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Mortar #2

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Dwarf Army 24 September 2012 - - - - - - · 468 views

Good afternoon dwarf associates!

Although painting in recent weeks has been slow going, I have finally tackled and finished this “dwarf mortar”. I actually started this for the August painting competition, but I was ill for a week and didn't end up finishing it in time.

The longbeards around here may remember the...



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06-08/2012 Unit Competition Entry

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Competition Entries 09 August 2012 - - - - - - · 552 views

Hi everyone!

This is my entry for the inaugural unit painting competition, sixteen Marauder crossbows.  I chose these because the two units I was already working on already had finished command groups and the competition specified that a command had to be included.

These are the last of my crossbows.  With the 12 I had already finished that makes 28;...



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07/2012 Competition Entry - Shooty Dwarf

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Competition Entries 29 July 2012 - - - - - - · 312 views

Hi stumpy siblings!

This is my entry for the July painting competition, the theme is "shooty dwarf".  This particular dwarf is from Black Hat Miniatures "Shattered Isles" range which I believe was originally a Crusader model.  I needed a...



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06/2012 Competition Entry - Female Dwarf

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Competition Entries 24 June 2012 - - - - - - · 369 views

Hi everyone!

This is my entry for the June 2012 painting competition. I knew the female dwarf would come up eventually in one of these contests and was looking forward to it – I have about fifteen female dwarves in my collection, only one of which is painted. I have accumulated them over time in an effort to find the right mini to use for my...



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05/2012 Competition Entry - Engineer

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Hobby, Competition Entries 28 May 2012 - - - - - - · 488 views

Greetings dwarves and dwarvettes!

This is my entry for this month's painting competition; an engineer. Actually, I believe this dwarf is a blacksmith from the old line of villagers, but I may stand corrected on that count. I chose him as he's the only...



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243 Dwarves, 9 War Machines And A Halfling

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Hobby, Dwarf Army 21 May 2012 - - - - - - · 862 views

Hello once more!

I mentioned in an earlier post that my dwarf army was about five hundred strong and had some requests to take a photo of my entire army. I used the opportunity to take stock of where my army repaint project is at and how much I still have left to paint.

I'm a bit behind where I thought I was; I reckoned I had finished about three...



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More Metal Warriors

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Dwarf Army 11 May 2012 - - - - - - · 574 views

Greetings Bearded Brothers!

Another unit completed - proof that slow and steady does indeed win the race! Although I started re-painting these dwarves over twelve months ago, most were painted in the last six months.

I like this unit as it looks like the most badass group of dwarves in my army. It's full of menacing expressions, eye patches,...



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04/2012 Competition Entry - Magic

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Competition Entries, Dwarf Army, Hobby 26 April 2012 - - - - - - · 399 views

Hi all!

It's been awhile since I entered one of these but I needed a break from the unit I'm painting and I've been looking for ways to practice my freehand.

This fellow is one of my favourite dwarves ever, from any manufacturer. I actually have two of them and want to paint one as a hero for the army, so I used this one as practice. ...



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Battle Standard Bearer

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Hobby, Dwarf Army 14 March 2012 - - - - - - · 757 views

Hi everyone!

I've never had a battle standard bearer. Regular readers of this blog will know that the majority of my playing days were during 5th edition when there was no model available. Instead, I just substituted an unused bearer from one of my regular units when I...



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Marauder Hammerers

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Dwarf Army, Army Background 29 February 2012 - - - - - - · 988 views

Hello again, fine dwarven folk!

Another major regiment finished! This time it's the hammerers. I can't tell you how happy I am to have this unit finished!

OK, so they're not all hammerers - I grabbed a few great hammer wielding clansmen to beef them up to make 40. I've...



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Bolt Thrower #2

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Dwarf Army 06 February 2012 - - - - - - · 798 views

Hi Dwarf types!

If there's anyone around ancient enough to remember my blog post from September 2010, they will remember picked this up to match my original single bolt thrower. When I was collecting my army in 5th edition, there was no "core",...



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Metal Thunderers

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Dwarf Army 03 October 2011 - * * * * * · 415 views

Evening, Dwarfs and Dwarfettes!

Another unit finished during my absence from the brewery; my thunderers. Like my warriors, these are a mixture of old and new paint jobs. The musician, you may recall, was my entry in the December 2010 painting competition,...



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Mostly Metal Warriors

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Dwarf Army 16 September 2011 - - - - - - · 914 views

Hi everyone!

Here's my first finished infantry unit at my new standard size - 40 models. Some of these are improved members of my blog entry from August last year, some are newly painted (it's easy to spot which is which!). All are re-based.

I...



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Three Engineers

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Dwarf Army 06 September 2011 - - - - - - · 427 views

Greetings dwarfy types,

Although my blog lapsed during my absence, that does not mean that my army painting stopped! These three old chaps will now serve as my army's engineers. The one on the right is the old "Oxy O'cetelene" model, however sadly I lack the tin man that should go with him. The others are two of the old dwarf sapper...



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It Lives!

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Ramblings & Rants 15 August 2011 - - - - - - · 414 views

Hi everyone!

Getting the internet back on after six months is like waking up from a coma and finding a strange new world has developed in your absence.

I moved house in February and when the chap came to connect up the internet he discovered that a previous owner or renovator had ruined the cables in the house and the whole place needed to be...



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Project 100 New Bases - Completed!

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Dwarf Army, Hobby 15 February 2011 - - - - - - · 520 views

Hello my stumpy friends!

I have finally completed the project I started in... wait, September? Has it really taken me six months!? Wow. Anyway, those who've been reading this blog since... September... will remember that I embarked on a project to re-base all my painted models, which worked out to be 154 new bases. Of course, in that time...



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Grudge Of Drong Heroes

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Army Background, Dwarf Army 31 January 2011 - - - - - - · 746 views

Hello again!

After I set my Runesmith competition entry on the shelf, I realised I'd finally finished repainting my Grudge of Drong models. Readers of this blog will know how much I love Grudge of Drong, so I thought I'd post some pics and a little bit about their history in my dwarf army!

Reading the Grudge of...



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01/2011 Competition Entry - Runesmith

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Dwarf Army, Competition Entries, Hobby 21 January 2011 - - - - - - · 567 views

Well.

I almost didn't submit this as I don't feel it's up to my usual standard. Not that my usual standard would stand a good chance of winning the competition, but I promised myself I'd enter all these competitions as a way of improving my painting skills and motivating myself to keep plugging away at my huge pile of unpainted metal. In...



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Mordheim Warband 10 Year Reunion

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Mordheim 03 January 2011 - - - - - - · 715 views

Welcome to my Mordheim warband's 10 year reunion!

I found my warband roster sheets a while back and it made me all nostalgic. I really did enjoy Mordheim, my mates first proposed it as an alternative to fantasy due to the fact that there were much less miniatures to paint (they were excellent if slow painters). I enjoyed the campaigning and...



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12/2010 Competition Entry - Musician

Posted by Snugg Thistlehammer , in Hobby, Competition Entries 20 December 2010 - - - - - - · 456 views

Hello again!

This is my entry for the December painting competition, the musician from Prince Ulther's Dragon Company. It took me a while to decide on what to paint for the comp; I'd been thinking about...



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