More Dwarf Engineers, C22 Adventurer's Cart and Orlygg @ Salute 2026

What a wonderful hobby holiday it has been! Easter has roared on by but I have cracked on and got plenty of Old School projects completed. Here's hoping I can keep up the momentum once I am back at school. With the brighter weather and longer evenings I am hoping for a fair few more figures than last year. 

As I mentioned last post I had finished off this fella but didn't get around to doing and proper photograph. So here he is... Pickaxe (I forget his number) and he is a splendid chap. He painted up quickly and was thoroughly enjoyable to do just like the other dwarfs in this range. I stuck to my usual limited palette and just cracked on. 

As I have said, I've been most pleased with my tonal work with brown with this batch. I've been using Bestial as a base and simply adding red, yellow and orange to the mix to create different tones. All are highlighted by adding Bubonic Brown, Orc Brown or Bleached Bone. 

I took the same approach with this model. Hammer 1 in the catalogue. He was another quick and satisfying paint though the candle flame was damaged while I Was cleaning him up and needed a little bit of repair. Hope you cannot notice!

The candle was great fun to paint and didn't take long. It was a breath of fresh air after all of those samey colours. Not sure what magics sustain the flame. With my luck any lit candle would quickly blow out with the tiniest of a gust. 

Incidentally, these two figures were released in 1987 as part of the Citadel Collectors Series. Reference CC-1315 they came with a small collection of tools. This was range of favourites put out around the release of 3rd edition. I had no real inkling that such a series of blisters existed until today, which just goes to show that after many, many years of research they are still things to discover about the wonderful world of Ansell era Warhammer. 

They rank up nicely too, as you can see here in this group shot. I didn't realise that I could must so many figures from this range even with my meagre leadpile. A small unit like this might not be able to achieve much on a battle field but they look great all standing together. 

Look at this for a bit of luck. I found my old McDeath Scenery recently and this was amongst the odds and ends. It is the c22 Adventurer's Cart or the original version of it anyway. There was a second, later model based on the same premise. No sign of the muleskinner though sadly.

Trigger, the horse, was unscathed but the cart had been crushed and required gentle persuasion to bend it back into shape. Not that you can notice I hope. I washed the dust off the surfaces and gave it a subtle drybrush of Bleached Bone. 

This model seems to fit the mine and the engineers so will be associated with the new scenery piece going forwards. 

Saturday saw me attend Salute once more. The show was just as vibrant as ever though its sad to see the long decline of pure historical games continue. Stuart was kind enough to take command of the driving this year so I was the passenger. So bit thanks to him. 

One modern range that caught my eye was these wonderful He-Man style miniatures. Something that could easily (bot no quite) sway me from my love of '80s Citadel. 

I was pleased to see that She-Ra even got a figure alongside Spirit. Wonderful models and certainly  something I may look at in more depth in future when the Citadel runs low. 

As always, Foundry was an important visit. I was able to pick up another pack of the recently released unreleased Citadel spearmen. I plan to build a unit of these stirling chaps at some point so having another pack was essential. I also managed to snap up and fair few other ex-Citadel figures that Foundry put out over the years I was away too. 

It was fantastic to see Tim Prow again and oggle over his incredible Diehard Miniatures range. These are more than enough to tempt me away from Citadel and I picked up some more choice pieces from him. These were easily the best quality metal models at the show and judging by his packed stand, I am not the only one who thinks so. 

He has started to put out units of figures that look superb. 

Orcs....

Chaos...

Undead....

When I don't have to spend hundreds of pounds every month on doing my home up I will hopefully find the funds to pick up these units for they are lovely and fit in with what I am trying to achieve. Look out for his future Kickstarters too! 

Finally, we saw Geoff again and saw a beautifully made table exhibiting his Oakbound Games 'Woods' system. Easily the best looking table at the entire show and lots of details to help inspire my own spectacular gaming table that I hope to complete in August! 

Well, back to school tomorrow. Groan, but I do have a new man-mangler and pre-slotta giant set aside for my next projects and once the Workshop is in better condition there are those skeletons to crack on with too.

Until then, 

Orlygg