The More Unusual Elements of the Salamander army

Following on from the rank and file, I’ve now finished a bunch of the more unusual units for the salamanders army for Kings of War. Once again, I’ve multibased to make them easy to set up and use. Thank goodness for the MDF sellers on eBay who helpfully sell most base sizes that I needed.

This unit are fire elementals. The salamander army seems synonymous with fire and the units completed here are mostly fire and flame related.

These chaps were pretty quick to paint up as I decided to be pretty abstract with the flames and use a mix of red, orange and yellow and some black to show soot and smoke. As larger based (40mm square) model, there are three of these to a regiment.

Next up are the scorch wings, which appear to be animated rocks in the shape of birds who exude flames!

Don’t ask how they fly, I guess it’s magic.

Now for the biggest flame based model in the army - the phoenix!

This is an absolutely beautiful model and, along with the other models above, Mantic had done a fantastic job on the resin figures for this army. It’s a bit of a beast, that’s a normal 28mm model in the last photo.

It’s quite the chunk of resin and was great fun to paint.

This next unit consists of Tyrants. They’re bigger lizard creatures and also need three to a base for a regiment and 6 for a horde….. but I’ll admit to have cheated and broken the 75% rule for this lot. I’ve put two one one base and one on another to make a horde sized base.

They’re lovely resin figures once again and I was tempted to get more, but I decided to cheat as I want to get the army done and I wasn’t filled with excitement about painting another set of them. I may come back and add to the unit later, but for now they’ll certainly do.

I then moved onto the characters for the army. These two are a mage priest (who throws fireballs that get more potent if he’s standing by the flame elements of the army) and a war leader who can be one of a couple of options.

Really pleased with how these have gone so far and I just need to stay focussed and finish the last few units and I’ll have a 2,000 point army all painted and ready to play.