One Thousand and One Points

Hurray, now that my cannon crew is completed, I've finally reached the 1000 pt threshold: 

• 20 crossbowmen = 260 points
• 20 warriors with shields, double handed weapons, musician and standard bearer = 286 points
• 10 hammerers with standard bearer = 176 points
• 10 warriors with shields, spears, musican and standard bearer = 144 points
• 1 fire thrower team with light armours = 60 points
• 1 3-man cannon with light armours = 75 points

All my gratitude goes to Games Workshop and its executive team for cancelling the french Games Day :) Thanks to them, I've stayed focused on this army for two years now.

Next step is the painting of a small regiment for the unit painting contest on Bugman's Brewery forum. Between spearmen and slayers, I haven't decided yet... What do you think?

Loader and Commander

Here are the two last crewmen for my bombard. The loader was part of the Citadel flame cannon team and the commander was initially sold with the Marauder Miniatures organ cannon.Not much to say about the painting, same old color scheme with grey, brown and flesh tones...

Kaboom!

A 21-gun salute to celebrate my hundredth follower! The crew is a Marauder dwarf, the gun is the ex-Citadel and now Wargames Foundry Bell Bombard, unfortunately sold without axle and with smaller wheels than the original ones.

For the painting, I've drawn insipiration from the Rackham Griffin cannons and I'm quite happy with the result (although there is always room for improvement!).

 

Half a regiment in 6 months...

I knew from the beginning that this regiment would be hard to complete, but six months to paint only 10 dwarfs... This is ridiculous! Anyway, here are the first two ranks of this glorious regiment.

 

Now, let's do the maths: one warrior with shield and spear = 12 points, multiplied by 12 to take into account the musician and the standard bearer... 144 points, that is 24 points per month. 

Considering that I have already painted

• 20 crossbowmen = 260 points
• 20 warriors with shields, double handed weapons, musician and standard bearer = 286 points
• 10 hammerers with standard bearer = 176 points
• 1 fire thrower team with light armours = 60 points

At this pace, I'll need 7 more years to complete a 3000 points army... Sigh.

Dwarf spearman #10

A Marauder dwarf to conclude the first ten. The face was a little bit hard to paint, but since this guy is not in the front rank, it doesn't matter :)

Dwarf spearman #9

All right, time to unveil my standard bearer. Initially, there was a flag, but after one month of efforts (one month!), I couldn't get a satisfying result. So I've snapped the flag, shortened the pole, and reduced the proud banner to a simple black cross :/ The miniature is an old Citadel dwarf, from the preslotta era I think.

Dwarf spearman #8

And here is the musician of my regiment of spearmen. I've slightly converted a Citadel Imperial Dwarf by replacing the original axe by a weapon from Hasslefree Miniatures. In my opinion, it works quite well. What do you think?

Dwarf spearman #7

This time, a Marauder Miniatures dwarf, and a very nice one :) The shield is produced by Hasslefree Miniatures and is sold with a set of dwarf weapons.