Update 7/10/14 Introducing the Dwarfs of Anarchy

Here they are, ready for some Zlurpee Bowl X action!

The Motor Cycle Enthusiast

Jax and Opie; Slayers

Tig and Clay; Blitzers

Half Sack and Juice; Runners

Bobby Elvis and Hap; Blockers

Chibs and Big Otto; Blockers

Filthy Phil and Kozik; Blockers

Piney; Deathroller

Chucky; Apoth

Counters

Dice

Dwarfs of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Rocks of the Old World

Now onto my Mordheim Warband.

Update 7/9/14 DoA

Tuesday night was spent playing an intense game of Monopoly with my seven year old daughter.  After she went to bed I helped my wife with some mailings for her at-home-business.  Then it was hobby time and I decided to make a light box to help with my photography.  I cut up a large box and added some tissue paper squares to disperse the light.  I then took some quick snaps with my cell phone and this is how they turned out.

Piney

Jax and his hog

Opie's back tattoo

Jax and Opie the Slayers

I think this is a good start and I should be able to get a team photo up tomorrow.  Zlurpee Bowl X starts Saturday and I, like all those who are attending, am getting excited.  Xtreme does such a great job with the tournament and getting the tourney scene players pumped up for the event and that is where the Dwarfs of Anarchy can't wait to make their debut.

Update 7/7/14... Amost There

I am so close, so close to being done with my Dwarfs of Anarchy.  This has been an incredibly fun project.  My only wish is that I was a better painter/modeler to make this idea come alive.  I've done things to the best of my limited ability and because of that I'm proud of this team.  As I go on with the project I keep coming up with more ideas  for them.  Well, I've given them a good try and as soon as they're officially done I'll be on to my next project. 

The entire team has been based and sealed with a gloss coat and as of now can be played during Zlurpee Bowl X.  Everything else I am doing is only to add little things to the team.  I just need to matte varnish (three of the team members were done post the below photo being taken) and they will be done.

As I said before they are playable now but... the carrier and the counters also can but don't need to be finished up.  As the team stands now there are 13 players, 1 apothecary, 5 sideline bikes, and matching dice ready-to-go.

I may add some wording to the base of the blueish green bike to show that it is representative of the club founders bike.  The apothecary may get some wording too.  He might be "Chucky," I still need to decide on that.  It would make sense to be Tara but I didn't have any female riders.

I took a snap shot Saturday night, this is not the first official team photo.  The first official team photo should be posted soon.  Here we are thus far...

I will be posting the first Story Time regarding this team shortly.  Until then.

Story Time - Dwarfs of Anarchy

The Dwarfs of Anarchy Motorcycle Club (DoA)

History - The club was formed in -1967 by Grimnir Turnisson and Piney Wingorstin, following their return from serving under King Gotrekin the War of Vengeance. The first charter was called "Rocks of the Old World", simply because they weren't settled in any one place. They cruised the World Edge Mountains as vagabonds. It wasn't until after Gemma Turnisson, Grimnir's wife, became pregnant with her first son, Jackson, that they decided to settle in Alarming, the town where Gemma grew up. At that point, Grimnir Turnisson thought Alarming was a little too cute for a charter name, so he kept the charter the Rocks of the Old World. That's when the DAMCROW handle was born. The first chapter was founded in Alarming and originally had only nine members, the other seven being Quartz Grazer, Thornas "Uncle Tom" Whitloc, Chico Villain, Lenknee "The Pimp" Janitor, Clay Marrow, Keil McGheer and Otto "L'il Killer" Morax. Six of these were war veterans. Turnisson was the President up until his death in -1941, when Clay Marrow took over. The club was originally formed as a form of social rebellion for dwarfs who simply wanted freedom and no longer wished to live by society's rules. They also tried to protect the dwarfs (and gold) of Alarming from outside gangs and warpstone dealers, rather than exploit them.
In -1891, the Skaven attempted to expand their warpstone operations into Zhufbar, leading to a bloody war with DAMCROW, who retaliated by defending the territory under their control. This war ran until -1889, when the Skaven finally backed down after taking heavy casualties

