The Guardians of Karak Azul

Nice models!
Army shot! Army shot! Army shot!

Lovin those dwarf spearmen, rare as a vein of mithril ore these models.

Thank you. Yes quite rare, however to be honest it took me longer to collect the dwarfs with great weapons. I think because Dwarfs can't use spears anymore in the rules, the demand for the models isn't as great. I find the trick with ebay is to buy job lots and sell the ones you don't need..!

Really nice work! Love the models and the paint jobs. Really making me want to paint some dwarfs now!

You have a lot of warmachines! One thing I'd add as an option is having some shooting units, a unit of thunderers or crossbows can work wonders and can cause good damage, and still be equipped to handle themselves in combat. I never leave the hold without a unit or two of 10 strong thunderers.

Thank you! Yes, I’ve taken bolt throwers instead but thunderers are a good choice too, particularly as they can use the stand and shoot rule.

I finally got around to painting my ironbreakers, after getting sidetracked with finishing my tournament army.

Some may remember a previous post on this thread about how best to paint the plastic ironbreakers to get a good effect on the armour pattern. Thanks for all your input. In the end I decided not to try to replicate the 'eavy metal colour scheme on the box and instead I used a black base coat and several layers of drybrushed metallics. While in no way as prominent as I would have liked you can just about make out the pattern when you look close up.

I think the darker feel to the models fits the fluff quite well. These would be the guys that fight in the tunnels beneath the mountains, fending off all kinds of nasties that stalk the underground passages, so I've always imagined their armour to be dark.. and so too their character..

The Thane model is a popular one, I like how his helmet resembles the ironbreaker helmets so I decided to paint him with the same colour scheme. I think he fits in quite well. I may end up just using him as the unit champion. The standard bearer is also an older metal sculpt and one of my all time favourites. I can imagine it makes little sense holding a big banner when fighting in dark caves and tunnels so they instead rally around an massive engraved anvil on a pole, which I guess could double up as a weapon!





I painted up a second gyrocopter. I really like the new plastic gyrocopter models too but decided to do this old beauty first to fit in better with my other one. I believe this model could be from way back in 3rd edition (?). It was a pain to assemble as the pieces don't fit together very well. I had to drill a new hole underneath to mount it on because the original hole was too far forward and the weight was off balance. Now I just have to figure out a way to transport it to games without it breaking..!





Lastly I couldn't resist painting up this old chap. I plan to use him as a wizard in a narrative campaign I'm doing next month. Thematically it is supposed to be a druid from the island of Albion so I guess he should really be human but I've been waiting for a reason to use this model so I'm going for it! He supposed to be movement 5 so if anyone asks why an old dwarf is belting it across the battlefield I’ll have to think of a cool/thematic explanation. (Roller skates under his robes perhaps? Ha). To be honest I expect I’ll keep him in a unit anyway.