He and I have always had a thing for Dwarves - not in the "specialist magazines" kind of way, but as armies and characters in fantasy wargames. Fortunatly we avoided a potential Dwarven civil war by discovering that Uncharted Seas has two Dwarven factions, the goody two-shoes, noble Iron Dwarfs and the sneaky, nasty,eeee-vil Shroud Mages.
I chose the latter. Their ships are brutish steampunk boilers with giant ram plates that allow them to board enemy ships after firing jets of superheated steam inside.
They also have massed batteries of cannons on the broadside, which means some careful sailing is needed to bring the weapons to bear.
The models are all resin, and were undercoated with GW Black. I used GW foundation paints and washes on the flat coulours, Khermi Brown base with a Dheneb stone drybrush, then a wash of Devlan Mud. The copper and brass had a base coat of tin bitz with a drybrush of Brazen Brass and sone Sining Gold here and there. The steel and Iron was a very old and gooey pot of chainmail with a heavy black wash, followed by a boltgun highlight. The ram plates at the front got some random washes, drybrushing, splodges of colour, bits wiped off, highlights and a variety of other highly experimental painting techniques applied to get the battered and patched effect I was looking for.
Once done they got two coats of GW Hardcoat (put all the apostrophes in you like - there is an "H" at the beggining of that word).
Overall, I don't think they'll win any awards, but they're done to a good gaming standard and I'm happy with them. Of course, they all got sunk in the first game, but then I always loose the first game of anything we play.
