[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"faction-/factions/dwarfen-mountain-holds":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":386,"description":387,"extension":388,"faction":389,"heroImage":390,"hex":391,"intro":392,"lastUpdated":386,"meta":393,"navigation":394,"path":395,"seo":396,"stem":397,"system":398,"__hash__":399},"factions/factions/dwarfen-mountain-holds.md","How to Paint Dwarfen Mountain Holds",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":375},"minimark",[9,13,16,21,24,27,31,68,82,100,104,133,148,159,163,180,193,197,200,275,286,290,293,317,330,334,366],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Dwarfs reward a slower recipe than most rank-and-file armies, because you need fewer of them. A dwarf unit is twenty models where an equivalent human one is thirty, the models are dense with detail, and the army has no cavalry to eat your evenings. That makes a Mountain Holds force one of the few places you can paint a whole army the careful way and still finish it.",[10,14,15],{},"The other thing to know before you start: a third of each model is beard. Plan the beard first, not last.",[17,18,20],"h2",{"id":19},"the-signature-look","The signature look",[10,22,23],{},"Deep, slightly greyed hold blue on cloaks, hoods and tabards. Warm bronze and gold on helms, buckles, tankards and rune plates. Heavy, unpolished gromril steel with a lot of shadow in it. And a beard that carries the model's only bright colour, whether that is ginger, white or blond.",[10,25,26],{},"The whole scheme is a warm-metal-against-cool-cloth trick. Everything else is detail.",[17,28,30],{"id":29},"the-blue","The blue",[32,33,34,43,50,57],"ol",{},[35,36,37,38,42],"li",{},"Basecoat ",[39,40,41],"strong",{},"Kantor Blue",", two thin coats. It is darker than it looks in the pot and gives you room to build.",[35,44,45,46,49],{},"Shade the deep folds with ",[39,47,48],{},"Nuln Oil",". Dwarf cloth is heavy wool, so the shadows should be genuinely dark.",[35,51,52,53,56],{},"Layer ",[39,54,55],{},"Macragge Blue"," across the raised folds.",[35,58,59,60,63,64,67],{},"Highlight ",[39,61,62],{},"Altdorf Guard Blue"," on the fold tops, then a fine edge of ",[39,65,66],{},"Fenrisian Grey"," on hood rims and cloak edges.",[10,69,70,71,74,75,78,79,81],{},"Speed route: undercoat ",[39,72,73],{},"Grey Seer",", one coat of ",[39,76,77],{},"Ultramarines Blue",", then drybrush ",[39,80,66],{}," across the raised wool. Two steps, and the drybrush does the work of two layers on a heavily folded cloak.",[10,83,84,85,88,89,92,93,88,96,99],{},"Vallejo painters can substitute ",[39,86,87],{},"Imperial Blue"," into ",[39,90,91],{},"Magic Blue","; Army Painter Fanatic gives ",[39,94,95],{},"Deep Blue",[39,97,98],{},"Crystal Blue",".",[17,101,103],{"id":102},"bronze-and-gold","Bronze and gold",[32,105,106,111,117,123],{},[35,107,37,108,99],{},[39,109,110],{},"Balthasar Gold",[35,112,113,114,99],{},"Shade ",[39,115,116],{},"Agrax Earthshade",[35,118,52,119,122],{},[39,120,121],{},"Sycorax Bronze"," on the raised faces.",[35,124,59,125,128,129,132],{},[39,126,127],{},"Runelord Brass",", or ",[39,130,131],{},"Auric Armour Gold"," where you want a richer metal.",[10,134,135,136,139,140,143,144,147],{},"Lords, thanes and rune priests should outshine the line. Start those on ",[39,137,138],{},"Retributor Armour"," instead and finish with ",[39,141,142],{},"Liberator Gold",", and the command group separates itself without a single extra colour. ",[39,145,146],{},"Hashut Copper"," is worth keeping to hand for tankards, horns and lamp fittings.",[10,149,150,151,154,155,158],{},"For centuries-old bronze, thin ",[39,152,153],{},"Nihilakh Oxide"," into the recesses of a gyrocopter boiler or an ancestor shrine, and touch a little ",[39,156,157],{},"Kabalite Green"," onto the flat panels. Verdigris is seasoning; use it on one or two pieces, not on everything metal.",[17,160,162],{"id":161},"gromril-steel","Gromril steel",[10,164,165,168,169,171,172,175,176,179],{},[39,166,167],{},"Leadbelcher"," basecoat, ",[39,170,48],{}," all over, ",[39,173,174],{},"Ironbreaker"," on the plate edges, ",[39,177,178],{},"Stormhost Silver"," on the very sharpest corners of axe heads and hammer faces. Do not brighten dwarf steel too far - it is cast and hammered, not polished.",[10,181,182,183,186,187,189,190,192],{},"For dark gromril on Ironbreakers and Irondrakes, undercoat ",[39,184,185],{},"Abaddon Black",", drybrush ",[39,188,167],{}," hard from above, then edge ",[39,191,174],{},". It is faster than