Scibor’s Dwarfs Ride To War At A Snail’s Pace
August 4, 2016 by dracs
Scibor Monstrous have published a preview for another piece of dwarf heavy artillery. This time though the bearded inventors have come up with a rather novel way to bring their weapon to the battlefield; giant snail!
In general, I love this idea. The canon and the two dwarfs riding in splendour are pretty cool, but then we come to the snail. Now a snail is not something you would immediately consider for a dwarf, but when you think about it they're the perfect match. After all, snails are also tough, slow and react badly when you pour salt on them (that's dwarfs, right?).
However, I do think that the palanquin looks far too primal for dwarfish craftsmanship.
It rather detracts from the overall look and makes it seem like Scibor have just plonked two dwarfs on a model intended for some chaotic or orcish, though this may just be the quality of the photograph. Hopefully, when it's finished and painted up, we will be presented with the epitome of dwarf craftsmanship... on the back of a giant snail.
Do you like this model? What animal do you think is the perfect mount for dwarfs?
"Snails are also tough, slow and react badly when you pour salt on them..."
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Won’t this be for there Moscal chaos dwarfs? Which have weird snail dwarf mutants. Think this looks great.
Now THAT’S a Dwarf artillery piece.
In addition to the palanquin/howdah looking too primitive to be dwarf work, I think the helmet barding on the snail looks too clean – I think it would look better dinged up a bit considering it’d be going headfirst towards the enemy and snails aren’t exactly noted for their dodging abilities.
The way I look at that top howdah it reminds me of an old sunken ship. It could be reasoned that it was finely made at one time and sea salt corrosion from were the snail lives has made it worse for wear.
Also notice the axe is pitted as well. I feel this would look more unified if they kept it all looking battered or all looking well crafted as the helmets and snail armor indicates.