Topic: Mogsams Dwarf Goblins. Update:- Hammerer!

[Warlord]

Top knots.

"Long knots"

[Mogsam]

I have to find 100 shields before I can attach anything too them! Those old crappy round ones are suprisingly hard to find.

Shadowlord sent me another 50 Dwarfies today and I went out to get basing equipment, so hopefully I should have pretty dwarfies once I get off my arse and base them. (Suppose sit on my arse rather than get off it i imagine) There was a metal standard top in the package as well which looks quite fancy.

I have to decide on an army list really. Just painting randomly is making me less interested in painting it properly.

The Steampa is shall we say... deceased. Myself and Whitey met up to play and it fell off a table and shattered. Haven't fixed it yet. It will take a very long time.

Mogsam

[Mogsam]

They still have a fair way to go but I based them today. I never realised how much of a difference it would make! They look 10 times better now. Of course they still aren't finished, weapons, teeth, mouth, wooden shafts (hur hur) and touches up need to be applied. But they look alot better.



Mogsam

[Merrick]

Nice!



Also, from what I've heard, the steampa was dropped. 

[Mogsam]

Hammerer! What'dya think?

He wasn't dropped he fell off their painting station. It was a massacre!

Mogsam

[MrDWhitey]

It is decent and unfinished. The obvious being the closer hand needing greenstuffing to properly join it to the figure proper.

I wont comment on moldlines because I'm worse than most with them.

Other than the obvious "Large hammer", I do think it needs -something- to make them stand out from other units.

Ridiculously large pauldrons?

Ludicrously sized shoulderpads?

Perhaps some blatantly overdone spaulders.

Don't forget to put shields on their backs!

[rufus sparkfire]

Other than the obvious "Large hammer", I do think it needs -something- to make them stand out from other units.

No it doesn't. Has hammer = hammerer.

It looks good.

[Merrick]

Other than the obvious "Large hammer", I do think it needs -something- to make them stand out from other units.

No it doesn't. Has hammer = hammerer.

It looks good.

Yeh, that's what I thought.

I like it a lot. 



...now,I may have to fight this army at some point....

[Mogsam]

Well the hammer itself might not be enough. I have a unit of 20 to make and about 8 or 9 hammers. They might have to be err great weaponers...

I assume in fluff theres no wiggle room for hammerers without hammers. Then again it's an army of delusional goblins, who can really complain on a fluff basis.

Mogsam

[MrDWhitey]

No it doesn't. Has hammer = hammerer.

I've been trying to persuade him to sculpt Lorica Segmentata upper arm and shoulder armour for them.

Not because it looks good either, just so he has lots to do.

[Midaski]

Well the hammer itself might not be enough. I have a unit of 20 to make and about 8 or 9 hammers. They might have to be err great weaponers...

Well you could ask around for some hammers - or dwarf arms with poles and separate hammer heads ..............

That's what we have the bits threads for in the Trading Post ......

[Mogsam]

I had thought of that Midaski, but that is the last resort! There are still bodging oppertunities!

I might have found a solution, theres a slight scale issue but it could be the perfect smaller hammer head. I'm not sure what piece it is, it's a arrow fletch from one of the crossbow sets with the arrows cut off, basically it is the metalic pouch with a little dwarf symbol on it. Looks just like a hammer head.

After all it's not size that matters right? Plus I have 20 identical pieces. Smashing.

One day i'll let you play me Eight, after I push you over in the street and am forced to reveal my identity. 

Mogsam. Bloody love puns.

[Merrick]

I'm not sure what piece it is, it's a arrow fletch from one of the crossbow sets with the arrows cut off, basically it is the metalic pouch with a little dwarf symbol on it. Looks just like a hammer head.

I think I know the piece you mean, but it might be a little wimpy?

One day i'll let you play me Eight, after I push you over in the street and am forced to reveal my identity. 

And it's not hard to beat  a guy with concussion at Warhammer.

[steveb]

I'm not sure what piece it is, it's a arrow fletch from one of the crossbow sets with the arrows cut off, basically it is the metalic pouch with a little dwarf symbol on it. Looks just like a hammer head.

I think I know the piece you mean, but it might be a little wimpy?

One day i'll let you play me Eight, after I push you over in the street and am forced to reveal my identity. 

And it's not hard to beat  a guy with concussion at Warhammer.

wimpy? maybe, but it could be used as a second weapon counting as a shield. steveb

[Mogsam]

Well this is the part I meant, I think it makes quite a good hammerhead, it's a bit small in comparison to the rest of the army but that's because they are ridiculously big rather than the hamemr being wrong. I had thought about putting something on the front of these pieces to make the hammer "bigger" but I don't have anything sufficiently small and round to make a bigger head and I quite like them how they are for now.

I'll shave all the mould lines off before I do any painting and i'll greenstuff the handgaps. They also have to all get fur coats to hide their hair.

I'm trying to decide if I should put my lord on a 4 dwarf shield rather than a two dwarf shield. He is certainly getting a new shield as the men holding him up are in the wrong style and he is far too tall.









Mogsam

[Mogsam]

Oh and I forgot this one.



They will be replacing the Ironbreakers in my list. Because they are 10x better converted and sexier. The Ironbreakers are being retired.

Mogsam

[MrDWhitey]

Keep the ironbreakers, or I'll break you.

I like those hammers, they're not ridiculously oversized.

[Midaski]

That's a good idea and well executed Mogsam.

I too have loads of them, there were lots in the regiment set with those crappy shouldered crossbow arms.
I cut the bolt tops off too but then used them just as ordinary pouches.

 

[Von Breden]

Everytime I see those Dwarf bodies I cry and ask why GW replaced them with those horrible formless new ones.

[Mogsam]

Midaski:- Thanks, they seemed like annoying little pointless things but I had the idea of turning them into a hammer a while ago when I made some miners up. It gives me a convienient uniform look and they are good as hammer heads.I've got a few of those shoulder armed crossbows lying around, they aren't great but they aren't aweful.

As Whitey has requested that I post the thing i've been working on for the last few hours (if these hammerers die tommorow to a hellstorm i will be very upset!)
I present my Shieldbearers!





The heads haven't been touched by a file yet as they are blue tacked on (like half the heads in the army at the moment. but thats the general pose of them. They are technically illegal but 2 will pretend to be hammerers. Wink Wink Nudge Nudge. The front hammer appears to be wonky now I can see the pictures. Bah! Also, plasticard over the 2p? The queen won't mind right? It's only a little treason.

Mogsam

[MrDWhitey]

omg base size is 2 big u suk.


 

I'd suggest covering up her face.

[rufus sparkfire]

They will be replacing the Ironbreakers in my list.

Good choice. Ironbreakers are no good anymore.


I'm calling the police about your defacement of the coin of the realm.

[Nicholas Bies]

haha wow I like those alot.

Need to get myself to the UK to check'em out in person.

[Mogsam]

I played a 2250 point game earlier. All of the hammerers died horribly, however they did it spectacularly. I like hammerers now. Much better than Ironbreakers!

I quite want slayers though. They won't disapoint me by dieing.

Mogsam