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Hi all,
This is an attempt to bring some sort of order and structure to my new project, my first Lizardman army.
I've just started this project at the advent of 8th edition having been thinking about it for a while. I don't however seem to be able to work on an army unless it is my own special take on it, with conversions and kitbashes galore!
(My Bretonnian army is Kislevite, my Wood Elves have all the Glade Guard converted Native American style). This project is to be no exception.
Now to begin with, I have always liked the Kroot models from 40k but have no real interest in playing that game of pew! pew! and tanks. So I had often been toying with the idea of using them for WFB. I have seen them used well as Beastmen, but I've played Beastmen and not hugely enjoyed it, so that was out.
The other option that I've come across (and seen done well) was for them to be used as Saurus. So with the new Lizardmen coming out it seemed like the perfect opportunity to go for a themed Lizardman army.
However, just having Kroot as Saurus was a bit of a half-arsed theme in my book and so I decided I wanted to do a bit more than that. I really like the weird crossover look between bird and lizard that the Kroot have and I wanted to run with the idea of the evolution of birds.
Reading up a bit on some Lizardman fluff I came across the snippets of info relating to Culchan.... What's that? Huge, carnivorous birds that roam around Lizardman territory and are sometimes used by skinks? That sounds brilliant and my early-bird theme was starting to take shape.
I loved the idea of Culchan being herded into battle by skinks (as opposed to being ridden by them or by Saurus) and it seemed that this would work brilliantly as Skrox, with the big birds standing in place of Kroxigor.
So, that was a couple of units working towards the theme, but I was a little bit stuck about how a Slann might fit into this until I came across references to (and some old 5/6ed rules for) Coatl.
Big, magical, feathered serpents? That sounds to me like a perfect stand-in Slann Mage Priest and the overall fluff started to come to me.
The Host of the Culchan Plains revere an ancient Coatl, Chuculcan, the Plumed One. Nesting deep in the vast plains of Culchan, its offspring are all around, from the Culchan birds that roam the grassland, to the evolved (some might argue mutated) warriors who defend its nesting sites.
So there you have it. I had some ideas about models and could felt I could defend my thematic choice without stretching the traditional Lizardman fluff too much (others might disagree and think this is an abomination. I respect that, but it's my army so
)
Now I wanted the army to be visually similar to Lizardmen but not using Saurus models, so I decided on blue skin as a colour linked by many to Lizardmen. Having a look around at various blue coloured birds and at the Kroot models themselves it seemed clear to me that parrots of the macaw family would be ripe for plundering (hence the subtitle to this thread!). They also have a number of different 'flavours' that incorporate a number of different colours, allowing me scope to branch out for the more exotic units (ripperdactyls, my Coatl-Slann etc...)
So I ordered some bits, grabbed some glue and paintbrushes and have got to work. That's what this plog is all about and I hope I'm able to keep it updated (although it seems I'm rubbish at taking photos).
This is an attempt to bring some sort of order and structure to my new project, my first Lizardman army.
I've just started this project at the advent of 8th edition having been thinking about it for a while. I don't however seem to be able to work on an army unless it is my own special take on it, with conversions and kitbashes galore!
(My Bretonnian army is Kislevite, my Wood Elves have all the Glade Guard converted Native American style). This project is to be no exception.
Now to begin with, I have always liked the Kroot models from 40k but have no real interest in playing that game of pew! pew! and tanks. So I had often been toying with the idea of using them for WFB. I have seen them used well as Beastmen, but I've played Beastmen and not hugely enjoyed it, so that was out.
The other option that I've come across (and seen done well) was for them to be used as Saurus. So with the new Lizardmen coming out it seemed like the perfect opportunity to go for a themed Lizardman army.
However, just having Kroot as Saurus was a bit of a half-arsed theme in my book and so I decided I wanted to do a bit more than that. I really like the weird crossover look between bird and lizard that the Kroot have and I wanted to run with the idea of the evolution of birds.
Reading up a bit on some Lizardman fluff I came across the snippets of info relating to Culchan.... What's that? Huge, carnivorous birds that roam around Lizardman territory and are sometimes used by skinks? That sounds brilliant and my early-bird theme was starting to take shape.
I loved the idea of Culchan being herded into battle by skinks (as opposed to being ridden by them or by Saurus) and it seemed that this would work brilliantly as Skrox, with the big birds standing in place of Kroxigor.
So, that was a couple of units working towards the theme, but I was a little bit stuck about how a Slann might fit into this until I came across references to (and some old 5/6ed rules for) Coatl.
Big, magical, feathered serpents? That sounds to me like a perfect stand-in Slann Mage Priest and the overall fluff started to come to me.
The Host of the Culchan Plains revere an ancient Coatl, Chuculcan, the Plumed One. Nesting deep in the vast plains of Culchan, its offspring are all around, from the Culchan birds that roam the grassland, to the evolved (some might argue mutated) warriors who defend its nesting sites.
So there you have it. I had some ideas about models and could felt I could defend my thematic choice without stretching the traditional Lizardman fluff too much (others might disagree and think this is an abomination. I respect that, but it's my army so
)Now I wanted the army to be visually similar to Lizardmen but not using Saurus models, so I decided on blue skin as a colour linked by many to Lizardmen. Having a look around at various blue coloured birds and at the Kroot models themselves it seemed clear to me that parrots of the macaw family would be ripe for plundering (hence the subtitle to this thread!). They also have a number of different 'flavours' that incorporate a number of different colours, allowing me scope to branch out for the more exotic units (ripperdactyls, my Coatl-Slann etc...)
So I ordered some bits, grabbed some glue and paintbrushes and have got to work. That's what this plog is all about and I hope I'm able to keep it updated (although it seems I'm rubbish at taking photos).
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