From PeteF The Horror, The Horror (65 points)

Horrors

After a quick break from dungeon exploring to paint some Minifigs - here is my entry for The Pit of The Pendulum. These beasties are Horrors from the Nightstalkers faction in Mantic Games Kings of War.

Riftweaver

It's something to do with sprues and molds or whatever - but Mantic ended up putting more of these nasties in their Nightstalker armies than you'd really need in a typical force. So they introduced the "Horror Riftweaver" monster - which is just five horrors on a single 50x50 base. Since I had a bunch of Horrors from various sources I've done five as a riftweaver.

Unfortunately the riftweaver is pretty crap in the game so it may never see use on the table top. The individual horrors, however are quite handy. They are cheap (Kings of War being an army building points based game) and have good spell options for making other units more effective. According to the fluff "their warped and broken bodies channel the bitter winds of the shadow worlds". Mwahahahaha.

The standard pose

The horror model from Mantic is monoposed so I chopped them up a bit for variety. The Reapers (also Nightstalkers) came with some spare arms that seemed to fit the aesthetic. I used contrast paints to get the basic colour scheme done but ended up basecoating and layering over most of it. The crackling magicky bits were tricky but turned out OK if you don't inspect the minis too closely.

Movie Clue

You may notice a clutch of eggs amongst these horrors (so could have been used for the hatchery). My Nightstalkers have references to various scary movies as they are from the realm of nightmares. These were prepped and primed for Challenge X - glad to finally paint them.

PC XI Shelf - 2 squirrel points

Because of the pandemic, I haven't managed to get them on the table for a game or tournament - but hopefully they'll see some Kings of War action in 2021.

9 horrors and a room bonus for 65.