The Lords of Zharr.....

So, characters.......those are important.

Character models are important in any Warhammer army and they need to exemplify the characteristics that are important to their race.  To my mind, Chaos Dwarf characters have two natures.  Close combat characters for the Dawi Zharr should be heavily armoured and look capable of bashing pretty much anything to death.  Chaos Dwarf sorcerers, on the other hand, should be all about firey, magical death.  Both should ooze menace and power in their own way.  To that end I have made these chaps out of various bits and pieces:

I've tried to make each model unique, with it's own character.  I also want them to be somewhat fearsome and I think the lord model has that aspect to him.....the sorcerer lacks that edge, but I have a lot of work to do on him.

The lord model will be magnetised so that he can fight either on foot or be mounted on a Great Taurus - which I am currently working on ideas for.  The priest is purely for use on foot (or rather, on magical flaming column) and I have an entirely different priest planned for my Lamassu model.

The lord model doesn't look too dwarfy yet, but I think the beard will tie him to the rest of the army and his skull-helm will be "hat-ified".

Any idea, comments and criticism is welcome.

A real-life Lamassu....well, almost.

An odd post this one.  There's a woman who lives in a town up the road who breeds Llamas for wool, her name is Sue.  Kind of wierd to be asked "have you met Llama Sue yet?" and to totally misunderstand the question......but hey, such is life.

So there you guys go.....a real life, genuine Llama Sue.  I wonder if she has a beard.

Start of something new....

I'm working on some ideas for an Alter of Hashut unit, using various different models.  I've started work on the Alter Guardians:

Obviously the Skaven markings have to go and he needs hooves.  The idea is that these guys are Chaos Dwarfs who have been granted daemonhood by Hashut, in return for eternal servitude before his alters, so I think the usual Chaos Dwarf features may be in order (big nose, beard and tusks).  I'm not sure I see Hashut as powerful enough to create true daemon princes, but he could probably bestow daemonhood on followers if their bodies are sustained by proximity to his alters - or by warpstone.  That's the theme anyway and I'm still working on the alter itself and the accompanying unit.

I also recently picked up 3 plastic Juggernauts, sans riders, so they are going to be used to create another new unit type.  Hopefully they will be interesting.

The March to War....

So, I have my first unit almost done.  I'm reasonably pleased with how it's going and the lessons learnt can be used to make the next unit easier and better.  I have a few minotaurs underway, the first of which is acting as a mascot for my hobgoblins.

I have about 120 hobgoblins at the moment, about 40 of which are almost done; so there's a lot of work left.  I hope to have about 200 hobgoblins in my finished army.  Once this unit is done I have another unit of the same size ready to go:

The unit on the right are still Skaven.......but after a bit of surgery they'll fit in very nicely.

Hobgoblins and Minotaurs.

I've almost finished my first unit of Hobgoblins with it's minotaur mascot.  The minotaur is a very simple conversion using the Island of Blood rat ogres as a base.  Each minotaur is costing me $3.50 in total and they look nice and intimidating.  I've misplaced my camera over Thanksgiving, but as soon as I locate it I'll put some WIP pictures up on here and Flickr - so keep an eye out.

I actually quite like how the hobgoblins are turning out, I've got the almost-finished unit next to another unit that is yet to go under the knife and I have to say I think the hobgoblins look better than the original Skaven, which is pleasing.

Slave Horde

Just a quick one.  60 Orcs and 80 more hobgoblins arrived today, so I'll try to get some units up on here and Flickr by wednesday.  I think I'll do one unit of Orcs with additional hand weapons and one with shields.

Yet more newbies......

I have managed to pick up 4 Ogres for $6, so they'll make for some fun additions to the army.  I have an idea brewing for my Death Rockets, but the bits are hard to get hold of, and I have the bits now for my Earthshakers.  I think I now have almost all my units bought, so we're onto getting the pieces for characters. 

I'm quickly running out of budget money, so this is one of the last "wot I got" updates you'll have to read and it'll be almost solid model-updates from now on.