Rank & File Month
Instead of troubleshooting, we called the troublemaking department.
It is not a proper dwarf brawl until the orange angry naked guys appear.
Oli: Do you think that this is the right direction?
Plissken: I cn assure you that I already smell those orcs, we're near them.
Oli: We shouldn't have gotten into that fight with the giants, maybe the main orc army has reached the mine! Or they're fighting and overnumbering our lord Kazador retinue!
Plissken: tsssh, then we're now on an infiltration mission to save the presid.. I mean, the King.
...
Look. Orcs.
Oli:We must kill them silently before they make any nois..
AAAAIIiiieeeh! ORCS! ORCS!
ONE IS MINE!
*extremely loud drum noises* I'LL SMASH YOUR 'EAD!
BRING IT ON!
OOOOOORRRCsssssaaAAAAAARGH!!!
Plissken: Fine, probably all the valley knows we're here!
Snorri: Don't worry, they're just ahead! We've caught them by their backs! TROLLS! Plenty for FOR EVERYONE, GUYS! KILL 'EM ALL!
I imagine that most of the time the slayers are something like the Gutbuster brigade from Forgotten Realms. Tragical and suicidal warriors ruled by their death-oath, yet silly and unruly, as you can't really take too seriously a bunch of orange haired kamikazes.
This month updated comes with
Snorri and his troll slayers (x10 Slayers) - 141 points
I do not claim the points of the leader as Giant Slayer because I didn't paint it in the month leader, so basically he's just a cool dude.
As I said in the intro iirc, this special slayer came without the dragon head, but Drew's unused troll heads from my orc and goblin army came to the rescue and are a pretty good substitute.
To my surprise it fits the 20mm base with the troll head. So I am quite happy with the result.
The unit overall was pretty fun to paint, with lots of options for tatoos, body painting, details in the clothes, etc.
I liked the idea of different races or skins for my dwarfs but too often there's nothing but small tonal changes like in WoW, and few to none real cultural changes. This slayer came from the very south karaks of the Old World, even farther than Karak Azul.
Not only I played with skin variation but also changes in the tattoos. The southerner has a slightly more central african "dwarf-ish" tattoo than the others (sadly I didn't check my photographs because the half angry face in his belly is hardly seen in the lot).
Whereas the most pale skinned dwarf has a traditionally viking-looking tattoo and freckles.
Again, didn't check that I had no good picture of him, the guy with the spiked ball, with the macro lens as I had to make the photos on the go. I can blame my assistant for not pointing out the quality of some pictures during the session.
Now, for the last batch of miniatures and the recap!
Until next month
Adrian’s out.
Bags of character! The leader standing on troll head is great :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome models and presentation! XD
ReplyDeleteStripy trousers, tattoos, that wonderful turquoise colour (what is that please, by the way?) and SLAYERS. Lovely stuff.
ReplyDeleteNice touch with the drum and the troll head - they work seamlessly :)
The turquoise is precisely a mix of VMC turquoise and jade green in 1:1 or 2:1. Shaded with GW druchi turquoise thingy that I don't remember now, but if you want it to have much more constrast, with a bit of dark red. The brightest part are mixing the slightly greenish VMC pale blue that I used with my orc skins years ago
DeleteWell done! I like the drummer conversion!
ReplyDeleteIt was supersimple with an additional drum and drum stick from Avatars of War Hammerers, I was also amazed it actually worked so well with the pose.
DeleteMore tartan!
ReplyDeleteThe oranges just pop these and will make them a prime target on the table. I like the troll head on the base, it's very fitting given that the dwarves are "Troll Slayers". Great month.
ReplyDeleteThanks! So sad that they'll be so little time on the table xD
DeleteLovely unit, especially the clever re-purposing of the Dragon Slayer
ReplyDeleteSLAYERS!
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