Slann. Spawn Band. 1

The Slann Spawn bands are one of the compulsory units and represent the slann levy drawn from the more sophisticated end of society, larger villages, towns and city districts. The unit will eventually be twenty strong and made up of Slann warriors and figures I am not using for other units. I am also using some figures from the Pantheon Of Chaos Kickstarter, one of the figures from the range is a frog style Chaos beastman and fits in well with the less structured look of the Spawn bands, the human armour being salvaged from a raided human outpost.

Coa'tla Demonflesh (PTB 05)

The first ten 

Initial Paintwork, green skins

Itza City Milita, Water Lily District Raising.

Completed unit with unit standard bearer, the flower standard is from Outpost Wargame Service and their  Aztec range. Shields are GW Goblin shields

Pantheon Of Chaos figures 

Unit champion Tlamani Imotl with water lily glyph on his shield

Once I have completed the other core units in the army I will come back and add the other ten to the unit.

Pantheon of Chaos

Outpost Wargames Service

Slann: Blowpipe Unit

For the first unit in my new Slann army i have decided on a unit of Venom Tribe blowpipes. These are one of the more colourful units and starting these will give me a bit more time to try out some ideas for the Slann green skin.

I originally had eight figures with a further one broken at the legs (which you can just make out in the background) , this is a fairly common issue with the figures and I am grateful i have so few casualties despite 20+ years and numerous house moves with them in a bit of tissue and wooden soap box!

to compete the unit I was able to repair the broken one with wire and GS and the last figure was added from kickstarter figure from Diehard Miniatures range of Eru-Kin.

Painting these up was also be the first time I used a notebook to log the paints so I can keep them uniform when add more units in the future.

repaired warrior and Eru-Kin join the ranks in red

I decided on a desert themed base to keep the focus the figures and will tie in with the background I am working on

The extra detail on the Eru-Kin marks him out as a unit leader

Despite the years apart, the Eru-Kin fits in with the other figures perfectly but still stands a beautiful sculpture in its own right

The Film Apocalypto is a continuing source of inspiration for this force and I have tried to keep a quite simple look for this unit as they are more primitive jungle Slann and their more basic tattoos and clothes reflect that. 

I am also planning unit trays for each unit as well, but calling them done for now. 

Update: movement tray now added

Kickstarter

A quick shoutout for Tor Gamings Kickstarter which is promoting their new Cthulhu Mythos inspired faction the C'thu.

The kickstarter is already funded and is a great range of tentacled and wing'ed beasties that will work well with Relics but also any other game where you might want the Old Ones!

C'thu Kickstarter

Tor Gaming