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OK, Xander has been bugging me again, and again, and again to repost everything I had collected over at HoH.org

So I'll make a list of what I've got finished and will add whatever gets done next.

I was going to wait untill my BC were done, but 2 of them met a frustrated Bjorni this evening and ended up in pieces.

Anyway:
Characters
Lord on Taurus




Hero on foot




Sorcerers



Based on the Hellcannon crew.

BSB


Core Units

I'm using Gnoblars as naked Hobgobs. 4 units of these are done by now.




My regular CD unit. Plastic Dwarfs, CW heads + weapons, Marauder shields, GS beards.




My 2 Blunderbuss units.

I use new Night Goblins for the Hobgobs with upgrades

10 Hobgobs with bows


My unit of 25 Ard Gobs

Special Units

Bolt Thrower, using the Gnoblars as crew again. These 4 are just the old Dwarf BT with Helcannon wheels added on.


My Deathrocket still waiting for paint.

Rare Units

My Earthshaker is based on a Hellcannon, I cut about a third of both the barrel and the chassis.


My Bull Centaurs, bane of my painting table at the moment.

I was using these as stand-ins for a while, because I was waiting on bits.


WIP
I'm doing some unit fillers at the moment because I want another unit of 25 CDs and to get something cool and freaky in the army, model-wise.




I also have some command models for my Blunderbuss units in progress at the moment and that's about it as far as my planning goes.

To do:
Bull Centaurs (grrrr, and later expanding them to 10 including a character...to BSB or not to BC BSB??)
Deathrocket
2 unit fillers
13 regular CD including Full Command
6 Blunderbusses (2x Full Command)

I really would like to replace all the Gnoblars with the new Night Gobbo conversions, but it's 60+ models and the left arm of the new NG is a problem if you want a nekkid Hobgob.

2K army list I'm using at the moment:
Lord on Taurus, Black Hammer, Armour o/t Furnace, shield
BSB, 1+ save, Sword of Might
Sorc, L1, Scroll
Sorc, L1, 2x Scroll

24 CD, FC, Warbanner
4x 15 Naked Hobgobs
10 Hobgobs Archers
25 Hobgobs with light armour, shields, standard and music
2x 15 Blunderbusses
4 Bolt Throwers
1 Earth Shaker
5 Bull Centaurs, heavy armour, GW

Played about 16 games so far, won 14, drawn 2 (bloody draws they were as well)

Anyway, hope you like it, Q's C&C always welcome,

Cheers,
Bjorn

Wow.  Love it every time I see it.  I especially like the Slave Driver for the Gnoblar slaves.

Your war machines are also excellent.  The death rocket looks slick, and the Earthshaker is great too.

Your Taurus is a beast! Love it.

Cheers!

Love the Taurus, like everything else in your army.

~MM

Great individual models.... Unbelievable army... BRAVO!

The horns on there are the horns that go with that Defiler head, only cut off, shortened and repositioned.

The original helmet with the horns pointing straight up is way too long to suit an Ogre size model.

We found this out while building some Dragon Ogres:


The second one from the left has the horns still in original position, while the last one has them twisted, but not shortened.

Cheers,
Bjorni

Balrog/Fellbeast from the Lotr range, with the slender bit cut off.

I thought GW didn't allow for bits crossovers like that?  Can you use that at Tournies and in the GW store?

If I'm not mistaken GW will never actively promote or showcase the mixing of bits/IP, like in a WD army showcase, or awarding someone a best army award at a GWGT. (there was a mixup a little while ago in the USWD IIRC)

So you can use it and stuff, just don't count on any hobby"fame".

Cheers,
Bjorni

Amazing stuff indeed. I am not such a big fan of how their heads poke up on the top, where dwarves usually have hunched necks, but very nice none the less.

A simple fix if you were to replicate the idea, however.

Hello again everybody old and new,

2 bits of news, good and bad

The bad thing is my Chaos Dwarf Army is stuck in a case since April. I finished 2000 pts and never got anything else finished (like those Bull Centaurs, the Deathrocket or the Ogre unit fillers). I'll never, ever Dip anything again, it completely destroyed my motivation to paint for fun and painting over white is the most extreme torture for me.

