2000 pts: A Painting Odyssey

Check the first post for this army: October 2012... About 1200 days to paint 114 dwarf miniatures and 4 warmachines: 1 model every 10 days during more than three years... Yes, I'm an authentic monomaniac :)

 

Some of these dwarves were bought more than 20 years ago, when I was trying to make the same army as Wayne England. The funny thing is most of the models I've painted here are the ones I don't like! Initially, my plan was to paint the whole range of Imperial dwarfs, with chain mails and tabards. But since I couldn't find a proper color scheme, I've started with the guys in gambesons (easy to paint: just leather brown), then chainmails (easy to paint: just grey), and in the end, I've avoided as much as possible to pick up the "classic" imperial ones, telling myself that I will build the next unit with them... which never happened. 

Three years and a quarter is a looooong time to keep the painting mojo, even more when you don't plan to play with the final result. Comments posted on this blog, and online painting contests (on BugmansBrewery, MiniCreateurs or Chaos Dwarfs Online fora) have helped a lot to stay focused on the final objective. Thanks a lot to the organizers and to you, readers.

Oh, and before I forget, from my now "old" experience of army painter, I would only make one recommendation: start the job with paint references that are still in stock! I had to find substitutes to GW Chestnut Ink, Elf Flesh, Dwarf Flesh, Bleached Bone, and Devlan Mud inthe middle of the process. For the latter, I've finally replaced it by Agrax Earthshade, but the resulting white tones on the last models are really different from what I got on the first crossbowmen.

Below some attempts to shot the dwarf army as a whole.

So, let's recap this army list:

Characters

• The King (Lvl 20 Hero), double handed weapon, shield, heavy armour: 174 points
• The Spellsmith (Lvl 5 Wizard): 78 points
• The army standard bearer (Lvl 5 Hero), double handed weapon, shield, heavy armour: 104 points

Ranks and files

• 24 crossbowmen: 312 points
• 24 Dwarf warriors, double handed weapon, shield, musician and standard bearer: 332 points
• 24 Dwarf warriors, spear, shield, musician and standard bearer: 308 points
• 12 Troll slayers, light armour and double handed weapon: 144 points
• 12 Hammerers, standard bearer: 208 points

War engines

• 1 cannon, light armour for crew: 75 points
• 1 cannon, light armour for crew: 75 points
• 1 organ gun, light armour for crew: 105 points
• 1 Gob lobber, light armour for crew:  85 points

Army total = 2000 points

So, what's next? A new army of course :)