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

Patched up Orcs

Another preview of the Orc bros in their Infernal Dwarf colours getting ready for the SLAVER gig.

Chaos Dwarfs Online Artisan's Contest XXV!

The best evil dwarf website on the planet presents (and with many thanks to Zanko) Artisan's Contest XXV.

Slaves and the obligatory slave driver is an awesome theme which I am sure will produce some amazing entries.

This contest always inspires me to add to my Infernal dwarves and this time I thought I would post a couple of teasers of my WIP entry.

ETC Infernal Dwarfs courtesy of the Lens Viking

These amazing pics of Infernal dwarfs from the ETC come from the Lens Viking.

Simply stunning photography of some awesome miniatures.

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

Infernal engine and citadel guard with flintlock axe

Finally finished my second infernal engine. You can find pictures of my first with its custom death Rolla here.

This miniature is one of Forge World's finest so is a worthy edition to my favourite miniature collection.

In game terms I have only used the steam hammer version so am looking forward to my next game where I will see how the shrapnel guns go.

What made this mini easier to paint was a strong undercoat of a copper from tamaya that combined nicely with the Hashut copper (main colour) with mithrill silver (highlights) and a flesh wash I use.

Next up is another of the zonk miniatures that I have converted to be a citadel guard armed with a flintlock axe.

The halberd is from the tomb King chariot.

Onion head Warrior B finished

I have finally finished painting up this recast known as onion head Warrior B.

The original Warrior A and B (using both hands to hold their axes) had as far as I am aware a pretty short shelf life so it's fair to say most of them floating around are recasts of the originals. 

The Warriors A and B tend to go for some over the top prices these days so my advice is be patient and don't pay more than $10 per mini.

Anyway, I was very lucky to get my hands on old onion head for a reasonable price and am very happy how he has turned out.

Warrior A and B were a little shorter than the original Perry brother's chaos dwarfs as demonstrated below. Despite their shorter size they break up for the mono pose of the other axe dudes in units.

Finished Sorcerer on lammasu

After a while I have finally finished my classic sorcerer on lammasu.

The back banners are conversions as I do not have the original.  The banners are some repainted old school prints of the originals.

Onion head axe man

After many years of searching I now have the legendary (maybe overstating) onion head axe man.

He is a recast and hat swap of the awesome axe dudes released in the early 90s before the evil empire tried to kill the metal sorry the chaos now infernal dwarfs.

Really happy with him and looking forward to getting some paint on the bro.

9th Age V2 intro tournament

Some pics of the infernal dwarfs up against the foul daemons from a recent friendly tournament for 9th Age 2.0.

It was on like donkey kong from round two as the pestilence made its way to the thin purple line.  Made a few tactical mistakes in this game but it was a blast.

Other games were great which will guide my list building from now on.

Took out best painted wizard trophy too.

More hobgoblins

Finished these bros off and I must say I am pretty happy with them.