Tuesday, 22 February 2022

Hasslefree Dwarves

 Man the weather has been awful of late. I always seem to be at work when its decent weather and its dull. grey or stormy when I am home and have time to take some pics! I managed to snap a few this morning though as per the norm it is brighter as I am writing this post! 

For the 7TV day earlier in the month I needed to paint up some more figures as most my Fantasy stuff I have that is painted is sort of a bit scattershot and nothing had a consistent theme. I'd picked up a few bits from Hasslefree/Crooked Dice last year and it was a bit of toss up between Dwarves or Goblins. However Goblins would of meant painting 13 figures vs the Dwarves 6. With time being short the Dwarves won out!

Annoyingly I have misplace the shields for two of the Dwarves I put them somewhere safe so I could paint the backs of the figures but for the life of me I can't bloody find them! I will have to sort out some replacements as the ones in my bits box were to big unfortunately










These two should have shields on there backs but have been misplaced in fact this pic is blurry so will be replaced when I get five!


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28 comments:

  1. Frank O Donnell22 February 2022 at 10:02

    Nice work Simon and I feel your pain with the misplaced sheilds, as putting thing safe so you can't find them later is something I'm very good at myself 😢😂

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    1. Simon Quinton 23 February 2022 at 08:59

      Cheers very much Frank, Yeah I just can't figure out where I've stored them lol

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  2. Ray Rousell22 February 2022 at 10:36

    Great looking dwarves Simon. I too feel your pain about putting things in a safe place!

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    1. Simon Quinton 23 February 2022 at 09:06

      Thanks Ray. I imagine when I've replaced them they will turn up.

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  3. Zabadak22 February 2022 at 11:02

    Ther's nothing worse than 'misplacing' something almost vital - we've all done it - isually find building bits after I've improvised and finished a building.
    Great paint jobs and these look really small - even for Dwargves !

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    1. Simon Quinton 23 February 2022 at 09:08

      Thanks Joe yeah I am sure they will do exactly that!

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  4. Michal DwarfCrypt22 February 2022 at 11:13

    Lovely looking Dwarves sir!

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  5. mattblackgod22 February 2022 at 11:54

    Nice looking Dwarves. Great work.

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  6. Dave Stone22 February 2022 at 11:58

    Great work on all your dwarves Simon, so annoying when you put something in a safe place, that it becomes so safe you can't find it !

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    1. Simon Quinton 23 February 2022 at 09:11

      Thanks very much Dave! Indeed I have some HLBS 1/48 moderns somewhere but I can't find them anywhere.

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  7. DeanM22 February 2022 at 14:59

    Very cool "minis"! Love the lady Viking.

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    1. Simon Quinton 23 February 2022 at 09:16

      Thanks Dean. Yeah she is one of Kev Whites older sculpts but still a nice one. There are quite a few that are out of stock I'd like to pick up at some point.

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  8. Matt22 February 2022 at 16:52

    Wonderful painting on all these figures, you've really brought out their character!

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    1. Simon Quinton 23 February 2022 at 09:17

      Thanks Matt! Hasslefree does such wonderful sculpts

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  9. Suber22 February 2022 at 21:53

    Haha, that happens to me all the time! Bits, miniatures... and sometimes even whole boxes!
    Anyway, these Dwarves look really sweet, nicely done!

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    1. Simon Quinton 23 February 2022 at 09:18

      Cheers Suber! I do it very rarely which makes it all the more frustrating

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  10. rross23 February 2022 at 06:01

    Very nice work on the little ladies (and gentlemen!)... they all look great!

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    1. Simon Quinton 23 February 2022 at 09:19

      Thank you rross! I am pleased and they made quite the nice little warband. I could do with finding some nice miner models but they seem really tricky to get hold of or if GW quite expensive.

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  11. Simon Quinton 23 February 2022 at 09:17

    Thank you sir!

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  12. Ivor Evans23 February 2022 at 11:51

    Great stuff Simon! I like that pose of the model on one knee, I imagine that's after it has just swung that hammer taking out several enemies 🙂

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    1. Simon Quinton 1 March 2022 at 11:52

      Thanks Ivor! I got her in a happy accident as I'd ordered the other sculpt of her with the hammer over her shoulder but they sent this one instead by mistake and didn't want it back!

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  13. Dai25 February 2022 at 05:21

    Never seen hasslefree dwarves before but these are some great sculpts and painted up a treat mate!

    Shields not needed on the last two I think

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    1. Simon Quinton 1 March 2022 at 11:54

      Cheers Dai! They have some lovely sculpts. Sadly on the back of the right hand one is the sort of huge mounting point so it needs something either sculpting like a bag to hide it and the other one I had glued the shield on then took it off then decided to leave the dried glue to make mounting in position easier!

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  14. Carl 25 February 2022 at 19:13

    Cracking job on the Dwarfs mate

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  15. FourEyedMonster26 February 2022 at 00:13

    I'm usually not a fan of dwarf minis, but your work here gives me pause, seeing how good they can be when painted well. I especially love the first one. Super job Simon :)

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    1. Simon Quinton 1 March 2022 at 13:03

      Cheers very much. I do like Hasslefree sculpts. I quite like the ones by Red Box Games and Otherworld though the Red Box ones come up quite small even for Dwarves!

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