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War Trolls Set 3 from Dark Alliance. Still have one to paint up. For this I used mostly Model Color paints which gave a more nuanced effect than Citadel. I did use Citadel for the metals although I experimented with mixing with some colours which seem to work quite well. For the base I used astrogranite texture from Citadel with MIG weathering pigments (city dust and black smoke).

In Khazad-dûm, in Moria

In the days of Durin the Great, the Dwarves crossed Middle Earth and founded their great kingdom the Dwarrodelf, Khazad-dûm, Moria.

Dark Alliance Dwarves Set 2

A Balrog of Morgoth

 'The Dwarves tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation of their wealth, so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin's Bane.' (Gandalf)

Dark Alliance Dwarves set 2.

Dark Alliance Fire Demon

Take No Chances

A quick blow to the head to make sure.

Orc from Dark Alliance. Knight from Valdemar.

Bronze Troll of the Mountains

A streltsi gunman faces a horror in the mountains.

The Amazon and the White Stag

In a distant forest the wandering Amazon encounters a white stag, who leads her to a lost temple. Both from Dark Alliance Mounted Amazons. Background image from Bernie and the Demon by Hari.

Ghâsh Olog

The Dark Lord also bred specialist trolls. Here we see an example of the Ghâsh-Olog, the fire troll. I played around a lot with this model, using some MiG pigments and effects, it was fun and I learned some useful techniques! Figures are Dark Alliance 1/72 War Trolls. Credit for the backdrop - the sculpture 'striking likeness' by David Mach.

Olog Hai

The Dark Lord bred trolls as terrible weapons of war. These chaps are your basic standard Olog Hai. Dark Alliance 1/72 War Trolls set 1

Amazon Park

From the oddly titles Dark Alliance Modern Mounted Amazons Set. A very nice dinosaur. It does not look so good with a rider sadly.

Wrath of the Burrow Lord

These Cimmerians face a terrible foe. From some dark underground lair the Burrow Lord emerges.

Dark Alliance 1/72 scale Cimmerians set 1

What is best in life Conan?

Dark Alliance Cimmerians. A Conan style band of barbaric warriors. I have only painted up the first three, but these guys are worth taking a bit of time over. Needs a bit of base work though.

The Paths of the Dead

Some more Dark Alliance, this time Heavy Warriors of the Dead. Plenty opportunity to use some of Games Workshops rust, grime and verdigris effects. Some of these weapons are more likely to give you tetanus than cut your head off.

Amazons Prime

An interesting set from Dark Alliance covering the fictitious Hellenistic warrior women, the Amazons. Legend has it that they lived in the far-flung (to the Greeks) Scythian wilds.

Some of these figures could be adapted to be some of the nationalist archetypes of the 19th Century, such as Britannia, Marianne or Germania.

There are also mounted Amazons available.