Chaos Dwarf baggage train and Black Orc Warboss

 With a teams old world tournament this weekend I needed to make a baggage train and paint up a Black Orc Warboss.

Rather than a train I went with a suitable bronze bull statue and the command group from my Lost Kingdom Chaos Dwarfs. These bros all have individual sculpted curly beards.

Apart from making the base this was an easy build with the idol/ statue/ baggage train coming up great.

Next up was the Warboss who is the old GW plastic black orc champion who got an old chaos marauder shield and a repaint of his weapons and armour and a little extra purple.

This was pretty easy with the following paints for the bronze over the old leadbelcher painted sections.

A little bit of purple over the cloth and orc glyphs and he is ready to punch on with this unit of black orcs which were part of my award winning band SLAVER.

More hobgoblins for the 9th Age

Last week the new hobgoblin auxiliary book was released for the 9th Age.

It’s a great read with lots of hobby opportunities that I will be working on over the next few months.

First up is a conversion of a mantic abyssal dwarf with a goblin wolf rider head to represent a hobgoblin levies armed with halberd ams wearing heavy armour.

Second is another classic GW wolf rider with my current approach to the skin using a lighter green and one of the very cool fireforge Mongolian shields from their plastic box set.

Hobgoblin Big Boss 2

Another classic hobgoblin from the early 90s has been finished.

This is the miniature known as Hobgoblin Big Boss 2 and is another classic sculpt.

Like many of this range he can be difficult to track down but is well worth the investment.

I went for a little lighter colour for the green skin and purple armour to differentiate him to the other troops in the hobgoblin horde.

Big Boss 2 leading the recent additions to my hobgoblin horde.

Golden Hat competition

Once again those fine chaps at Chaos Dwarfs Online have produced a fantastic range of entries in the latest Golden Hat xxxvi competition.

I was extremely lucky to take out 2nd play with my entry - a giant flaming hat wearing (hob)goblin.

The giant is from: http://www.madpuppetminiatures.com/bust-and-miscellanea/giant-goblin

I repositioned the arm and added more snot using green stuff.
The hat is a piece of reticulation pipe with lots of green stuff and card for the trim with the odd skull thrown in.
The top of the hat is one of the resin GW base treatments with more green stuff for the flames.
The base is an old scenic one that suited very well.
I used a heap of GW and Valeyo paints and my usual purple approach to match the rest of my boys in my chaos/infernal dwarf army.

Hobgoblin Boss 2

 As my quest for every classic 1993 chaos dwarf and hobgoblins continues I am pleased to have finished the bro known as hobgoblin boss 2.

Painting follows the usual approach of my newer hobgoblins having a lighter green highlight on their skin.

The unit so far with Boss and BSB.

Hobgoblin hobby update

 Although not yet released, enough sneak parks have been released concerning the new unit known as externals.  These elite dudes are mounted on bear-dogs and armed with a new monster hunting weapon.

The mini is a 3D print and now it’s on the the other seven I have to paint.

Also below is a classic muso hobgoblin that I finished as well.

Shar’tor the Executioner/ Taurukh Commissioner

 Although he was destined for the age that shall not be named, the Shar’tor miniature from Forge World had to be brought into the 9th Age.

Thanks to my handy dremel the oval base was cut back to fit on a rectangle base. Shar’tor will be used as a Taurukh Commissioner in his first outing this week.

As usual I expect him to be targeted early as we all know that he who is painted best and most recent, dies first.

New Prophet of Lugar

This is my new Prophet of Lugar for my Infernal Dwarves. This was a pretty simple conversion using a GW runesmiter I picked up in a trade.

The left hand was replaced with a fairly generic runic axe removed from one of those plastic slayers who came with the battle for skull pass version of warhammer.

The face had some horns added with a bigger nose and curly beard sculpted with green stuff. The mowhawk was also removed as this is a little too slayerish for my liking.

The paint scheme followed my previous Disciples of Lugar. I have a couple of games coming where I will try this dude out.

9th Age game - Infernal Dwarves vs Vermin Swarm

 Cracker of a game with some awesome minis.

ID came away with a big win as the vermin line fell apart due to my bro having the worst dice luck I have seen for a while.