Vintage Dwarf-Lovers Metathread

Vintage Dwarf-Lovers Metathread Collecting all the great threads devoted to OOP dwarves

#1 Jimmytrout

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Posted 25 February 2009 - 08:57 PM

I've noticed a lot of love recently for the old, out-of-production dwarves; clearly many of us are fans of the best minis that Citadel (and Marauder) ever produced ... the old metal dwarves. I've always wanted to have a little sub-community devoted to the old-school in all of us, but I think it's good to keep all the painting and modeling threads together here in the Forge. So I thought I'd start collecting links to threads that focus on vintage dwarves.

The way I'm defining "vintage" is 5th edition or earlier. And I've only pulled threads that PRIMARILY deal with the older figs. Lots of blogs have one or two older figs strewn amongst the BfSP, but I'm just trying to find things that really emphasize the old.

Here's what I found going back a bunch of pages worth of threads:

Ancient Dwarves, OOP Dwarvish metal (Hetz)
New Project With Old Dwarfs, Darkblade's New Imperial Dwarf Army (Darkblade)
All Metal Dwarf Army of OOP goodness...(Drongan GS Engineer)
Army Painting Diary - The Dwarves Of Karak-azul (Taggra Foecarver)
Goldhand's Stout Lads - Army Blog (Tungdil Goldhand)
Clan Stonefist (Drugart)
New Projects W/ Old, Old Models (Jimmytrout)
Dwarf Tavern Diorama (Tungdil Goldhand)
My Retro Army (Archibald)
Osl Test With Marauder Wizard (step-by-step on Page 3)(Jaeckel)

I know there are more, so if you can think of any more to add, keep 'em coming!

Some more:

Some Of My (Perv's) Dwarf Collection
Vintagephreak's amazing collection (added 12/21/09)
Boramars' Dwarf Pics (added 12/21/09)
Karak Angaz Reinforcements Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 (Barin) (added 1/2/10)
A Few of the Throng (BlackThorn) (added 1/2/10)
Vidpui's Dawi Throng (Vidpui) (added 1/20/10)
More Than A Couple Marauder Dwarfs (white knight) (added 5/3/10)
Karak Zorn (Welf VIII) (added 7/12/10) (for some reason this won't register as a link, so here you go: http://www.bugmansbr...26-karak-zorn/)
Vertically Challenged in Garish Colours (spikehead) (added 7/12/10 — did I really miss adding this thread until now?!?!)

cheers,

Jeff

This post has been edited by Jimmytrout: 12 July 2010 - 11:51 PM

#2 Darkblade

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Posted 25 February 2009 - 09:00 PM

Nice one Jeff, I hadn't seen all of these.

#3 Jimmytrout

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Posted 25 February 2009 - 09:01 PM

There are some great threads that deserve being revisited (much like the old figs deserve to be revisited).

#4 Taggra Foecarver

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Posted 25 February 2009 - 10:56 PM

Thanks for collecting these in one place, I'd also missed a couple.

#5 Tungdil Goldhand

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Posted 26 February 2009 - 10:25 AM

Fantastic idea, I'll drink to that!

#6 Hetz

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Posted 26 February 2009 - 11:17 AM

Nice one! Some more I missed.

#7 Perv

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Posted 26 February 2009 - 11:57 AM

Great idea mate !!! Heres my topic with pics of some of the figs I have

http://www.bugmansbrewery.com/index.php?sh...c=23919&hl=

I have added to it since then though

#8 Boramar

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Posted 26 February 2009 - 01:13 PM

Oh man now I have to take pics of my stuff.

#9 Stonedog

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Posted 26 February 2009 - 01:42 PM

Very nice!

I have a mix of some of the newer sculpts and some of the older models.

To me this adds real character and "realism" to my throng.

This way not all the models look that similar!

#10 RanulfDoomhammer

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Posted 26 February 2009 - 07:58 PM

First, posting a thread like this is a good initiative - so have one on me.

Secondly, I think this thread needs to be stickied, so if any mod or admin is around - please get this done.

Thirdly... If the Dwarfs of the current range looked even nearly as good as these do, I would doubtlessly be starting an army again. As of now, I am still hesitating.

This post has been edited by RanulfDoomhammer: 26 February 2009 - 08:02 PM

#11 Perv

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Posted 26 February 2009 - 08:40 PM

There may be others that people post links to so once its run for a while it'd be an idea for Jeff to copy the links to the top, that way its all easy to get to in one go

If anyone has something related, no matter how old, please post a linky. I'm sure theres a lot more topics we've missed.

Makes you wonder why GW took all the classic models off their range doesnt it Ranulf !!! Madness !!!

Get snapping Boramar

I agree Stonedog, I like the way they vary in scale slightly as I cant stand every figure being exactly the same height with the same sized features, just looks un-natural to me.

This post has been edited by Perv: 26 February 2009 - 08:41 PM

#12 Boramar

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Posted 26 February 2009 - 09:30 PM

QUOTE (Perv @ Feb 26 2009, 03:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

There may be others that people post links to so once its run for a while it'd be an idea for Jeff to copy the links to the top, that way its all easy to get to in one go

I agree Stonedog, I like the way they vary in scale slightly as I cant stand every figure being exactly the same height with the same sized features, just looks un-natural to me.

I will I will The only problem is the light that my army basks in may couse glare and jeolacy amongst the forums patrons.

However my spelling couses laughter.......

#13 Perv

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Posted 26 February 2009 - 11:38 PM

lol it'd be a shock to my system mate, I thought the world basks in a dull greyness like us here in England

One way of getting rid of the glare is to position your body in the way of the light source so its casting a shadow on the fig, on a bright day you can still get more than enough light on the fig, so I've been told

#14 Jimmytrout

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Posted 21 December 2009 - 05:18 PM

Updated with Boramars' and Martin's fabulous blogs!

#15 Boramar

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Posted 21 December 2009 - 10:21 PM

Thanks Jimmy.

#16 Jimmytrout

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Posted 22 December 2009 - 02:40 AM

I'll tell you what, looking back through all these threads I'm once again reminded what an amazing resource these are for lovers of old minis! There's incredible work in here!

So many different and great takes on the pikemen, for one. I think the pikedwarves are the single most iconic figure of the late 80s Citadel/Marauder era. So unlike anything — ANYTHING — made now. Absolutely brilliant.

Brings a tear to an old longbeard's eye.

Jeff

#17 Vintagephreak

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Posted 22 December 2009 - 07:25 AM

Jimmytrout, on 22 December 2009 - 03:40 AM, said:

Thanks for adding me, Jeff- excellent idea having all the classic stuff compiled like this! Martin

#18 Jimmytrout

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Posted 22 December 2009 - 04:26 PM

No prob guys! It's good to have a place for all of us who would rather look back to the Golden Age (as the Roman poet Ovid would put it) than forward to the ??? (Plastic?) Age.

jeff