Dwarf cannon

I always remembered this cannon having a great colour scheme with flames at the front and either a black or blue barrel but when checking I was a little underwhelmed. After looking through Google for inspiration on how to paint up the cannon nothing really jumped out at me so I grabbed two random colours I hadn't used yet and set to work.

I was going to use the same style on the cannon as I did on the stone thrower, wood grain and steel, more function over style. Wanting to tie the cannon into the crew somehow I decided on using an orange base for the wood rather than a brown. That looked ok so I tried dry brushing on the orange tones which then led to the teal barrel because why not use both colours? These are not colours I would normally use and couldn't be further from what I originally had in mind but I think it works. 

The crew painted up quickly one of the benefits of already picking out the colours. Being what I consider quite offensive colours that half painted terrible looking stage was rough going happily broken up by a break over Christmas. 

There's only three weeks left until the army is required for battle and I still have 10 minis to paint one of those being the engineer. I've started on the musician and a warrior to help get through the command group while also getting to share a colour scheme to speed things up. After that I'll tackle the banner bearer which I think will be the last banner I have time to paint, sorry Thorgrim. At 3 minis per week I should be fine but I'm nothing if not easily distracted.

Thanks for reading.