Even More For The Forces Of Nature

I've been beavering away on some more stuff for my new Forces of Nature army for Kings of War.  To start with I went back to the remains of my Loka earth set and pulled out a bishop to serve as a druid.

After that I had a lot of fun making this unit of 'Hunters of the Wild'.  The unit description says the hunters are a mix of sprites, dryads, fauns, satyrs and other forest folk.  Basically an excuse to do what you like, I had a rummage round my spare minis boxes and managed to bring together this unit of ten that I'm really pleased with.  I've made a couple of purchases that will allow me to bring this unit up to 20 in the near future.

These two are a couple of Games Workshop Warhammer fantasy Beastmen Gors, now being used to represent Fauns

Also from Warhammer we have these two old metal Dryad minis, who were previously found playing bloodbowl with my Halfling team.

The Loka set provides yet more minis for the army with these dwarf pawns, painted green as to represent 'green men' forest spirits.

The unit is bought upto strength by a Warhammer Wood Elf Sprite, an elf huntress that was free from Foundry and a dog from GW's Lord of the Rings range.

I also dug out this old citadel unicorn that I had in my collection.  Unicorns are heroes with the heal spell, which I think is going to prove useful.

I've gone out and bought these two Pegasi from Foundry's Greek Mythology range which will add some much valued mobility to the force.

And finally here's a pic of how the army stands today.  I've got plenty of Heroes and Monsters, but not enough proper regiments.  The Hunters will be bought up to a full regiment soon and later in the year I'll be getting regiments of Salamanders and Naiads from my kickstarter package, in the meanwhile I'm considering giving some of my old plastic Saurus minis a quick lick of paint to stand in as Salamanders.

Additions For My Kings Of War Forces of Nature Army

The first part of my Kings of War Kickstarter package should be in the post as I type this and although it will be a few months yet before I get the second package with the Forces of nature stuff in it, I've been having a bit of a look to see if I can do any work on my army in preparation, it turns out that I can.

The Green Lady has now found her way into the Forces of Nature list as well as the Elf list, so I went out and ordered her, she didn't take long to paint and is now ready to lead her forces.

A while ago in one of the Christmas boxes Mantic do I got a single Loka earth elemental, which I'd painted up and quite liked.  I then managed to pick up a set of the green Loka pieces on ebay, but never quite got around to doing anything with them.  Over the last few days several of them have been sacrificed, painted and based for use in Kings of War.  Sawing the bases off was easy enough using a junior hacksaw and the paintjobs were very quick and easy.

These earth elementals are the main attraction providing the first regiment for the army (regiments are essential as they open up list building options).  I like these figures, the single pose is a bit of a shame, but still they work well I think.

Next we have the two centaurs, and whilst no good on their own, I just happen to have three centaurs in my Greek collection which put together create a 'troop' of centaurs, even if the two styles don't quite match.

Finally I've used one of the Loka Queens as a Forest Warden.  I am a bit confused around what the Forest Warden was supposed to be, the Tree Herder is clearly your traditional Treeman/Ent and is a Hero[Monster] whereas the Forest Warden is only a Hero[Large Infantry] and a mere 75pts compared to 260 for the Tree Herder.  The Forest Wardens are also described as massive and ancient.  As there's no official model and the only thing that really matters in Kings of War is base size I'm going with this mini.

From the Painting Table 9

I've managed to get a little bit of painting in over the winter break and actually managed to finish off a couple of projects that I present below.

First is the Thranduil from GW's new The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug range.  He wasn't cheap or to be honest good value, but he is very nice.

This is a squad of Mantic Games corporation troopers, these have a dual role in my collection.  They actually come from the project Pandora boardgame I got cheap a while back, but will also be seeing service in my Imperial Guard army for 40K.

And finally this Loka earth rook which came from this years mantic crazy Christmas box.  I like this guy a lot and am quite tempted to get a set of the pieces now.