Big Hat Chaos/ Infernal Dwarves Characters

2019 was the year I finally finished painting my chaos/ infernal army.  I lost count but I think I would have painted close to a hundred miniatures for this army in 2019 alone.

I was never fully happy with the rider on my great bull- the rider was a conversion of the old GW bull centaur hero that although I dug the mini I thought he looked a little uncomfortable on the mantic beast.  This week I managed to find the rider body and thanks to my last Lost Kingdom big hats I now have a new (original) rider.

The right arm came with the mini and has a suitable onyx core and the left arm I think came from an avatars of war not slayer. The original left arm from memory was holding a spell book but as I want this to be an Overlord a suitable chaos shield was necessary. The chaos star came from the nurgle rhino - that sprue keeps on giving for my armies.

The former rider fitted nicely on a 20mm base and since these bros fight a lot of beast herds, the base was finished with one of the GW basing extras kit from a while ago.  He will probably get a back banner too to fit in with most of the other characters that you can see below.

The flying characters.

The infantry characters.

Arabyonnians - Araby themed Kingdom of Equitaine army

In preparation for the upcoming visit to the stripping station please see in all of its black wash glory the Arabyonnians - Araby themed Kingdom of Equitaine army.

Prior to end times these bros used the Bretonnian army book and rules.

I played these dudes constantly during 7th edition and briefly in the early days of 8th.  The release of the Legion of Azgorh in that mighty tome, Tamurkhan, had me return to the plains of Zharr.

Now I plan on bringing these bros into 2019/20 but before I do here they are:

First up is a unit of Al Muktar’s Desert dogs with a reaper wizard on a black tree design camel along with a unit of black tree design from the warriors of Islam range.

Camel knights from black tree design warriors of Islam range with GW’s suliman the Saracen.

Flying carpets count as Pegasus knights with GW paymaster, griping beast riders, carpets and genie from reaper

Reliquary from GW with others from griping beast and Perry miniatures

Spearmen from black tree design warriors of Islam range.

Archers from black tree design warriors of Islam range.

War elephants - formerly used as transport for cavalry for theatrical purposes to represent the devastation of the Arabyonnian charge. Elephants from schleigh.

SLAVER - Artisans context XXV entry and winner

The ever awesome chaos / infernal dwarf community comes together thanks to the mighty Chaos dwarfs online.

Apart from your one stop shop for all your big hat needs, it's the awesome competitions Thant really set this community ahead of most other hobby sites.

The most recent competition was artisan's XXV.

The theme was slaves so I took the opportunity to introduce the world to the heaviest and most brutal sub genre of heavy metal - Slave Metal \m/ \m/

And here it is from the plains of zharr I give you SLAVER.

The band comprises of the classic Goff Rockers from GW sourced from a recast mob as unfortunately the evil empire has ceased their production.

The drummer / slave master is a converted blood bowl blocker.

The crowd are plastic Orc boys from GW with hats provided by the old one pose plastic chaos dwarfs.  

My entry is below which I am very thankful was voted as the winning entry.

The inspiration for my entry came after a few gin and tonics and some live manowar on YouTube. 

Seeing the flags in the crowd made me think that even if I could source the band, I definitely needed some rabid fans and there is none more rabid than a mosh pit of green skins. 

I even managed to sneak in some crowd surfing action with a couple of armed orcs.

The motto of Slaver is "other bands play we kill" which is a tribute to the kings of metal, manowar.

Had a blast making these dudes and I have already started on more orc fans for the band.

Next are some more random pics of the mighty SLAVER.

Chaos / Infernal Dwarf Showcase

Here are a couple links to my chaos / infernal dwarf army showcase via YouTube.

Characters

Units and war machines

Hobgoblin, Orcs and Slaver

Army Showcase - Infernal Dwarfs

For the first time ever I have finally catalogued my entire painted Infernal Dwarf army.

I started collecting this army over twenty years ago and some of these dudes are on their second paint job.

The army consists of:

Astrogoth

Lord on great bull

Sorcerer on lammasu

Bsb

Lord on foot

2 hobgoblin heros on wolves

Hobgoblin hero on foot

Sorcerer on foot

Hero on foot

19 warriors with Flint locks

30 warriors with blunderbuss

24 warriors with great weapons 

24 hobgoblin cut throats 

30 warriors with great weapons

50 hobgoblins with bows 

2 ogre unit fillers

11 wolf riders

11 wolf riders

10 Taurukh 

8 Taurukh Annointed

Gunnery team

Hobgoblin bolt thrower

Hellcannon / bound daemon 

Infernal engine with deth Rolla

Infernal engine with shrapnel guns

2 death rockets

Earthshaker cannon 

Titan mortar 

Volcano cannon 

Kadim Titan

Dodgy iPad pics to follow

Napoleon dwarf from scibor miniatures

This is my dwarf napoleon from scibor miniatures.

Since I have sold my squats this dude will be the little known heir of napoleon who led a force of French soldiers during the early days of World War One.

Historical accuracy aside I am looking forward to getting him into the mud of blood of Flanders and push back the Hun menace.

New dwarf BSB and Helga

This is my latest dwarf BSB.

He is a slight conversion from the so called fine cast dwarf who kept breaking his right hand fingers.  Thanks to our old friend Dremel the hand was removed and replaced with a dwarf hammer hand.

I usually equip him with the master rune of valaya to keep the magic protection up for my dwarf bros.

Next up is a slight repaint on an old Helga mini I picked up from one of my bros. It's a classic mini and well worth hunting down.

She has had her clothes slightly repainted to match the blue of my other bros and a shield from some of the other black tree design dwarfs.