, there is still one month left, technically my wildcard month but I think I will be using it to finally paint my ratty boys, so look out for those next!

Tom's Chaos Dwarfs - Month three. A marching 364 points

Greetings! It is March and marching needs feet. I painted many pairs of stomping feet.

Here's a quick guide, hastily cobbled together #nocropscreenshot

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(OWAC Overlord Iannick - one of these will be winging it's way to you as tribute)

Begin:

Scales red, drybrush white/yellow on top

Drybrush yellow on top

Black

Turquoise

Green. Drybrush turquoise

Silver. Purple

Blue

Yellow

Orange

Red. Dark red

Dark red

Black. White lava base. Blue bag. Purple highlight  

Red 

Stones

Stones highlight

Green

Green again

Shoes. Green again

Eyes. Teeth

Orange lava. Orange and yellow highlight

Grass

Skin

Finished. Poor photo though! 

Hmm, so maybe there's a couple of these are out of painting order, but you get the idea! I've not photoed the same one throughout, which is a bit of a shame, but ho well... They could be neater as always, but overall I'm very happy with them. Most especially with the faded spike.
I think they look very good together.

Here's their group shot:

And their timestamp. Although I did manage to paint 9(!) more than I photo'd.

Maybe next week I might paint another warrior command so that I can split this unit in to one unit of 12, and one unit of 16...

And a quick pic of the command on their own, as befitting their rank:

Music maestro!

I liked painting the bull trumpet, but I didn't get on with the guys face. I might well add shields to the front rack (I think if I added them to everyone, they wouldn't rank up).

Do you have a flaaag?

He came together pretty well. I like his nose and snaggletooth.

Leaders gonna lead.

Green sword for that magical poison yo.

I was disappointed with how his beard came out - too heavy a drybrush. If I was to do it again, I'd brush the highlights on individually. However, he is finished.

EXTRAS!
Finally finished the Bull Centaurs with these two additions:

And here's the full herd in all their terrible glory!

I finally got round to adding shields to the centaurs. I started off painting a lava type thing on the red background, and then found the stash of decals I had luckily (super cheaply!) purchased from eBay a year ago. Out of all of them, I pumped for the one closest resembling a bull.
In hindsight I'd change my mind and go for maybe a blue background with a plain skull.
Nevermind - they are "finished, not perfect", and I've used the plain skull now for the regular troops.

FINISHED NOT PERFECT.
linky

The best advice I ever came across. Many thanks to the Oldhammer facebook community for posting about this, many years ago. I'm sorry, but I've forgotten the OP's name, but I'm sure it's been shared around long before I saw it :)

Last time I signed off with a wind reference...
The winds have blown right indeed.
Flying in on the Winds of Magic comes this fresh Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer on a terrifying Lamassu. Behold!

Here's a WIP pic I took midway which shows him off quite well :)

Here's his timestamp:

I love him!
I think the purple/red scheme worked out really well for the Lamassu.
I like the blue on the bobble on top of the Big Hat.
Both were painted really quite quickly, as the enthusiasm for them remained high during painting and I was able to do a longer sitting each time I set to.

If I were to change anything, I'd swap out his moustache ties for red ones (I also think I've left one out) , and I think that's about it! He's glued together using Gorilla two-part epoxy resin glue, and the head is pinned. The rider is pinned into the body like the Bull Taurus, but they're both not glued on as yet. Interchangeable yo, although to be honest, I'm not sure why I don't just glue them in. Ha!

As ever, the standards for everything were printed off here: linky

This brings my March(ing) efforts to a close - not least because I feel the ground shaking!

Ahem.

To recap:

March
364... 24 x Chaos Dwarf Warriors (inc standard, musician and champion)
EXTRA
Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer on Lamassu
2 x Chaos Dwarf Bull Centaurs (one of which is a standard bearer)

February: link
200... 5 x Chaos Dwarf Bull Centaurs
EXTRA
Chaos Dwarf Hero on Great Bull Taurus

January: link
160... Chaos Dwarf General
75... Chaos Dwarf Death Rocket

Total points so far...  799