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Greetings, everyone!
It's been a long time since my last post!
Well, I am just upholding yet another wargaming blog tradition: the hiatus.
In this time I've been busy with "real life" things, but every now and then I've found a bit of time to paint (and purchase) some miniatures.
In this post I'll show you some pictures of the dwarven army that I've been mustering:
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| Two painted miniatures from the Heavy Infantry unit. These are from Mirliton Miniatures (they are labeled as "short weapons chaos dwarfs" - I simply call them Heavy Infantry). |
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| A Arquebusier Dwarf on the march. This one is from Alternative Armies. |
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| The same Marching Arquebusier, side view. |
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| A close from two of the Mirliton Arquebusiers. This pack only comes with 2 variant poses (shown in the picture) |
I have many more dwarves, all from the manufacturers aforementioned, and all of them are high quality. A quick comparison:
Essex - good overall quality, it is only a shame that each miniture does not stand by itself due to their narrow bases. These dwarves from Essex have a more "Eastern European" look due to their long cloaks and fur capes (Some look almost Russian to me!). They are a tad shorter than Mirliton's dwarves. They come in packs of 8 units each, with some variant positions distributed randomly (so far the "worst cases" I got were a pack with 4 equal identical miniatures plus 2 pairs (4+2+2) and another one with 4+3+1 - but as far as my experience colecting Essex miniatures goes, the packs will mostly come with 3+3+2).
Mirliton - I only bought the ones from the "Chaos Dwarves" range. They are very well made, each miniature has a small base that is wide enough for the miniature to stand by itself. These Chaos Dwarfs have a Viking-esque look, with horned helmets and scale mail armor. They come in packs of 8 miniatures each, with variants, but not so random as the ones from Essex: I got one with 2+2+2+2, which means 4 variant poses among 8 miniatures, and another wih 4+4. They are a bit larger than the ones from Essex.
Splintered Light Miniatures - these are also great. Depending on the set, they come with great variety (I acquired a Treasure Hunter pack, to have some "dwarven civilians", and a "Battalion pack" which comes with some 20 different foot warriors. The dwarven bowmen pack (named "Dwarven Rangers") comes with 3 different poses distributed among 12 miniatures). These have a more "fantasy-esque" look, even "cartoonish", I'd say, with more rounded heads. They are roughly the same size as the ones from Essex, if not a tad smaller.
Alternative Armies - the best thing about these is that they come in packs of 16 instead of the usual 8 that seems to be the market standard (or so I think). The bad thing is that they are visibly taller than the dwarves from other manufacturers, which kind of stands out when one looks closer, but is not such a matter when one looks from a distance. Another bad thing is that a few of these miniatures come with some ammount of "flash" (what is the "scientific denomination" of excess lead?). Their pose variation is somewhat mixed, but still good: some packs come with 16 identical minis, and some have 4 different poses, evenly distributed (4-4-4-4), and some come with nearly identical poses, but with minor differences (open or closed helms, chain mail armor or plate mail, etc.).
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| Figure comparison. From left to right: Alternative Armies, Essex and Splintered Light. All 3 are dwarven crossbowmen miniatures. |
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| The dwarven treasure hunters pack makes for a nice set of dwarven civilians, either to populate a dwarven city diorama or to use as peasants / town levy in a battle! |
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| The dragon (actually a "Basilisk") - this one is from a 28mm range, but 28mm monster miniatures also work great with the 15mm and 1/72 scales, as I've written before! |
In future posts I will share more pictures of (hopefuly) painted dwarven warriors, among other miniatures.
Untill next time!










