Dwarfs
Who are the Dwarfs?
Getting Started with the Dwarfs
Dwarfs Miniatures

Gaming
- The War of the Beard Gaming Campaign
- Slayer Campaign - Engineer Scenario

Painting and Modeling
- Painting Iron Breakers and Miners
- Dwarf Banners
- Painting Dwarfs Quickly
- Dwarf Inventions

Terrain
- Dwarfen Hall
- Dwarf Waystone
- Dwarf Hold Entrance
- Dwarf Chasms

Extras
- Book of Grudges Form
- New Dwarf Teaser
- Dwarf Preview
- Designers Notes
- Dwarf Art Gallery

RESOURCES
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MAKING A DWARF HALL - HINTS FOR BUILDING YOUR OWN DWARF TERRAIN title image.

Picture of the primed ruined pillar glued into a debris pile. Click to see a larger version.
Picture of Chad gluing the columns to the table. Click to see a larger version.
Picture of the final placement of the pillars. Click to see a larger version.

While waiting for the wood glue to dry, Chad primed all of the wedding cake pillars black. Then, he began with the ruined column, gluing it down amidst a debris pile made from pebbles, gravel, sand, and wood glue. Next, he sprayed all of the MDF hardboard walls with more textured spray paint and glued them to the insulation foam.

Picture of a debris-filled side entrance. Click to see a larger version.
Picture of Chad mapping out the placement of alcoves and fireplaces. Click to see a larger version.
Picture of the final alcove placement around the entrance tunnels. Click to see a larger version.

Chad added debris to the four side entrances to imply a cave in or access points to Dwarfen mines. He carefully mapped out the placement of all the fireplaces and alcoves before gluing them in place, minus the statues and bitz that would be painted separately.

Picture of the hand-painted black primer drying over the insulation foam. Click to see a larger version.
Picture of black spray primer drying on the rest of the table and the statues. Click to see a larger version.
Picture of the drybrushed table. Click to see a larger version.

Chad had to hand brush black latex house paint over areas of exposed insulation foam before he could use spray paint, which dissolves foam. Once the manual layer dried, he sprayed the rest of the table, along with the statues and other bitz. With this undercoat in place, Chad began drybrushing greys over the stonework and browns over the tunnel entrances.

Picture of the drybrushed table. Click to see a larger version.
Picture of the drybrushed table. Click to see a larger version.
Picture of the drybrushed table. Click to see a larger version.

He continued his drybrushing across the entire table, using lighter greys for the columns while leaving black in the alcoves to suggest shadow. The shots above show a few different areas where Chad drybrushed with greys and browns.


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