So I just finished up my first 10 Longbeards. For some reason this seemed like a shit-ton of detail work. A lot more, I feel than the other units I've done. For some reason it seemed that the shields were a PITA to complete. I am wondering it is because of all the gold.

With my Longbeards, because they are the units have been around the longest, they have the most ornate armor, and I have chosen to represent this in two ways, first, and (hopefully) most easily discernible is that all of my Longbeards will be wearing masks. They are painted in Brazen Brass, and I have painted up all the shields with brass backgrounds and gold trim, and symbols.

The masks are good and bad. They look cool, but are a pain in the ass to get on the minis and look good. They do NOT fit when they are cut off the sprew, so I have had to take a file to the back of the masks and a knife to my dorf faces. Oh, and a few of them still don't sit on the face properly. Oh well.

Lastly I have a picture of my two of my Longbeards, and a warrior on the right. I think you can tell that the Lonbeards are not regular troops in a fluff sense.

For other news I received my BSB, Bolt Thrower, and 6 Hammers came in the mail. The BSB and Hammers have all been base-coated.

Next week I am thinking of finishing up my Longbeard block. Those guys have have the beards, skin (gunna fix it so that the 5 of them with skin showing have masks on), blue and red have been painted on those dudes so they have quite a bit work done already, which the last group did not have. I am also planning to assemble and base-coat the Bolt Thrower and crew. If I am adventurous, I'm gunna try to do the beards on my BSB and Hammeres.

We'll see.