Sunday, April 26, 2009

Assorted Dwarves

This post contains assorted dwarves, mostly GW, some Citadel, and maybe 1 or 2 from other manufacturers. Most of these guys have been in my collection for a while (some from the late 70's or early 80's).
First up a couple of adventurers, a Norse dwarf, and a dwarf commander
More Norse dwarves and adventurers
An adventurer, a Freestone dwarf, and a dwarf ranger/woodsman (I think the first one is a Foundry miniature)
The Dwarf with No Name, a crazed old trollslayer, and a dwarf pirate.
A dwarven fort I build quite a while ago when I first started making stuff with HirstArts blocks. The top comes off. The "join" is obvious. If I built this again today I would probably do the top a bit differently to make the join less obvious.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Beerstone Dwarves, part 4

Slayers
Slayer king (the flag is a GW flag on sticky paper)
Pirates - these guys are Freestone dwarves, roaming the high seas, fighting sea-going orcs, exploring new lands, etc.

Beerstone Dwarves, part 3

Crusader dwarves (very old Citadel minis)
Regular dwarven army, armed with crossbows and hand axes, troop B (the minis are original Bugman's Rangers from the olden days)
Hammerers
Ironbreakers
Miners
More Miners

Beerstone Dwarves, part 2

Engineer in charge of artillery
Cannon
Organ gun
Pair of bolt throwers
Draft pony - a very old mini (I think it was a Citadel pony from a set of Middle Earth figures). I sculpted on the harness with "greenstuff".
Mule and cart, because sometimes you need to transport stuff!

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Beerstone Dwarves, part 1

The next several posts will show my existing dwarves, starting with those of the Beerstone kingdom.

This first picture shows some of my older dwarf miniatures. I'm not even sure of the manufacturer of some of these. From left to right, the king's fool, a bear, King Zurik Frostbeard himself, Mrs. Frostbeard?, and the royal wizard (he is an old Citadel dwarf from back in the day when there were dwarf wizards in the GW "world").
The rest of the dwarves is this post are from Games Workshop, unless otherwise noted.

Longbeards, these are old veteran dwarves. I made the shield bosses from various plastic bits from GW's boxed set of plastic dwarves. I also changed the heads of some of the weapons, using weapon heads from the plastics. I find the plastic miniatures too fiddly to assemble, but the sets are a great source of bits for conversions.
They are standing on a dwarven throne room I made from HirstArts blocks.
Various dwarven heroes and heroines. I haven't named most of them, but the fourth one from the left, the white-bearded fellow with the huge axe, is GW's White Dwarf (at least one of the incarnations in metal of the dwarf who represents GW's magazine, also called "White Dwarf"). I'm not sure if the female dwarf next to him is a GW miniature (I suspect she isn't, but can't remember where I got her). The female dwarf on the far right is Goldilocks, daughter of King Zurik Frostbeard.
Assorted dwarf master engineers and runesmiths.