Renegade of Hashut

Now, before I sell my small, but beloved Chaos Dwarfs army, I want to share some pictures, and, of course, the review on how the army was made. Maybe someone will find it usefull.Long long ago, in The Before times I decided to collect a Chaos dwarfs army. To be honest, those "Before times" have nothing to do with those even earlier times, when Chaos dwarfs used to be a whole-oficial army with their separate (and up-to date) rulebook.

It happened with the release of the "Battle for the skull pass" starter set. Or, actually with the release of a white dwarf with goblin and dwarf models glued onto its cover.

As I played O&G army before, and I was thinkig of playing it in the future, I was pretty sure that even a single night goblin would surely find its place and purpose amongst my green hordes, but I had no idea what to do with a dwarf.

At that time I just quit playing Warriors of Chaos army, and been thinking about something new and rare. The obvios choice were the beastmen. Even now this army is not considered to be main stream one, and several years ago noone really played it at all. Moreover, I had some beastmen from the times when mortals and beasts could be mixed in a single army.

And that was when it stroke me! Dwarfs and greenskins... Greenskins and dwarfs... Merge perfectly into a CHAOS DWARFS! After that I bought a few Battle for skull path dwarfs and started the business. Here is what the result was:

This dwarf unit was the first thing I did (except the dwarf lord, but we'll talk on that later. Purely BFSP dwarfs, GS, weapons from different other armies, bannertop from 5-th edition chaos warriors and yeh! The ork shoota barrel as a musicians tube. Nothing complex and extremely fun to work on those.

My next step were the blunderbussers. They are a MUST HAVE and, if you want, a face of each and every CD army. No CD general leaves home without them, as apart from their combat effectiveness, they have very unique rules, look and feeling. Theese guys are converted from BFSP Thunderers mixed with GS and screws. Yes, normal screws from a hardware store! One was pinned onto their head and another (smaller one) into their hands. Most of bluderbusses and hats are screws. The bigger ones are clubs from Ogre bulls. But damn, that's a waste. Only the "champions" have them.

Artillery is another thing, similar to blunderbusses. Unique chaos-dwarven feature. Earthshaker is made of GS, BFSP cannon and ogre bulls champion's gutplate. The bolthrowers (I've got two of those, but they are the same, so just a single photo) are from the rackham range, as they are the cheapest BT's u can find, at less than 30$ per 3 (they have human crew, but those guys have lots of purposes apart from CD army). I used gnoblars from ogre bulls box as a crewmen, because of their poses. One is targeting, another brings ammo. This "loader" is slightly converted to hold a bolt in his hands instead of a club.

And no, of course, a few words on heroes. First- the mage. He's made of BFSP slayer, a nail and a skull. As you can see he represents a fire mage, and I wanted him to look like a pyromaniac. Why no clothes? Well, he burned it to ashes of course! GS is included as usual.

The red hero is a massively GS project on a base of Rackham dwarfs hero. His face, head and fiery shield are totally self-modelled. The colour scheme was chosen to represent the "armor of furnace" from CD magic items list. The hero's original sword was swapped to a halberd from old chaos warrior.

Apart from this guys, I've got a shadow sorcerer.. But, well, the photo is not ready yet.

So, hope u like it, and look for it on ebay.