Slayers!

It’s been a bit of a while between updates, painting this unit was slow for a couple of reasons: as I mentioned last time around I’m back in the office mostly which has cut down on my painting time, but more importantly I took my time on these!

This is one of my “holy grail” units, Troll slayers! Dwarves were my introduction to Warhammer, and I spent a lot of time over the years looking at the models in the pages of my army book (all I could do, 14 year old me definitely could not afford full units of metal models!). I got my hands on a lot of metal dwarf models a couple of months ago off a friend that was wanting to sell them off, and I’ve been greatly looking forward to painting them.

Troll Slayers can have multiple “Champion” type models and I decided to include two in the unit. The leftmost model in the photo above is the one that came with the models I just bought, and the rightmost is a model I’ve had since those early days, finally getting painted. Both very cool sculpts.

I had a bit of fun with the banner, the runes on the left scrolls spell out I KO TROL. The book has a horn symbol on it as a call back to this army’s origin: Karak Hirn – The Horn Hold.

I also had a lot of fun painting the troll head mounted on the banner. The blue makes for a nice contrast with all that orange!

These Troll Slayers mark a bit of a milestone for my Dwarfs, they take the army up to 1000pts which is the size we settled on for this campaign. So here’s a photo of everything I’ve painted so far for them! I’ll likely paint up some more models (I own plenty more now!) for the army, but it’s ready to go as it is and I’ll focus on the other factions for now.