Chaos Dwarfs in both WHFB and Blood Bowl have gone through quite a few different design aesthetics over the years. This gives me some freedom to incorporate the elements I like. I also want him to look like a Blood Bowl player rather than a soldier and be clearly a star even if you removed the weapon.
I’ve based my conversion on a combination of the plastic Dwarf team and Khardron Overlord Grundstock Thunderers unit. I like the pose but am struggling with the head and shoulder pads. I don’t want the scale armour and certainly not the skirt from 3rd edition, but I do quite like the beards so am keeping that, but they may need to be a bit spikier.
I plan on adding a greenstuff football to the blunderbuss and making the armour a bit more chaosy.
The first idea uses a chaos space marine possessed head in the style of the 2nd edition range. I could add or horns in reference to the forgeworld range or hair such as some of the 2nd edition had. Another option is adding a helmet, either in a football style or a spiked one. Alternatively I could do a mask similar to the hellcannon crew that leaves his mouth exposed.
The other model has a helmet from the juggernaut riders more in the style of the classic mini-chaos warrior. The horns could be swapped with something a bit smaller or removed so he’d look more like the infernal guard.
Another option would be to take a dwarf head and chaos it up a bit, add the tusks or big hat so he looks more like the Forgeworld characters.
