The Inhabitants of Sporewood

Sporewood is a great mushroom forest. The name comes from the famous one located in Dagori Inkarth, or Shadows Dance, in the Rockwood Mountains of Glorantha. For my purposes, however, it can exist elsewhere as well - fungus caverns are also a popular choice.

Sporewood is the home of the Voralon, the "dark elves" of Glorantha. Mushroom men, you could call them.

Hasslefree Miniatures call them Agarix. They can be found here: A, and here: B.

Khurasan Miniatures call them Fungoids. I don't have any of the latter yet, having only just stumbled on them, but at 12-25mm height I think they will fit in well.

I think Agarix/Voralan should be quite varied in appearance, expecially given there are so many varieties of mushrooms out there!

This just in...

Andrew posted in the comments:

"You may find [Ral Partha Europe]
01046-mushroom-men
10019-fungi
of use but I am not sure if these would go [Reaper]:
03041
02679
I do like these though no idea of size! [Magnetic Displays]
RP29"

Thanks! These are great - I do think the Reaper would go as variety is important for Agarix.

The More Mara the Merrier!

Andrew sent me some new pics of the WIP Mara today. Note that there are six bodies, six different heads, six weapon hands and six clawed hands. I think that means there can be 6 x 6 x 6 x 6 = 1296 unique Mara possible. :-)

Mara - close up

A Mara, sculpted by Andrew May

Here is a detail pic of one of the Mara Andrew is sculpting for me as part of the Garden of Kama range. The hands are separate as there will be options for clawed hands or weapons.

An Extra Resolution: Heroes, Season 3!

Finish watching the damn thing!

I left off with Hiro in a spot of bother and the story really taking a turn for the worse. Gotta finish it so I can lend it to my friends Bruce and Ellen (hopefully in return for them lending me Big Bang Theory Season 1) - theoretically this should be a fairly easy resolution to keep...

Oops...missed a day!

Damn, my resolutions are slipping already! *sigh*

So much the one-post-per-day goal...

edit: Double Damn - just noticed that I already missed a day - Wednesday (and didn't even notice)

Mara

Mara is the demonic Lord of Evil. The Mara are his demonic minions; the Daughters of Mara are cruel temptresses who delight in pain and suffering.

The Army of Sinistra - initial uniform colours...

Ah...the planning stages - often my favourite part. Of course, the execution holds much more rewards but often seems elusive. So it goes...

Anyway, undaunted, here are my initial thoughts on the Army of Sinistria, which nation being a little known principality in Western Germany.

The infantry consist of the Guard; the "Old Line" - that is, the regiments with long established histories; and the "New Line", regiments newly raised or of less "noble" lineage. And then there are regiments of "Light" infantry. All regiments have flank companies of grenadiers and lights. The whole organization is rather "French" - go figure: I'm using French figures to represent them! :-)

The "Old Line" will be in black with green small clothes and trousers, reversed for the drummers. Light troops all in green. Units of the "New Line" are in green jackets with white small clothes. The Guard are all black.

Edit: on consideration, I think that most of the "Old Line" will be black with green, but one unit will be green with black. The "New Line" will be some in all white and some in green with white - so basically "Army of Italy" - just to keep the more historically minded happy! ;-)

Haven't decided on turnbacks and cuffs yet.

Artillery are probably all black, or green with black.

Cavalry I haven't thought about. Probably all colours for the Hussars, green for the Dragoons and Black for the Cuirassiers.