Fantastical Armies

I'd been having problems with the Araby knights coming off their bases - so took the opportunity to rebase them to 40mm squares. I also added some more figures, a base of black knights, a few extra green a yellow to turn the 3 smaller WM bases per unit into 2 larger HoW bases. The blue and red cavalry are different figures, on un-barded horses, for now they will just be knights, but they do give me a medium cavalry option if needed for another army. All the figures are TB Line. Medium cavalry nearing completion.  Figures on painting sticks, nearly completion of the painting. 

Many part painted bases of TB Line Horse Archers. These are very nice figures, with loads of detail, but I have found painting them hard work. Hence they aren't finished.  Elephants, TB line furtherst away, and Magister Militum nearer the camera. Behind them are Knights further away with cmael riders nearer.

Araby Guards and Spearmen. The three left hand blocks are GW Warmaster figures. At the back are Guard infantry, waving swords and having many plumes in their headgear. On the Right are Magister Militum spearmen. The back two blocks are from their Arab line, the front block are more heavily armoured, from one of the Persian ranges.  Black Powder weapons - these are all Pendraken Ottomen Turk figures. The front row re cannons, the 3 rows of yellow and blue figures are hand-gunners, then some small mortars. And behind them a pair of heavy seige guns. These figures were initially added to the army for use under the KoW Kingdoms of Men list, which was a very versatile list. Lately these troops are rather orphaned, as under HoW we have gone back to a stripped back Araby list closer to the original WM one.

The whole army arrayed. Nearest the camera are TB Line Horse archers, at the far left are GW Flying Carpets. In the centre many spearmen.  Nearest the camera are various Black Powder Ottoman elements that aren't currently included in the HoW Araby army list.

This is another fairly new army. Initially I had a few Dwarven infantry units from the BoFA set who where part of the Dogs of War army.  Then a few cannons where added (initially as allies for KoW Men) and some gyrocopters. This just about gave me a playable force for Warband.  Then the excellent Copplestone LoTR dwarves were available on sale - so this was enough of a reason to add these to the army - giving me a good solid core of infantry. Now I just need to paint these chaps.  The main element missing from the army are missile troops. As these are definitely a slow burner project, I am in no rush to get these and will wait and hope that Copplestone will make some Dwarves with bows.  At the minute I'm steering away from some of the GW elements like the orange bearded Troll Slayers. But I am happy with the engineering and black powder elements. 

This army is built around the Indiegogo campaign run by Yann (aka Barbarian) a few years ago.  The figures are very detailed, and there are some very cool models. Unfortunately it has languished in the lead pile for some time. Partly waiting for inspiration on the painting front and partly on the army list front. I'm sure this army was created to provide proxies for the defenct GW Warmaster Chaos range, but I'm not entirely sure that is how I want to use them.  Painting wise I do quite like the scheme used by Pappa Midnight on LAF by on his Chaos Dwarves that involves a deep red wash to the armour. 

Three stands of Minotaur wizards and six commanders, these are mainly figures from the new Warband backs from Pendraken, which have loads of character.