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The Finished Horde

Posted by Grim Stoki , 08 September 2011 · 499 views

Well, in true Stoki fashion I've had this unit done for quite a while, but have been too lazy to post the finished pics online! So here they are. My buddy left his really nice SLR over at my place, so naturally I borrowed it to take some high quality shots of the lads:


Posted ImageThis was taken with fairly low light, on my kitchen table (obviously). The next one is a bit brigther, but the background is a bit more cluttered:

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I'm very happy with the way this unit turned out. It's really the back bone of my army. You're GW troops are the go to guys, expected to do a lot of the heavy lifting. The only thing I really didn't like are the axe handles. They're just plain Calthan brown, which isn't bad, but they don't look particularly realistic to me. I suck at painting wood :(

The basing was really easy to do and I think looks pretty good for a dwarf force. I bought some coarse modeling sand, glued it to the base, then painted over with Fortress Grey. I dry brush coat of Goblin Green and, voila! You have gravel!

The command group:
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I actually learned a lot painting this unit. For one, I learned assembly line painting 40 models at a time is not my thing. It's just too daunting to have 40 dudes sitting in front of you, and trying to get the axes perfect on each one. Instead, I'm going to start working in batches of 5 (ie one rank) until I finish and then move on to the next 5. I've gotten almost 10 hammerrers done using this technique already!

I've also changed my color scheme a bit since this unit finished up. I did the greens on these guys with Orchide Shade -> Dark Angels Green -> Snot Green. The problem is Orchide is too close to Dark Angel! So, for the remainder of the throng it's going to be Chardon Granite as the base coat. I also found Scorched Brown is a good base coat for the browns, even though it's not a foundation color.

Current projects include finishing up my hammerers and anvil of doom. And then, who knows?

One last pic of the wicked BSB, Grim Stoki himself:

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I like the unit, but you're basing is abit poor, gravel is nice, but try to cover the whole base with something...... snow prehaps?

Basides the bases, lovely workk :drinks:
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Snugg Thistlehammer
Sep 08 2011 09:53 AM
Hey Grim, I find that 5 at a time is best too. That way, if you're getting tired of the unit you are painting, you can slip in five of another unit to give you a break. I, to, am currently working on my GW warriors (and also on my hammerers).

With the wood; it's hard to make it look right on the current plastics (I assume) because they are designed as metal shafts. Painting them brown, as you said, mightn't look quite right beacuse they lack the 'rougher' look of natural wood. Unless of course you are skilled enough to actually paint the woodgrain on yourself; a technique I have yet to attempt. A simple dark wash may give them some depth in the short term though and won't take a great deal of time, even for fourty models.

Just an idea anyway!
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Purplebeard
Sep 21 2011 03:57 PM
Nice big unit - looks good.
I'll agree with Thane Will, basing is missing. Since you all ready used one type and finished with it, try using another, I find that combined types of grass/rocks (I use corks for this) work real nice.

As far as the command goes... WHO is the musician from the 3rd picture?!

PS. Love seeing dwarf hordes, keep it up!
GZ.. im only 7 of 40 of my first horde.. lol -_-
Thanks for the comments guys!

@ThaneWill and Solegga. I see what you mean about the bases. In the close up photos, you can see they're inconsistent. I'll try fixing that on some of my other models. Now that I've started with this basing scheme I want to keep it consistent throughout the army.

Oh and Solegga, the musician is from the 6th(?) ed warrior / xbow box. This entire unit was an ebay find, that came with two standards (the one pictured and one from the same 6th ed box)

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