KoW Expansions

 Yes further expansion of random armies is in order.

After years of hibernation I managed to get some desire to add to the Brotherhood army.  These guys are a massive pain to paint and take forever.  These are the simplest heraldry for the initiates

the dwarves gained a regiment of rangers and a steel juggernaut.

The undead gained a few Goreblights as I shuffled through the various bones boxes.

The brotherhood even gained a spellcaster damsel!

And for Rhordia I've got a mounted heroes as well.

All Natural Pics!

 It dawned on me I have a rather large nature army that never got a big group photo!  This army began life during Kings of War 2nd edition and was the first army I made specifically for KoW.  It's gotten rather large but even so some previous entries on the blog have been rebased and moved to other games (mostly Warhammer Quest).  In its current form its pretty complete though I may have to revisit it and fill out a few entries...

Here's the big picture, over 4000 points of nature.  The rules have changed a ton since I first started this army but no unit has been invalidated or shelved because of it.

at one point I did field all three unicorns as well as tons of regenerating units.  It was hilarious but kinda mean...

Lots of reaper bones were used though a few mantic models also made it in.  Mostly only a few due to the options not being made until well after I already had a unit.

Currently I only have one beast of nature for the army.  I do want to eventually swap it out for a more table friendly model and add another 2 in for fun.

Yep that's a toy for my hydra repainted in the brightest colors I could think of!

The druids are some of my favorites, lots of fun to paint.

These are my worm riders, as you can see there is indeed a worm riding every one of them.

Somewhere in storage I have another scorchwing regiment that I need to find.

Woodland critters were a lot of fun.  I do miss when they had multiple variants of ensaring, basic and flying though.

The absolutely random assortment of minis represent my hunters of the wild.

And the Dryads finish off my Naiads 

Rhordia Returns

Back to KoW again and it feels great!  I wanted to get some units made up for Battle masters but I somehow lost my halberd and crossbowmen.

The logical thing was to 3D print an absurd amount of battle masters halberds and crossbows :)  Old minis are just fun to paint!

And a big ol batch of crossbows too!  I honestly forgot how fun this paint scheme is might have to expand the army more.

Dwarves Vs Zombies?

 Wellp time to fill in a few Kings of War armies.  Before starting a new project I thought it would be good to fill in a few of the less painted armies, plus my son is having a blast with Battle Masters and the minis work great there too!

Another unit of Dwarf Ironguard with a mix of GW and Avatars of war.  The unit champion is from a friend and I have no idea where it originally came from.

My third regiment of zombies for the undead army, this is an army I'd really like to bring up to speed since at this point I can only stretch it to maybe 1500 points.

Speaking of battle masters we tried another set of experimental lists.  This time the dragons were soundly beaten back by the elves.  Buff and nerfs were to follow...

Is that Ranking and Flanking I hear?

With Cthulhu Wars all painted up (again) and several board games getting a treatment I felt like its time to paint what I consider 'comfort models' ie DWARVES!

It's been a long time since I've done and painting for Kings of War (still my favorite and only war game anymore!) so lets crack open some real classic models!

Always loved this sculpt of Ungrim and long since wanted to have one of my own.  He's just so blocky and cute!  Who's a little slayer-king?

This one has been on my list for ages as well the 30th aniversary white dwarf model with the dwarf himself, Gotrek and Bugman all in one!

And the last addition is my first unit of Ironclad drinking lads!  These models came from so many sources I honestly don't know all of them!  Some kickstarters, a few GW ones even some reaper but lots of personality!

New Year, New Army!

 After getting a 3d printer I decided to learn how to use it after finding a hilariously awesome set of bibically accurate angels!  So I printed out 23 angels (give or take due to bad prints...) and made up my first Basilean army!

Most of these (maybe all?) can be found on myminifactory.com.  For the basic elohi units I went with a model called Tru Form Angel.  These guys are massive sculpts so I had to shrink them down to about 35% or so just to get them small enough to fit.  

For the various scatter  terrain I went with a few obelisks I found on thingiverse as well as some floating rocks.  The rocks took several tries to get both the right scale and successfully print them.  They are a bit more obscured by the 'flock' than I would like.

Even the hoard and troop bases are 3d printed (another awesome freebie on thingiverse)!

The other three 'bibically accurate' angels were single pose so they get the character treatment and can be used as Ur- Elohi and or the name Elohi.

Overall I'm super happy with the results and cotton candy colors!  This comes out to be about 2300 points so a cute little themed list to take with so little unit count...

The Lands of More-Dwarf!

Because painting beards is just a great hobby for anyone, I painted more! 

The bullwarkers are finished up and I have my own shiny horde of dwarfy spear people!

Mantic's steel behemoth was a must have and provides a nice centerpiece in an infantry heavy army.

The army has finally grown into a real army now and I'm really liking the progress.

Rats, Foiled Again!

I wanted to start running a horde army and since the Ratkin were halfway there I decided to get them finished up in only 2 weeks time for a meetup.  Jokes on me because I should have played forces of nature, then maybe it wouldn't have dumped winter apocalypse all over and canceled the meetup...

I quickly threw together a 2000 point list that I thought I could scrounge together in time.  Do note that most of these models were already painted from previous projects and just needed some bases build and a few extra models to flesh out the unit.  It wasn't all started from scratch in 2 weeks!

The brutes have been expanded to a horde and feel much more dangerous now.

I used plague censers and poison wind rats to fill in the Blight and make a horde of those!

Reaper kobolds and various things were quickly scavanged for a slave horde.

Two troops of clawshots because no matter how bad they perform for me they seem ok on paper...

My only death engine for now painted up several years ago.

These spear rats have been languishing unused for a long time, still need to add some moss around the movement tray though...

The only real reason I want to run this army of coarse is the demon rat of happy fun times!

I had about 12ish metal stormvermin before starting this horde so this took the most time by far.  

The warriors were already done and now just need some moss around the edges.

And of coarse a group shot of the whole army.  Most of it was going into 2k points but a few things were just left out for lack of room.  Nice to have a solid start to the army though now.