These warriors are my first set of dwarves that I painted. While the paint job leaves something to be desired like some basic shading and highlighting, but the poses leave a lot to be desired as well. I only started with 20 of these and then added 5 more a few years later. You proabably cant see them but I have improved.
After my first unit of regular warriors, I put together these guys. Once again some basic lessons were leaned by painting these guys, and like above, I did add five more dwarves to this unit. Unfortunately I figured out that it is not the greatest of ideas to have these guys as a block as large as the warrior units. You live and learn on all fronts I guess.
Now this cannon I believe that I came next, it all gets fuzzy after the first two. As you can see these metal guys are showing their age. They are first on the block as far as repainting. I have no idea exactly when I plan on doing that but it will be a long time from now I guarantee.
As stated in the picture, these are the miners. Once again a few issues with shading and some of these guys are also showing their age.
This is my unit of Longbeards with a character that I placed in here. Usually if I want a Lord he is the man that I use. A little better shading, but still some painting to be desired.
My unit of Ironbreakers with a Battle Standard Bearer. Now I really think that at the time that this was the best that I could have done at the time. I think that I could do better now on the unit for sure, but not that bad at all. The armour is my special mix to show that they have Gromril armour.
I should have put this guy up front because he is the oldest model that I still have that is fully painted. If I every question my ability I take a look at him and compare what I am painting to him. It always makes me feel better after that. He used to be my Runesmith, until I retired him.
I wanted to put my elite core units out there as well. The model on the top left is my runesmith. He is part of the "first wave" of painting that I have done. The guy on the bottom left is my Thane of Pain when I need one. He is perhaps one of my best works that I have done in my "second wave" of my dwarfs. I need to make sure that this guy has the cushioning to make sure that he doesnt become like the cannon crew. Speaking of the second wave here is the bulk of them coming up next.
My organ gun. While you can't really see the shading in the picture, the crew's beards are all shaded and not blobs. This is one of the first in the second wave of models that I did.
Now this is my best unit painted up right now. The runesmith here is ranked right up to my thane of pain in quality of painting. Some of the shading is not showing up well, but this is the best of my painting job with Dwarves.
Right now I am trying an experiment with my painting in that I have groups of 40K, Fantasy, and WAB all up on my table. I wanted to try to paint one thing at a time on each group whenever I paint, in order to break the monotony of painting so much of one unit. It seems to be working ok on that front, but it is taking forever to get everything done. I guess that I should rather focus on one group at a time. I am going to try to finish up my Space Marines and knock them out given that they are the closest to being complete, and try something else.
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