Caution: Do Not Keep In Glass Houses

After I rebased one Dwarf war machine, the chance to do another seemed just a stone's throw away.

The Great Rock of Grudges

The Dwarf Grudge Thrower - originally known as a Rock Lobber when it came out with the 1999-2000 range. I reckon this was the high point for Dwarf war machines: more detailed and stylised than the earlier ones, and better than the current 'without-wheels' range.

"Ye cannae push a Thrower with no wheels ... you'll have to toss it!"

The crew are a nice addition, each using tools unique to a stone thrower, rather than generic loaders: a mallet, a rock (naturally) and a sextant.

Some kind of range finder anyway. That's the sextant of my knowledge.

These were also repainted to match the blue scheme. I had a theme of blue = traditional blackpowder (cannons), red = experimental machines (flame cannons, organ guns, gyrocopters), green = torsion machines (rock lobbers and bolt throwers), all matched against engineering yellow. But when I took a step back, it looked like a travelling circus, so I repainted the green into blue.

I bear no grudge. Apart from this one, obviously.

When it came to rebasing them, I added a bit of freehand - there was a golden plaque on the front of the machine that was just crying out for some runes (plucked at random from the Engineering Runes page of the rulebook).

I also added some grudge runes on the rocks themselves - the equivalent of chalking insults onto artillery shells.

Before: square stones

As well as switching to round, I also upgraded from a 50mm to a 60mm base - which was just as well, because the Grudge Thrower was just about clinging onto the edges.

As a small rock, I used to be frightened, but now I'm a little boulder.

That's enough artillery for a while - next up: more beasties!