Rangers of Shadow Deep - Captain Fletcher

This guy was painted from the same Wargames Foundry Seadogs and Swashbuckers range as the others. He is one of my favourites from the range so wanted to include him in this project.

Neddie is named after characters from my favourite radio comedy show. The Goon Show. Neddie Seagoon, Major Denis Bloodnok, Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister. I just got lost on a meandering odd name search in my mind and so Neddie was christened. Well he was actually christened Eddard, but that name seemed ominous and his friends all call him Neddie. ?

He was given a Skelton Bone Army Painter primer to start, Wraithbone on the ruffs and Jokaero Orange hair. Mostly painted in the same Zandri Dust and Flesh Eater Red Contrast Paint as most of the others he ties in neatly as part of the group. Neddie is based on a penny that I have painted the planking on.

The book says that archers and swordsmen should have daggers.

I found daggers I liked on a Ghost Archipelago crewmen sprue I had bought off ebay, for Blood and Plunder conversion work.

To tie them together as a group I painted the daggers the same and hung them at their back like the dagger sculpted on the Captain mini. Some military kit treatise they all instinctively have confirmed to.

The Sea Artist is a role is not to paint seascapes but was a name for navigators. An experienced Seaman, Neddie has seen his fair share of action and has a rich flairful style to his swordsmanship. Well educated, but never lording that over his peers, he is a very affable crew favourite on any voyage.