Good thing (for me at least) is that after the painting-dip I picked up some Chaos stuff again for Nemesis Crown and got to updating my Warriors and Knights. (I still had 2 units each of the old hunchback ones) They are now happily spinning circles in the cabinet of my local GW. I finally got around to do a chariot and a Dragon Ogre conversion that I had been thinking about for a while. Xander and I talked about it a while back so I decided to post them here as well, just to show some Chaos stuff and be 0.5 on topic.

I'll try to get pics of the stuff in the store somewhere this week, but here are my DO and Warriors+BSB.



Still some GS work to do on 2 of them and I'm thinking about adding horns to the helmets.

Some more pics of the finished stuff, but my photo-fu now really has deserted me and they are horrid pics.





The chariot and knights are more converted than the regular warriors, let's see if I can get some better snaps of them.

Thanks,
Bjorn

PS Sorry about the half OT stuff, but I noticed semi-bloggin about a project motivates me to keep at it. So consider yourselves a valuable part of this army.

PS2 @ AGPO
The bases are made with rough cork, mine is just a 1 euro tea-coaster broken into rough pieces.

it all looks awesome! especially those dragon ogres, keep it up! (Photo-Fu lol)  

the crossover rules have basically been done away with for a while.  With the only exception of stuff that actually gets published.  So while you could certainly use it in store, and i believe at a GT, they wouldnt be able to take pics the website or white dwarf.

I'm still a little surprised youre even able to bitz order LOTR parts.  That certainly took long enough.

Here are some pics of the stuff I already did last month. GS work on the Dragon Ogres is for this evening when I had some food and it cooled down a bit here.






I just added the Chaos Icon to the Knight Banner today after I made this pic, the banner now looks like the Warrior one with half a Defiler Chaos Icon stuck on top.

Ok, off to the kitchen and then stuff some more Dragon Scales.

Cheers,
Bjorn

Very nice Bjorn! Working hard I see, that slow in the store?!

Tim. (ex-GW Amsterdam)

Thanks guys,

No Tim, it's pretty busy actually, I did all these somewhere last month, mostly at home, some simple glueing took place in the store.
Do you still pop in the Adam store now and again, I have a bag with various CD monster bits lying here for you, I'll let Robert take them to A'dam whenever he goes up next.

Kyte, I do have some pics of various Chaos stuf I did over the last 2 years, but nothing in this style as I just got around to using the "new" Chaos Warrior plastics. I had other projects in the works in the meantime. I have a new Chaos Sorcerer on steed standing on my desk and plans for a Exalted hero on foot conversion.

Anyway, here a Beast BSB:


Otherwise just browse here.

I did various other projects in the meantime, so when I look back at those Beast piccies I cringe a bit inside.

Green Stuff on the Dragon Ogres is done, hope to start painting tomorrow evening but I heard some whispers about cold beer....................

Great, thanks Bjorn.

Sometimes (or quite many times actually) I'm jealous of your quick ability to paint to a good standard.

ok, meny gays have tried to make a army whit cw heads and dw dodys and most of them have faild but you have sucsewed... but why diping!!!

and the chaos(mortal) army is apsolutly amasing

Hi again,

After some delays (forgetting to green stuff half the DO is not a good thing if you want to paint in the evening, and not-drying undercoat is an "äaargh"-moment) I finally got a chance to sit down yesterday-evening and this afternoon. So the DO are done, nothing special, but I'm happy with them for the time invested.





I now have the mounted Sorcerer and Archie on foot on my desk, I'm trying to get 1 done before I leave for vacation Sunday afternoon.

Thanks for all the kind words,
Bjorn

PS @ The Evil Twin: I dipped them because I would NEVER do a CD army, and I also would NEVER dip an army, does that make sense? (Could you please at least try to make legible post, thanks)

My way of doing Ogre skin is dead easy.

Basecoat Khemri Brown (used to be Graveyard Earth, but Khemri covers WAY beter and is the same colour). cover 100%, do not leave black as a shading coulour.

Mix some Elf Flesh in with Graveyard Earth for a 80% layer, the 20% you're not painting is the deep shade inbetween the fat/muscles.

Work your way up from there with more Elf Flesh in the mix for each step.

I did an OK army as well, pics are here.

Thanks,
Bjorn