Fred - 2017 Painting Diary

[Ithoriel]

Looks really nice but I can't help but feel that the artillery should be mounted on the backs of sharks.

Sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads?

A bizarre army, Fred, but fun and looking good!

[lowlylowlycook]

Indeed.  Or  the closest genre appropriate equivalent.

[fred.]

A bizarre army, Fred, but fun ....

It is bizarre, but had proved fun and effective on the table.

Shark mounted ballista is an interesting thought....

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

At least it's not ballista mounted sharks!

[fred.]

I'm now thinking of the squid gun from Minions film

[Bodvoc]

Great stuff.

[fred.]

Trident Realms - 10mm crazy fishmen army!!

As seen above, now that the second batch of frogmen crossbows are finished I thought it would be worth getting all the figures out, and taking some photos of the army in the pale winter afternoon sun.

The whole army


This army is derived from the Kings of War Trident Realms of Neritica army - but adapted to our home brew rules, and to 10mm figures. The basic theme is various sea living creatures, that able to survive and fight on land, giant crabs, fishmen, squid, frogmen etc!!

Its a bit bonkers, but has been fun to put together, and very quick and fun to paint.

Overhead shot



The giant crabs basking in the sunshine

[fred.]

Now the individual units

Naiad Heartpiercers


aka Frogmen with Crossbows, these are Magister Militum figures. These provide firepower for the army, despite their lack of army they are fairly resistant as they regenerate lost wounds.

At the front are Leviathan's Revenge, high powered bolt throwers. These are Pendraken Warband Goblin bolt throwers with some light conversions of the crossbowmen as crew.

and a close up of the Heartpiercers


Druid and Nokken

The Druid is a GW Warmaster figure from the Albion campaign. The Nokken are 15mm Magister Miliutm Sprites.
The Druid is a key to the army's performance as he can summon in more Water Elementals. The Nokken are act as skirmishers with short range jets of water attacks.

Giant Crabs (aka Gigas)

Pendraken figures - probably my favourite units in the army - big pincers great armour, but rather vulnerable if flanked

Placoderm Defenders

Pendraken Fishmen, armed with Tridents and Nets, great defensive troops as they disrupt enemy charges and have tough scaly armour.

Water Elementals

Mainly Pendraken figures, with some Kallistra. The back-bone (if rather mixing metaphors) of the army, fast, tough, pretty hard hitting, and can be summoned on to the battle field, so don't have to slog through enemy missile fire. I have rather a lot of units of these, and their basing is different as they originally (and still do) form part of my Forces of Nature army.

Coral Giant

Still work in progress - a GW Battle of Five armies giant - a really great figure.

The one unit I am struggling to find figures for are the Naiad Sea Serpent riders, so any leads on that would be appreciated.

[Womble67]

Very impressive looking army

Take care

Andy

[lowlylowlycook]

Great looking stuff.   The water elementals especially.

When I saw that Pendraken had this aquatic force in 10mm I immediately thought of the Nereticans.    

However, I doubt I could do an underwater force without using the Bones Shipwreck Golem.  Whenever that finally arrives.

[FierceKitty]

It's beginning to look a lot like fish-men, everywhere I go....

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello Fred

Been thinking about the naiads on sea monster. You could use so.e of the Dark Elves raptor riders. I dont know if you have access to Safari Lucky Mini animals but they are in a softer plastic and are about 25mm long:-





Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[fred.]

Thanks chaps.

And thanks for that suggestion Vic I will investigate.

[Techno]

Great looking units, Forbes ! 

Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Thanks Phil.

, I doubt I could do an underwater force without using the Bones Shipwreck Golem.  Whenever that finally arrives.

Is this part of the Bones 3 KS? Because I've got that coming,  but I don't recall that figure.