Old Glory Dwarf Canon for Warhammer Fantasy Dogs of War

Old Glory miniatures have been around for a good while and if you're looking for a deal they might fit the bill. Old Glory is also one of the few scale model makers located here in the states. In the old days Warhammer supported Dogs of War armies and many Regiments of Renown. One of these was a light caliber mobile canon called Bronzio's Galloper Guns. They were excellent models but are out of print and may be expensive to find on eBay or other venue.

However if you have a friendly gaming club that allows you to play old school, Old Glory makes a dwarf horse canon that fits the bill. This model is a smaller canon than most dwarven artillery and comes with the horse and a crew of four. We left the horse out of our photo, sorry. We also swapped out the smaller metal wheels for larger plastic spares we had available.

Here we started basing the cannon with black and used Burnt Umber on all the woodwork. The dragon heads were painted with a base of Burgundy.

A lighter coat of Raw Umber was then applied to all the woodwork.

Last step for the wood was a light drybrush of Territorial Beige. The metalwork was given a coat of Antique Bronze and drybrush highlights of Pure Bonze.

The steel shod wheels were painted first with Gun Metal and then highlighted with Aluminium.

The canon barrel was painted with Pure Bronze.

We then applied a black wash to bring out details and last touches of highlights to the woodwork and metals.

The crew consists of a pirate captain and three stout dwarf warriors. Here they are with base coats and most details applied.

Finally based and in their "Old Glory". Maybe next time we'll show you how to build an artillery emplacement for any of your cannons.

Have a Great Battle!
The Old Crow

What do Gripping Beast, Ral Partha, Old Glory and Black Scorpion have in common?

They are all on the workbench at Battleground Hobbies!

We have a batch of Old Glory miniatures needing painted so Joshua has been working on getting them done for us! You can see 5 Old Glory elf spearmen on horseback on the left and 5 on foot just to their right. These were purchased years ago when they were only 3.00 per pack. Nowadays they are around 12.00 retail. There are 6 Ral Partha elf irregular spearmen in font of the Old Glory guys.

On the far right are 4 Anglo-Danish Huscurls with the dreaded 2 handed Danish axe. These were built using components from the Gripping Beast Saxon Thegns and Viking Hirdmen box sets. In the middle are a couple miniatures from Black Scorpion, Diamond Joe and Ahiga Apache leader.

We also started experimenting with casting with hobby stone. There are a bunch of great accessories we've been trying out. More pics of all the above as we get them completed.

Here are a couple images of Joshua hard at work, in the early stages, on our Apache leader from Black Scorpion.

Adding some color. More, hopefully soon!

Til next time,
Have a Great Battle!
The Old Crow