Army Building: The People of the Woods recruits more Gormiti

A few packs of the Gormiti foils yielded some interesting figures that fit the theme of my People of the Woods army. The monster shown above with the thorny humps is called Tormenter and he seems to be a plant-like giant with thorny tendrils for his limbs. The colors are garish "as-is" and could really do with some repainting.

He's got some organic thorned armor on his back and shoulders and his head is sculpted to look like a the bulb of a closed flower with two small eyes peering thru the thick folds or stalks. Kinda reminds me of a venus flytrap plant. My recent toy haul produced two of these and I'm hoping to score more.

The next figure is named Cannon Trunk and he looks like a hollowed-out tree trunk with a mean set of eyes and wickedly sharp teeth from tree shards. He's holding what seems to be rocks in both hands. Like the previous Gormiti, he can do with a repaint. As with most of the figures I've been amassing for this army, they'll be initially based individually, mainly for AD&D Battlesystem 2nd ed. If I do get my hands on HOTT though, I may rebase them. For the curious and the few remaining battlesystem aficcianados, I'll be posting the stats I come up with here too.v

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1/72 Numidians

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