In light of my little experiment with the Orcs and Minotaurs I do have to admit that things are in progress for the Dwarf army too but a shortage (dwarf joke there) of bases has held things up a little.

I had started out with the 3 poses from em4 but the integral bases are just WAY too large for dwarves. So like some other Dwarven Generals out there I took to cutting down the bases and sticking them on 20mm bases.

When posed next to the metal Dwarves from Grenadier you can see that they scale really well.

While waiting for more bases I did manage to get my hands on a few...ok.. a lot of artillery. Coming from Ral Partha the scale is slightly different but nothing that causes upset.

I relearned a very important lesson when making these up. Super Glue does not like to set up when cold. One small heating fan later they artillery started to set up just fine.

Now I did have a few 20mm bases hanging around and one of the special units for Dwarves in WFB 3rd Ed are the Sappers that operate in units of 2. GW currently does a range of Dwarf Miners and so do some other companies but none look like they are kitted out for the battlefield. With this in mind I started thinking how to make my own.

Choosing the Dwarf with Axe as the base figure I was trying to work out how to make a Pickaxe when it suddenly dawned upon me that I had the bits right in front of me. In this case literally as I had the spare swords from the Orcs I had turned into Musicians or given other hand weapons too so they could be used as Champions.

Cutting off the Axe head (saved for further conversions of course) I trimmed 2 of the swordblades and stuck them together in a bow shape and added them to the end of the headless axe shaft.

I think this works well and 4 of them took form very quickly.

Now to just wait for all the bases to arrive and spend a weekend rebasing 200 Dwarves :S