Mage Knight as a game never really appealed to me but I managed to hoard a sizeable amount of figures, sometime through a few direct purchases -- the blind box format never really made sense to me -- and, more recently, through trade and sale on the secondary market. I've been repainting and rebasing these Mage Knight figures for use in Hordes of the Things and here's a new list I've come up with. You can click the pictures for bigger versions.
The bulk of the army is made of warbands, featuring repainted MK Spine Suckers and Shadows.
I enjoyed repainting these and I opted for a more "bird-like" look for the Spine suckers and a "wet" and slime-ish look for the Shadows. Two stands of each type will be fielded.
Two stands of ethereal-looking minis -- MK Solonavi drones and channelers -- get wrangled up as 2 blade elements. These are mounted floating on the bases but aren't considered flyers.
A hero element is represented by a World of Warcraft (WoW) mini as a demonic warrior hero. The mini's original weapon was replaced with a more visually appealing one taken from a toy set.
I'll be adding some flyer elements as soon as I can decided which MK figures to use. The bases shown here have been treated with ground work but I've yet to add grass and other bits. I'm holding off till I get the flyers ready to preserve the uniformity of the bases' look.
In summary, the army will have the following composition:
The bulk of the army is made of warbands, featuring repainted MK Spine Suckers and Shadows.
I enjoyed repainting these and I opted for a more "bird-like" look for the Spine suckers and a "wet" and slime-ish look for the Shadows. Two stands of each type will be fielded.
Two stands of ethereal-looking minis -- MK Solonavi drones and channelers -- get wrangled up as 2 blade elements. These are mounted floating on the bases but aren't considered flyers.
A hero element is represented by a World of Warcraft (WoW) mini as a demonic warrior hero. The mini's original weapon was replaced with a more visually appealing one taken from a toy set.
I'll be adding some flyer elements as soon as I can decided which MK figures to use. The bases shown here have been treated with ground work but I've yet to add grass and other bits. I'm holding off till I get the flyers ready to preserve the uniformity of the bases' look.
In summary, the army will have the following composition:
Nice job. I have a Fire Giant army made from D&D prepainted minis myself.
ReplyDeletehi Desert Scribe! Your army is actually one of the Hott armies using prepainted minis I had as inspiration:) Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad my army inspired you, and I hope you have fun with your army. I would be happy to play against it, if you ever find yourself in the San Antonio area.
ReplyDeleteWow! Those spine suckers look really good. Did the "beaks" use to be their tongues?
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm not sure about the beaks. I imagine the mostr burst from the insides of a host human with the corpse' skeleton serving as its exoskeleton but with bits of the monster sticking out:)
ReplyDeleteGood =)
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