I had so much fun playing my first game of Dragon Rampant with my friend Mike at Historicon that after returning home I started thinking about painting a second army to go with my Dark Elves. While I have plenty of humans from various eras that I could use, I wanted another straight fantasy army.
Who doesn't like dwarves? After looking around a bit, I settled on using the plastic Dwarf infantry sets that North Star makes for their Oathmark rules. They have three different infantry sets with varying amounts of armor. I bought the Heavy & Light Infantry boxes from Griffons Lair via Ebay.
After experimenting with assembling a unit of heavy foot, I bought the Infantry box from Badger Games. I also got some shield transfers, flags, a pack of 3 North Star metal dwarves (king, wizard, & musician), and a wizard and burglar set by Gripping Beast. How could I resist having Gandalf in my army? I am pretty disappointed that the top part of Gandalf's staff was already broken off. It looks too thin to pin back together, so there may not be a Gandalf after all.
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So far I have:
Painted 10 of the heavy dwarves, they are waiting for their bases to be finished.
Assembled and 50% painted 12 archers.
Assembled 12 infantry and have painted the armor.
I like to have multiple groups at different stages so that there is always something to do. I haven't forgotten about the dark elves, I've finished touching up 8 of them and am doing the basing today. I want to make sure I like how the bases look before doing any more.
Woohoo Jason!! The Dwarves go marching on!!
ReplyDeleteYou're flying along on the dwarves, Jason! Great progress. Somewhere down the line, I may pick up Warhost's new dwarves, but that would be a 2027 purchase.
ReplyDeleteYour approach to keeping several groups at different stages is really smart, and it explains how you keep momentum on a long project. I like the idea of painting heavy dwarves while archers and infantry are at different steps, so there is always something ready to work on. The Badger Games infantry choice also sounds like good value for a Dragon Rampant warband. Between painting sessions, I enjoy a short, light mobile break, and https://kickthebuddyapk.app/ is one I have used for that. Great progress on the dwarves so far.
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