Hordes of the Things - Dwarven Artillery: Ballista





Finished, at last!
Built from scratch using bits of a roman siege tower from Atlantic I used to play with when I was a child and Ral Partha's AD&D Battlesystem Iron Dwarf Ballista bought fifteen years ago.
This is the first finished element of my HotT's Dwarven Army.







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