DAMCROW rules the town of Alarming with an iron fist. They protect the village from outside influences, but also use violence to keep things the way they like it.
Activities – Any organization needs gold to survive, the DoA are no exception. To keep up with their rebel lifestyle and to keep the brew flowing they decided to be weapon runners. They use their exceptional weapon making abilities to keep the Orcs of the East Bay area well armed and DAMCROW’s coffers full.
They also have a mutually beneficial arrangement with the hobgoblins of the East Gate helping them with guerrilla attacks against their chaos dwarf oppressors.
Alarming’s central location makes it a target of other gangs. The Norse try to get their racist agenda across and the Skaven want to get their warpstone closer to Brettonia and Norsca.

Stats
Club: Dwarfs of Anarchy
City: Alarming
Charter: Rocks of the Old World
Nickname(s): DoA, DAMCROW Dwarfs of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Rocks of the Old World
Club Colors: Black and Blue
Club House: Turnisson-Marrow Automotive Repair

Slowly but Slowly

I am very behind on my picture taking.  I'm only slightly less behind on my to do list.  I finished up the miniatures that have become Piney and Chuck.  Piney is the team Deathroller and Chuck is the apothecary.   Pictures?  See line one.  I also fixed a basing error on Juice so now he's smooth.  The weekend worktime I was going to dedicate to the team got shorten to roughly 30 minutes.  I had said in my last post that I want to start playing Mordheim and instead of using my hobby time wisely I searched my limited bits collection and the internet for miniatures to make up my warband.

I was slightly productive during that thirty minutes.  I decided to work on the team transportation.  Here is my whopping advancement so far.

I know what you're thinking, "that's just a baking dish... and is that Elmo?"  Yes and yes.  But this is a special baking dish.  It is made out of steel and thus is magnetic... Not special you say?  The bottom of the pan is coated with blackboard paint, booyah, special!  The pan needs to be magnetic to hold the minis in place once the team is done.  The bare pan had a non-stick coating that made my test model slide around.  This coating also made it so impossible to paint.  In steps sandpaper and the non-stick material was removed from the bottom.  The raw metal was still too slick but the blackboard paint provides a good amount of friction/resistance and the test model stayed in place.

I have big plans for this transport.  Now to see if they come to fruition.

Update 5-28

I didn't get as much done with painting as I thought I would.  The weather this weekend was incredible and I was more than happy to be out there.  We had friends over Sunday so Saturday became yard-work day.  I built a fire pit and because of it I have at least two more huge projects.  Oh well.

Then I primed the Chaos Warrior but I couldn't stop there so I blocked in the base colors.

I did prepare some DoA stuff too.

I have started attaching them to their bases as well but I didn't take pictures of those.

Update 5-5: More Bikes

Technology hit me.  I base coat 3 and a half more bikes over the weekend and as soon as I went to take the pictures my camera died.  It didn't die die it just needed power.  I did manage one terrible photo but this blog is full of them; so here goes.  Hopefully, I'll remember to take some more pictures soon.

If any of you have seen the show Son's of Anarchy, which this team is based on, you may have seen a bike inside the clubhouse.  I decided to paint up one of the sideline bikes to resemble that bike.  The color of that bike is like a sea foam green.  I don't have that color so I mixed up blue, green and white to make it.  I was happy with how the color turned out.

On a separate note, a friend and I have decided to go in on the Games and Gears brushed that are currently on Kickstarter.  I am looking forward to expanding my brush line beyond the one brush I have.  I paint everything with a size 1 brush from Hobby Lobby.  They wont be delivered until September  I'll try them out then and write a review for how they work for a total novice.

Update 4-30: Bikes and News

I haven't updated this blog in a couple weeks but that doesn't mean I haven't been painting.  I finished up highlighting and tattooing the final DOA linemen.  The entire team is ready to be put on their bases.  Now I need to get the bases ready.  The bases have been primed and I will start putting painting them up and prepping the lettering.  I hope to have that work done by next week.

