From the frozen chaos wastes march dwarfs clad dark armour wilding weapons forged on the blazing souls of daemons.


This blog will show the slow progress of my CD army.

Fist up my shadow sorcerer:


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4652...7166_b.jpg

For this army I'm wanting to have a dark sinister looking army and have have some thing other than lava bases.He was converted from a skaven grayseer  and green stuff.


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4652...3a19_b.jpg
I thought that he wouldn't be walking around a lot with feet of stone and logically he will have some snow buildup.

C&C are much appreciated.

2017 Image Salvage

This post was last modified: 08-10-2017 06:20 AM by Admiral.

Sweet looking mini
Especially like the skintone and the ashlike-base: I'm anxious to see more.

MOAR!

This post was last modified: 05-30-2010 10:11 AM by Anonymouse.

Sweet looking mini
Especially like the skintone and the ashlike-base: I'm anxious to see more.

MOAR!

Totally stellar concept. Love the colour scheme you've gone with, very dark and does give it a cold ash look.

Great conversion as well. Do you have any photos of this as WIP?

~N

Very cool!
I really can't wait to see more.

Sadly I don't have any photos of the WIP I painted him unexpectedly for a painting competition at my local store(I won third place) but it is a fairly simple conversion the base is this model is found here: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalo...rod1040030
You basically do what you would do to a normal dwarf to covert it with a few extras like covering/removing the tail.

really like the paint job on the model looks very dark and menacing, keep up the good work

Love the runes on the staff Kered! Definitely at the sinister end of the spectrum - I love it!

The main reason that my forces are slow to build up (other than my laziness) is that I am making most of my dwarfs from scratch, right now I am in the process of casting my fist dwarf here:
http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/forum/showth...464&page=1
I have got the sprue set up now all I need is too to find appropriate silicone, resin, releasing agent ect.(I really should of planed ahead but why change the habit of a life time.)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4659...b044_b.jpg

C&C are much appreciated.

@Kered

GreAAaT Job!!!

C&C are much appreciated.

How about... stellar work. Looks great.  Any chance you'll be cranking out several dozen to put up on an e-Bay shop where some of us can buy a couple of your creations?   Personally I find casting to just be too much work and I can't be bothered... that and I've never created anything original

~N

How about... stellar work. Looks great.  Any chance you'll be cranking out several dozen to put up on an e-Bay shop where some of us can buy a couple of your creations?   Personally I find casting to just be too much work and I can't be bothered... that and I've never created anything original

~N

I might do that if people are interested when(if) I successfully cast it, I also plan after making a few to re sculpt hand to cary blunderbusses. We'll just have to wait and see(and hope I doesn't collapse in on it self).

This post was last modified: 06-02-2010 01:07 PM by Kered.

They look awesome! Can't wait to see the finished product

Today I got my supplies for the mold making so I been working on that this afternoon if I am lucky I might have some cast at the end of the weekend.


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4669...801a_b.jpg
this is it just before I added the silicone.

This was my first try and they never go as well as they could, unfortunately wasn't at the right consistency but nothing too bad should be fine tomorrow after Its had time the solidify fully.

wow cool. good luck on your casting are you going to make entire units out of this mold?

This post was last modified: 06-04-2010 05:22 PM by Da Crusha.

Nice to see some casting going on

Is that the recommended way to do sprues for resin? I've never used it before.

Thanks for all the nice comments.

I'm using Xanders tutorial  for 2 part molds which was very useful and I highly recommend for any one wanting to do miniature casting in resin. The main thing to look out for is that there are no places for air to get caught as the resin pushes it out such as the axe handle and the like.

@Da Crasha: Yes, yes I am.
(if it works)

This post was last modified: 06-05-2010 02:29 AM by Kered.

Only a  small update.
Both sides of the mold are now complete.



My first cast and as with all first casts it never comes out perfectly.


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4673...dbfa_b.jpg

I'm not going to bore you with a ft long list of thing that went wrong I'l let you work them out for your selves. The important thing is that I know what not to do now and despite all the flaws He came out rather well I mean he looks 'slightly' like a dwarf.


(Oh no the curse of the blurry photos has struck again)

C&C are much appreciated.

looks pretty cool, kinda blurry but seems correct. im actually quite curious to hear what kind of problems you encountered with this casting.

Great job on the Sorcerer! I especially like that you used a miniature from a totally different race as a base for the mini.

The pic of the finished casting is a bit blurry. Looks like his right foot may not have come out completely? It would be informative for those (like me) who plan on casting in resin to know what problems you encountered and how you plan to fix them in subsequent casts. Otherwise, the original sculpt looks awesome and I hope you get it to turn out the way you envision it soon.

Keep up the good work!

Looks great cant wait to see more of this.