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Why Chaos Dwarfs? The main reason I am so passionate about Chaos Dwarfs is because at the time I started taking a serious interest in them (back in 2005), they presented a huge opportunity to test my creativity and imagination. From a design point of view I spent countless hours drawing dozens of images, and for a while I actually planned to redesign every single element of them as an army... Eventually I moved more to the background and rules development side, here the Chaos Dwarfs present a massive opportunity for imaginative people, something I know continues to attract people to them. The reasons I got into collecting Chaos Dwarfs have not really changed much, I am still looking for new fluff angles to develop and new ideas for models. I particularly like seeing how other people interpret them conceptually, there are very few single army themed forums with such differing views. This is half the fun with the Chaos Dwarfs though, only your imagination is the limit.
Grimstonefire
At the moment I am working on a huge range of things; mostly Skaven, but also my Immortalz. My long term plan is to build enough Black Orcs to have an entire themed army. Chaos Dwarf wise I’ve been doing some sculpting (one model you will see this issue), and I’ve started rebasing my army. Time will tell if the new ones will look any better, I’ll have to load some up on the forum for feedback.
My time on CDO and what does it mean to be a staff member? I didn’t join CDO right away, I was relatively happy with what was on Hand of Hashut - even instigating the first painting competition to try to stir up some cheer after a rough patch for the site - but it became obvious pretty quickly that CDO was taking everything to a new level. The wiki showed most promise, with so much unorganised data that people simply didn’t have easy access to due to the lack of an army book, so I set to work on it. I was on the site for a few months before I was asked to become a staff member. For the most part, being a staff member is not all that different to being a regular member, except that I get to splat spammers as soon as I see them. It is nice being such a big part of running a site that sometimes has other people in awe: “You have one of the nicest and most active army forums on the net and you don’t even have an army book!” is not uncommon.
Cornixt
Why do I like Chaos Dwarfs and favourite achievement I chose Chaos Dwarfs in a split-second decision. I was put on the spot by someone and that was the army that stuck in my mind since it was when they were first released in White Dwarf. The war machines just looked so cool, and evil armies have so much more variety available to them. My army is mostly original big hats models (5K worth), but I have about 1K of conversions from GW Dwarf models, which is slowly growing. I was the first to convert the plastic Dwarf Thunderers into blunderbusses using the bucklers. I am still certain that they were designed specifically with that in mind since they are pretty rubbish as shields due to the concave shape. Issue 9- The Word of Hashut– 9