Guards of Traitor's Toll, or Possibly Return to Whitby
Guards gonna guard
I bought the Busy Streets expansion in addition to the base set, so I’ve got four sprues of guards. I want to get the game to the table sooner rather than later, and I’m not likely to play with more than two players, so I’ve started with just the two squads. For these I decided to stick pretty close to the artwork on the game’s stat cards, just to make it easy to tell who is who as we play our first few games.
I painted them with my usual mix of techniques. The base coat is black primer with a few shades of grey drybrush, then speedpaint for the browns and metallics and traditional 3-color triad for the skin tones and uniform colors. One day I will learn my lesson about avoiding color schemes that include yellow, but this is not that day…
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You don’t need to learn that lesson, you seem to have mastered yellow
That’s very kind of you to say, thank you. I do find yellow a very difficult color to work with — I always end up using a lot of multiple coats, and shading and highlighting it is a challenge. Give me a nice red or blue any day… 😉