Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago

Arpitan Greyscales is my Captain. Heavy armour and Harpoon are what I am claiming for him. With a single increase to speed to negate the -1 to movement for heavy armour.

His powers are Hurl, Evade, Mitigation, Sprint and Wraithwalk.

Lombard Occitan is my Vine Warden. His abilities are Plant Walk, Snare, Brambles and Earth Wave.

As I did with other crews I am giving him a throwing knife as a way to represent his pistols on the model.

The rest of my crew have found names and load outs and I just have Lombard and the last crew member to paint.

At Salute I didn’t spend much but had a great catch up with friends. I did pick up The Orc Officer (Lombard) and my last crew member. I found the Atlantic Miniatures stand and some gorgeous goblins and one of these will be a crew member that is never far from Lombard. They have come to the crew of the Good Ship Milicent as a package deal. Zebre the goblin carries a battle axe and I can’t wait to get him and his Vine Warden friend painted up.

Black Scorpion Miniatures are at Salute this year, (next week. Yay.) and so will I be. While I am there I will pick up an Orc Officer to become my Vine Warden. He is clearly mad though, because not only does he speak with the plants, but he even thinks he is made from fungus. Bonkers mental.

I feel that as I can only have 4 specialists in my list and I have 4 dwarves that I should try and use them in that role. The WYSIWYG is leaning me towards fielding the men with pistols levelled as Crossbowmen and having a shield added to one swordsman to become a Man-at-Arms, and a dagger added to the other swordsman to be a Tomb Robber.

This all would mean that Greyscales becomes my Heritor and I need to pick some appropriate abilities that hopefully tie in with his look.

The mice can be my basic crew list fillers and I have licence to think up one last crewman to join the ranks. Might try and find something with a double handed weapon or a hand weapon and shield to take advantage of the stat improvements that come with those.

Still unsure how best to bring this second crew together. Greyscales will definitely be the Heritor or Warden, but I am not sure my pistol toting dwarves should be crossbowmen, as the other crew already has these. I have 8 models already. The new Underworlds buccaneer expansion looks really cool and might be a neat fix, but I had hoped to find an Orc pirate that would fit the crew too.

This guy followed the same recipe for the paint job as the dwarves below.

Reaper Miniatures metal mouses. Mice mice baby. They caught my eye, didn’t have guns and though they look odd, being a barbarian, mouseketeer and pirate, them just having a simple hand weapon made them simple thugs.

They got a prime of black then a zenith of Army Painter Leather Brown. Then they each got a different wash. Barbarian with Reikland Fleshshade, the Mouseketeer in Agrax Earthshade and pirate with Nulin Oil. Then they all got a Zandri Dust / white belly and chin. The pirate was taken darker with some Rhinox Hide. The eyes were painted Wyldwood Contrast and the metals were a mix of Runelord Brass and Stormhost Silver. For the Mouseketeer’s hat and tabbard I used Macragge Blue, Nighthaunt Gloom and Nihilakh Oxide.

Still not sure how this crew will come together but I will keep painting and hope for inspiration to come to me.

Still undecided how to field him, but this guy’s nautical look made him a must have for my second warband. I had been hoping to get into guildball in a bigger way and got Greyscales in a sale.

I ended up gluing him down badly on a plank, but decided that it gave the base an interesting composition. I glued spare pieces of metal sprue under the base to ensure he doesn’t topple over. I added the chain, again to add a gram or two to keep him balanced. He is already a metal mini so he has quite the heft now.

Deathguard Green primed, with Contrast paints mainly for the leather. The GW camoshade colour was great for the clothing. Mephiston Red over a base of the dark red contrast paint for the scarf and the trousers.