The next Orc-Slayer for the month is a Dwarf who I’ve had kicking around in the Neglected Pile for quite some time now – a Miner from the Stonehaven Miniatures Dwarven Adventurers Kickstarter Campaign from back in 2012. To be quite honest, I don’t recall much about the campaign, but it was affordable, delivered either on time or extremely close to it, and was all around pretty pleasant, with some nice models as a result. Not amazing models, mind, but nice.
This sculpt is a little rough around the edges, or more precisely, the eyes. And so after starting him a few years ago and losing all inspiration because of his weird little head, he ended up just sitting around and got shoved away into containers a few times. After completing the Dwarf Bolt Thrower Crew and then the Dwarf Lord recently, I found that it did inspire me to continue Dwarf Hunting a little more, and this guy was fished out of purgatory, and given the “git ‘er done!” treatment.
As it’s a kind of odd model with both a fantasy feel as well as a 19th Century one, I decided to just streeeetch that out a little more so that he works ok not only as a Dwarf, but also potentially as a more 40k-centric Squat Miner for a bit of that Rogue Trader-ish feel. He’s not twisted or converted enough for Inq28, but as a lighter hearted Rogue Trader-ish model he works for me. To drive home this conceit, I painted his jacket as an orange work jacket with yellow flouro strips. Because.. well, why not? A bit of weathering powder finished him off, and I skipped the usual patch of grass my dwarves get, because miner, duh!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Great painting mate, can see what you mean about having two styles in the model, really like the direction you chose to go with the work jacket
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Thanks Dave. Good to hear that it worked. 🙂
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Yep, have to agree with Dave again! I do like the jacket! 🙂
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Cheers, John! I’ll have to do some more industrial-civilian-type models going forward. The eventual GSC will give me a good chance as well!
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Yeah, he’s a funny little guy because he’d fit in nicely with both sci-fi and fantasy settings. I could definitely see him taking part in some kind of Rogue Trader scenario. Nice work with those stripes on his jacket, they really bring a bit of “pop” to the model that would be lacking otherwise.
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Yeah, it’s an okay model but could easily be quite boring.
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He’s fun! Reminds me of the old Harlequin Space Dwarfs that got taken off sale very quickly in the 1990s. Lvoely stuff.
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I’ll have to add those guys onto the painting desk for a future Neglected Models month! Or maybe a squad month!
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The way the head sculpt is a little “off” really reinforces that old-school vibe. Nice job “steering into it” with the paint as well!
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Thanks. Short of puttying over the goggles with greenstuff to make new goggles, I can’t think of another easy way I could salvage his dodgy face. And It wasn’t until writing this response that I even thought of doing some putty-goggles over the top of his weirdly-spaced, odd looking goggles….
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Nice jacket – I instantly thought he was a typical representative of the Dwarven ‘youth!’
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Bloody kids these days…
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Funny, I liked his goggles the best!
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I can see some charm from their wonkiness, but more than that they do annoy me, I have to admit!
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Great work- really like him.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Danke, Pete!
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This sculpt doesn’t offer a lot of fun surfaces or textures to paint so I can see why he fell into your backlog. I have mixed feelings about the goggles as they make him look a bit cartoonish but they’re also the only thing that gives the sculpt character so a classic double-edged sword there. With that said, I love how realistically dirty he looks. He really looks like he walked straight out of a mine!
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It’s kind of a low-detail model with a slightly awkward pose. For me I’m picturing goggles like what the Perry twins sculpted on the Rogue Trader-Era Squats in my mind’s eye, so that idea does work better for me. 😉
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