I had recently bought some Dwarves Miners off Ebay and was very happy with how they came out. I remembered the seller had some other figures for sale, so I went back and ordered a few more bits from him. Unfortunately, he had already sold the BSB he had earlier, but had a few old hand gunners in some interesting poses with a few catapult artillery crew. These were just what I needed to finish my Grudge Thrower catapults and add some Engineer and Engineer Sappers to my army (I do not like the new figures for the latter). The larger wacky guns would look quite special compared to the simple weapons on my figures, so would stand out.
The figures arrived a week later and looking at them in person and they looked a lot like the miners I got earlier. These would need a bit more flesh work, but would work out fine. I started by scraping off the base flocking and glueing base converters to the existing bases to get them to the right size for the Old World.
I started by adding red and dark gray to a number of the figures to tie them better with my existing troops. I worked the flesh up a bit also. Then, I hit various areas with black or brown pin washes to shade them a bit. Once that all dried, I did highlighting on areas that needed them and painted out some of the chipped paint with the highlights. Things like the beards and weapons were drybrushed.
I pulled out a set of 3d printed catapults I had painted earlier in the year. These were done with red contrast and high lighted up. I added gray details highlight up to white and added metal trim with a few shades of silver. The ropes were painted tan, washed and highlighted back up to tan. Everything was sealed with some Krylon Mat varnish.
I then worked on the basing, by adding brown mud pumice to the bases and later dry brushing them up. A little flock ad some flower tufts and the figures were resurrected! With that, I now have two small units of Dwarf Miners for my Dwarves Mountain Holds Army!
- Manteuffel