Maledrakh's B4Core #155 Ghost Pirate or Banshee

[Maledrakh]

#155:

The banshee or female ghost is the one I think worked the best.

Here I only drybrushed very very lightly with the Dungeon Slime, just to accent the raised details Then I used old Citadel Turquoise Glaze from the top to the waist, easying up a bit the further down I went with the brush. After that I used Old Citadel Blue Ink on and around the head and shoulders.  I used Orange Ink on the face and exposed flesh bits in front and wicking most of it away after a short while so that just a hint was left. I did some further light drybrushing with dungeon slime then pure white at the ends of the wispy trails. The wood was done in opaques, whatever browns, bones and greys were on my palette at the time, and given a dark grey wash. Eye in Vallejo Magic blue and Reaper Copper Verdigris.

 

 

My schedule is increasingly packed these days, so painting time is getting scarce. These are even more speedpainted than usual, just minutes spent on each with some drying time in between.

The Ghost Pirate subset that was added to the Bones 4 core set during the last day of the kickstarter campaign.

These are made in translucent green material.

The key to painting translucents are first to undercoat with clear varnish. I used Vallejo matte varnish through my airbrush. The varnish lets the paint adhere to the plastic and avoids a lot of grief with paint beading or running away from where you want it to go. Then paint with predominantly translucent paint such as inks.

 

With these I tried a few different variations on how to paint them. First I gave them all a thin wash of Citadel Hexwraith Flame (the Nighthaunt green technical paint), making sure to wick up any pooling. This wash helped create some contrast, which in turn let me actually see some of the details.

When dry, I used Vallejo Dark Grey Model Wash on the heads, exposed bone bits and other details on most of them. After this was dry, I went in with Reaper Dungeon Slime, a bright and pale green, with high density pigment. (Which really is not ideal for translucents, as this is a really opaque paint.) But I wanted to try this out. The results ...varied.

I decided to quickly be done with them and covered the base in my autumn flock mix as usual.

A little to quickly it seems, as there still is flock and static grass in unsightly places as seen in the photos. I will be removing said offending matter as soon as I can be bothered.

 

#155, the Ghost Pirate subset

Bones 4 Core set, 2019

Reaper Miniatures

Sculpted by Julie Guthrie

Made in Translucent Green Bonesium PVC

30mm base.

should be available from reapermini.com some time in the future in Bones. Currently available in metal.

[KruleBear]

The base work really elevates the “speed paint”. Nice. 

[Glitterwolf]

Very good!