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15mm dwarf minis from CopplestoneCastings.co.uk

January 20, 2015 by

So I’ve been adding more 15mm minis to my collection. One of these days I’ll actually get them organized into armies or squads and play some battles with other people.

I have been hesitant to order minis from “across the pond”. Part of this hesitation was the cost for shipping and the other concern was the time it would take for shipping to the USA. I finally decided to try some Dwarves from CopplesoneCastings.co.uk. I was pleasantly surprised on both accounts. At least with Copplestone. The order was processed in a day or two and the shipping was very reasonable. I received my order to my doorstep within about 2 weeks.

I ordered up a batch of 12 Dwarf Spearmen and a batch of 3 Snow Trolls. So far I am really impressed with the detail of the minis. I especially like the detail on the faces of the 15mm dwarves. It seems that faces seem to get basically ignored by some sculpters when creating 15mm minis.

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15mm Dwarves from CopplestoneCastings

 

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15mm Dwarves from CopplestoneCastings – based

 

 

So far I have only cleaned them and based them. In the future I will be base prepping them with Gesso and then letting my creative side take over from there. Since I got the Snow Trolls I am thinking of painting the Dwarves in a “northern/snow” theme also. I know that dwarves hate Goblins, and dwarves hate Orcs… but do they hate Trolls? I’ll think on it now and then paint on it later.

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Here are the Snow Trolls that have inspired me to do a snow type Dwarf.

Copplestone Castings Snow Trolls

Copplestone Castings Snow Trolls

My thoughts are to do a blue-sliver chain mail with brown trousers. I think I’ll try some white fur on dwarf pants and cuffs. I’m also thinking of a pure white shield with a simple light blue stripe.

So with most all of my minis I usually prep them with a watered down Gesso base.

Here are the Ice Dwarfs behind the legion of Wolfen Swordsmen

Here are the Ice Dwarfs behind a squad of Wolfen Swordsmen

First stage of paint.

First stage of paint.

 

Ice Dwarfs - Eight

Ice Dwarfs – Eight

For the helmets and spear points I’m going to use a cool technique that I found with Chaos Warriors.  That is a base of metallic silver, coated with a wash of Army Painter Quickshades Blue.

Ice Dwarfs - Bottom wash with Quickshade Dark Tone

Ice Dwarfs – Bottom wash with Quickshade Dark Tone

Ice Dwarfs - Bottom wash 2

Ice Dwarfs – Bottom wash with Quickshade Dark Tone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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K-Dog

 

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Comments

  1. falseflag says:
    January 20, 2015 at 18:48

    Let me know if you come across any D&D Dragonborn minis. As far as I know, only a handful were made for 3rd Edition NPCs – not many generic ones for PCs. Even Heroforge doesn’t have a Dragonborn archetype.

  2. K-Dog says:
    January 21, 2015 at 02:00

    Here’s a start, and depending on what you want we can always mod it:
    https://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/Half%20Dragon

  3. nathanthefake says:
    January 21, 2015 at 19:32

    I’ve had pretty decent luck on shipments from UK. One was about 2 weeks as well, but had another that was 10$ shipping and I got it in a few days.

    • falseflag says:
      January 22, 2015 at 00:58

      I have had terrible luck with shipments from the UK. But that was because the Triumph UK Warehouse had a mislabeled parts bin and kept sending my dealer the wrong radiator cowl.

  4. nathanthefake says:
    January 22, 2015 at 19:01

    Just wanted to say yay for most legit commented post of all time.