Thunderers Part 1

I got a few good painting sessions in this week and got to add this 10-strong unit of Thunderers to my Dwarfs for our Border Princes campaign.

These, just like the majority of the Miners I painted a few weeks back, are from the Warhammer 7th edition starter set: Battle for Skull Pass. This means they’re one-piece plastics and therefore are quite limited in their casting as a result. I think they look fine for army models however and as an added bonus they’re very easy to paint due to the complete lack of overhangs brought on by those casting limitations.

They were painted in the exact same manner as the Miners I mentioned above so feel free to go see that post for a detailed guide. In short, the beards and leather are done with contrast paints (two coats of Snakebite Leather for the leather, and a single coat of Gore-Grunta fur, Wildwood, Black Templar, Apothecary White, or Skeleton Horde for the beards). The metallics are Scale75 paints (silver: S75 Black Metal, Bronze/Brass: S75 Necro Gold), washed with GW Agrax Earthshade and highlighted with their respective basecoat colour. The green is the most involved process with a base coat of Vallejo Heavy Black Green followed by successive highlights of the same base colour with more and more S75 Sherwood Green mixed in all the way up to the line highlights done in pure Sherwood green. For the sleeves I stopped a few steps into this highlight process to differentiate them from the green on the armour (maybe 60% Heavy Black Green to 40% Sherwood Green).

Nice and simple and very quick to paint, I finished these in two sessions which is a nice pace. I have another unit of 10 to paint for the army, and I’m currently planning on how (or if!) to differentiate them from these ones painting wise.

Still plenty more to paint for this campaign so expect more Warhammer models to come this way soon!