TOTALLY ORGANIC

In one of my recent posts, Frank commented that I had a lot of flying vehicles in several armies, which reminded me I actually had a completely organic army with no vehicles of any kind, my Kroot force.
This army came about as my regular tournament buddy Carl, thought it would be a cool idea if we entered the doubles tournament, as we always went to the tournaments together, aimed for best painted army and had both made finalist more than once, I agreed.
Carl really wanted to do Tau, so I said no problem I'll do Kroot as the Chapter Approved list had come out and had lots of scope for conversions, as Karl had chose the army I got to paint one of mine first, and he would make a colour scheme that worked well with mine.
I started with the Master shaper and then worked from there making all the conversions for the different units.
A couple of months into the project Carl found out that Chapter Approved lists were not allowed at the doubles tournament, and the project stalled, and the figures I'd made got put into a case and forgotten about, until Frank's comment.
So here is what I've finished to date :

Master Shaper and his two hounds, the shaper had a sword swap and the rest is the standard limited edition Games Day model, his two hounds started out as Dark Eldar Warp Beasts, which I then converted to make like the standard Kroot hound, but more of a Bull Mastiff version, rather than the standard Greyhound ones.

Next is a unit of Kroot hounds, there was only 4 versions of this model, so I converted the rest by changing the pose or adding different equipment to their harnesses, I don't have a pack master yet, but have a few ideas to make one.

Next is the two Krootox, these are both standard models, I need a minimum of 1 more possibly 3, so will have to make them to get a different look.

Next is a standard Kroot unit, but I wanted them to look more action posed, and set for close combat, there is only one standard model in this group, which is the metal Shaper model on the left.

Now we get to me in overdrive with conversions, first is the Headhunter Kindred, these are supposed to be able to spit venom, so I added a frill like a Dilophosaurous, to do this I had to lengthen the neck on each model to allow room for the frill, as they were called Headhunters, I gave each a head trophy.

Next is the Vulture Kindred, who have the ability to make short flights, GW did this with Gargoyle wings, but I wanted feathers as they were descended from birds. For the basing I wanted to get some height as if they were perched ready to swoop in for an attack.

Next up is the Hunter Kindred, these are the sharpshooters of the army with their extended range from the Kroot long rifle, All the rifle's had a piece of plastic rod added to increase the length and a sight to the top.

Next we have a Great Knarloc which was made by Forgeworld, I had this as a gift from my inlaws which was never part of the tournament list, but something I wanted to add to make it into a full army. I recently went onto their site to price up the other Great Knarloc's to add to the force, to find they've stopped selling them, guess I'm going to have to make some now !

Forgeworld also used to do Knarloc riders which were a smaller version of the Great Knarloc, they've stopped doing these as well, so here I present my solution to the problem, a great crested knarloc, it started out as a great eagle but a custom sculpted head and then fitted a Kroot rider

Last thing today is the start of my Shaper Krootox, I used a couple of bits I had spare to start it, and the rest will all be Greenstuff to finish.
I've tried to put a bit more background into today's post as I know a lot of the followers and commentators don't know a lot about GW, hope it's helped.
I have one more standard unit to show but haven't finished it yet, so you'll have to wait to see them, so until next time stay safe, have fun and if possible make someone else smile !
Cheers Dave