More Space Dwarves for Q13

With Quadrant 13 being very much in the forefront of my mind (see post from last Wednesday) I fancied a bit of sci-fi painting so decided to move the new space dwarves from Alternative Armies to the the top of the painting queue.

Called the Pertinax, the figures form part of the Ion Age range, and are available individually, in squads or as an Ordos (platoon):

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Their legend is as follows:

The Legions of the Shia Khan Empire are the main fighting force of the Empire. Pertinax are better treated than any other client race but not quite as well as Legionaries.  Able to command Maligs, Betrayers and Warlords they service and repair vehicles, weapons and Psycoborgs. Organised into standard Tesserans (8 Troops) and Ordos (32 Troops) they are a flexible and effective fighting force.

Each of the four squads provided has a separate role (Rifle, Assault, Support and Command) and they have an extra Engineer figure free if you buy the whole platoon (£17.50 plus p&p at time of writing). By happy co-incidence, divine intervention or by design, the Engineer figure uses the same overhead mechanical claw design as Onslaught Miniatures’ space dwarf engineer (from the Grudd range), which provides another very pleasing continuity to my space dwarf collection as a whole.

Now I’m not quite as good a painter as the one that AA uses, but here is my effort:

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That means that I now have a slightly ridiculous 19 platoons of space dwarves from eight different manufacturers/contingents. You can see the whole lot here, with the photos below showing you the whole collection.