And now for the 3rd unit of this Knightly Order: The Inner Circle Knights. These guys are all the same but I am going to slightly alter some aspects of each one's paint scheme in an effort to inject a bit of individuality to each knight while also maintaining their unit conformity.
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| Unit two ready for action. |
I have set my sights on getting more units for this army completed. In particular the second group of Knights. I took a different approach with these models at the priming stage. Instead of painting the whole model white, I instead only painted the riders white and primed the steeds black. I painted the areas I wanted to paint with Contrast Paints using Corax White.
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| Primed black with areas picked out Contrast Paints. |
Everything else pretty much follows the same steps that I used on the first unit which I go into detail about in Part 1 and Part 2. The exception being that the unit champion for this unit has yellow wing feathers and all of their lances are yellow instead of black.
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| A regal champ. |
I gave these models a bit more grass tufts on their bases than the first unit and I also added some fallen leaves as well.
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| Sally forth! |
On to the next unit!
Between all the other projects I have going on, I dabbled some more on this model. Here is the current work in progress from where we left it off in Part 1 up to the present.
As I stated I would do in Part 1, green stuff was applied to the most grievous of gaps left over after assembly. Then it was mounted to it's base. For some reason, it's left letgs peg kept trying to pop out of the hole. This resulted in it appearing a bit more elevated than intended.
Check back in Part 3 to see what I do next with this miniature.
The forges have been reignited, acrid smoke billows into the foul air, and flying cattle take to the air. Yes, the Chaos Dwarfs have arrived to the Neverness Hobby Chronicle.
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| A box 'o Chaos stunties. |
...and they arrived all jumbled inside of a card box. I got these guys from a local shop (thanks Remington!) In the fall of 2024 and it wasn't until the spring of this past year (2025) that I had the opportunity to strip off their paint. Unlike the dwarfs that I picked up in the summer, of 2024, simply painting over the existing paint was not an option for these guys. The existing paint was practically smothered onto them frosting over a lot of detals. It would all need to be stripped off.
After a long and drawn out paint stripping process, that took up much of the later part of Spring and well into Summer of 2025, I was finally happy with the state of these guys. The first miniatures I stripped were the Hobgoblins. I wanted to ease into this army by focusing on the fodder units first.
The first units completed were not part of this acquisition. The AOS Hobgrots were done as a sort of experiment which has led me to working on some of Hobgoblins included in this lot. I got a Khan done as well.. The next unit for this army, the Black Orcs, were also picked up after the fact, but I felt they were necessary, and they have the bonus of being able to be used by my Ocs & Goblins as well.
There are definitely some more old Chaos Dwarfs to be revealed from this haul and over the course of this year and beyond* I hope to finish and share them here when I do.
*I would put your money on 'beyond'.
Recently I decided that I wanted to add more woodland details to some of my miniatures. That was when I remembered the stumps that Woodland Scenics made. For years, many years, I would see these things in hobby stores and model train shops and think about how they might work as basing material. Well, I think it's time to put them to the test. Of course, after seeing them for years in various hobby stores across the land, when I wanted to finally get a pack they were nowhere to be found. Luckily I found them on eBay for less than $20 after shipping.
Of course they will work great with Wood Elves and forestry based Empire forces. Really any fantasy models now that I think of it. The next stage for these minotaurs is to enhance their bases further with rocks, fallen brush, dead leaves and even a corpse or two. And skulls, always skulls. These model will likely be covered in their own post thread as I begin focusing more on them and their beastmen ilk. Meanwhile, I think I might try to locate another pack or two of stumps to have on hand as I continue to work on more fantasy miniatures.
Hello. I had this idea while playing a recent game with Rob. It was my dwarfs versus his goblins in a fight, to once again, save a village of cowering peasents. It was during one of the three turns that my dwarfs still had a cannon and I had to chose a target point for the shots.
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| As illustrated in TOW BRB. |
Typically we just use a die for the small marker, but I thought about the squashed goblin from the old 7tb edition WFB starter (Battle for Skull Pass) and how that thing would be perfect as a target marker.
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| Mounted and gritted |
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| Follow the line. |
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| Primed. Or re-primed as the case might be. |
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| Basecoated. |
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| Finished. Just like this gobo. |
Welcome back to another tale of battle. This one features my Dwarf army vs. Rob's Goblins. The original plan was to do what we did last time and have Bob and I throw a combined force at his greenskin horde. Only Bob couldn't make it so Rob tooled his army down to 1,000 points and we set about playing another Pitched Battle.
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| The Dwarf army |
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| The field of battle. |
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| Dwarfs first Turn. |
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| End of Dwarf Turn 1 |
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| Fanatics unleashed. |
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| Pushed back but still wanting to help. |
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| Sprawling Melee! |
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| Those things are tough! |
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| "Oy, where did dat Queen go? She still has to pay us!" |
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| This looks Ike the end... |
The finally VP tally was:
Hahahha, yowza! That was a fun game, but it really went south for the Dwarfs very fast. Most of it was a result of the dice. The most dramatic failure in the game was probably the cannon failing to kill more than just a single goblin before it blew itself apart. Then came Helga's notching of the break test followed by a very low flee roll. A lot of it though was simply the way the army was built. It was just not equipped to handle these massive units. These goblin units are so big that they absorb range attacks like a sponge, and they absorb melee attacks almost as easily. Well, these goblins are definitely going into the book!
