Slow but steady...

I haven't been good at finding time to paint these last few weeks, so it is just as well that I decided some time ago not to participate in Armies on Parade 2016. The arrangement was this weekend, and from what I've seen of pictures from Games Workshop in Oslo it looks like it was some great boards in the competition this year.

Last year there were just a few boards (including the winning one) that had any height to it, and this year most of the boards had height to them in one way or the other.

I might have to up my ideas a little more for my Dwarf borad next year to stand a chance in the competition. Maybe make some tunnels below ground level, and still do what I had planned for this year above ground...  

I do have lots of Night Goblins as I collect a mostly Goblin Greenskin army, so it won't be too hard to assemble a few units and field them in the caves advancing towards a section where my Ironbreakers and Irondrakes stands ready to fight them. I think I will need to start to think about this solution right away, and find out how I can place and remove miniatures from the tunnels...

Since the last update I have finished the two Runelords and the Warden King. They came with their own bases, so they just need a wash and then they are completely done.

My Rangers are still missing their axes and their crossbow bolt-pouches, but they are primed now, and the axes have one of four colors done. 

I've decided to give the Rangers the same Astrogranite bases as my other units to make the bases as unified as possible throughout the entire army, and then I will put grass turf on top of that to show that the Rangers are out in the nature. Later I will try and make the forest look the same.

The Imperial Dwarfs have gotten their chainmail painted, and I will soon start on the leather parts. I still have to decide what color to use on the wool parts of their vests though.

I have come quite a long way with my first unit of Warriors. At the moment I am painting the leather parts on them, and their chainmail, armor, clothes, skin and hair is already done. What remains after the leather parts are their helmets, and then I will have to prime and paint their weapons and the arm and hands attached to them. I have decided to go for a twenty strong unit armed with double-handed axes and with full command. Then the idea is to make a unit of the same size armed with a mix of hammers and axes and with shields.

Then I will see how many warriors I have left, and see if I should make a third unit or just add the remaining Warriors in to these two. Warrior units can be up to forty Warriors strong, so I don't have to worry about overstepping maximum unit size.

Haven't started on the blimp yet, but I have primed the pilot.

For characters this time, I am working on two Engineers, one with two pistols and one with a huge mechanical hammer of sorts. I also have an old Dwarf Lord leaning on his great-axe. I think I am about half way with them at the moment.