I also got started on some of the sideline fluff and the markers for the team.  I will be painting up some bikes as the ones the team road in on.  I started by priming the bikes black and wet brushing Citadel Chainmail  over them.  I painted some areas with Vallejo MC Black.  After that is done the next step is using a black wash over the models.  That is as far as any models are done to this point.  Here are some of them.

The bikes are all starting out looking pretty much the same but they'll each get their own extras to separate them.  There will be a total of five sideline bikes and a sixth bike will carry the teams apothecary.  I am very excited for getting these guys pitch ready.  I think a goal of 5/31/14 to have the whole thing finished seems obtainable, so that is what I'm shooting for.  This team is set to make its tournament debut in mid-July. 

Update 4-14: Runners

Holy cow!  It has been a crazy long time since I have updated this thing.  Over a month!  Not only have I not updated, but I haven't even painted.  Like everyone else, blah blah happened and I didn't do anything with this.  Now the weather is actually nice so I have yard work to add to the list of distraction.  Oh well.  I finally put some paint to metal and finished up a few more miniatures.  Here are Half Sack and Juice.

 Why do they call you Half Sack?

 I'm a Puerto Rican from the Bronx, I speak better Yiddish.

One of my many distractions has been changing phones and thus cameras.  These suck but hopefully I can make them better.  Four linemen to finish highlighting then I can move on to the bases.  Then I can start on the sideline stuff and Piney, the Death Trike.  The goal is to have this team ready for Zlurpee Bowl in July.

Update 3-7: Blitzers

Progress.  The DoA are moving along quiet nicely now.  Last evening I finished up the highlight and tattoos on two more Dwarfs.  Clay and Tig have received there treatment and now I can move on to the runners.

I also did some work to the bases.  A friend of mine pointed out that the players were too tall with the base style I had picked.  He was right as they made my dwarfs the same height as a standard human linemen.  I decided to go down to one layer of cork so Big Otto has been de-based for the time being.

Here are Clay and Tig as they stand now:

All those cigars are bad for your teeth Clay.

 This model was designated as a runner by the manufacturer but he looked too tough.  I think Blitzer suits him better.

Update 3-6: Bobby Elvis

One more down.  Bobby Elvis has been highlighted and given his Elvis inspired accents.  I think the team is taking good form.  The miniatures that become players, the more excited I get to seeing them on the pitch.  This brings the total of players to four; Jax (Troll Slayer), Opie (Troll Slayer), Otto (Long Beard), and Bobby Elvis (Long Beard).

Don't You Step on My Blue Suede Shoes 

Once again  posting these pics show me thing to work on.

Just as a reminder here are the others.

 Jax (Cameraman, my filter)

Opie

Big Otto

To-Do List 3-3 and Update

So it has been a while since I did a To-Do List and I want to get back into it.  I feel like I've been doing well in the area of keeping up with a schedule but putting it in writing is a way to stay on track.  If I can keep up my current pace I should be finished with highlighting and tattooing of the DoA by April.

To Do by 3-10-14
1.  Highlight and tattoo Tig.
2.  Highlight and tattoo Clay.

Now to the update portion.  I highlighted and tattooed Opie.  He is the only shirtless and cut-less character so I decided to go for it and tattoo up his back, ie the SoA character of Opie.  Here he is.

I really like posting pictures here because I can see better what to correct.   When the team is done they will be better. 

Update 2-28-14: Jax

Prolific... I kid.

Here is Jax.  He still needs to be put on his base and sealed but he is the first to this point (other than the test model).  I think he looks good for me.  I hope to make the rest of the team look good too.

 Jax is in a rage!  Someone from the Goblin Republican Army has taken his first born, Axel!

I considered trying to free hand a "Reaper" onto the back of his coat but then I thought better of it.  It has been quite some time since I last played dwarfs, I can't wait to finish and field this team.

Update 2-27-14: Positionals

Here are the positionals.  Now onto the highlighting and the base.  I can't wait to get that going just to see how I'll do.  I highlighted, tattooed, and sealed the test Otto figure the rest should be better.  

These miniatures will be Jax and Opie respectively.

These miniatures will be Clay and Tig respectively.

These miniatures will be Juice and Half Sack respectively.