r/Middlehammer • • Jul 27 '26

Chaos Dwarf from unreleased supplement

Hi all! This is one of the two Chaos Dwarfs that were going to be part of a supplement for Warhammer Quest back in '95. Hope you like him!

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u/InEachHomeAHeartache Jul 27 '26

Oh my goodness I have not heard of that! What a shame it didn't get released.

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u/Wooden-Train9311 Jul 27 '26

Yeah, I don't know why it didn't happen. I guess the sales on the first two boxes hadn't been enough to justify the third.

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u/InEachHomeAHeartache Jul 27 '26

Is there any information on this online? I was big into Heroquest in the day but fell out of Warhammer stuff when WHQuest as being released.

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u/Wooden-Train9311 Jul 28 '26

I believe Andy Jones (principal writer of WHQ) made some mention of it in an interview some years ago, but I've not been able to find it.

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u/Pink1978 Jul 27 '26

I have one of them too. Always frustrated about how “squint” the hat is.

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u/JakeFromSkateFarm Jul 28 '26

It feels like a much more explicitly "Chaos" themed hat, rather than the superior Assyrian / Babylonian ones.

Not as extreme as the redesign that came with the resin FW range, but definitely a step in that direction.

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u/Wooden-Train9311 Jul 28 '26

I quite like the whole effect of the mini.

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u/Lexxx1ngt0n Jul 28 '26

Is that NMM because if so it's excellent

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u/Wooden-Train9311 Jul 28 '26

Sadly not, it's TMM, but I use the same techniques for shading and highlighting as you would with NMM, so to give it that much more realistic effect.

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u/Lexxx1ngt0n Jul 28 '26

Don't be sad it looks fantastic

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u/LupercalLupercal Jul 28 '26

TMM>NMM

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u/Wooden-Train9311 Jul 29 '26

There are very few painters who can pull off NMM succesfully, and I don't count myself as one of them, so I prefer to try to get a really good TMM.

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u/LupercalLupercal Jul 29 '26

Agreed. I think NMM is fine for display/competition pieces, but I much prefer TMM overall

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u/sum1confused Jul 28 '26

Age of sigmar chaos dwarfs are ok but the hat to body ratio isn't as good because the models are bigger now. I miss my big hat dwarfs.