Armies on Parade 2016

More than happy with the outcome of my very first participation at AoP.

Here are a few pics of how the dwarf mine looked like in the end:

Still can't believe I went home with this cool gold medal ...

I'm really glad that so many people liked my dwarf mine and voted for it. Thank you very much!!!

Let meeeeee entertain you!

Hearing that song while painting does lead to wild experiments for sure.

I'll come back to that in a minute, but first a few pics of the normal progress I have made regarding the dwarf mine for Armies on Parade:

This is where I started this morning.

It took me a while to highlight the door.

And then I was listening to that song ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy5fXM00JNA

... and suddenly things got weird ...

 

1 (!) day to go ...will I make it in time?

Dwarf mine - new WIP pics

I'm progressing the dwarf mine.

Here's a pic of the hemisphere after having used the granite-effect spray I mentioned in my first tutorial. I might add a golden dwarf face / rune or something similar to it, but most probably not in time for Armies on Parade.

It also took me some time to correct a stupid newbie mistake: Check whether your bases fit into the slots as planned and don't forget to remove sand leftovers in them before sand and PVA are dry. It will save you a lot of work. ;-)

I managed to correct it though. Here's how far I got with painting:

Black primer, two shades of grey so far ...

It still looks a bit dull. I'm going to add different inks today so that the rock looks more varied, and maybe a bit of earth instead of rock. Door, frame and a few bones are still unpainted. More drybrushing and preparation of the miners' bases this afternoon ... So there's still time for suggestions what else you would like me to add to the mine.

Dwarf mine (brandnew WIP pics)

Brandnew WIP pics of the dwarf mine I'm building. I've now added a kind of 'frame' using plasticard ...

... and adapted this frame to the rock:

Next step will be to close the gap between this frame and the rock with Milliput.

How do you like it so far? Anything you would have done differently? C&C greatly appreciated!

Dwarf mine - WIP pics

Pics of the next steps:

After reconsidering the miners' positions and whether to add rails and a lorry or not, ...

I started to add different sizes of rubble and a few skulls to the mine:

One of my very first projects

The original plan when I started painting back in 2012 was to paint an entire Warhammer Fantasy army for gaming. I loved to field miners for my dwarf army and thus started painting my favourite unit.

 Bases still to be done.

How do you like their fancy beards? Hot or not? :-)