Still on the monster support side for the Gnomes, I wanted some heavy infantry. The heavy infantry support for Goblins are Trolls. Well, everyone knows that trolls and gnomes do not get along, so I would have to find a proxy. I thought about different animals, but nothing fit the bill. Then I thought I could keep with the woodland theme and go with some sort of tree spirit or swamp monster.
Going back to my collection, I had some treekin infantry conversion I did for my wood elves a long time ago. I had used some first generation dryads and added some bits second generation branches to “embiggen” them. I had six, so I pulled those out. I had to do some minor touch up (mostly re-attaching branches).
I looked them over and thought they would fit the bill. They were already mounted on bases and had some basic basing. I just needed to go back with some drybrushing, flocking and the addition of flowers. With these, I have my stone trolls (I am going to do the swamp monsters as river trolls later).
- Manteuffel