the layered version and better suited to those kits.",[17,194,196],{"id":195},"beards","Beards",[10,198,199],{},"Pick one dominant beard colour for the hold and let two or three models per unit break the pattern.",[201,202,203,228,245,261],"ul",{},[35,204,205,208,209,212,213,215,216,219,220,223,224,227],{},[39,206,207],{},"Ginger, the classic:"," ",[39,210,211],{},"Mournfang Brown",", shade ",[39,214,116],{},", layer ",[39,217,218],{},"Skrag Brown",", highlight ",[39,221,222],{},"Troll Slayer Orange",", then ",[39,225,226],{},"Fire Dragon Bright"," on the plait tips only.",[35,229,230,208,233,212,236,186,238,223,241,244],{},[39,231,232],{},"White, for elders and longbeards:",[39,234,235],{},"Celestra Grey",[39,237,48],{},[39,239,240],{},"Longbeard Grey",[39,242,243],{},"White Scar"," picked along the outermost strands.",[35,246,247,208,250,212,253,215,255,219,258,99],{},[39,248,249],{},"Blond:",[39,251,252],{},"Zandri Dust",[39,254,116],{},[39,256,257],{},"Ushabti Bone",[39,259,260],{},"Screaming Skull",[35,262,263,208,266,186,268,271,272,99],{},[39,264,265],{},"Black:",[39,267,185],{},[39,269,270],{},"Eshin Grey",", edge ",[39,273,274],{},"Dawnstone",[10,276,277,278,281,282,285],{},"Whichever you choose, work along the direction of the braid rather than across it, and finish by picking out individual strands with the final highlight. A beard is the one place on the model where a slightly scruffy, uneven highlight looks better than a tidy one. ",[39,279,280],{},"Gore-Grunta Fur"," and ",[39,283,284],{},"Wyldwood"," each give a decent one-coat beard over a bone undercoat if you are batching.",[17,287,289],{"id":288},"runic-shields","Runic shields",[10,291,292],{},"Runes are freehand, but they are the friendly kind: straight strokes of even width on a flat surface.",[32,294,295,298,301,311],{},[35,296,297],{},"Finish the shield face completely - basecoat, shade, highlight - before you touch the rune.",[35,299,300],{},"Sketch the rune lightly in pencil. It wipes off with a damp brush.",[35,302,303,304,306,307,310],{},"Thin ",[39,305,110],{}," with ",[39,308,309],{},"Lahmian Medium"," and lay the strokes in, keeping every stroke the same width. Two thin passes beat one thick one.",[35,312,313,314,316],{},"Highlight the inner half of each stroke with ",[39,315,131],{}," so the rune looks engraved rather than printed on.",[10,318,319,320,322,323,326,327,99],{},"The reverse also works and suits Ironbreakers: a ",[39,321,167],{}," shield with the rune in ",[39,324,325],{},"Mephiston Red",", edged ",[39,328,329],{},"Evil Sunz Scarlet",[17,331,333],{"id":332},"tips-and-common-mistakes","Tips and common mistakes",[201,335,336,342,348,354,360],{},[35,337,338,341],{},[39,339,340],{},"Beard before face."," Paint the beard, then cut the flesh in above it. Doing it the other way round means tidying a hairline you cannot reach.",[35,343,344,347],{},[39,345,346],{},"Warm metal, cool cloth."," If the bronze drifts silvery or the blue drifts warm, the scheme collapses into one muddy temperature.",[35,349,350,353],{},[39,351,352],{},"Do not highlight the blue too far."," Hold blue should stay deep. Stopping one step short reads as heavy wool; going one step too far reads as sky.",[35,355,356,359],{},[39,357,358],{},"A small army earns a slower recipe."," Twenty dwarfs painted properly beat forty rushed, and you will actually finish them.",[35,361,362,365],{},[39,363,364],{},"Ration the verdigris."," One green-crusted boiler is characterful. A whole army of them looks like Nurgle got in.",[10,367,368,369,374],{},"When you are happy with the palette, ",[370,371,373],"a",{"href":372},"/tools/scheme-generator?color=205d8f","open this scheme in the generator"," to swap paints between brands, nudge the mood or add a secondary colour.",{"title":376,"searchDepth":377,"depth":377,"links":378},"",2,[379,380,381,382,383,384,385],{"id":19,"depth":377,"text":20},{"id":29,"depth":377,"text":30},{"id":102,"depth":377,"text":103},{"id":161,"depth":377,"text":162},{"id":195,"depth":377,"text":196},{"id":288,"depth":377,"text":289},{"id":332,"depth":377,"text":333},"2026-09-03","How to paint Dwarfen Mountain Holds - deep hold blue cloth, warm bronze and gold, gromril steel, four beard recipes and the freehand runes that go on the shields.","md","Dwarfen Mountain Holds",null,"#205d8f","Hold blue, warm bronze and a very great deal of beard",{},true,"/factions/dwarfen-mountain-holds",{"title":5,"description":387},"factions/dwarfen-mountain-holds","old-world","5rKG06G1wdpwtRE7AH53wkwG2oiKQDTFLO-bn-2CXE4"]