After weeks of Havok (I’m waiting for some tanks to arrive), and after playing with those AI generated rules, I was in the mood to not be so sensible. My heart is always with silly little skirmish games, and Ghost Legions is a project that I frequently stop and start without really scratching the itch. Wanting to Ghost things up, I started looking around for my 1/72 collection… but I couldn’t find them. But what I did realise is that I’ve got a lot of left overs from various 28mm Historical boxes. So I got to work building – 5 Afghans, 5 Dark Age Irish, 5 Boxers, 5 WW1 Russians and 5 Medieval Knights. 5 Warbands of 5 dudes to play with. So we’re really aiming for Skirmish Ghost Legions, but whatever I cook up should be workable for 28mm or 1/72.
The big advantage of Ghost Legions is in speed with painting. Ghost are very quick to paint:
Before I’ve primed white, put over a citadel contrast colour, drybrushed white, and then if I’m up for it, I’ve picked out additional details. The problem with that style of painting, is it is fairly limited. Only so many colours look ‘ghosty’, green, blue, purple, grey…
So I started trying out random stuff on my new Warbands;
The Knights were in a more traditional blue, the Boxers were looking firey with an orange wash over black… but I wasn’t a fan of how things were progressing. So I sprayed them black again and started over.
Then for no particular reason, I started drybrushing one half of the model in a warm colour and the other half in a cold colour, splitting them down the middle… and it just worked!
Then I let the warm colour drift down into the base to tie the figures in, and I’d nailed it:
Super fast, super easy, and I think applicable for more things than just ghosts:
You could imagine my Knights on the walls of a castle, lit up by torches.
The Irish and Afghans stalking and readying an ambush, lit up by the fires of an enemy camp.
The Boxers lit up by the moon.
The Russians in no man’s land on a night time raid, lit up by a flare.
I also did some ‘shrines’ which I use for objectives in Ghost Legions:
Now to get a board together to match this style.
Deathzap 
Weird!!! 🙂
Very effective!
The yellow wash over a black base is an interesting effect!
Regards, Chris
Whilst I do like the final effect you got with the cold and warm wash, like Chris I really think the yellow wash over the black base is interesting. An almost ‘demonic’ effect?
You need a “Don’t walk into the light!’ Rule or event. Off goes a model of unit craving the comradeship of the fallen, or just feeling the urge to visit the family farm and run their hands over some crops! Cheers. John
That’s a good idea lol. Roving bands on Angels maybe that ‘kill’ your guys by carrying them off.
It is an interesting effect, almost Tron like. I needed a better paint to make it look good in real life, the picture made it look better than it did. I think an acrylic ink would be the way to go. Something to think about. 🤔