Cannon siege cannon, the real one!

Measure twice, cut onc… wait what!?

So, there I was being all proud of my Ass cannon, and the accuracy I put into the sculpt.

https://evillittlebuggers.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-chronicle-siege-gun-or-better-yet.html

The eye for detail, the exact measurements, the facial expressio… Hold on just one second, what did you say there? Eye for detail? No no, the other one. Exact measurements? Yes that one, slowly repeat that and then look at this picture….

Darn… It…

So what went wrong here? Well since I was using pictures to measure the cannon, and i was using the chaos dwarf models as the reference, because I actually owned them, and they were in the picture with the cannon, it had to be spot on. Wrong!

I used this picture from the ccm wiki:

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/File:Limited_Release_-_Chaos_Siege_Cannon.jpg

I guess I messed up the measuring because now that I own the original…. Holy smokes that thing is tiny!!! My sculpted cannon looks like Big Bertha: 

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(howitzer))

But anyway, my Chaos Dwarf collecting saga has almost come to an end, I still miss a few of the regular Citadel Chaos Dwarfs, but none of them are rare, I just haven’t found the time yet to figure out which ones I don’t have yet.

A quick review of the original cannon, it’s a mediocre sculpt at the most, details are soft and it looks a bit bendy as if made from rubber (cleary Nick Lund rushed it). The cannon balls supplied with the cannon are anything but round... but… the overall model is just so much fun! It’s a deamon, that is a cannon, that shoots cannonballs out of its arse and they are put there by Chaos Dwarfs, what’s not to like!!!

Really happy I managed to find one, I’m still really happy with the likeness of my own sculpt (despite the size) and I hope everyone that got one from me is not too disappointed about the size difference J

By the way, what ever happend to Nick Lund?

We've got a challenge on our hands: MM90 Paintaton

So recently I started my project of painting all the 24 MM90 Chaos Dwarfs in their original color scheme (22 to go, see previous blog entries!). This project on its own is challenging enough but a friend of mine, Clam, upped the ante by challenging me to a Paint of!


Like me he is a fervid Chaos Dwarf collector and even has released his own range of 3rd edition inspired Ewal Dvergar sculpted by John Pickford, which can be found here:
http://claminiatures.blogspot.ae/


For as long as I know Clam (close to 15years?) he has always complained that I am slow (mostly related to my sculpting), which is evidenced by the following quote from his blog:


 - Sjoerd Trouwee - lol - the guy that sculpt a miniature each two years? I'll then be 50, before I get anything. No, I'll probably need a guy with faster hands, I guess.-


Full post can be found here:
http://claminiatures.blogspot.ae/2012/06/


(sorry Clam I hold grudges, considering you posted this almost 6 years ago :-/ )


So anyways, eager as I am to prove him wrong, I decided to take up the gauntlet!


This is what we agreed upon:


each of us picks, in turns, one of the 24 MM90 Chaos Dwarfs, and gives the starting signal, and then we start painting! First one to finish wins (photo evidence required). I will paint the mini in the original color scheme and Clam will choose freely what he desired. At the end of the run we count who won the most rounds and gets bragging rights for the rest of the year (if we even finish this year!).


I say 24, but in reality it will be 20 Chaos dwarfs since Clam already painted two and I already painted two, see below chart. Wish us luck!



I got to choose first and I decided on MM90 5D, which I dubbed 'Spike'
This one:



So Clam, consider this the official Kick Of for our Paintaton!