Man O' War: Dwarf Fleet

All hands to Battle Stations!

These aren't on my master list. Quarantine has caused me to veer off into old projects and try to get them finished. Here is a dwarf fleet for the old (25+ years ... late 80's to early 90's) GW game Man O' War. I think Man O' War was only supported for about 2-3 years by GW, so some of these fleets are kinda hard to find.

The color scheme is light gray with a teal spot color. I think they came out okay, but maybe a brighter blue might have made them pop more. I thought that would be a bit too close to the old 80's color schemes GW used to use.

I used the turquoise contrast paint and had to highlight it through with sotek green and temple guard blue for the spot color. The light gray base is Grey Seer, followed by a 1:1 diluted wash of Contrast Basicilica Grey and then a dry brush of Grey Seer again.

Pictured in the group picture is the Dwarf Dreadfleet vessel (some type of Battle Carrier). I painted him a while back.

I will probably put these on blue bases at some point, I need to find some I like. My favorite were blank plastic bases for Flames of War, but I don't think they make them anymore. I've gone back and forth several times on the best way to base these up and store them.

Gotrek Gunisson

A bit delayed on taking his picture. Gotrek actually counted toward last months totals. This is my attempt at painting Gotrek Gunisson. I followed my formula for Fyreslayers, but gave him some blue pants and blue tattoos.

He's either the most successful or least successful Troll Slayer in history. Slayer's seek a glorious death fighting the biggest baddest monster they can find, Gotrek has been trying to find his for literally 1,000's of years (although it's not clear how long he traipsed around the Realms of Chaos ... given that time works differently there). He's effectively a demigod at this point.

Still not making as much progress during Quarantine as you might expect on other projects. For some reason, I've started assembling most of the excess sprues I have.

Shadespire: Fyreslayers

Finished the short angry dudes from Shadespire. The Fyreslayers! They were more fun to paint than the one from Silver Tower. I disliked how his golden runes sorta blend in with his skin tone, so I used a lighter skin tone (recipe stolen from Tyler Mengel's article on painting witch elves). Basically  a basecoat of pure white with a thinned down flesh wash and highlights of Pallid Witch Flesh.

I like how they turned out and it was pretty simple to paint. Occasionally I get an urge to paint an army of these dudes, maybe once I finish off all my other projects. :-)