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.
Proper nice models and kudos to wanting to recreate them as accurately as possible.
ReplyDeleteThat is proper hardcore love and attention, and I think it was worth it.
10/10!!
thank you Mike!
Deletebtw - love the new site. I've enjoyed following the progress and the story. I added a link to the blogroll here
DeleteMuch love!!
DeleteThank you.
Now these are real dwarfs, each one seems to be a real individual. Excellent job on recreating the look and feel of the original unit from the Army book. Looks absolutely amazing well worth the 30 odd year wait!
ReplyDeletethank you. these old sculpts are such a joy to paint because each one has so much character
DeleteThey're so much better than the modern computer designed plastic kits. Although that's probably just nostalgia speaking 😂
ReplyDeleteI agree 100%.
DeleteDigital designs may as well be AI designs.
All straight lines are perfectly straight, blades on weapons are perfect in terms of angles and shapes and slopes.
Things are drawn down one side and the mirrored so that things are symmetrical.
Everything is textbook perfect and flawless, there is nothing artistic about so many of them.
Not to mention so many are over detailed, less is more, if your model needs loads of greeblies and crud to be ‘good’ then it aint good.
Painting these ridiculous over complicated models is a pain in the ass and super time consuming.
I tend to think as well that they look more like toys than models if that makes any sense.
In an attempt to make everything perfect they lack imperfection, and it is this which makes them far from perfect as good models. They are soulless.