Tales of a hobby butterfly

Thought it would be cool to add a gaunts ghosts unit to my pratorian guard.

Had some wargames atlantic sneak feet and a full bits box so thought i would make a ratlings ghost unit, with a bit of a nod to a time traveling richard sharpe.

The capes are a mix of anvil industry capes and some wargames atlantic capes from the knights kit.

Sharpes body is a hussar torso from anvil industrys regiments with a spare head from the richard sharpe kit.

Harpers mr knock volly gun was a sneak feet carbine with the barrel replaced with a gun from an epic knight kit.

Managed to snag this kit for a good price on ebay, gonna pirate it up with addition of ships cannons and a large hook hand made using a polystyrene ball for tte wrist joint and an old screw in key hook for the hand.

Last but not least strapped some chests and crates to its back to store the gubbinz and loot

The boyz are ready to do some looting.

The heads and arms are from spellcrow and give them a ragged freebootery look

Huzzah the trench crusade rule book arrived in the post, thought it would be rude not to make a warband for the game.

Built these chaps from my bits box mainly using parts from anvil industrys from the cheap bags of miscasts they sell at salute.

I wanted to make the metal look more rusty and worn, usually I would use a rust effect like rhyza rust but was trying to use the pens as mutch as I could, so tried using the pen to gently draw on small dots of fire giant orange then smudged it with my finger, once dry I did the same again with hardened leather.

The edges of the weapons then got a line of polished silver on the edges.

I’m pleased with how quickly they were finished and ready for some dungeon shenanigans. Using the pens was quite different to a brush you can kind of relax a bit as the paint won’t run the pen like a  brush if you sit back and watch a bit of something before going back to colouring in.

The nibs are a bit chunky so some parts were a bit difficult to get to which is the main reason I used the strong tone was to cover up the gaps.

It’s cool not having to worry about getting clean water as there are no brushes to look after.

It was a shame the bases had to be painted with a brush, I suppose if I had used more layers it may have covered properly but that would not be speedy and would probably use a lot more paint so I’m happy to get the brush out for that.

All in all I enjoyed the pens a lot, it’s kind of cool to find new ways of doing things.