As I implied in Thunderers Part 1 I had some more Thunderers to paint for this Dwarf army, and that’s what I painted over the last week.
These are the same models as the first unit, the single piece plastics from the Battle for Skull Pass starter set for 7th edition Warhammer. As such there’s not much new to discuss so this will be a bit of a shorter post!
To keep things interesting, I decided to paint them slightly differently to the last batch, keeping the same colour palette but placing a few colours in different places. While these Dwarfs are from the same Hold as the other regiment, they might come from a different clan for example. I want to experiment with varying colours within armies some more, especially for fantasy and pre-modern historical games. These are not uniformly outfitted armies, they’re likely to be wearing what they brought from home!
Here is this new unit next to the previous unit I painted. I think they fit in well together even when standing apart. Of course matching the bases helps a lot to tie them together.
The more eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed that I painted the eyes on this unit but not on the previous one. I’ve been a bit lazy with these Dwarfs so far and skipped that step, but for some reason felt like painting these in. Unfortunately for me I now feel like the Dwarfs I painted before this unit are missing something and I may have to go back and give them something to look with!
That’s it painting-wise, but there’s been an interesting development collecting-wise in the last week. A friend of mine sold me his collection of old (6th edition era for the connoisseurs) metal Dwarfs for a steal so I’m the proud owner of a lot more Dwarfs, three full blocks of infantry and quite a few characters. Before that I’d been scouring eBay for some of these older models and one unit I managed to get for a good price also arrived this week, so I’m inundated with new models to paint. Expect many more Dwarf posts in the near future!
Lair of the Lagomorph 
Nice work, Nic! 🙂 Both units go well together! I zoomed the picture up and could tell the difference with the eyes to be honest! I don’t bother with eyes now on 20mm figures unless they’re not wearing any headgear – I’ve recently added some odd figures to much older units and from further than about six inches away you can’t tell who’s had their eyes painted and who hasn’t!
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Doh! I meant to put “couldn’t tell the difference”! What a dope! Sorry about that, Nic!
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I figured that was what you meant, no harm done!
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Batch painting eyes should be a great way to spend a couple of hours, Nic! 😉 In all seriousness, these look great and I had all but forgotten about the never-ending quest with painting your units or even individual models just a bit different than the last one to keep it interesting. The Empire were pretty good in that regard as it was easy to paint a leg or arm in white instead of red! I’m glad to hear about the dwarf acquisitions and I will be excited to see more of them!
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Thanks Jeff! Yes might take me a while to get through all those eyes, we’ll see how we go! And yes empire models are great for that uniformly different look!
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These are really nice and I like the differences between the units, clearly in the same army but also easy to tell them apart.
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Thanks! I’ve mixed up units a lot on the battlefield in the past so I’m hoping that’ll come in handy. It’s a bit less of an issue in Warhammer than it is in something like 40K because of movement trays but it’ll definitely be nice to tell them apart at a glance.
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