Dwarf Longbeards

When I got that WHFB 4th edition Dwarf Army book, I would stare at the pictures for hours and hours, wanting desperately to have every unit in the book, painted the same way. One of those units were the Longbeards (in the center).  I had all of the figures, but never painted them. I distinctly remember the night before one of our "grand battles" frantically gluing the bare metal figs onto bases just to have the unit on the table (heresy, I know). They were falling down off the base as I tried to move the unit. It was terrible. 

Anyway, the past few months I've been painstakingly working on the unit. I managed to sort through my collection, match each figure, get them in the same order as the picture, and even found the same shields. I did my best to faithfully recreate the unit in the picture, only taking artistic license in extreme circumstances. 

Example of artistic license - in the solo picture of this dude, his cloak is green, but I painted him blue to match the rest of the unit.

I was rushing to take pictures so the green background is not great. Ah well - the unit is done!

Blood Bowl Dark Elves

When 3rd Edition Blood Bowl released, we fell in love with that game and played it a lot.  I wanted the Dark Elf team as soon as I saw the boxed set.  I had quickly glued them to bases, primed them, and painted two of the lineman, but then stalled.  For about...30 years. 

Now that Blood Bowl has returned to our regular gaming (my 10 year old loves playing), I realized it was time to finally finish painting this team. I painted them quick but I'm pretty pleased with the end result, however they're pretty fragile in the games. I think they need some Assassin Star Player help!

Herohammer Hammerers

In my continuing quest to hammer the backlog down, I finished this unit a few years ago. I never bothered to take a picture because I planned to sell them unpainted at one of the HMGS Convention flea markets, a.k.a. Wally's Basement, but they didn't sell. Then I painted them and was going to sell them painted, but never got the chance.  So...I changed my mind and decided to keep them. The other part of the story behind these guys is that when 5th edition WHFB was released, this was one of the first of the new sculpts of the revamped Dwarf army.  Obviously, they were new and shiny and I thought they were cool so I quickly bought them.  But staring at them unpainted for so long, the "sameness" started to wear on my and I realized I didn't really like them.  So they just remained unpainted and unloved for a long time (not even prepped).

Anyway, here they are.

Kill Team

It's been a while since I've posted to the blog, but I've been plugging away at the hobby.

Some friends at work wanted to give into Kill Team, so I grabbed a box of Sisters (Adeptus Sororitas) and painted them up quickly.  Mind you, this was sometime early last year 2024 and we still haven't played any Kill Team. Ha.